GOD DID IT AGAIN

I feel so silly sometimes telling you guys about my God winks where everything lines up a little bit too perfect to be an ordinary coincidence, but the same thing that I wrote about yesterday, happened AGAIN today.

Yesterday, sitting on a park bench close to my God tree, reading our family’s website, I took a picture of this verse feeling it was God speaking to me:

“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” – Matthew 28:20

Exactly 4 minutes later, this verse jumped out at me when I read my meditation book Jesus Calling, simply continuing from where I had last left off.

Fast forward to this morning. Sitting on the same park bench close to my God tree, I took a picture of this message from our family’s website, again feeling like God was speaking to me:

“As you go through this day, look for tiny treasures strategically placed along the way. I LOVINGLY GO BEFORE YOU and plant little pleasures to brighten your day. Look carefully for them, and pluck them one by one.” – Jesus Calling

Fast forward exactly 15 minutes later, again I go to read Jesus Calling and look at the very words that jumped out at me again from exactly where I had last left off reading:

Guys, for me to go to the extent to take pictures both times of what I felt were both important messages to God on our family’s website and for me to immediately open right up afterward to the exact messages in this Jesus Calling on the very pages I open up to, were not coincidences!!!! God wants us all to feel His invisible Presence that is always with us.

I’m just the God maniac here that He has given this assignment to share with you how I feel and experience Him so that you, too, will make the best decision in building a closer relationship with Him. Let me tell ya, I don’t know where I would be if not for His presence in my life. THIS LIFE IS HARD. But knowing I have the Creator of the entire universe walking with me and guiding me gives me the courage, joy, and peace to take on my life.

Can we all make that decision today of asking God to help us walk closer with Him? It was the best prayer I ever said fifteen years ago, “God, I want a closer walk with You.” Then start spending time with Him every morning, noon, and night, seeking what He has to say to you and feeling His direction for your life throughout the day. The best life is close to God where you know you are not handling life alone; you have His guidance, help, love, protection, approval, support, favor, personality, joy, and strength backing you up, no matter the challenges and difficulties that come your way.

GOD LOVES ME TOO MUCH

I know that you guys get tired of hearing that from me, but I want the entire world here with me, feeling overwhelmingly loved by Him (HUGE SMILE). So, I tell you all about my God winks/perfect alignments, where things lined up too perfectly to be some ordinary coincidences. Like in working late last night at home, I smiled at Him reading the desktops message that I knew He placed there some years ago that says, “I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS.” I woke up this morning to brush my teeth, and there is a sign there that I stole from my friend Mabel’s house one day that says, “I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS – MATTHEW 28:20.” Minutes later, I went for a quick run to my God tree and ended up reading a page from our family’s website with this verse:

“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” – Matthew 28:20

Five minutes later, I decided to leave the website and see what else God had to say to me through my Jesus Calling Devotional, and look what jumped out at me on the very page I opened it to from where I had last left off:

“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” – Matthew 28:20 (Wink! Wink!)

God, HIGH FIVE! That was in no way a coincidence that I opened to that very verse that I felt God’s spirit continually drawing me to from last night in this book of 365 daily devotionals and accompanying Bible verses. God planted that there just as a glimmer of His Presence with us all. These were all orchestrated by Him to let us all know that there is never a moment when we don’t have His Presence with us. THIS IS THE PEACE YOU CANNOT BUY KNOWING YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH LIFE WITH GOD HIMSELF!!!

It’s just for us to learn His voice and His direction! Like me asking God today how to deal with a situation with my husband. I’ve been feeling God talking to me through a calendar I have on the front desk at our office that I’ve intentionally kept on this message for a week now:

“Give others the benefit of the doubt, because things may not be the way they seem.”

Fast forward to me having an appointment with God today about it; look what showed up at 18 minutes past the hour, again on my family’s website:

““I’LL ACCEPT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING” That was me to my hubby today, feeling this is where God wants me to be, on the high road with Him. How do I know that God is telling me TO GIVE MY HUSBAND THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT (Wink! Wink!) in overlooking some things?”

See how talkative God is! Me feeling like that was where God wanted me to be through that calendar and for Him to have me go to precisely 18 minutes past the hour to confirm that message on page 18. I’m not going to lie to you guys, though, but some things God will ask of us are extremely difficult – HARD THINGS ARE HARD! But I want us always seeking God and what He would have us to do, staying on the high road with Him. I loved a message from Ceri today that God has asked us to do two things:

“LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS”

As for me, I’m on the highest road with God asking what I can do to make Him smile after He arranges all these special winks showing me such great love and exceeding my expectations in so many areas of my life. God, I got You! (Wink! Wink!) What can you do to make God smile?

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” – Galatians 5:22