Love better.

My prayer:

Thank you God for working it all out again. You are amazing. Awesome God, I pray that you fill me where I am empty, heal me where I am hurt, and love me everywhere. Teach me how to love better.

What God Said Tonight:

I have gently prodded you down this road before but you have always made a u-turn when it got too uncomfortable.

I am happy to teach you to love better but step one is being vulnerable. Step two is trusting people. You cannot love people if you don't trust them.

Step 3 is for another night.

Salt and sugar...

My prayer:

I am yours and you are mine God. How many times have you reminded me of that? And the truth is, I can face anything if you are with me.

I may not want to face it. I may not enjoy facing it. But, I know I can face it if you are with me. I know that when you are there, I can always have hope. I know when you are in it, I will win in the end.

Thank you for always being there with me and being my hope. I get the feeling I might need a lot of hope this week.

What God Said Tonight:

It is that we are inseparable.

You know the salt and peeper ritual they so often do at weddings? Well I say that you and I are like salt and sugar mixed together. Not only can we never be separated but we cannot be differentiated one from another.

I am in you and you are in me and the longer we are together the more we look the same.

I am not saying you are perfect. I am saying my covering, my sacrifice makes you like me. You are Christians. You are Christ like. Let my covering make you indistinguishable from me.

Let it be known that there is salt and sugar in you, but no one can tell the difference. I am yours and you are mine, forever my love.

Through love...

My prayer:

The circumstances of life are very confusing right now God but I am choosing to trust you through it all. You always bring me through times like this and you always bring me to new levels of wonderful.

So, as I look at the seeming chaos around me, I trust that you are still in charge and can make something beautiful from it.

Thank you for being in my life and showing me, time after time, that my trust is well founded in you.

What God Said Tonight:

My heart cries tonight for my children who are screaming that they can't find their way back home.

I have so many children who are lost and wandering. They know that there is a place of comfort, joy and peace, but they can't find me. Too much of life has blinded their eyes, hardened their heart and closed their ears.

I need you to love them for me. I need you to love them back to me. Don't preach. Don't scold. Just love. It is through your love that they will find their way back home.

Living a life of peace...

My prayer:

Awesome Father. Thank you for leading me through this day of ups and downs. Without firmly holding onto you, today would have been very stressful. But, instead, you kept showing me how you were at work in every swing of the pendulum so I got to remain in your peace all day long. That was pretty awesome!

What God Said Tonight:

My peace is never dependent on circumstances. My peace is only dependent on my presence. Where I am, there is peace. The key to living a life of peace is to live life fully in my presence.

I love you. I am always with you. Be with me and you will always have peace.

God, my guide...

My prayer:

Awesome God. This week was messed up. I thought I was doing pretty good with maintaining a good attitude, trusting you through it, but tonight was the straw that broke the camel's back (so to speak). And yet, even in this latest thing, I can so easily imagine how you could be using this to protect me from much greater trouble.

I really do trust you but I am a bit beat down and worn out from it all this week. I ask for you help, with me and with each situation.

What God Said Tonight:

I am your guide in the small and the great things. I won't always steer you away from something, just because it is hard. I can use even the most foolish things of this world.

I need some of those hard things to break off the even harder things that get attached to you.

Be open to where I want to guide you next and don't get distracted by the big obstacles in the road.

Until I get it right...

My prayer:

I am working as hard as I know how to learn what you are trying to teach me Father. I know it must be important but it is not easy.

I can see how, if I learn this, life will be easier and better. But, getting from here to there seems nearly impossible. On the other hand, you are the God of the impossible, so nearly possible is child's play!

Keep teaching me God. Don't give up on me.

What God Said Tonight:

It is not in me to give up on you.

Remember how I told the man that he had to forgive his enemy 70 times 7? Well, if I have told my children they must forgive 490 times, how much more will I forgive?

My forgiveness has no limit. My grace covers everything. That means, you have unlimited chances with me.

We are in this together for eternity. There is plenty of time to get it wrong...until you get it right. Love you!

Lean back...

My prayer:

God, thank you for challenges that keep life interesting.

I pray for wisdom on how to deal with each of them. I pray for strength to endure them. I pray for grace for when I mess up.

What God Said Tonight:

I have long told you that nothing is wasted in your life. Successes and failures all have their place and they will result in your favor, in time.

When that wall of challenges looks to big to conquer, lean back and feel me behind you. Lean back and know that I am bigger and more powerful than anything that is coming against you. Lean back, close your eyes and trust me to guide you through it.

I love you.