Wind...

My prayer:

Today did its best to chew me up and spit me out. Thank you for your strength and peace throughout the assault. I am so grateful that I had you to turn to all day.

And now that I have been talking all day and you in your wonderfulness have been listening all day, it is time to switch it around. What do you want to talk about? I am here to listen.

What God Said Tonight:

The wind that blows can bring in the storm or it can take it away. The wind's purpose is to move things.We do not blame the wind for the storm and we do not give it credit when the storm passes. It is the vehicle for change.

There are things in your life right now that you may not enjoy but they are the vehicle for your change. They will not last. Once they have blown in the change and blown out the old, the vehicle will be gone.

Don't get hung up on the vehicle. Recognize it for its purpose.

Changes...

My prayer:

Wow God, when you decide that is a season of change, you really mean it! Change is happening around me so fast I can barely keep up. I can't wait to see what you are going to do next! Whatever it is, I am here to ride it out with you, in awe.

What God Said Tonight:

Change is good and change is needed.

I have many things that will never change. My love for you will never change. My commitment to you will never change. My redemption and reconciliation for you will never change.

But, the circumstances of your life and of the world, those I will change. Those need to change to move into the next season of your destiny. I will always bring you to the same outcome, victory. But, I will always use a different way to get you there.

You will see that the method is not important. I am what is important.

Be demanding...

My prayer:

Another Friday night in your presence. I am blessed. I can't wait to hear your voice.

What God Said Tonight:

Healing is the children's bread. I said that once and it is true. Healing is a necessary sustenance in the life of my children.

At the time, it was a reason I gave to a woman of why I would not heal her. Her response, filled with faith, changed my mind.

I am moved by the faith of people who believe. I am moved by people who refuse to hear  "no." I am moved by people who demand the blessing in their life. Not because they deserve it but because they are tenacious and won't live with less than what I have.

Demand more of me in your life. I will give it to you.

Cement...

My prayer:

God, I thank you for inspiration and praise reports! This has been a week of joy, reawakening, good news, and inspiration for the future. I have missed this. It has been too long since I truly felt inspired. It feels like life and light coming back into my life.

Thank you! I can't wait to see where this journey leads.

What God Said Tonight:

Cement is a funny thing. While it is liquid, it flows in and over things. It is shapeable and moldable. You can really make it into anything you want.

Then, after time, it hardens into the shape it has last been left in. That hardened cement is solid and seems permanent. It is unmoveable and grabs onto everything it touches. It seems quite permanent; however, given the right force or the right tool, you can break it. You can chip it down into rubble. That rubble, while not as malleable as the liquid form, it is moveable and shapeable. Keep pounding at the rubble and it become dust. Dust is even more moveable than liquid. Dust can fly.

It is a lot like you. When you were young, you were able to flow into new ideas and new opportunities. You were malleable and you got into everything. Over the years, you hardened. Became less able to move, change and flow into new places. Eventually, you grabbed onto everything around you with a iron claw.

But, this last season was a season of chipping away at your cement. We broke it into rubble and now into dust. There is no stopping dust. It goes absolutely everywhere.

Get ready to seek and find every opportunity. I love you.

Live from the heart...

My prayer:

Awesome God. My mind is a blank tonight. Shocking I know! Me with no thoughts, no questions and no words! Maybe tonight I need to just listen to you...

What God Said Tonight:

I have seen the desires of your heart and I have every intention of seeing them fulfilled. Out of the heart, the mouth speaks and your words are reflecting the healing changes in your heart.

A whole heart, a healed heart, finds joy in other people's happiness. A whole heart finds time to bless other people. A healthy heart can hear criticism and look for the truth in it. A whole heart never runs out of capacity to love.

Your heart, is healing and becoming whole. You will see great changes in you and the world around you when it is done.

Until then, live from your heart. Trust your heart. I have given it to you as a weather vane to detect the direction of the wind in your life.

I love you.

Circumstances...

My prayer:

Thank you for your favor and for bringing me through today. It was actually much less dramatic than I envisioned. I guess that is true of most things in life. The worry that I have over them far outweighs the reality of them.

What God Said Tonight:

All things work together for your good. You are my child and you are my love. My plans for you are not in question.

