What are you looking at...

 

My prayer:

Awesome God. It was another hard day for a lot of people today. I pray for the people who lost their homes to fire today God. Thank you for protecting their lives. I pray that you help them, comfort them, find them new homes, and keep them under your protection. 

There were many other tragedies today God. It seems like this world has no shortage of tragedies these days. WE NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER. Guide us, protect us, take care of us, sweet Father.

What God Said Tonight:

Don't get caught looking at the circumstances of this world. It is not where your eyes belong. This world, this temporary home, is just that. 

Keep your eyes on me, keep leaning on me, keep trusting me, and I will give you beauty for ashes. I will show you joy in the midst of pain. I will walk you through this season and spend an eternity finding ways to bless you. 

I love you sweet child. I will never leave you.

Her time is near...

 

My prayer:

Awesome Father. Thank you for the restoration. Thank you for your favor. Thank you for bringing us through! 

My prayer tonight, my ask, is really for my friend who is struggling with all of the senseless violence and death that is around her right now. She doesn't know you God. She doesn't have you to lean on, to trust, and to find peace with. She knows about you and she surrounds her life with people who know you but she hasn't made that choice and it makes everything so much harder.

I don't know what to say or to do that can help so I am doing the one thing I know can help. I am bringing it to you God. I pray for your help. I pray for your wisdom. I ask, if there is anything I can do that will help her heal, or even better, help her to know you, let me know what it is. She needs you so much and doesn't even realize it.

I love you Father.

What God Said Tonight:

I know your friend. her heart is near to me. I have been calling her for years and there is not much less to break away before she can see her way to a life with me. Her time is near. 

No, don't get me wrong, I don't mean her time to die. I mean her time to live. 

She has lived half a life in her misguided attempt to protect herself from what she is afraid a life with me means. When she can finally let go of that protection, she opens herself to my love, my healing, my peace, my joy, and all of the very good things that I have been waiting to pour out on her. 

Her time is near.

Lessons from the struggle...

 

My prayer: 

Awesome Father. For the first time tonight, I feel well. Not just less sick but actually feeling well. This has been a long struggle but I am very grateful that you have brought us through it. So many have not survived. So many had much worse complications. 

Thank you for your protection, your healing, and your guidance throughout. I love you and I am looking forward to enjoying the simple things in life again like swallowing and breathing.

What God Said Tonight:

Not every struggle is about teaching you something but there is something to be learned from every struggle. 

Your faith has made you well. You renewed appreciation for the basics will carry you forward. 

I love you sweet daughter and we have many more journeys  to take. Most of them much more enjoyable than this one.

Commitment...

 

My prayer:

Sweet Jesus. The night before we celebrate your birth. This is usually one of my favorite nights of the year. This year is a little different but there is still so much to be thankful for. 

Thank you for your life and your sacrifice that makes my life possible. Thank you for your healing power that has brought us through so much. Thank you for a beautiful home, amazing family and friends. 

I celebrate you tonight Jesus.

What God Said Tonight:

Come, sit beside me. Let's look out on the horizon at the future together. Let's imagine all that we will do together in the years and eternity to come. 

This commitment we have to each other is stronger than the years and will withstand any storm. 

I love you now and forever my child. I will be by your side in every situation and every challenge. I will never stop dreaming with you.

Changing season...

 

My prayer:

Awesome God. This is the hard part. This is the part where I know you will bring me through the situation but I am still in the middle of it and I don't know if it will get worse before it gets better. I am REALLY ready for it to get better.

Trusting you God. Your will be done in this and all things. I love you.

What God Said Tonight:

A season isn't over until the new season arrives. Tonight is the end of one season and the beginning of another, but most people do not even realize it. 

Your season can change and you not even be aware that it has changed. 

I love you and I will see you through, this and every season. Go, rest, trust, and know that I am God.

Who controls my future...

 

My prayer:

Awesome Father. The news from today was not encouraging but I continue to hear your voice and your assurance that you have everything covered and you are taking care of it all. I choose to listen to your voice. I choose to believe that you will work this for our good and that you will be glorified in it. I choose that because you have shown me time after time that you will and that you do. I love you Lord.

What God Said Tonight:

It is not chance or the enemy that controls your future. You have given you life to me and with that, my will is accomplished in your life. 

I will see you through this, as I always have. Your choices, made many hears ago, make it possible for me to do the miraculous for you. 

I love you now and forever my child. Rest knowing that I am not surprised and I am in charge still. I love you.

Latest crisis...

 

My prayer:

Things have taken a bit of a scary turn God. Despite how things look, I am reminded of your love and how you always work things out for our good. I state here tonight, I trust you. I believe you will bring us through this season. 

