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The History: A couple of years ago, I started journaling my prayers and God's responses to them. I told my friends about this, they were really interested. I told my Pastor about it and he said, how about sharing those on line. When I asked God, He said, my words are for you, but not just for you. And, here we are...I hope He speaks to you in these words.
My prayer:
Awesome God, you gave me another fantastic day and I am grateful. I am also so tired I can't even spit. No matter how tired I am, I still want to hear from you. You are food to my soul. Tonight is all you God. What is on your mind tonight?
What God Said Tonight:
I am one of your basic needs. I am food. I am water. You were created to need me. You cannot live a complete life without me. Many try and they are miserable.
You were created to hunger for me. You were created to thirst for me. You are specially crafted and created to fit with me perfectly. I am your true soul mate. I made you for me. We fit like hand in glove, like peas and carrots. We are meant for each other.
I love you so much and I am glad you took a little time to meet tonight even though you were so tired. I am always so glad when we get to spend time together. You are complete with me.
Rest knowing that I complete you. Rest knowing I love you. Rest knowing that I will never leave you. Rest knowing that I am the light in your life and I will guide you always. Rest knowing that this thing with you and me is real and forever. I love you, now rest.
My prayer:
My awesome God. This weekend went too fast! I have a lot more I want to do, including sleep! :) Oh well, you always give me everything I need to meet the challenge of each day so I will trust that I will have enough of whatever I need for tomorrow.
I love you God. Plain and simple. I love that you are who you are. I love that you don't have hidden agendas. I love that while you are so big that you seem mysterious, in reality you are an open book (literally) to any of us who want to know you.
I love that you have given us so many promises of a good life. I love that you have given us the ability to have and eternity with you. I love that you have thought of and think of everything.
My God, I can't think of anything I don't love about you, unless it is your timing. You know I hate to wait. But then again, I know your timing is always perfect. I can always see that in hindsight. Eventhough I don't like the wait, your timing is perfect, so really I even love that about you.
I love how you love me. I love how you take care of me. I love how you provide for me. I love how you bless me. I love how you teach me. I really do.
I pray God that you continue to guide me this week, continue to pour out your favor on me. I pray God for your help at work this week. I pray that you help me see every opportunity to help people around me. I pray God that you keep me living in divine health. I pray God that you do all of that so I can accomplish whatever you have for me to do this week. Thank you God.
What God Said Tonight:
Three is a family walking through the desert. Can you see them? they are wearing blankets wrapped around them. It is a mother, a father and a young boy traveling. They are pushing a cart that is full. They are tired but happy to be together. They are my children. They have a purpose and a destiny. The journey to their destiny is not easy and it is not pleasant but because they are together they can endure.
You are not meant to live this life alone. You are meant to live this life in family, in covenant agreement with the family around you. I know you have a damaged idea of family from natural experiences, but you have been getting more and more delivered and healed from that.
I have a great blessing waiting in the wings for you as soon as your are ready. Are you ready? Can you feel the day? Can you see the comfort of having a family around for the journey?
I love you daughter so very much. I have plans to fulfill every last desire of your heart. I am in no hurry. There is a time and a season for everything and it is not too late. I am always on time. I will see this accomplished in your life. I will see you with every dream fulfilled. Do not lose hope. The years of waiting will seem like a flash. They will seem like nothing.
I love you so much. I want to give you so many great things. Rest your head on my shoulder and receive my comfort, my peace and my love.
My prayer:
All mighty, all powerful and all knowing God of all creation. My God, I am worrying over a lot of things tonight and you say to worry over nothing and pray over everything. So, I pray over everything tonight God.
I pray over the world, the tragedies, the environmental troubles, the wars, the hunger, the sickness and the people involved in each of them. I give it all up to you God and ask that you heal, repair, restore and provide.
I pray over my church and our expansion tomorrow. I pray God and ask that you make it all go smoothly and that people are drawn to you there. I pray God that you help me to be a blessing to everyone I meet.
I pray God for provision for friends who are struggling. I pray God for healing for friends who are sick. I pray God for direction for friends who are lost. I pray God for your love to surround all of us.
I pray God for the animals. Animal cruelty breaks my heart in ways that I can't even face. God I pray that you watch over the animals and keep them safe from anyone who would hurt them maliciously.
