Smooth sailing ahead...

My prayer:

Finding the joy and the blessings in this day takes a A LOT of effort. It was still there, it always is because you are so wonderful. But somedays, like today, there is so much truly crappy stuff happening, that it tends to drown out the good.

So, in an effort to let go of the rotten stuff and hold on to the good stuff...Thank you God for all of the answers and solutions you gave to me today. I ask your blessing over them that the seed planted today grow into healthy fruit. Thank you God for helping me teach a successful class today. That was fun. Thank you for my family, friends and my health. And most of all, thank you for loving me and being in my life. As long as I have you, everything else will work out, eventually. LOVE YOU!

What God Said Tonight:

I know that things did not go the way you would have chosen today. I know you were frustrated. I know that you wanted things to work better and go smoother. Things are slightly more out of control than what you prefer. I know.

I also know that I have a plan in it all. I also know that your growing trust in me will get you through. I also know that you, in the end, win.

Right now, there area some things that are tough to navigate. It will not always be that way. Smooth sailing is in your future. Not your immediate future but not too far off. In the meantime, in the stormy seas, remember always to look up to me and not get drawn in by the waves and the storm. If you are too focused on them, you will drown. If you stay focused on me, you will walk over the danger and come out on top.

Love you daughter. Go and rest.

Water...

My prayer:

Awesome God, I love you. Truly. love. you. And, what is even better is that I know you love me. That is really the whole package. Nothing else really matters. Thank you for loving me God and for letting me love you.

What God Said Tonight:

Water. Still water. Still, crystal clear water. My Spirit is like still, crystal clear water that purifies, reflects, and surrounds you.

I am the well that never goes dry. With me you are never thirsty again. You will drink to your fill of my Spirit and you will see great power and love cover this world.

I am yours and you are mine forever. My love for you cannot be measured but can be held. Sweet dreams.

God makes everything better...

My prayer:

Today was one of those days where anything that could go wrong, did. Even some things that I couldn't even imagine going wrong, did.

Thank you for your peace throughout it God.

I did not let it get to me. I knew that you would work it all out. I did not have to remind myself that you would, I just knew you would and kept an eye out for your glory. And, that made it a pretty amazing day, in the end.

What God Said Tonight:

I am with you in the bad days and in the good. I am the one who turns tears into rain and sunshine into gold. I make the bad times good and the good times perfect.

I love you and when you trust in me, you will find that everything absolutely everything is better.

God's timing...

My prayer:

Thank you God for the opportunities today to minister and to pray for folks. It was truly beautiful to see you touch people's hearts.

God a pray for a wave of overwhelming grace to go over the world. I pray for the freedom that your grace brings. I pray God for revelational understanding of what you have given us.

Thank you Jesus.

What God Said Tonight:

I have not waited unnecessarily. I have waited with purpose. I will never make you wait for no reason.

I have a time and a purpose for each season and while you know what you want and you think you want it now, it will be much better for you if you wait on my timing.

When I say "not now" I promise it is for your good. When I say "wait," I am not saying "no."

I have a timing for things that truly is perfect. I ask that you wait for it.

What God sees...

My prayer:

Thanks for listening to me all day today God. Now it is my turn. What do you want to talk about?

What God Said Tonight:

I have your ear and I have your heart, I am content.

I have seen you struggle and I have seen you triumph. I have seen you love and be loved. I have seen you hurt but I have seen you healed. I see all of you and love every bit.

I see those areas where you are mature and whole and I see those areas where you have more healing to see done. I am you healer so those areas of healing just mean that my work is not done. They are not a reflection of your value. They are a reflection of breakthroughs you have yet to experience.

I see those areas that need healing as future opportunities for celebration and joy.

You have sometimes wondered how I could look at you, see all of you and love you still. Now you know.

Seeds that grow...

My prayer:

Why was everything so hard today God? Simple things I can normally do without thinking took real effort. I guess it did make me take notice of some things and make some new choices. Maybe that is what is was all about. I do know that I sleepwalk through a lot of things, doing things out of routine and habit, taking for granted all of the possibilities. Today was definitely a wake up call from that thinking.

God, I ask for wisdom and understanding. Help me to learn whatever it is I need to learn.

