I felt God singing to me yesterday through the song, ‘I Swear’ by All for One:

“I see the questions in your eyes
I know what’s weighing on your mind
You can be sure I know my part
‘Cause I’ll stand beside you through the years
And you’ll only cry those happy tears
For better or worse, ’til death do us part
I’ll love you with every beat of my heart
And I swear”

I was playing this as I dressed to go out and buy something for the boy’s dinner. As I was leaving to get something to cook, Joshie asked for pizza, and when I told him “No,” he asked his friend, Isaiah, who came over to play their game if he wanted pizza. The way Isaiah responded, though, was so cute and funny that I said, “No problem, I’ll get it.” Can you believe I’m waiting for the pizza, and I started crying those happy tears from the song that I felt God was singing to me minutes before?

It was a crazy day, but again like the lyrics said, “I’ll stand beside you,” I truly felt overwhelmingly supported by God. I just felt God coming through for me in so many areas. Like my daughter, Ember, showed up to help me with a project at our office, and she did such a great job helping me out. I had a great conversation with my nephew Duro that he is getting some help he needed in getting an internship. Joshie ended up telling me that Isaiah said it was his best time having pizza. To see my boys so happy playing with such fun and positive friends made me so happy. When I told Emmie that our life is a mess right now looking at so much laundry to put away, he surprised me and said, “LIFE IS GREAT!” No shame in my game, I can honestly tell you, when I’m weak, God is my strength standing STRONG with me. For better or worse, when I’m high or when I’m low, He is there like this verse from Isaiah beautifully reminds us:

“So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10

Even when I’m feeling good for nothing, He says, “Nik, give me your nothingness! Didn’t I create the world from nothing!” We can unceasingly worship, praise, and thank God at every moment knowing we can always count on Him to be there for us with His love, joy, strength, peace, wisdom, and favor backing me up in this treacherous world where we don’t know what is coming at us from one moment to the next. He is there for you too!!! It’s just for us to tap into his help, love, and guidance! Pray all day! Every day!

And speaking of His love. After going all overboard about Tom Brady in my last YouTube video, can you believe, hours later, my daughters and I attended what we thought was a DJ Khaled concert, but turned out to be the Sports Illustrated Awards Show, and unbelievably Tom Brady was in attendance accepting the award for Sportsperson of the Year. I gave him a screaming standing ovation, so surprised by God.

This lined up a little bit too perfect to be some ordinary coincidence. I knew this was God lovingly arranging for me to see Tom Brady, who has had such a strong influence on my decisions to train myself like an athlete every day, as I aim to be the Greatest of ALL Time Wife, Momma, and Person, ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD! Tom taught me that we could strive to be the best in our little worlds, and I run with that, waking up every day with that as my goal. Some days I fail miserably, but every day is a new start to begin again, leaving the past in the past, knowing God can help get any situation back on track once we look to Him, moment by moment, for guidance. God is personally involved in our lives!!! Don’t miss out on the best life with Him!

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“I’M HAVING FACE-TO-FACE CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOYEEE!!!”

That was me to my brother/coach, Kevin, yesterday! I told him how all of his advice is working for me, especially when he said that I should make getting closer to God a top priority. This is my prayer for us all that we can walk through life JOYFULLY and STRONG, knowing that we have God as our constant Companion, Friend, Guide, Helper, Strategist, Planner, Father, Helper, Therapist, Supporter, and Teacher walking with us. Nothing more wonderful than this! (HUGE SMILE)

I have a place I meet with God every day, and it’s truly astonishing how He finds these ways just to let me know He is there. Like the night before last, rushing the boys out to church, I ironed an outfit for my son, Emmie, but he didn’t like the pants I selected and instead pulled out some crumpled jeans. At that point, he had like five minutes to get dressed before his ride came, so I remembered what my cook taught me about giving clothes a strong shake when I didn’t have a chance to iron them, and I did exactly that and rushed Emmie out the door. Fast forward the following day under my God tree, this incredibly showed up on our family’s website of now 115 pages:

“Our cook said, “Just give the clothes a strong shake and let them go!”” Wink! Wink!

This one little sentence showing up under that tree was God revealing His sweet invisible Presence with me as if saying, ‘Nik, I know everything about you, including every thought you think! and everything you do!’ And He didn’t stop there. God found a way to also confirm a post I recently wrote about my nephew, Duro:

“I told him that I’m the mother eagle who takes apart the nest of the eaglets so that she forces them to learn how to fly on their own. I’m not my kids’ friend now, but eventually, they will hopefully see that this crazy momma/aunt always had their best interests at heart. Same thing with my relationship with God. I ask Him sometimes, “God, why?!?” but those challenging experiences are exactly what I need to become the Nikki God Himself has created me to be.”