I am glad that you strive to learn from each situation. Know that I will always use the circumstances of life to help teach you and grow you.

But don't get confused in the source of the circumstance. Some things just happen. Are there reasons? Yes, but often they are so complicated and go so far back that knowing the reason would cause you more confusion than peace.

Knowing the source of the circumstance has nothing to do with how I can use the  circumstance. Always trust that I will turn it for your good and live in the peace that only I can bring.

Dirt...

My prayer:

Awesome God. Thank you for recovery today and the luxury of rest.

I ask for your favor tomorrow. I am walking into unfamiliar territory and without your favor, it could go very badly. I pray and ask that you go with me and work all things to my good, like you always do.

Thank you for being my Dad and taking care of me!

What God Said Tonight:

Dirt, in its own environment, is not a bad thing. It is not something you need to clean up.

When dirt is outside in its environment of the ground, it is perfectly appropriate. The only time you want to get rid of dirt is when it is outside of its environment. When the dirt get's in the house, when the dirt gets on your clothes, when the dirt is out of place, you need to get rid of it.

There are many things like that  in life. In the right environment, they are normal and natural and not something you want to get rid of of but in the wrong environment, you have to get them out.

Keep that in mind as you meet the challenges of this week. Don't waste time trying to move things and people out of environments that they were made for. It does them and you no good. Recognize the environment that best matches the person and help them find it.

I love you and I am with you, now and always.

Faith warriors...

My prayer:

I am content God and contentment feels awfully nice. Circumstances have not changed significantly but you have changed something in me and I am very grateful for that.

Thank you for the rest and the laughter today. Thanks for showing me solutions to problems before they even became problems.

I love you God and I am so continually grateful for you in me life.

What God Said Tonight:

Everybody sees the rain and everyone sees the sun. I have equipped you to weather the storm, no matter what it is.

I need strong children, strong soldiers and I have trained you to be one. I have a battle, a final battle coming and my army of faith warriors will be ready.

I will see you through.

Ingnition...

My prayer:

I am grateful and at peace God. Thank you. You have changed and healed things within me that I cannot fully describe but I can be intensely grateful. You are amazing and wonderful and I love you more than I can say.

What God Said Tonight:

I have a fire within you that has smoldered for years. Not going out but not flaming up to its full potential either. I am breathing on that coal. I am bringing it to full flame.

It is time to go.

Beauty and adventure...

My prayer:

Awesome and amazing God. Thank you for the last two days. Such a burden lifted. New hope, new fire, new energy.

Thank you for loving me back from where I was at. Thank you for never giving up on me. Thank you for always helping me. You are truly wonderful and I am very grateful for you in my life.

What God Said Tonight:

I have beauty you have not seen yet. I have adventures you have not dreamed yet. I am limitless and everlasting and as such, I will never run out of amazing and wonderful things to do and experience with each other.

I love you my munchkin. You are precious to me and I will never let you go. I will love you to the end of time and beyond. My love for you is more than you can imagine in your wildest imagination. My love for you is a basic part of who I am.

Wounds and scars...

My prayer:

Awesome healer. Please come in and heal my heart. God I pray for wholeness that leaves no purchase for the enemy. I pray for healing that completes me and allows me to love like you designed me to love. Love without reservation, without fear,without conditions.

Please God, heal me at my core.

What God Said Tonight:

I see the wounds. The old and the new ones. I am familiar with wounds. I have worn quite a few myself. The thing about wounds is they are not permanent. The scar may remain but the wound is destined to heal. Your scars are causing you as much trouble as your wounds right now.

I am coming to you for complete restoration. I am coming to make you whole. I will heal your wounds and I will remove your scars. The scars that have bound you up and kept you from trusting, I am removing those scars tonight. I am softening the skin and making it like new.

I have come to restore you. I will be your protection. You do not need the hardness to protect you now. I am here.

Never stop dreaming...

My prayer:

The beauty of your love is indescribable. My God, my Lord, I do not tell you enough how amazing you are and how much I love you.

There is NOTHING like your presence. It is precious and I cannot get enough. Your love is never ending and so incredible. It is nearly unbelievable.

I love you with all that I am. It is so small compared to your love but it is what I have and it is all yours.

