MY ENTIRE LIFE IS BECOMING A BEAUTIFUL CONVERSATION WITH GOD
That’s how I’m feeling, and I want you here with me!!! Like I woke up yesterday thinking about the dinner we had the night before. That morning, I went to the kitchen and suggested to our “Royal Chef,” Victoria, that the fish she seasoned needed more salt. She resisted at first, but I told her, “Trust me on this. I just have a feeling about it.” Then to see my picky eaters (my two sons) and husband devour the fish made the mama/wifey super happy. Even down to what we eat, I feel God is involved!!! Every day I ask hubby what he wants for dinner, and I honestly feel the ideas and inspirations for our family meals come from Him. Victoria has been such an extra blessing the way she happily and lovingly cooks for us, going above and beyond to make sure we have fresh ingredients from the market. It’s incredible the way I’m feeling His involvement in EVERY aspect of our lives! He spoils us (HUGE SMILE)!!!
After thinking about how my life is this beautiful conversation with God, I go and randomly open up my book of 366 old posts. I randomly picked the very one about Former President Barack Obama, saying, “I’m in a constant conversation with God.” And that was just God’s way of letting me know that His invisible and very LOVING Presence is always with me, and He knows every thought I think.
Then, I felt it was God with the idea to pay my sons (by the hour) to study on this website we love, ixl.com (I highly recommend it for all kids!!!). I gave Joshie a topic, ‘Matching Problems with Solutions,’ feeling AGAIN in my spirit that was the topic God would have me to pick. He complained that it was too difficult, but I insisted he complete it (tough mom!). Within a minute of him complaining, I go to WhatsApp, and there was a title of a post I immediately went to that said, “Whatever your problem, God has your solution (Wink! Wink!)” I showed it to my sons, and I said, “See, guys, God is here with us!!! How cool is that?!? That God would figure out a way to let us know His invisible Presence is always with us.” That post went on to say, “Cast your cares to God, HE HAS YOU.” Phew!
Honestly, I saw a new Emmie come out yesterday, so hardworking, focused, and on the ball. Every time he finished a topic, he would proudly come and show me the time before writing it down (integrity, baby!). Such great kids God has blessed me with! So much so that when He asks me to do difficult things for Him, like being kinder to those who have hurt me and to love people for both their strengths and weaknesses, I say, ‘No problem, Boss, I GOT YOU!’ His love is too much!!! Off to enjoy a beautiful Sunday with my Emmanuels (hubby and sons), doing everything all for God’s glory! Go to God in the 1,000 decisions you make every day, having your own conversations with Him. Trust me, this is the way to an extraordinary life (Wink! Wink!)!!!
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GIVE YOUR HEART TO GOD (REPOST)
That’s the best advice I can give you! Where you ask Him to be the Guide and Love of your life! That’s where my heart is, and I have absolutely NO REGRETS!!! This song played on my run with Him today:
“If you give your heart to Me
I no go let you go
Wey I no go do you basa basa (I won’t do you wrong)
Baby trust in me
When you give your heart to me
I no go let you go
Wey I no go do you basa basa (I won’t do you wrong)
Baby trust in me” – Skin Tight, Mr Eazi
And don’t think you have to get all cleaned up, either! I cuss, I go crazy, I listen to whatever music I feel like, I procrastinate A LOT, I get angry, and I know I’m still God’s girl, loved and approved by Him. He said to me through one of my meditation books something like, “I love ALL of you, which includes your faults and weaknesses!” In fact, after writing so many times that God stoops to my level to meet with me, this showed up in another alone time with Him:
“You know how much more intensely one loves when one feels loved. It’s like an animated conversation. Only in this one there is no need for any words. We love; that’s all. And I am much yours that you don’t feel that I come down or that you rise up, but it seems quite simple to you that we talk to each other on the same level, share as equals, even exchange our two hearts… and although you give yourself utterly, you keep your personality and only enhance it the more.” He and I
How beautiful is that! We can keep our personalities exactly as they are but God will help us to make them even more beautiful, like today Him asking me to be kinder to those who have hurt me.
Give your heart to Him. He won’t let you go! Let’s offer our entire lives to Him, every action, every word. Will you say this prayer with me: “God, I give my heart to You.”
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MARRIAGE AND SINGLE MATTERS
THIS IS WHERE THE PARTY’S AT, my Youtube video:
https://youtu.be/szSsk1rDYqA
LIVE IN GOD, LIVE IN LOVE
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HEALTH MATTERS
A MAN’S OWN SELF IS HIS FRIEND,
A MAN’S OWN SELF IS HIS FOE.
Which will you be today to yourself? Every decision we make boils down to that – Am I being a friend to myself or a foe? Pushing to myself to exercise when I didn’t feel like it was me being a friend to myself. Drinking my veggie smoothie every day whether I feel like it or not is also being friend to myself. I want us living long, healthy lives. Let’s choose to be best of friends with ourselves!
LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE THY FOOD
GOD DOESN’T KEEP TRACK OF OUR SINS AND MISTAKES; HIS LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL!
I’ve been beating myself up a lot, feeling like I’m getting the cold shoulder from some people lately, like I’m a terrible person, I don’t blame them. But, this morning, God had a talk to me through my meditation book, Yes, Father, and He beautifully had this to say:
“It may then well happen that on certain days I count twenty lapses (mistakes), while I couldn’t none on other days. And yet I may have made greater progress on the days when twenty failures occurred than on the days without one.”
See how God changes my perspective on everything. Nik, I prefer you to have days where you make many mistakes, and you to learn and grow from them, than for you to have a day where you made no mistakes and no progress.