Jesus, I continue to pray and send your word of healing to my friend in the ICU. Keep her safe and make her whole. Thank you Jesus.

What God Said Tonight:

I have made you strong. I have made you whole. I have made you open to the possibility that there is more.

These are the seeds that grow. Days like today are the conditions that help them grow. Days like tomorrow are the evidence of their growth.

I am in you and you are in me and that will be forever.

It is as if your hands are on her and my healing is flowing into her. It is as if the miracle has already taken place. It is as if the pain never was.

I am in you and you are in me, forever.

Path of life...

My prayer:

What a crazy day God. I am pretty glad it is done.

Although, everything in perspective, it was a lot better than it could have been. Everyone I love is still healthy. I have a safe home, a good job, friends/family who love me, and challenges to keep me growing.

That is more than a lot of people have. That's more than I have had in the past. So, no complaints but immense gratitude that I don't have to face life without you.

You are my rock, my safe harbor, my healer, my teacher, my guide, and my friend. I love you so much.

What God Said Tonight:

The path of your life is not always even and easy to walk. There a slippery places where you can fall. There are places where the rocks are loose and you can stumble. But, your path is wide enough for us both.

We can walk this path of life side by side, you in the lead or me in the lead. It is your choice. I love you and I am always with you. You decide what position I take.

Free...

My prayer:

Amazing Father. I sit tonight in peace and reveling in the freedom of learning respect for myself as your child. Through your amazing core healing, I have begun to see me through your eyes. That is pretty incredible and amazing. It is such a burden lifted from me, to no longer need to prove myself to anyone, not even to myself, it is truly wonderful.

Thank you for your grace and mercy. Thank you for your healing power.

God, I pray that a new revelation of your grace be released in your people. Help us to finally know, deep in our hearts, what it is to be TRULY forgiven. God, make us whole.

What God Said Tonight:

Fly. Fly high above the clouds and high above the issues of your past.

Old pain and hurt can be like a shackle, tying you to the ground but I desire that you fly. Your nature is to fly like the eagle, to soar in your spirit, to live life in my heaven of grace.

I break the shackles off of you tonight. Soar, for you are free.

Comittment...

My prayer:

Thank you for such an amazing mini vacation God. Thank you for your miracle healing power while we were on the vacation. Thank you for the overpowering beauty. Thank you for the luxury to take the time.

You are wonderful. Your creations are amazing. I am all yours, now and forever.

What God Said Tonight:

I have much to show you, you have to take the time and effort to see it. I have had that beauty available to you for many years but until you take the effort and time to see it, you don't experience it.

That is true of so many of my gifts. They are all available to you. I provided your healing thousands of years ago. Your part is to seek it out and take the time to experience it.

It is not magic. It is commitment. commitment to me and our life together.

I can show you so many amazing things. Take the time to experience them. I love you.

Fire...

My prayer:

You are amazing. You give me everything I need right when I need it. You are the greatest love of my life. I am yours and you are mine and I can never fully explain how much that means to me. You are the ultimate love story. Thank you for being in my life.

What God Said Tonight:

I am bringing a fire to your life. Not a fire to destroy but a fire to bring life. I fire to light up the darkness. A fire to propel you into a future that I have specifically designed for you. 

 

Do not fear the fire. It is for your benefit and for mine. I love you sweet girl. We are in this together, as always.

God's renewal...

My prayer:

I definitely gave a bit more than 100% today God and I really have noting left but it is just not right or good when I try to go to bed without taking our special time together. I need to hearyour voice.

What God said Tonight:

I am here. Rest your head on my shoulder and know that I will renew your strength. You will rise up on wings like eagles. You will soar above the clouds and above you enemies. I will lift you up.

God's understanding...

My prayer:

Thanks for your help today God. It was tight but it all worked out.

We have another packed day tomorrow and I ask again for your timing to be in charge.

I love you God. Thanks for always getting me through...no matter what I am going through.

What God Said Tonight:

I have worked out a solution to every problem you will ever have. I have already seen the result. I have already seen you victorious.

Rely on my vision of you, through it all, successful and with me. Rely on my witness of who you will be and where you will live.

Rely on my understanding of what is going on because my thoughts are not your thoughts and my thoughts surround the entire picture. Your thoughts get so caught up in your piece of the picture that you can lose sight of the landscape you are in.