I pray God for protection for all of your children. Keep us safe and sound. I pray God for hope for anyone who has lost hope. I pray God for wisdom for anyone who needs it.
I pray God above everything else that your will is done and that you be actively present in my life. I pray God that your presence is so tangible and evident that people can't help but notice you. I pray God that your presence show through me, covering my flaws, so people only see you. Once they see you, really see you, I know they will want you in their lives too. Who wouldn't want the God that is love in their life, if they really knew you.
I love you God. That is everything I can think of, everything I am worrying about. I give it all to you. Thank you God for being big enough to handle everything.
What God Said Tonight:
Goodness daughter, you do have a lot on your mind tonight. I will take care of it all. I am in charge and I determine the outcome even though sometimes it may not feel like it. Receive my peace tonight.
These are good times. Truly they are good times. There are always things you can worry about, things to get upset about, but if you turn your focus to me and look on all of the good that is also here, even right now tonight, your spirit will lift and you will be able to celebrate with me, with us tonight.
There is so much good right now. Don't let the joy of it be stolen by worry and by focusing on the problems. Don't sweep the problems under the rug, give them to me. And then, rest, celebrate, look with joy on what I have done in your life. It is ok to celebrate even when everything isn't perfect.
I love you daughter. I want to enjoy this time with you but I can't if you are stuck in worry and focused on the problem. Look at me, see me, the solution, and the problem won't matter anymore.
Have I ever not solved a problem you have brought to me? Sometimes it takes longer than you want but think about it, have I ever not taken care of a problem once you have brought it to me? I always have and I always will.
So, rest, enjoy. Tomorrow is going to be a lot of fun, but only if you are looking at me and not the problems. Love you more than life.
My prayer:
Awesome, amazing, incredible, giving, loving, victorious God! Another great day! Thank you for every blessing God, I have NO complaints. I LOVE YOU!!!
I was wondering something today. I was wondering why it is so easy for me to see how amazing other people are and how hard it is to see or believe that there is anything amazing in me. I look at my friends and I see the most giving, loving, talented and truly amazing people that I can imagine. To me their awesomeness is so obvious but for the most part, they don't see it in themselves and they have a hard time believing me when I tell them. Similarly, when they tell me great things about me, I assume it is just cause they are super nice people, not because the things they are saying are actually true.
God, I often pray to see others through your eyes and you have given me those eyes. I pray tonight that you help me and others see ourselves through your eyes. God help me to see the truth about me, the good and the areas for improvement. I pray for wisdom and understanding. I think if we, if I, could see myself in truth, so many other things wouldn't be an issue and I could focus on the things that really need the work.
I love you God and I love this life you have given me. I love the people you have put in it. I love the opportunities you have given me. I love the privilege of getting to know you, talk to you and hear from you. That is really what makes it all worthwhile. What is on your mind tonight sweet Father?
What God Said Tonight:
Ahh my daughter, the human condition is strange sometimes. I see you covered in the blood of my Son's sacrifice so to me you are perfect. You see yourself uncovered and you see the flaws. When you look at yourself without the covering of my blood you will see every dark area, you will see every flaw. They will seem so big that you are likely to see things that are not even there.
Your enemy, satan, wants you to see those things. He magnifies those things. If he can get you to believe that they are the truth, that those dark areas are the true you, he can discourage you to a point of despair.
Look at the blood not what the blood is covering. The blood is the truth of your life. My covering is the truth of who you are. The truth is you accepted my forgiveness and you are forgiven. The truth is that you are my adopted child and that makes you amazing. The truth is that all of my children are amazingly gifted because they have my characteristics. They mimic the Father. They reflect me. As my reflection, they are amazing.
I am the truth. Your reflection of me is the truth. Believe the truth and not the lie. Believe me, not the one who would see you fail and die in despair. Believe the one who loves you not the one that hates you. Believe me who wants to see you succeed, not the enemy who is desperate to see you fail.
I love you so much. You are the most precious thing to me. Your life means everything to me. Your future is carefully planned by me. Rest again and we will talk more tomorrow. My love.
My prayer:
Miraculous God. Awesome ruler. Lord of my life. What a great day. What a great life! Sitting here tonight grateful for every little and great thing you have done.
Praying tonight for everyone who is discouraged, everyone who doesn't think that you hear their prayers. God I need to ask you to break through the barriers tonight and show up in their lives. For every person who has been praying, hoping, waiting and feels like they can't wait one more second. For every person who has given up on believing that you will show up.
