Guiding reins...

 

My prayer:

Awesome God, what a blessing this week has been. Thank you for the opportunities to be a blessing and thank you for blessing me. I don't know what tomorrow holds but the last few days have been pretty great. You always give me what I need and then, almost always, give me an opportunity to share it with someone else who needs it. 

You multiply your blessings in my life and I am so grateful to get to be a part of what you do.

What God Said Tonight:

Do not worry over tomorrow. Stay rooted in the moment, today. 

I will take care of tomorrow and when we get there, it will be another amazing moment to celebrate the glory here on earth. I have you set up to live glory to glory in this season. 

On some days, you will have to look for the glory. You will have to choose the glory. There will be other choices and options that can take you down some dark roads. But, each day, look for my glory and follow that. 

You will find my glory where there is love. You will find my glory where there is peace. Let those be your guiding reins and you will find yourself in my will and my glory. 

I love you my child, now and forever.

Challenge opportunity...

 

My prayer:

Amazing God. Today started a bit rough but you reminded me to pray and trust and it all came together, like always. I love you God and I love what you are teaching me about loving others. What a great journey and season this is!

What God Said Tonight:

It's time for a new day, a new way of looking at the challenges that face you. It is time for a day where no challenge can defeat you because they are nothing more than opportunities to show my glory. 

I am teaching you how to see the challenge for what it is, truly, an opportunity. I will show you this over and over until you cannot help but see it with my eyes. 

I love you and I am building in you a strength that will not fail. 

The impossible...

 

My prayer:

Amazing God. You did what no one, especially me, could do today. You are the God who does the impossible, all the time, and I am so PROUD to be your kid. Not the kind of proud that is all puffed up but I am so proud of you. I just want to brag on how good you are and how you consistently show up and make things that were broken whole again. 

Thank you for all that you did today. For the things I know about (which were AMAZING) and about all of the things I don't know about. 

You are truly incredible and living life with you lets me see the impossible getting done, almost every day.

What God Said Tonight:

The impossible is never what it seems. The impossible is most often nothing more than something put in your way to see how you will respond. 

The impossible either makes you give up, fight, or trust. 

I am glad you trusted today. That is when I can do my best work. 

I love you daughter. Enjoy this moment and this season. It is a good one.

Good grass...

 

My prayer:

Thank you for all of your help today God. The challenges were a little easier to face. The impossible didn't seem so impossible. Thank you for your promises, your favor, and most of all your love.

What God Said Tonight:

Grass doesn't grow overnight but when it grows, once it gets started, it spreads and can cover many acres. 

Your life now is a field that has been planted, it has been sown. In a season, not far ahead, you will reap a great harvest. The grass will grow and you will see it spread as far as you can see. 

It is good grass you have sown. 

Your eternity...

 

My prayer:

Another wonderful day God. Thank you! Days like these make the challenging days seem not so bad. Thank you for the time to rest, recover, and recreate! I love the life you have given me.

What God Said Tonight:

Your life is built on the rock and will not fall apart because of that foundation. 

Your eternity, now that is something that will really amaze you. As much as I love blessing you in this life, the gloves really come off in eternity. I can bless you in ways that are not even imaginable in this world and in this life. 

I love nothing more than to give my children the blessings I have stored up for them. Go and rest, there is more tomorrow.

Choose your day...

 

My prayer:

These last two days could not have been more different from each other. Yesterday, filled with stress and tension. The whole day was such a struggle. Today, the circumstances were the same but I was filled with your peace all day and it was really beautiful. 

Thank you for reminding me to lean on you. Thank you for reminding me to keep my thoughts on you. It makes all the difference. You make all the difference.

What God Said Tonight:

I am the same today, tomorrow, and yesterday. The difference is in you. The great news is, because the difference is in you, you have the ability to choose what kind of day you will have. 

You can choose to focus on the circumstances and stress and have a day like yesterday or you can choose to focus on me and have a day like today. It really is within your power.

I am here. I am always helping you. I am always protecting you. Your experience of this life is primarily up to you and your choices. Choose me and you will never be sorry.