I love you. I have special protection and care set up around you. I will keep you safe. In the meantime, trust me and my vision of the end.

God's got you covered...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I ask for your help tomorrow. Please help me to be a blessing and a good teacher during the class tomorrow. Help me with the timing of the day.

It kind of seems like there is more to do than there are hours in the day for the rest of this week. So many times, you take my crazy schedule and make it run so smoothly, like it was planned. I ask for that again this week.

Thank you for being my ever-present help in the big things and the little things. You are wonderful and I love you!

What God Said Tonight:

I have you covered in every way.

I am yours and you are mine, forever.

Trust, relax, I am here.

Life is...

My prayer:

Thanks for getting me through this day God. It kind of felt like a marathon. But, I get to end it here with you and that makes it a good day.

What is on your mind tonight God? If you have anything you want to talk about, I am here to listen.

What God Said Tonight:

Life is not about the thoughts that other people have about you, their judgements of your success or failure. Life is not about meeting expectations, yours or someone else's.

Life is about relationship. Life is about love. Life is an opportunity for you to get to know me in the midst of great challenges so you learn to trust me.

Think for a minute. Those people you most trust, those people you are closest to are all people that you have gone through tough times with. They have been there when you needed them. You learned that you could trust them even when the going got tough.

That is what life offers. An opportunity to get to know and trust me at a level that transcends thought and goes right to the gut awareness of someone who loves you and will never let you down.

There is more in life, more to enjoy, more to learn but the key opportunity for you is to get to know me and trust me. We have an eternity together. You should know what your getting into.

Unique...

My prayer:

What a privilege to see you heal. What a privilege to see you save. What a privilege to see your presence change the atmosphere. What a privileged to hear your voice.

God, I revel in the privilege of my relationship with you tonight. You are so wonderful and I take for granted your presence in my life. I forget that it is only by your ultimate sacrifice that I get to have this relationship. I forget that not everyone has this relationship with you.

Thank you for loving me. Thank you for dying so I could know you like this. I am ridiculously grateful for you God.

What God Said Tonight:

I have a unique relationship with each of my kids. No one relationship is exactly like another because no one person is exactly like another.

I love you all, more than you will ever know. That never changes. But, how we talk, how we interact, what you know of me, those things can be different from person to person. Just because I talk to you in one way, does not mean I will use that same method to talk with someone else. I might, but I don't have to.

I am  so vast that I could do the same thing in a different way everyday for the rest of eternity and still not run out of new ways to do it. I do not change but I am so vast that what you know of me will never be all of me.

I love you daughter and I love our relationship. It is special as you are special to me.

Everything's new...

My prayer:

I am so deeply grateful to you God. This latest core healing you did in me has truly given me a new life. Everything is new and I love it! I know I keep talking about this but it is just so magnificent!

God, Help me to share this with other people in a way that helps them to receive this kind of core healing for themselves. What an amazing world this could be if we were all healed and whole and living for you! That's the world I want to live in.

LOVE YOU!

What God Said Tonight:

A new heaven. A new earth. A new you.

I am the God of a new thing and I will continue to do a new thing in you as long as you are willing.

I have plans for us in the new heaven and new earth. I have plans for eternity for us. I know it seems like it has been a long time coming but in the midst of eternity, this has been but a tiny blip.

I have such great plans. Plans that only work if you are whole and healed. I love seeing you healed. It is my heart's desire to see you whole.

More...

My prayer:

What a wonderful day God! Thank you for rest and rejuvenation. Thank you for your favor. Thank you for hearing the prayers for healing and restoring the babies who were ill. You are awesome and I am proud to have you in my life.

What God Said Tonight:

I have more for you. I have so much more. Don't ever give up because where you are at is never the end. I have more.

Your life, sometimes very hard, other times not so hard, but don't ever give up or you will miss the "more" that I have for you.

We have eternity together my child. I will always have more for you.

God's favorite thing to do...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I am here because I love you and I love to hear your voice but truth is, there is not much left of me today. Physically and mentally I am worn out and really just want to crawl into bed.

I am very grateful for all that you have done for me this week. It has been a good week. I am also very grateful that tomorrow is Friday and we get a bit of a rest.

Let me hear your voice and feel your presence once more today.