For every one of these people God, please, tonight, now, show up. Show them that you are real. Show them that you love them. Show them that they can trust and hope in you. Show them what you have shown me. Show them that they are so very precious to you and God please let them feel it, personally. Even if it is just for a moment, break through any barrier, show them you and give them hope.
Thank you God. I love you so much and I want every person on this earth to know your love. There is nothing better. There is nothing I would rather have. In Jesus name I ask, amen.
What God Said Tonight:
I have my best saved up for these last days. I have blessings like you would not believe that I have been saving for just such a time as this.
You know about the trouble and the tribulation of the last days. Many will lose hope. Many will lose sight of me. Many will walk through the neighborhood lost. I love my children so much. I have been trying to break through their barriers for years. But the fact is, the truth is, I gave you all free will for a purpose.
For me to love you and for you to experience that love, I need you to take a step toward me. I need you to open the door. I need you to want it. If you want to be closer to me and feel my love, draw closer to me and love me. As you get closer to me, I will get closer to you. As you love me, I will love you. Your action and your love open the door for me to come in.
You have heard that I am a gentleman. It is true. I don't stay anywhere I am not wanted. I never over stay my welcome. Welcome me, I will come running. Keep me at an arm's distance and I will not try to press in. I will never get closer than you want me to be and I will never push you to something you don't want.
I am here. I am always here. You do not have to look far to see me. I am love so I am always loving you. You don't have to search hard to feel my love. It is here for the taking, ready and waiting for all of my children.
You, without hope, look at me and see that I am your hope. With me, anything is possible. But I won't force you. I won't make you love me. I won't make you let me in. Love doesn't force, love doesn't manipulate. Love trusts. Love is patient. Love is kind. I will wait for you but I won't bust down your door. I will be ready for you whenever you are ready.
I love you so much, whether you feel it or not. I love you so much whether you believe it or not. It is still the truth whether you feel it or not.
Rest my daughter, thank you for bringing me this thing that is heavy on your heart tonight. We will reach more people than you can imagine or know right now. Keep talking about me, lifting me up, talking to me and listening. We celebrate every night in heaven at the lives that are changed. You have done well.
My prayer:
I am so crazy blessed God! You are SO GOOD to me!!! Thank you for growth and increase in every part of my life.
You said fun stuff was ahead. You said I wouldn't be able to imagine it all. You were SO RIGHT!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!
I don't know what else to say or to pray God. Just thank you from the very deepest part and truest part of who I am.
What is on your mind tonight? What do you have to say? If you want to talk to someone I am here and I am ready!
What God Said Tonight:
I like this new music you found for us. Anointed but no words so you can hear me more clearly. No words so you have to come up with your own words of worship. I like that.
I like to hear from you. I like to know what is on your heart and how you are feeling. I like it when you worship me with your own words and thoughts, not just following the words that someone else came up with.
Don't get me wrong, I will take your worship any way you are willing to give it. I am glad for it. Not so much for me but because of what it does for you. Your worship will strengthen you and encourage you. Your worship, true worship will clarify your thoughts and the decisions you need to make. True worship aligns you with me and makes it easier for you to know my will and follow it.
True worship is powerful. True worship is from your heart. It isn't always pretty. It isn't always dignified. It can sometimes be ugly and quite undignified. But if it is from your heart, it is beautiful to me. If it is true worship, it blesses me. If it is true worship, it can move mountains.
I love you daughter. Worship me in spirit and in truth. In your own words and in your own way, worship me and I will cause all things to work to your good.
I love you so much. Can you feel me here with you tonight. I am leaning over your right shoulder and watching you type these words. I am here with you. I am present and I am real. I am yours, now and forever. I love you more than you can know.
My prayer:
Father God. Thank you for freeing me from the unworthy thoughts that I was wrapped up in last night. It is weird. Last night, when I couldn't sleep all night, it seemed like it was the most important thing in the world. It seemed like I had to DO SOMETHING about it. And today, it is back in perspective.
Today, I realize that there are a lot of more important things. Today I can truly say it doesn't matter if I was right or wrong. Today I can say that the only solution that is worth finding is to find a way to love in the middle of this situation. What a difference a day makes!