To be honest, I have learned a lot from these slip-ups. I can definitely be gentler, patient, talk less, not not be so nagging all the time, to appreciate and love the people who love me despite all my weaknesses a little bit more. Also, for me to be more loving, less pointing out of others’ failures and forgiving because we all mess up constantly. So, I should extend forgiveness to others just how I expect them to forgive me. LOTS OF VALUABLE LESSONS! Woohoo!
So that when my team made some errors this week, I said to them today, “I rather you guys learn the lessons and become stronger so that in future we know how to handle ourselves better.” We’re building a tougher team! God even used it to make me a better leader (SMILE) – more appreciative, kinder, gentler, humbler, patient, and forgiving. So, instead of beating myself up about my failures, I can say, ‘Thanks, universe, for the lessons that made me step up my game, happier, more loving, and grateful.
I can’t get over God’s unconditional love for each of us. The meditation book went on to say:
“All experience failure, and are required to right things after each lapse and go forward as if nothing as happened. Lamentations (crying) over these failures would only cost time and energy. These are precious gifts of God which we are not supposed to waste.”
My other mediation book, He and I, said this, written as if God was speaking to us:
“Why do you sometimes think of Me as a severe master waiting for a chance to find fault with you? Wouldn’t you rather see Me a very loving friend ready to make excuses for you if you fall? The friend who keeps watch over you. Don’t you think I’m like that?”
He even went as far as playing the song ‘Beautiful’ by Akon on my computer yesterday in a little heated moment with the boys who were upset at me. I’ve written so many times that when these glitches happen, I know it’s God reminding me of His Presence. In telling Joshie about it, he said, “I wondered why you were playing that video. You never play videos!’ It was all God singing to me. Others may see me a certain way, but He said, through that song, “You’re a symbol of what every beautiful woman should be.” That’s the kind of love I receive from Him! Others may reject us, but the real us, God’s guys and girls, can never be rejected by Him. Let’s keep our eyes fixed on Him and not this world!
CAN I TELL YOU GUYS ABOUT MY FAV APPOINTMENT WITH GOD EVER EVER?!?
I was lying on my bed, feeling so terrible about myself. Like, ‘Nik, you keep saying you’re going to do this, you’re going to do that, but you end up doing nothing but eating junk foods and watching TV. You’re a complete mess! What’s wrong with you.’ I was so frustrated with myself, feeling like a total loser. A few minutes later, after my pity party, but still in my terrible feeling good for nothing state, I said, let me have an appointment with God. Look what incredibly showed up on the very page and book I opened to, written as if God was speaking directly to me at that moment:
“Even when you feel good for nothing, give Me this nothing. Didn’t I create with nothing? All I ask of you is the will to give yourself to Me at all times, in cloud or sunshine. And I’ll take you into the happy Upper Room of My servants and My friends.” – He and I
Tell me! What kind of love is this? That at my awful moment of feeling good for nothing and beating myself up, God found a way to come and wrap His arms around me and comfort me. Nik, give Me your nothing!!! Didn’t I create the entire world from nothing! That’s the love I want you to KNOW and experience for yourself. He comes to us at our lowest and picks us up WITH HIS LOVE. He is not like other humans who cut you off when you do something they don’t like, His love is unconditional, and He stands ready to help you bounce back, even from nothing!
“No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you can always turn around.” – Tumblr.com via motivationpulse
He went as far as sending me my own personal coach last year when I needed help. My brother, Kevin, almost always took my calls, listened to me, and gave me the best advice. One of the last things he said to me last year, though, is finally getting through, ‘Forget shining bright! I want you to be wise.’
For me, that means going to God in every decision asking what He would have me to do. Not being tossed to and fro by every little event taking place, getting all emotional, sad, angry, crazy, and depressed. That was last year, not this year! To be the wife, mother and person He would like me to be. Like my sons are a little upset with me, but I told them I’m not their friend right now, but in the future, they will thank me. The wiser Nik is learning to stand firm with God, being who I feel He would have me to be by going the extra mile in love. The unconditional love we receive from Him is the love He wants us to share with others. As we do that, He is behind the scenes fighting battles on our behalf! My daughter, Julie, had me in tears today speaking of a college Professor who truly brought out the best in her. I’m amazed as to how God coordinated all of this! For Julie to attend college while still a high school student. His love is too much!!!! He exceeds our expectations!!!
THIS A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE; AIN’T TRYING TO WASTE IT (REPOST)
That’s how I’m feeling about God right now! I went out on an extra long run with Him today, and He didn’t disappoint. He showed up. As I played the song, ‘RACKS in the Middle,’ I turned a bend, there was a truck with the word “RACK” directly in front of me. And that right there was one of my God winks where everything lines up a little bit too perfectly to be some ordinary occurrence (coincident), it was God’s sweet way of saying, ‘Nik, my invisible Presence is always with you.’ There was no way that out of all the songs in the world, I just happened to be listening to this specific one while jogging pass that truck – all God orchestrated for His girl over here to show me His deep love.
This love is too good for me to keep it to myself, y’all! Are you feeling it? My son, Joshie, has been calling me a lot from Nigeria and I’ve been taking advantage of these sacred times to have appointments with God with him. And the one we had yesterday asked, “What do you have that you haven’t received from God?” Nothing. This son who I get to love up is a gift from Him, as well as the rest of my family. To be able to go out and run today was another gift. Many people didn’t make it to see this day. I’m not taking anything for granted! I’m sucking up God’s love!
I read an email from Joel Osteen about being content in any and every circumstance. Not just enduring, but enjoying. I took it as another wink from God that He wants me ENJOYING my life with Him. Ok, Boss! That goes for us all! Let’s be content, rejoicing always in whatever situations we find ourselves with our eyes ever towards the Lord, sucking up His love and seeking His guidance for our lives. Amen.