What God Said Tonight:

My presence is in you and will never leave you. I am in you and you are in me, forever. I do love that you come to spend time with me not out of a sense of obligation but out of a true desire to commune with me.

Spending time with you and loving you, those are my favorite things to do. I love spending time with my kids.

I know you can't fully understand my love for you yet but you will some day. I know that you have to filter your understanding of my love with your experiences of love in life. But someday, someday you will experience the full force of my love for you.

You could not handle it right now but someday you will be able to take it. Someday, I will release the love and blessings I have been storing for you. That will be  a glorious day of great celebration in heaven and earth. It is going to be so exciting. The day I get to fully bless and restore my family will be the greatest day in the history of the universe.

New life...

My prayer:

I feel like I should talk about something else but I can't stop talking about or thinking about how everything is changed since you provided this latest core healing in me. 

 

Life feels brand new. I walk into the same experiences and circumstances but my reaction, how I feel, is completely different. I have a new confidence and freedom that is truly phenomenal. 

 

Thank you so much God for healing me and for how that healing has improved my life. Only you could do that. Thank you for loving me enough to do it. 

What God Said Tonight:

I have promised you new life. That new life is not a one time deal. Your life with me is a continual process of renewing. 

 

All things are made new in me. I will create in you a new thing. Not just at the moment you first make a decision to walk with me, but ongoing, every day, throughout eternity as long as we are in relationship together. 

 

I will renew your strength. I will renew your spirit. I will renew your youth. I will renew you over and over. I don't run out of new things for you.

Bubble over worship...

My prayer:

You have given me so much and helped me so much this week God. What can I give you? What would bless you?

What God Said Tonight:

I am blessed in  your worship. Your true worship.

Not the worship where you sing me a song because you think you should or because everyone else is. But the worship that comes from your heart. The worship that comes from your spirit. When you worship in spirit and in truth.

Where your love and awe of me just bubbles out of you in song, in prayer, in cries, in generosity, in almost any way. I love that bubble over worship. The kind you just can't hold in.

Today...

My prayer:

Awesome God. Thank you so much for this new level of freedom. Even though nothing around me has changed, everything is changed because of the change you have made in me.

Thank you for your healing power, your love, your grace and for continuing to take me to new levels of wholeness, freedom and maturity in you. LOVE YOU!!!!

What God Said Tonight:

I have a voice for those who will hear. I have a voice that will one day shake the world to its knees. I have a voice that created all that you know.

I have a voice. But not everyone knows it. Not everyone sees, or hears, that my voice is speaking today.

Not everyone understands that I am your God. Not I was your God. Not I will be your God in heaven but I am your God right here and right now.

I have a word for you today. I have a plan for you today. I have healing for you today. I have love for you today. My grace covers you always.

I am speaking, today. Hear my voice, listen for it. I have something for you today.

Worth it...

My prayer:

Thank you for today God. It really felt like a gift. So many things that could have gone wrong and not only did they not go wrong, you provided perfect and wonderful alternatives that were better than the initial plan. That is so like YOU!

You are amazing and wonderful and I am so grateful that you are in me and in my life. Let me hear your voice.

What God Said Tonight:

My way is not always the easiest way but it is always the best way. My way requires trust and facing the hard truth sometimes but I will always make it worth it to you.

I love you so much and I want to see you healed and whole. Keep trusting me and I promise it that I will make it worth it to you.

The wound of lies...

My prayer:

Ok God. I think I finally see it the hole, the dark wound at the core of me that I have not been willing to see, let alone ask for healing. I can even see where it came from.

What I can't see is how to get rid of it. It does not make logical sense so I can't reason it away. I have talked through all the causes of it and it is still there.

I can't heal this one God. I can't do anything about it. My only hope is your miraculous healing power. God I give up the ugly darkness to you and pray and ask that you heal me. Not because I deserve it, because I don't deserve it. But I ask in your love for me.

Now that I see it I don't want it in me for another minute. Please help heal what I cannot.

What God Said Tonight:

The hurt, the wound was formed out of lies. Lies that were told to you and lies that you believed about yourself. Lies only have power in isolation. Lies cannot stand up to the light of the truth.

The truth is you are my child and that makes you precious and wonderful.