Thank you for helping me to wait and to not act prematurely. Thank you for the peace you gave me today. Thank you for wisdom. Thank you for always teaching me a better way. I love you God!
What God Said Tonight:
Sometimes the best action to take is to wait. Waiting is an action and waiting is a valid decision. Sometimes the act of waiting is the greatest show of faith that there is.
I know you have never liked waiting. Not many people do. But learning to wait well is a great skill. Learning to wait on my timing, with anticipation. Not with anxiety and worry but with a calm assurance that what you are waiting on will come. Knowing that the things I have promised you will come. Knowing that the peace, the healing, the redemption, the reparation and the salvation will come. Waiting with complete trust of the outcome but with no knowledge of the timing. There is great faith in that. There is great maturity in that.
Learn the art of waiting and your life will be a lot more enjoyable.
I love you daughter. Continue to wait on me. When things come in my timeline, when they have had a chance to fully mature, they are SO MUCH BETTER and I want the very best for you. You are my precious and true daughter and I want you to have the best of everything. I love you. Rest and wait.
My prayer:
Awesome God. Today was a strange mixture of crazy favor, painful growth and opportunities to serve.
Why does growth always have to hurt? Maybe it doesn't "have" to, but it seems like it usually does. God, I would love it if you could just take out every ugly thing in me. I would love it if you could remove every bit of pride, every bit of meanness, every bit of judgement and anything else you run into that is not a reflection of you.
God I need your help with all of it. I am tired of thinking I am doing ok, just to run into another pocket of yuck in me somewhere. I know we are all sinners and me the most of all, but do we have to stay that way? I am tired of being less than my potential. I am tired of being less than the loving reflection of you that you tell me to be.
It hurts people God. When I have this crud in me and I don't get it dealt with, it hurts people. I don't even want to think about all of the people I have hurt over the years. Often unintentional, but does that matter to the person who was hurt?. I don't want to hurt anyone else.
Father God, help me to be a better person. Help me to grow faster and more completely. Help me to be all that you intend for me to be. Please and in Jesus name who made it possible, amen.
What God Said Tonight:
Your choice of focus is interesting tonight. Out of a day filled with favor and with joy you are focused on the one area of difficulty and the area of challenge. Did you take time to remember that I am with you always. That the same favor that I show you on your job covers you in every relationship and interaction you have.
You are not perfect. You hurt people sometimes. You are hurt sometimes. Next time you are hurt, remember this night and your recognition of your own imperfectness and the pain that it causes. Remember that you hate that you hurt people but that you do anyway sometimes. Give the person who hurts you in the future the benefit of the doubt. Give them the courtesy to believe that just maybe they aren't trying to hurt you out of spite. That just maybe, they are reacting out of their own set of issues and baggage that they are working on, but they are not quite there yet.
You are all in the same boat. You are all under the same condition. If you were perfect and never messing up, never hurting anyone, you would not be able to understand when it happens to you. You would be without flaw, but you would be without compassion. One day, we will live in a world that is based solely on love. When that day comes, you can live as the perfected being that you are. You can live and love perfectly.
Until that time, in this world, you are living in the same condition. You are all working on issues at some level. If you weren't, not only would you not be able to understand and have compassion for those that do struggle, but also you would become elitist and separatists. The "perfect" people would never want to let in the "imperfect" people. That is why pride is so dangerous. When you even think you are perfect, you tend to isolate and not let any one who is less than perfect in. If you shut out imperfect people, my message will never reach the people it needs to. If you shut out imperfect people you will never be able to complete my will for your life.
So, recognize your imperfection and know that even that is of use to me. Love in spite of your imperfectness. Apologize when you hurt someone. Forgive when someone hurts you. I love you just as you are and I am proud of you for wanting to be better.
My prayer:
My Lord God, what a momentous week. I think I will remember this week for a very long time. So many amazing things were started in the Kingdom of God this week. God I am in awe of you and all that you are doing. I am so incredibly grateful that you let me be a part of the amazing things you do. From the birth of new ministries, to the joining of ministries, to miracle healings, this week had a little of everything and you let me be a part of it all!
I don't think I have ever been more keenly aware that I don't deserve all that you do for me and all that you let me do, as I am right now. Thank you, gracias, merci, grazie, Dankegon, Danke schoen, Mahalo, Toda and Efharisto. Basically, thank you more than I can say. Never could I have imagined the life you have given me God. I can't wait to see what is next. Love you more than I thought was possible!