Fast forward under my God tree yesterday, this message randomly showed up in a Purpose Driven Life Devotional For Kids:

“A mother eagle will take the nest of her young and stir it up. She will make them uncomfortable and miserable, then kick them out and force them to learn to fly—for their own good. GOD DOES THAT IN OUR LIVES: HE MAKES US UNCOMFORTABLE SOMETIMES BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO GROW. He will allow a problem, irritation, or frustration to push us toward what is best for us.”

And this was AGAIN God coming and having a face-to-face conversation with me about the irritations in my life that I allow to get the best of me. No coincidence!!! But today is a new day! God had so much to say to me under that tree yesterday that I felt so incredibly loved by Him. And being aware that His Presence is always with me gives me the joy and confidence to tackle all these situations that I go through with a God perspective. Yes, the problems, challenges, irritations are still there, but I get my advice from God on how to tackle them all, with Him backing me up by working on my behalf in the spiritual realm. When I am weak, He is my strength. I can therefore show up as my most joyful, brave, courageous, most loving, forgiving, excellent, shining bright for His glory self.

Are you feeling God’s Presence with you? Sometimes I ask myself if I waste time going to seek God under that tree every day, but I know without God as my life’s strong foundation, I would not be able to show up as the wife, mother, and person He would have me to be. With Him, I can calmly, happily, courageously, and skillfully deal with anything coming my way! Heehaw! Not one second seeking God has been a waste of time. I wouldn’t trade that knowledge of His constant Presence with me for all the money in the world! When are your alone times with Him? I promise you, as you seek Him, you will find Him! May we all live lives STRONG with God! Amen!

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That was me to my daughter, Ember, recently. She was supposed to come to work full time with us in our family’s business while awaiting her start to university in January, but God put it in my heart to go gently with her. She has honestly earned her respect from us, though. I found her report card from kindergarten, and I keep it as a reminder in our kitchen of how this daughter has been consistent from day one. She has been a gift to our family by setting such a fine example for the other kids to follow. I remember coming home sometimes from work in Nigeria, and I would meet them all around our dining room table studying and doing homework together, with Ember taking charge. I can go on and on about her, but I want to share some of her values today.

Like she is very close to God! I always feel God’s Presence through her. For example, last night, she was talking to me about an “evil eye,” and this morning, this post showed up at the top of one of my Facebook groups:

“Any evil eyes (Wink! Wink!), monitoring your life and family, shall surely go blind in the Mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen.”

No coincidence! I’ll never forget a day she asked me to pick her up from school early. I went right away because she never wanted to miss school, and we ended up going to our office in Nigeria, where God began revealing some great plans He had for our family. Again, no coincidence, but God again revealing that He is with our daughter.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11

Another value I treasure about her is that she is very hard working. I call her silent killer because she always surprises me. When her dad disagreed about her going to university in New York, I told her to give her best and leave the rest with God. After a few weeks of working closely with Ember and seeing her fierceness close up, he finally gave his blessings for her to go.

“I’m not stupid, mother!” she said to me when I told her to make good decisions. Honestly, she is very wise. I went to her last night to ask her how I was doing with the boys after she told me last year that it looked like I had abandoned them. Let me tell ya, it was a big wake-up call for me to get my sons back on track. I’m so proud of our alliance, where we support each other and call out weaknesses and faults. Thanks, my sweetie!

May we all take these values from Ember to live our best lives with God: Stay close to Him by seeking His guidance in the 1,000 decisions we make every day, seeking always to please Him. It’s so funny how I try to stay up to monitor Ember that she is home at her curfew time, and she tells me she was home a while ago or that she never went out! She focuses and makes good decisions for her life by being very consistent (so beautiful this consistency thing!), hardworking, responsible, and wise. May we all do the same! Amen! God is our reward as He guides us to a blessed and gorgeous life. He has great plans for us all, it’s just for us to follow His leading as Ember so beautifully does. May God continue to guide you, our Ember so fierce!

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“YOU GOT THIS!”