What God Said Tonight:

I am in you and you are in me and together we are one. I have longed for your voice and your attention to be fully on me. I have longed for your worship. I have missed it. I have missed the time when you can think of nothing but me. I have missed the days when you dreamed and hoped for nothing more than to serve me.

Your life, the things and people around you have distracted you from your true purpose. I have never stopped dreaming for you. I have kept my plan in place. I am waiting for you to come back to it and to me. I am waiting for you with anticipation but not with disappointment. I am ready when you are.

You are an instrument of my healing power. You are the hands for me to touch those who are not whole. You are my witness to miracles.

I love you and I have not stopped dreaming.

God's voice...

My prayer:

Lots of well meaning voices trying to speak into my life and my future God but the only one I want to hear is yours.

My life is yours. What I do with it is up to you.

I will follow but I want to always be sure that it is you I am following and not someone who has great intentions that are not yours.

I am yours.

What God Said Tonight:

My voice is in there too. It sometimes is coming through the people I put in your life. I speak in many ways, through my word, through your life, through your friends, through your spirit. Tonight I am speaking Spirit to spirit in you but sometimes I want to be more subtle.

I have a plan and a future for you. You will find it in the atmosphere of peace. Where you have peace, that is where I am. Where you have dis-ease, that is not me. Follow my peace and I will walk you into your future.

A harvest of joy...

 

My prayer:

Thank you God for your help in getting problems solved today. I feel like I am at least sitting on top of the problems instead of being buried under them like I did yesterday.

Thank you for your physical healing tonight! That was and is AWESOME! I haven't seen this clearly in...well, ever.

You really are the answer for everything. Life with you can be really simple if I let it be. I love you God!

What God Said Tonight:

I have a harvest that is almost ready to reap. And, I am not talking about the harvest of souls that is so often referred to. I am talking about a harvest of joy. I am talking about a harvest of blessings. I am talking about a harvest of provision.

I have seen you sowing, quietly with no fuss. I have seen you trust me. I have a harvest coming your way.

I can't wait to bless you.

Heart of peace...

My prayer:

Life is a bit relentless these days God. When does the pressure let up? When do I get a season where everything is generally ok, just for a little while. When nothing is on fire and nothing has to be fixed immediately? It feels like a really long time since life has been like that.

I don't mean to whine and I am sure I will have a fresh and improved perspective in the morning, thanks to you always giving me hope. But, right now, I am done.

Huh, sounds like I have come to "the end of myself" as they say. That is usually the spot where you take over and that is a pretty good spot to be in. I have been working so hard to get it all done I have forgotten to rely on you. I would think that I would have learned that lesson by now...guess not. Thank you God for your help and your insight.

What God Said Tonight:

I am preparing you for the next  level. Where we are going you will need to find peace and rest in the midst of great challenge and chaos.This is your training ground.

I need you to rely on me as instinctively as you currently pray for healing. You don't have to think about praying for healing for yourself or anyone else, you just do. It is second nature. That is how I need you to get about relying on me. That is how I need you to get so that no matter how high the stress, how great the demand, you remain at peace with the full knowledge that I will take care of everything.

I know it does not make sense but that does not make it less true. Trust me in this training ground. Let me instill in you a heart of peace.

I love you and I am here. I will not leave you.

Revelation and truth...

 

My prayer:

I have a lot of thoughts running through my head tonight God but I am not sure that any are worth talking about. This new routine gives me a lot of extra time to think...maybe a dangerous thing.

I do find it really interesting to realize that so much of my experience of life is directly related to my choices. Sometimes, choices that I don't even realize I am making. I mean sometimes, I think that something is not an option, for one reason or another, and so I don't choose it. When, in fact, it is an option and when I finally try it, I love it. This is true of little choices and big.

I think I need to spend some time looking at everything I think is not possible or not an option and start challenging that premise. What do you think?

What God Said Tonight:

I think you are on the journey of life and in that journey, there are many paths. The path you are on right now is about seeing those things that have been unseen in your life.

You have asked for revelation and for wisdom, I am giving you those things. Trust your insight. Trust your thoughts. They are coming directly from me as a direct result of your prayer.

Ask and you shall receive is more than just a well used saying. It is truth.

I love you and I will give you the desires of your heart.