What God Said Tonight:
I told you this season was going to be a blast!
I love you so much. You are a flower that has fully bloomed. You are coning into your full maturity in this season. You are so beautiful and your petals are intricately colored and shaped. They have been shaped by every experience you have had. They have been colored by your responses. You have grown to a height you could not have imagined when you were a seed or even a bud.
There is more growth. New blooms to nurture. There will always be room to grow. But right now, I want to look at you. I want to enjoy the fragrance of you. I want to just stare at you for a while. You are so beautiful to me. You are perfect in my sight. So beautiful.
See yourself through my eyes and you will never doubt yourself again. See yourself through my eyes and you will never wonder if you are good enough. You will never wonder if you are pretty enough. See yourself through my eyes and you will walk in the confidence of the royal priesthood that you are. I love every part of you and I will cherish you forever.
My prayer:
What a great day God. Rest, a great hike, some great movies, great food and great family and friends. Life doesn't get much better than this.
Tomorrow is another big day. Our two churches officially becoming one. I ask God that you be in complete charge tomorrow. I pray that no weapon formed against us will prosper. I pray that the purpose and plan that you have for this merge is accomplished, that your will is accomplished on earth as it is in heaven.
Guide me God, in what you want me to do and what you don't want me to do. Help me God to be a blessing to every person I encounter and a blessing to you. Show me the needs that you want me to fill and give me the wisdom of how best to fill them. I remain your servant God and I remain grateful for the opportunity to serve.
What God Said Tonight:
Pretty formal tonight my daughter. I hear and will honor your prayer. I have already been working on this one for awhile now. You are a part of something that will be remembered for a long time, on earth and in heaven.
My angels are standing ready to battle and to praise. They are ready for what comes. They are ready for the spiritual fight and they are ready for the celebration that follows.
Both are equally important you know. The battle is important but you have not fully overcome until you celebrate, until you praise me and celebrate what we have done. That is when the true and full victory is realized.
So often you fight the battle and then you move onto the next battle and you forget to celebrate. We are going for full and complete victory my daughter.
My sweet warrior daughter. Fight in my army and celebrate at my table. I love you more than you will ever know. Let my love strengthen you. Let my armor protect you and let my angels accompany you.
My prayer:
Awesome day God!! Thank you. You showed up, just like you said you would, and took care of it all. Despite my fear, despite my inability, you showed up and made it great!
God I love you and I just want to get closer to you. I want to know you better. I have a hunger and desire to know everything about you. I want to see heaven. I want to see Jesus sitting at your right hand. I want to spend time with you, talking and walking in the garden.
I have been awfully busy "doing" and not spending enough time just being with you. I get another sabbath tomorrow. Let's spend it together, just you and me. Show me more of you God.
What God Said Tonight:
You have seen heaven. You have seen it in your dreams and you have seen it every day as my kingdom is manifest on earth. Every time someone is saved, every time someone is healed, every time someone trusts me in their life, you see heaven. Every time you see someone love for no obvious reason, every time you see someone give unselfishly, you see heaven.
Heaven is here on earth, you just have to look for it. It is in the eyes of a trusting child. It is in the arms of a really good hug. It is in your heart. Heaven lives inside of you. Heaven is the atmosphere that I live in. It is infused with my Spirit. You are infused with my Spirit.
You know more than you realize. You have seen more than you have recognized. I love you and we will spend the rest of eternity getting closer. There is no end to me so there will always be more to learn and understand about who I am. But we are in no rush.
Let's take a hike together tomorrow. I love when we do that together. Let's spend that time away, you and me. I look forward to your undivided attention. It will be good to just hang out and appreciate you tomorrow. I love you and I will always be with you, no matter where your attention is, I am always with you. I have got you in my arms. Rest.
My prayer:
Awesome, amazing, excellent, Father God! What a great day!!! Thank you for the immense favor you give me!!!!
Right now, I am so tired, I can barely sit up though and we have another big day tomorrow. I ask God for your help tomorrow. I am nervous about the filming. I am afraid I won't do a good enough job. You have shown me what this can be and I want it to be so good for you. Please, help me, anoint me, speak through me so your people are blessed. In Jesus name God. None of me and all of you.
Now, I better stop and listen to you before I fall completely asleep. What is on your mind?