Thank you Lord.

What God Said Tonight:

I love you. I won't leave you, in this or any other time. I will not let you down. I am yours and you are mine and this is not all that it seems. 

This latest crisis is nothing more than one more opportunity for me to shine my glory in your life. Rest and know that I am God.

Back to center...

 

My prayer:

Amazing God. Thank you for your favor, direction, and protection. It was a good trip but I am grateful to be home. Thank you for protecting home and everyone in the storm. Thank you for your favor. You are so, so good to me. 

What God Said Tonight:

Time to settle back in, find the slow and even pace. Time to find the rhythm of the earth again. Not of the world that man has made of it but the rhythm of the earth as I made it. 

Breath in the cool, clean air. Soak up the warm sun. Refill your spirit and find our peace. 

I love you and I am here to help you back to center. It is a place of great stability and strength. It is where you are at your best.

Love blanket...

 

My prayer:

I am headed on another journey tomorrow God and I pray for your guidance, direction and favor. I also pray that your peace surround me and touch everyone around me. I pray that your peace change the circumstances I am in. 

I love you Father.

What God Said Tonight:

There is no place that my peace cannot reach you. There is no where you can go that I will not go with you. 

My love is your blanket and I will never leave you. We are family that cannot be broken. 

I love you now and forever.

Trust...

 

My prayer:

Another day and another example of your blessing and favor God. Thank you for today and turning what could have been a really negative thing, into something pretty wonderful. You prove your amazingness to me everyday God. I am SO OVER THE TOP GRATEFUL!

What God Said Tonight:

Trusting in me is not something you have to work at and it not something you have to conjure up. Trusting in me is the natural response to getting to know me. 

When you know me, truly know me, you don't have to wonder if I will do what is in your best interest. You don't have to question whether you will make it through this latest challenge. When you know me, you know what I will do and trust is the outcome of that. It is the outcome of our relationship. Not something you have to work at. 

I love you sweet daughter. Know me and you will trust me. 

Rocks to glass...

 

My prayer:

Sweet Father. Thank you for your healing power, the gift of healing you give us. I receive and accept that gift for myself and for those around me God. Thank you for the opportunity to live in divine health.

What God Said Tonight:

Rocks grind down to sand. Sand melts down to glass. Glass shatters easily. 

I built you as rocks. Life wears you down to sand. The fires of your trials melt you to glass and then, if you are not protected, you can shatter. 

It was not my intention that you live your life as glass. I built you to be a rock. In me, through my salvation, I can cover you in whatever state you are in. In my resurrection, you are restored to the fullness of the rock. Let me protect you until that time. 

I love you sweet daughter, now and forever.

Possibility...

 

My prayer:

Thank for another wonderful day God. Your blessings, in the midst of a crazy world, are doubly amazing. Thank you for the insight you gave me this morning about your sacrifice and what it feels like when it is rejected. It was beautiful and heart wrenching all at the same time. You are amazing and I remain eternally grateful that I get to live and die with you.

What God Said Tonight:

Trade you limitations for possibilities and your past for your future. 

I am preparing to take you into a future you cannot imagine now, but you will love it. It will require that you leave any prejudice and preconceived ideas behind. Especially the preconceived ideas about who you are and who you are not. 

Keep open to the possibility of entirely new levels of joy because they are on the way, I want them so much for you. 

I love you now and forever my child.

Beautiful...

My prayer:

Amazing Father. I love that you know me better than I know myself. You know what I need and you know what will fulfill my life. Then, you bring it to me. Thank you for being gentle with me and letting me heal but thank you for bringing me a new challenge. Thank you for making me succeed in that challenge. You are amazing and I am so grateful to live life with you.

What God Said Tonight:

Not every day or every experience is immediately beautiful. Sometimes, it is not until you have lived in a situation, overcome a challenge, where the true beauty comes out to shine. 

Please remember, in future times of struggle and hardship, I will either bring you out of it or make it beautiful for you. There are not other choices for my children. 

Your eternity is with me and it is beautiful.

Teachable...

 

My prayer:

Awesome God. Thank you for giving me abilities beyond my abilities. Thank you for all of your help to be more than I thought I could be. With you, all things really are possible and I am SO grateful to be with you! I pray for your continued help and guidance on this latest journey.

What God Said Tonight:

Are you yet teachable? I have more to teach you, more for you to learn. All I need is an open and willing mind and heart. 

Are you still teachable? Do you want to be more and know more than you do today? Let me teach you. Do you want to see more than you see today? Let me teach you. 

I love you sweet daughter, just as you are. But if you want more, let me teach you.