Channel to heaven...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I pray for my friend tonight.

I pray that you surround her with your presence and your peace. I pray that you show yourself to her in a way that she cannot deny and cannot forget. I pray that your presence abolishes all fear in her. I pray that you heal her and make her whole.

Thank you Jesus for loving her.

What God Said Tonight:

I am glad that you are willing to let go of her and place her in my hands. I know you love to fix things and to help people, and that is good. But, when you can release people to me, I can effect their lives in many magnitudes of greater power.

Your prayers have opened a channel to heaven over her life. You will see great love and great changes overtake her.

I love you sweet daughter.

The answer...

My prayer:

Awesome God. Thank you for the rejuvenation this weekend. I pray that you continue to fuel me for this week.

I also ask for your wisdom God. Things are rough right now and I need to know what to do, not do, change, etc. I have a lot of wonderful and well meaning friends giving me advice which is great; but, I really need to know from you what is best. I don't have time to make mistakes right now.

Thank you for your love, your guidance and your wisdom God.

What God Said Tonight:

I have many paths to get you to your destination. I have many solutions to today's problems in your life. I am God and as God, I don't need everything to be perfect before I can move. I can move in the worst of circumstances.

Worry less about what you should do and spend that energy on connecting with me. Spend that focus on getting to know me better. The better you know me, the closer we are, the more completely I can guide your life. If your time and effort is spent focused on me and putting me first, I will take care of the rest.

I am your healer, I am your Father, I am your teacher and I am your Savior. I have the answer to every problem you will ever face. Look to me in all things and I will take care of all things for you.

Working for God...

My prayer:

Sweet and amazing Father. I am all yours. I hold nothing back. I love you in every way that I know how and to the greatest extend that I am capable of.

It is not enough. It is not what you deserve but it is all that have.

Hear my grateful heart tonight. Hear my spirit cry out to yours. Let me bask in your glory and your love.

What God Said Tonight:

With all that you have to work with in this day, completing this work will be no problem.

The day of the new heaven and earth are not far off. I have things in place.

In the meantime, your job, your purpose is with me. Keep yourself strong in me to run the rest of the race. I will want your help.

Someone else's fire...

My prayer:

What a week God. Thank you for today. Rest, friends, and new worship music. That was pretty good medicine.

I pray and ask that you continue to rejuvenate and inspire me God. Help me to see the amazing future you have in store for me. Help me to remember that you are on my side and with that, I will always win in the end.

I know it all in my head but I have forgotten some of that in my heart.

What God Said Tonight:

Sometimes the warmth of someone else's fire is all you need. It warms your soul and renews your heart.

I have a fire in you and in each of my children that never goes out but sometimes needs to be rekindled by the fire of another. I have built you that way so you will need each other. Your need for each other will foster your love. Your love will foster your compassion. You  compassion will foster your grace.

I love you and I have surrounded you with good fires. Let them refuel you.

Greater mercy...

My prayer:

I am grateful. You are wonderful. I am listening.

What God Said Tonight:

I have much to say and little time to say it in. It is not common for my people to know hardship without release. I have always come to your rescue. I have always ensured that you are brought out of and through you trouble.

I get accused and blamed for so many tragedies in the world. I have promised you I will not destroy the world or man again. I have promised you redemption. I have promised you freedom. My promises are real. My promises do not expire.

I will see you sitting in high places in heaven. I will see you rule. I will not be mocked and my power will not be questioned. I will show you my great strength through my greater mercy.

I love you daughter. Go rest now.

Clear path...

What God Said Tonight:

Well, it has been a couple days of new perspectives and new experiences. Pretty awesome God! And, I am exhausted!

Thank you for every opportunity to see things from a different angle. Thank you for increased empathy. Thank you for the opportunity to help someone and be a catalyst for others to help. I love you!

What God Said Tonight:

I have cleared the way for you. I have removed obstacles, scraped away the slick things that could make you slip and fall, I have made a path leading you right to your promised land.

Follow in the path I have plowed for you and you will have easy walking. Stray outside of the path and I will still get you to where we are going, but you will have a much harder time. You will have to work harder, you may fall, you may get bruised up.

I clear the way for you for your benefit. Find the clear path and follow.