One more step...

 

My prayer:

Amazing Father. I really tried to change my focus today when I knew things were going down a wrong road, but I did not do a very good job of it. I am going to need your help with this newest, or maybe it is my oldest, challenge. It is clear I can't do it on my own. I pray for your help.

What God Said Tonight:

Sweet daughter, I never ask you to do it on your own. I am your ever present help. 

I have brought this to your attention not to bring you shame but to bring you healing. I have brought it to the forefront so we can heal and resolve it, once and for all. 

I have come into your life to provide you with many things, including freedom from everything that is holding you back. Everything that is getting in the way of the joy and wholeness that I intended for your life. 

This is one more step in that journey. You do not need to take it alone. Lean on me, call out to me, just say my name in the moment of crisis and I will be there. I will help. I will guide you. 

I love you now and forever my child.

Foundational stones...

 

My prayer:

Awesome God. Thank you for this moment. Not worrying about tomorrow or yesterday, but just, thank you for this moment. It is a good one. Your peace is here. Your joy is here. You are here. What more could I want or need. I love you.

What God Said Tonight:

Every mountain you climb and every valley you walk through, I am with you. I have more plans for you. I have great adventures and great blessings for you. But in it all, these moments, these quiet moments together are what will be remembered. 

These are the foundational stones that make the rest of this amazing life possible. 

I love you now and forever my child. Your foundation in me is strong and will not be broken. 

This season of being, not doing, not striving, not achieving but just being, may be the easiest and the hardest season of all. Your number one job in this season is to love and be loved. That is all.

Not perfect...

 

My prayer:

Sweet Jesus, thank you for another wonderful day. Here at the end of it, I am exhausted and craving rest but hearing your voice is more important. I choose you God, now and forever.

What God Said Tonight:

Each day, one step closer to your destiny and the plans I have for you. 

You are not yet perfect but you are perfect in me. I will cover your imperfections and I will even use them to bless you and those around you. 

In your weakness, I am made strong and in your imperfection, I am shown to be perfect. 

Love, in this moment...

 

My prayer:

Awesome Jesus, I need your grace, mercy, healing and wholeness in me. I need the cleansing power of your blood and your sacrifice. I need your love.

What God Said Tonight:

My love is here for you and has never left you. All that I have and all that I am is my gift to you, now and forever.

You are within my love and my love is within you. It is moments like this where you can remember all of those promises and become aware of the gifts that are already yours. 

Know that my love for you is greater than any love you can imagine and in knowing it, take a minute to feel it. I am with you and I am always on your side. My love for you never dies. Live here in this moment, in this love and realize there is nothing that can take it way. 

Sometimes you are more aware of it ans sometimes less, but the love, that does not change. 

More joy...

 

My prayer: 

Awesome Father, savior, friend, than you for a perfect day. Every moment of today was a blessing, including this one. I can't wait to hear your voice.

What God Said Tonight:

I love you sweet daughter and you are welcome. Blessing you blesses me. Rest and get ready for more joy.

More tragedy...

 

My prayer:

I don't have words tonight God. More terror in the world today. I just don't have words. I pray that the cry of my heart be heard in heaven. I pray Holy Spirit that you pray the words that I don't have.

What God Said Tonight:

I am with you. I am with them. I have not left you or this world. 

I will promise you that one day, this will make more sense and one day, you will see that it was worth the wait. 

Know that I am with those who are now with me in heaven and I am with those who are left here on earth. Know that I never left any one of them and I am no more than a word away. The tragedy of today can be tomorrow's tragedy as well, or it can be a launching pad for the next season and for my glory and healing to be present.

I do not bring the tragedy but I will make sure it has a purpose in this world. I will make sure to turn it for your good in the end. 

No one can steal your destiny. No one can steal those you love, not in the end. Those who have left, are safe here with me. When you come, you will see their joy and know that they have not suffered. 

I am yours and you are mine sweet child. Send me the broken and I will heal them. Send me the mourning and I will comfort them. I am your God and your salvation. Now and forever my child, now and forever.