DEPRESSING THOUGHTS, PLEASE, GO AWAY!!!

TODAY, I RAN SIX MILES IN TWO HOURS UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS OF OUR HOUSE!!! I’m working on a better me, baby! The goal was to get rid of the old Nik and my constant sad and hurtful thoughts, and for a happier and more focused person to emerge. And so far, I think it did the trick! I’ve learned that if I don’t control my thoughts, they will take control of me. Let me tell you, the quality of our thoughts WILL determine the quality of your life!

 

The run was fantastic! I did another one of my Coach Andy Nike Run Club runs and heard the incredible story of his guest athlete, Lopez Lomong, from being kidnapped in Sudan as a six-year-old kid by rebel soldiers to being an Olympic athlete representing the United States years later.

 

But, in between listening to his story, I pretty much played one song repeatedly, ‘Let Me Be The One To Love You,’ (William Singe’s version) imagining God singing these lyrics to me:

 

“You should let Me love you

Let me be the One to

Give you everything you want and need

Ooh baby good love and protection

Make Me your selection

Show you the way love’s supposed to be

Baby love you”

 

After hearing that one song so many times I said, “God, You got it! I will let You be the One to love me!” Phew! So when the depressing thoughts and reminders come up again about some hurts and disappointments from the past, I can now say, “Go away!!! God’s girl here!” and I can instead focus on God’s love and be happy, keeping no more records of wrongs.

 

On Saturday, I was asking Him to help me wrap my head around a situation and He answered me. As I was in one part of our bedroom reading my meditation book, my son, Joshie, was asking my husband a question and at the very same time I read the word “SUPPORT,” my husband was responding to our son with the exact word. LIKE PERFECTLY TIMED!!! Of course, I took this as another one of my God winks when out of the blue, everything lines up STRANGELY TOO PERFECTLY, with an important message from God for all of us:

 

“Of Bearing the Defects of Others

 

But now God has disposed things that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for there is no one without defects, no one without burdens, no one sufficient for himself, no one wise enough for himself, but we must SUPPORT one another, comfort one another, assist, instruct and admonish one another.” – Imitation of Christ

 

Can we do that for Him? Honestly, that’s what I took from that conversation from Lopez today, how everywhere he went, he considered everyone family the way he was SUPPORTED through his horrific journey. My fav were the boys who helped him to escape the rebel camp who he called his angels. They knew his older brother and immediately when he was brought there, they met him and said something like, “Don’t worry, we’ll take care of you. We’re family.” And they did.

 

I believe we’re not the human race; we’re the human family! Let’s go the extra mile in loving, supporting, assisting, instructing, and admonishing one another. God is our BOSS, and our reward is with Him. And let Him be the one to love us! His love is more than enough! Wink! Wink!

 

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DEPRESSING THOUGHTS, PLEASE, GO AWAY!!!

TODAY, I RAN SIX MILES IN TWO HOURS UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS OF OUR HOUSE!!! I’m working on a better me, baby! The goal was to get rid of the old Nik and my constant sad and hurtful thoughts, and for a happier and more focused person to emerge. And so far, I think it did the trick! I’ve learned that if I don’t control my thoughts, they will take control of me. Let me tell you, the quality of our thoughts WILL determine the quality of your life!

The run was fantastic! I did another one of my Coach Andy Nike Run Club runs and heard the incredible story of his guest athlete, Lopez Lomong, from being kidnapped in Sudan as a six-year-old kid by rebel soldiers to being an Olympic athlete representing the United States years later.

But, in between listening to his story, I pretty much played one song repeatedly, ‘Let Me Be The One To Love You,’ (William Singe’s version) imagining God singing these lyrics to me:

“You should let Me love you
Let me be the One to
Give you everything you want and need
Ooh baby good love and protection
Make Me your selection
Show you the way love’s supposed to be
Baby love you”

After hearing that one song so many times I said, “God, You got it! I will let You be the One to love me!” Phew! So when the depressing thoughts and reminders come up again about some hurts and disappointments from the past, I can now say, “Go away!!! God’s girl here!” and I can instead focus on God’s love and be happy, keeping no more records of wrongs.

On Saturday, I was asking Him to help me wrap my head around a situation and He answered me. As I was in one part of our bedroom reading my meditation book, my son, Joshie, was asking my husband a question and at the very same time I read the word “SUPPORT,” my husband was responding to our son with the exact word. LIKE PERFECTLY TIMED!!! Of course, I took this as another one of my God winks when out of the blue, everything lines up STRANGELY TOO PERFECTLY, with an important message from God for all of us:

“Of Bearing the Defects of Others

But now God has disposed things that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for there is no one without defects, no one without burdens, no one sufficient for himself, no one wise enough for himself, but we must SUPPORT one another, comfort one another, assist, instruct and admonish one another.” – Imitation of Christ

Can we do that for Him? Honestly, that’s what I took from that conversation from Lopez today, how everywhere he went, he considered everyone family the way he was SUPPORTED through his horrific journey. My fav were the boys who helped him to escape the rebel camp who he called his angels. They knew his older brother and immediately when he was brought there, they met him and said something like, “Don’t worry, we’ll take care of you. We’re family.” And they did.