What God Said Tonight:
You are on the edge of something great but you will have to step out in faith. Understand that I am not counting on your skill or your talent in this next assignment. I am fully prepared to speak through you. I am fully capable and prepared to get my message out there but trust me. Give in to me. Relax and let me take the reins. You will know it is me. You will get your mind quiet and let me take it.
I want this next project even more than you It is going to be a huge blessing. It is going to help so many people. I need to get this message out. I am actually glad that you are nervous and that you recognize that I am asking you to do something that you are not "good" at. This one needs to be all me. I need you to be my hands and feet but I need you in complete submission to me and my will so we can get it right.
Trust me to show and fulfill the vision I gave to you. It is going to be a blast and you will be shocked at the reach and the effect that it will have. I have such great plans for you. Sometimes those plans mean that you need to relax back and let me do my thing.
I love you and am glad that this day is finally here. Your faith will serve you well and will be increased as you step out of the comfortable and into my grace. I love you. Rest now and trust me.
My prayer:
Awesome Teacher, King, Lord, God, Father, Redeemer, Brother, Friend, Husband, Protector, Lover, Peace, Joy, Light, Hope, Healer, Provider, Creator, Judge, I love you for all that you are God! You bless me just by being who you are. To have a God like you in me, directing my life, loving me...I don't deserve it but I am so thoroughly grateful. What is on your mind tonight? What do you want to talk about?
What God Said Tonight:
I speak peace to your troubled heart tonight. You have a lot of unspoken needs tonight for you and the people around you. I hear the burdens of your heart and I will speak life into each situation.
To you, I speak peace. Always remember it is not your responsibility to fix things. That is my job. Your job is to call me. It is kind of like when you have a problem with your plumbing, a serious problem not just a plugged toilet that you can plunge your way out of but something really serious. You wouldn't expect that you would be equipped to fix it. You would call a professional and have them fix it. Consider me the plumber.
For all of those situations that are bigger than what you can fix, call me and let me repair the situation. You are feeling overwhelmed by the needs tonight and you are feeling that way because you are taking on the responsibility to fix it. Stop it, call on me.
I appreciate your worship and I revel in your praise. I have heard both and because of the door opened by your praise, I have also heard the burdens on your heart.
I love you daughter. Remember to let me do my job and you do yours. You rest now knowing that I will take care of every last issue.
My prayer:
My amazing God. Father, it is so easy for me to get caught up in what people think of me. I know that I shouldn't care what people think about me, that it is only what you think of me that really counts. I know that in my head but I forget it sometimes in my heart.
I get so tied up in making people happy and judging my worth based on what they think. It is a loser's game. I know that looking in the mirror that other people provide will always end badly. I pray and ask God that you help me exchange the mirror of other people's opinions with the mirror of who you say that I am.
I know that I am nothing without you. But with you, I am that royal priesthood, the head and not the tail, above and not beneath, more precious than gold or rubies. Help me God to remember what you think of me and who I am in you.
Help me to see the true reflection. And God, where there are things in me that I need to change, show me those too. Show me what you want me to change so I can be a better reflection of you. Show me where there is pride, fear, unforgiveness and anything else that you don't like. Purify me God and make me what and who you need me to be. I am all yours God. Thank you for hearing me tonight.
What God Said Tonight:
What a great prayer and what an easy request to grant. You my daughter are all of those things through me and more. You are so precious to me I cannot express it to you in this world. My love for you transcends your ability to experience it. You are perfect in the covering of my blood.
Are there things that we can change that will make this life easier on you and allow us to do more while you are still on the earth? Absolutely. We will continue to work on those things.
The self esteem issues that you are struggling with tonight have a root of pride to them. You were beat down for many years and had to learn to fight for your own self worth. Now you feel like you still have to fight to prove your worth. You don't. You have your worth in me now. You don't have to fight to make yourself or others believe it. You can rest knowing that your worth is solid and cannot be challenged. Once you can truly accept that, you won't worry so much about what others think. Freedom from that worry will allow you to truly grow and advance.
Once you don't have to prove your worth, you will find yourself doing more and achieving more than you ever thought was possible. Once you stop putting energy into proving your worth, you will have so much extra energy to accomplish things that really matter. You will have more to give to me, to my people. You will have more left for yourself.