I have allowed you to keep up the walls and keep people out because you thought you needed it. You thought it was keeping you safe. All the walls were really doing was keeping the lie in isolation where it could grow.

It is time for you to shine the truth on the lies and receive all that I have for you. I have great blessings that have been waiting for this time of healing.

Rest in me, I will heal you, I will fill the place where the wound has been. I will make you whole. In your wholeness, you will finally be able to receive all that I have been holding on for you.

Grace and love...

My prayer:

I saw something pretty powerful tonight God. I saw the power of grace in action.

True grace, true acceptance, love and support of another person, regardless of what they have done or not done...there is a powerful beauty in that.

When people really experience you grace, it can change their life. It can change the world. Our only real hope, my only real hope is in your grace.

Thank you Jesus.

What God Said Tonight:

Grace is a product of my love for you. I have no other way to be with you except through grace. And, I so desperately want to be with you.

My love for you, my desire to be in your life is so strong. Grace is the bridge that allows us to be together.

I love you. I give you grace as a gift for us both.

Deception...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I had another one of those expereinces today where I could see so clearly how someone was sabotaging their own life.

They had created a view of who they are and what was happening in their life that was not true, not what the people around them were experiencing but they were so convinced that they were the "victim" in the situation that they walked away from what could have been a great opportunity. And the real shame of it is, if they don't get better clarity, they will repeat the same thing everywhere they go.

This is another one of those circumstances where it is so easy to see this from the outside but the person is completely blind to it.

When I see it, I start to really wonder if there are parts of me or my life that I have a similar blind spot and am sabotaging myself. Are some of the "tough" times that I go through nothing more than my own fabrication out of my own blindness?

God, I pray and ask for clarity of vision for myself and those around me. God, if I am deceiving myself and not seeing clearly, I ask that you remove the deception and bring clarity to my vision. Help me to see the reality of my life so I can see the things that need to change and come to you for help in changing them.

Don't let me be my own worst enemy.

What God Said Tonight:

What matters more than how you see yourself is how I see you. That is truly the only opinion tat maters. I see you in all of your imperfection and love you anyway. I see you covered in m sacrifice and find you perfect. I see you trying, which counts for a lot. I see you as my true child and precious to me.

I will heal you. I will refine you. I will shake out the things in you that have come from living in a less than perfect world. I will do all of that because I love you.

I will make sure you see what you need to see when you need to see it. Your trust in me to reveal all that you need to know is where your assurance comes from.

Your worries of deception are not unfounded. You live in a world that is full of deception both from within and without. But I am the truth. You can trust in my truth. There is no deception that is stronger than my truth.

Keep your eyes open and trust me.

Good fire...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I feel like I am right on the verge of...something. I don't know if it is something good or something bad but I have that sense of anticipation that is exciting but also a little uncomfortable.

Is that real? Is there a big...something coming or am I just jittery? If something is coming, cool. If not, I don't want to get all excited and be disappointed. I really don't need disappointment right now.

God, please lead me, guide me and give me wisdom.

What God Said Tonight:

I have a fire for you to walk through, but you will not be burned. I have a fire that is meant to bring beauty and power, not to destroy.

Sometimes you get confused by the appearance of something. You see it as dangerous and destructive but it is that very thing that you are afraid of that I want to use to bless you beyond your understanding.

Fear not. I tell you that a lot. I mean it. Fear not, I am with you. I will not let harm come to you.

As you face a challenge that fills you with fear, look to me and remember that I can and will use EVERYTHING to bless you. You greatest blessings will come out of situations that you thought were going to do you harm.

Trust me in the fire.

Hang on to God...

My prayer:

Awesome God, creator of the universe, my savior and my first love.

My brain is spinning from this day. I am having a hard time slowing down the thoughts enough to know what to talk about.

I ask for your peace to quiet my mind so I can listen.

What God Said Tonight:

Your peace is not broken. It is buried under the flotsam of the day. I have given you peace that passes all understanding. I have placed it in you. To find it, your journey is inward to the Holy Spirit living in you.

Stop for just a minute and find the peace that I have put in you.

There you are. Hang on to me with all that you have. Wrap your arms around me and don't let go. We have many miles together yet to travel and we have many storms to pass through.

Wrap yourself around the peace I have put in you and you can weather any storm.