I believe we’re not the human race; we’re the human family! Let’s go the extra mile in loving, supporting, assisting, instructing, and admonishing one another. God is our BOSS, and our reward is with Him. And let Him be the one to love us! His love is more than enough! Wink! Wink!

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I’VE MISSED YOU, JIMMY WEST!!!

We’re old Facebook friends, and today he shared this with me, and I want to share it with the world. It’s truly where I want us all, walking with God on a daily, hourly, and on a moment by moment basis. I’m enjoying God on a new level, but enough of me, here is Jimmy:

“When you spend every hour of every day with God the Father, you can not help but become like him. When I say spend time with God, I do not mean to remain silent, knowing he is there. I mean totally sharing your life with him in a spiritual realm, where you are speaking to him, and he is speaking to your spiritual ear. I mean TOTAL self-giving where you put him above everything else. I mean making his joy, your purpose in life. I mean living to be a blessing to him and ALL mankind. It is where you are constantly looking for ways to be a blessing, ANY WAY YOU CAN.

If you want to be righteous, it is not a part-time effort. You MUST hand everything over to God – every worry, every anxiety, all depression, every need. If you don’t, you will be too distracted to stay close to him. When you are able to do that, he will take care of all of it. It will take faith, trust, and patience.

It can be difficult to do. It will require a love-filled heart and a life of kindness. That means you aren’t being kind because it is the “Christian thing” to do. You have to be kind because it is YOUR essence – you absolutely are fed and nurtured by your kindness to God and others.

Like I said, it can be difficult, but only at first. It will, over time, become a way of life, and when it does you have achieved the highest level of spiritual maturity and are living in the favor of God.

Here is a prayer of self-giving you can say, every day, if necessary, to help you achieve a loving, righteous daily relationship with your friend and Father. Give it a try. It IS his will for all of us.

PRAYER OF SELF GIVING

Most Heavenly Father, I commit from this day forward to give You my entire being, 100% mind, body and soul.

Today I make you number one in my life over everything else.

My desire is to put your needs above mine, so please refresh my

spirit so that I may hear your spiritual voice.

I rebuke my flesh and desire to only hear the Holy Spirit.

I make it my purpose in life to be a blessing to You at all times.

Please lead me and change me so that I can become one-in spirit with You, I will begin to share your nature, becoming like You.

That is my heart’s desire to be filled with love, kindness, mercy, goodness, patience, tolerance, understanding, and joy.

I offer myself as your loving child today and ask You to be my loving father.

I place myself, my very life, in your hands with complete trust, knowing that You are all I can depend on, and the only way I can survive.

I take all my fears, worries, anxieties and doubts, and hand them over to You, knowing that by doing that, I am allowing You to deal with them for me.

Lord, I have complete faith in your desire and ability to meet my every need.

Sweet Lord, I commit from this day on, to living a life of kindness to all.

To sum up this prayer of redemption, sweet Lord, I offer you my complete, true, unrestricted LOVE. You, and your joy, are my purpose in life.

Thank You for accepting me as your loving child today.

I pray this in the Name of Jesus, to You, The Father, AMEN!

Now go and live this prayer. Spend every waking hour thinking about and speaking to God. Share your life with him. A true relationship requires two-way communication, and I don’t mean prayer. Just talk to him. When it isn’t convenient to speak to him orally, speak to him mentally. Look for ways to bless. Start every day with a commitment to kindness. Every time you think about God, tell him that you love him. Why act like Jesus, when you can be like Jesus. Give God what he wants – you. You will never regret it.

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“I’M BACK TO BEING ON CHILL FOR LIFE!”

That’s what I just wrote to my brother, Kevin. Months ago, he suggested that I take on this mindset, but your girl here still loses it and turns into the crazy lady. But as of this moment, I’m going in complete CHILL mode, not taking anything too seriously, and most importantly TRUSTING that God, my life’s Partner and Guide, has my back as I imagine Him singing these words to me:

“Maybe we can be ON CHILL tonight…I’m trying to hear all your problems so I can lighten the load. Know you’re not fighting alone because I’m protecting you from them (SO CHILL)” – On Chill, Wale

I’m so in love with God! Honestly, the only prayer that I get on my knees to say to Him is, ‘Thank You.’ I trust Him infinity percent! That gives me every reason to be on chill and relaxed, knowing that He is going through life with me and ahead of me, helping me to fight known and unknown battles. Even the battles I “lose” are wins when I take them for the team (God’s team!) that have wins of eternal value. I want everyone to see me as the wife, mother, and person God Himself would have me to be. That’s the WIN to shoot for!