I love you daughter. Just as you are, I love you. I also love that you want to continue to grow. Without growth there is death. And you my girl have everlasting life. Grow, live, thrive and I will be with you every step of the way.
My prayer:
Amazing, wonderful, loving God. I was reading over the titles of the last several nights and there seems to be a theme. I seem to have gotten a bit whiny lately God. I plan to stop that tonight.
I am so grateful for all that you are and all that you do. Forgive me God if I forgot for one minute to be grateful, if I forgot for one moment how completely blessed I am with you in my life. I am sorry God that I forgot for a minute what life was like before I had you in it and in charge. My life is only worth anything, I am only worth anything because of you in me. I love you so much.
Thank you for your forgiveness and salvation that you have provided for a sinner like me. Thank you God for putting up with me and be patient with me as I fight my way through life.
What God Said Tonight:
I am not concerned with your sin tonight. Your sin is forgiven and forgotten. I have thrown it into the sea of forgetfulness. The only reason I even bring it up is to let you know that it is not an issue.
We have some really fun stuff ahead. I know these last weeks have been tough, I told you that they would be. But we are through the worst of it and you are poised for the beginning of one of the best times in your life so far. We are going to have a blast and it is going to be all joy. It is going to be a celebration.
You are going to be able to accomplish things you haven't even dreamed possible. And you will give it all back into the Kingdom where I can multiply it out and multiply it back to you. You should get ready and get excited because this is the beginning of something big. You will love it.
I do have a plan and a purpose for your life and it is good. Get ready for the time of your life. No more tears for now. No more worry for now. No more fear for now. Now is a time to celebrate! It is going to be SO MUCH FUN!!! I promise.
My prayer:
God, my awesome God. The love that I can't get enough of. The joy and peace in my life. God you are truly my everything. God, I am so in love with you. I am shocked by it. I am shocked by the love that I have for you.
I am willing to do anything for you God. I don't say that lightly. I have thought it through and truly anything you want, I am willing to do. I am so thoroughly convinced that you have my best interest at heart and that you love me that I am completely willing to be obedient to any and every thing that you have for me.
God, my God and Lord and Teacher and Saviour and so much more, I am all yours. But, tonight, I could use a hug. I could use a couple of arms around me telling me that everything is going to work out, that they love me and that they are on my side. God, I love it when you tell me those things and when you make me feel them. It just comes down to that old saying, sometimes I need Jesus with skin on. I wish I didn't. I wish that you, just you, were enough. That would make life a whole lot easier. I can trust you. I don't have to worry about whether or not you truly love me. I don't have to worry about whether you are telling the truth. Those are all things that I have to wonder about when it comes to people.
Life would be a lot easier if your love was all that I needed. I pray God that you either make that be enough or you show me where I can get the love with skin on. Either way, right now, I am feeling the lack and I don't want to. I want to be completely satisfied with you. You are the God of more than enough. That should be enough for me. God I love you so much. Help me with this empty spot please.
What God Said Tonight:
At what point did you I say that life should be easy? When did I give you that impression? Life is not designed to be easy.
You are surrounded by love. You are surrounded by people who love you so much. You are just not seeing it tonight. You are so caught up in what you don't have that what you do have is staring you in the face and you can't see it. Your life is and will continue to be filled with love. Love from me and love from the people around you.
You have to open your eyes. You have to see what is so clearly all around you. You are missing what I have already provided. I can't bring you more until you recognize what you already have.
Think just for a minute. How many times did people say "I love you" to you, just today? More that just a couple. People don't say that for no reason. You have the love that you seek, just open your eyes. You will be amazed a the love around you, even right now if you just open your eyes.
Open your eyes and see the love I have surrounded you with. Receive that love and be filled up. I love you more than you will ever know. I could tell you every minute of every day for eternity and still not reflect the love that I have for you. You are the reason I am here and the reason that I stay. Rest in the cushion of love around you. It will cradle you and strengthen you. It will let you rise to that next level, if you just open your eyes.
My prayer:
Awesome and amazing God. There is so much to say and so few words to say it with. Sometimes, there is so much to pray for and about that I don't even know where to start. There are so many who are sick, there are so many who are in danger, there are so many who don't know you yet, there are so many that need food/shelter, and there are so many who need your love. My God, sometimes it is overwhelming to me. I know you are big enough to handle it, but to me, it is more than I know how to pray for.