That was from my extraordinary son, Emmie, last night when I took some time to just be with him. He and his brother, Joshie, are my two little husbands right now, and like I told them the other morning, “It’s my honor and privilege to show up as the best momma possible to help them become all that God has created them to be. We are all so spoilt from our overly comfortable life in Nigeria with a cook, housekeeper, and driver, but that’s the challenge for me as a mom to teach our kids how to do for themselves. Like just passing my daughter, Julie, the other morning driving her car to the gym made me so happy. I said to God, “Wow! Thank You for exceeding my expectations!” To have such healthy, happy, well-adjusted, and close-to-God kids makes me the proudest mom in the entire world, y’all! Our house may be a disaster, but I have no doubt that Papa God is proud of our family! (HUGE SMILE)

Even my nephew, Duro, I’m so thrilled by how he is stepping up. I encouraged him to work with us saying, “I want to train you to be a king!” He told everyone that he wanted to be a warrior, so I call him Warrior Duro. This life is difficult, but we must have a Warrior mentality that we can do all things with God by our side, helping us tackle life joyfully and bravely! I loved his excitement late last night telling me about the job fair he attended to land an internship, hopefully. I told him that I’m the mother eagle who takes apart the nest of the eaglets so that she forces them to learn how to fly on their own. I’m not my kids’ friend now, but eventually, they will hopefully see that this crazy momma/aunt always had their best interests at heart.

Same thing with my relationship with God. I ask Him sometimes, “God, why?!?” but those challenging experiences are exactly what I need to become the Nikki God Himself has created me to be. I love these verses:

“Trials and Temptations
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” – James 1:2-5

The trials and challenges have been God’s way of pulling me even closer to Him, where He is working on helping me mature in every aspect of my life. Especially in the aspect of courage and confidence, knowing I have Him backing me up. I can tell Emmie, ‘Yes, I got this because I know that there is never a moment when God is not standing STRONG with me helping me to be the best momma, wife, and person, all for His glory.” A God perspective changes everything! We are never alone, God got us!!! I’m hugging Him tight right now with everything I’m handling, but I want us hugging even tighter! May we all get closer to God!

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GOD SENT ME ROSES YESTERDAY

This story began on Monday when our customer/friend, Mike, called to resolve an issue that I needed to help him rectify. After speaking to the bank together, I discussed my son Joshie’s bad grades with him. He honestly gave me some good advice about being the example for my kids to follow, and maybe also sensing I wasn’t in a good place, he said, “I want you always to buy FRESH ROSES and keep them in your house as a reminder of what a beautiful life you have.”

Fast forward to Wednesday morning, my niece, Toluwa shows up at our house. Julie called me to come because she had bought something for me. It was a gorgeous bouquet of FRESH ROSES (Wink! Wink!)! This lined up too perfectly to be some ordinary coincidence! I couldn’t believe it, and I asked her, “Why did you buy me roses?” She replied, “I don’t know!” Well, I know! It was all God behind the scenes of my life having Toluwa to bring me fresh roses, not only to remind me of my beautiful life like Mike said but His deep love and commitment to me. (HUGE SMILE)

Like that bathroom cleaner I purchased on Sunday. I only bought it because it said, “Brand New Day” on it. The next day, going to God and venting about Joshie’s grades, this post showed up from some years ago where I was again beating myself up about another issue (God, help me!):

“GIVE THE WORLD A FRESH START (REPOST)

I loved reading this in an appointment with God yesterday with my daughter, Ember. We were taking a break from organizing inventory at our office. This was also a reminder to include me in that fresh start. I was beating up myself all that day that our stock had gotten to such a disorganized state, and I was unaware of it. Quite frankly, in looking back, I was thinking about the wrong things. The worries, insecurities, frustrations, disappointments, sadness, and fears had gotten the best of me. BUT TODAY IS A NEW DAY (Wink! Wink!)…”

Sadly, these are still the issues your girl struggle with, but God had a message for me through Joel Osteen yesterday under our God tree together:

“God was saying to them (Israelites), “THIS IS A NEW DAY (Wink! Wink!). You are not going to continually struggle. You are not going to live defeated. I’m not only going to remove the burden, I’m going to destroy the yoke. From that day forward, they stepped into a new level of their destiny. What they used to struggle with, was not a struggle anymore. That constant pressure to overcome enemies was lifted off of them. God gave them favor to conquer opponents that were much bigger and more powerful. God is saying the same thing to us: “You’ve struggled long enough. You’ve dealt with that addiction long enough. You’ve been dogged by those family problems long enough. I am going to take away that burden. I’m not only going to remove the yoke, I’m going to destroy the yoke.”

Amen! I claim it for all of us! Let me tell ya, throughout the entire sermon, Joel kept saying, “It’s a new day!” and I knew this was a message from God Himself (no coincidence!). What burdens have you carried for too long, let’s give them to God! He is our wonderful burden carrier, and there is nothing too difficult for Him! Whenever my life gets too heavy, I know that I’m taking on too much of the load and not trusting God to help me carry them. He asked us to come to Him all who are heavy laden and burden, and He will give us rest. What do you need Him to remove from your shoulders? He is there for us. Give Him a try!

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