And when I do this, sticking with God in all my decisions, let me tell ya, He rewards me MORE than I can ever expect or imagine! He doesn’t disappoint. I can immediately shake off the disappointments from others and keep my eyes fixed on God being the Nik He would have me to be. That includes lots of forgiving, going the extra mile in love and kindness, and staying on the HIGH ROAD with Him. 

I’m happy for all the so-called “bad” stuff I’ve been through over the past few months. They have not only brought me closer to God, but also closer to my family. I now see my life from a completely different perspective – Wow! God, You did all of this for me? I’m Nikki So Blessed for sure! 

Don’t miss out on the sweet life with God! Say, ‘God, I want a closer walk with You!’

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EVEN MY WORST DAYS BECOME MY BEST DAYS WITH GOD!!!

Heehaw!!! Let me tell ya, don’t play around with your relationship with Him! I’m going for GOLD in every aspect of my life with God as my intimate GUIDE and PARTNER to the BLESSED life, baby. Like I was blown down the other day when there were some hurtful remarks thrown my way, and I’ve been asking God, ‘What are the lessons here?’ And He answered me.

First, it was a run with Nike Running Club featuring the “Bowerman Babes Club” and Coach Bennet. They are a group of Olympians who talked about how they not only work on their strengths but also their weaknesses together. They said the best way to get better is to not run from our weaknesses, but embrace them, work on them, and improve. And that was the reality check I needed. Nikki, you can’t be getting all tossed to and fro by every little negative comment that comes your way or what anyone else is saying!!! STAND STRONG!!! What are words to get you so upset and crazy! If you can improve, improve, but if there is nothing, become a PROFESSIONAL ignorer.

Next, it was Plies the rapper on Instagram. He said that in life, you must have TUNNEL VISION. You must be so focused on the lane that you’re running and not be concerned about what anyone else is saying doing in their lane. Stay focused on what you are doing and ignore the rest! These comments were just a pure distraction to get me off my groove. Let anyone say what they want, God is my Defender! Keep doing you, Nik!

Then, I felt God was saying I needed to relisten to the entire Rich Roll and David Goggins interview. Both of these gentlemen have been such tremendous assets to me. The most important message from Goggins was that I needed to work on was my MINDSET. The other day I wrote this, and this is the MINDSET I want to have for the rest of my life:

“As of yesterday, August 24, 2020, I want to give my life COMPLETELY to God. To wrap myself in His love (no other love necessary!) and go through every moment of my life, KNOWING I’m completely loved, approved of, and accepted my God. To be His girl totally, following His leading in every moment of my life as to what He would have me to do – complete surrender! To be the mother, wife, and person, He would have me to be. Not trying to get love from others, but just showing up as my most loving self, sharing God’s love with everyone. Like my brother, Kevin, taught me, I want to SHINE BRIGHT. Like if you’re not rolling with God, you’re missing out on the best life! I want everything about me to REFLECT Him:

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

I just wanna be His, glorifying and enjoying Him! That means continually keeping my focus on God as I walk through life wrapped up in His arms, sucking up all His love and attention!”

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AND THE CRAZY LADY RETURNED!!!

This life can get insane sometimes, and yesterday I was boiling over with anger. How dare they do this to me!!! But God had me to listen to Bel Air Church’s podcast, which focused on this one verse:

“Do not repay anyone evil for evil. But take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.” – Romans 8:17

HERE’S THE DEAL: Everything is between God and us. “What do we have that we haven’t received from God?” Nothing. Even my son, Joshie, called me this morning from Nigeria, and his little handsome face staring back at me was a big reality check as to why I MUST keep my eyes fixed on God and not this world. God has blessed me so much that whatever He asks of me, I have to say, ‘OK, BOSS!!!’ Then, immediately shake off the hurts and disappointments, and stay on the high road with Him, even when others go low. No problem, my reward is with God.

And by keeping our eyes fixed on Him, following His leading in every moment of our lives is how He guides us on the path to the best life with Him as our Partner and Guide. So much so that last night when I got on my knees to pray, I only said one thing, ‘Thank You.’ And God loves me so much because a minute later, I opened my meditation book, He and I, and exactly where I continued reading from said this:

“You see how necessary it is to say ‘Thank You’ (Wink! Wink!) with all the strength of your heart.”

For that ‘Thank You’ to show up there a minute after that was all I had to say in that prayer was ‘Thank You,’ was God revealing His invisible Presence with me, when once again, and totally out of the blue, everything lined up TOO perfectly to be a regular coincidence. Let’s make up our minds to roll with Him in every moment by being the loving and forgiving people who go the extra mile, all for His glory! Amen!

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9

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