It is times like this where I just want to throw my hands up to you and cry out, EVERYTHING GOD, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING!!! I don't know what else to do. In Jesus name, please take care of everything.
What God Said Tonight:
I have everything under control sweet daughter, although I know it doesn't seem like it to you. You can't see the big picture that I can. You can only see form your vantage and from there, it seems like a dark overwhelming shadow that is about to engulf you.
Your instinct is still right though. Give it to me. I am big enough and I will take care of it. As you give it to me, I will give you the peace that you seek. I will take care of everything. I know that there is a lot right now and the sooner you know that you can't handle it, the sooner you give it to me, and the sooner I can take care of it. Surrender everything to me and I will take care of it.
Your best way of helping right now is to give up. Give it up to me. I know you and I know that you want to jump in and try to make it all better but don't. You cannot help that way. You can help By giving up and giving in to me.
Rest in complete peace knowing that I will not let you down. I will not let go. I will not allow my children to be forsaken or begging for bread. Give it to me.
Any part that you hang onto is a part that I can't help with. And, therefore, by hanging onto it and trying to help them yourself, you are actually being selfish and keeping the help that they need from them. I can help but you have to let go. Give it all to me.
I love you and love that you want to help. You know I will always ask you to pitch in, but I will ask it only after you have given it to me. Then, I will ask you to be my hands and feet but in the way and manner that I know will be most effective. You see the immediate need. I see the root and the future of every decision. I see it all. That lets me be able to develop the solutions that have lasting effects. Let me handle it and I won't let you down, ever.
My prayer:
My God, you have answered so many of my prayers lately. Thank you for meeting every need, every issue so quickly. I love seeing you change people's lives. I love that I get to be a part of it. You are so amazing and wonderful.
God, the fact is, this was a long week and I am simply worn out. Mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually worn out. I am so ready for a sabbath tomorrow. I really need it this week. I ask God that you renew and revive me tomorrow. Thank you for giving us that day, the one day to rest each week.
God, I love you but I can't think of anything else to say tonight. Can you take over? I want to know what you want to talk about tonight.
What God Said Tonight:
Quiet your mind. I want to tell you just a couple of things before you rest. I want to tell you about how I made you. I want to tell you how I feel about you. I want you to know that there is nothing more precious to me than my children. There is nothing more precious than you. I treasure you. I place your value and your worth above everything else, even my own life. I love you and I find you beautiful. I love you and I find such great value and worth in you.
I can't wait to see you in this new level. It is almost here and so many things have already been put into motion. Pay attention, there will be things that happen that you will miss if you are not concentrating, if you are not fully focused on me.
You are my precious amazing creation and I am watching over you until you are perfected. I will love you and I will keep you safe. I will revive and rejuvenate you and I will rest with you. I will celebrate with you. I will cry with you. I will be with you always if you let me.
Go and rest. Tomorrow is a new day. Rest in my love again tonight.
My prayer:
Awesome and mighty God. It seems like there are a lot of powerful and significant things happening right now. Life is exciting and a little frightening. I am trying to remember what you have said, that you have it all under control and I should trust you even when it looks like things are not working out. I would say that I can do that about 95% of the time. The other 5% I am freaking out a little. I guess it is in the 5% that faith comes into play.
God I love you and I trust you. I believe that you have my best interest in mind and that you will guide me always as you have promised.
God I cannot be more grateful for you hearing our prayers today and keeping my friends and family safe from the Broken Tree fire. It is not often that we see a fire that is blown back in on itself and then snowed on! You are amazing. THANK YOU for keeping and continuing to keep everyone safe.
I love you God, now and forever.
What God Said Tonight:
Fear not, do not fear, you have not been given spirit of fear. You do not need to fear any thing. No weapon formed against you will prosper. I say these things and I promise these things because I understand how frightening life can be. I remember the feeling of being swept along by circumstances and the need and wondering, is there another way? Part of why it was so important for me to come live with you for awhile, to live as a man, was to help me better understand these very feelings.
Bring those feelings to me. Bring me your fear. Bring me your self doubt. Give me your worry. I will take it on and return to you peace. I will return to you confidence in a future that is assured. I will replace your worry with a confidence and a hope that you are where I have placed you. You are on a path ordained by me. You cannot be driven off of that path. I made it just for you. I made a future just for you. I made a dream just for you.
Everything is coming together perfectly. You don't need to gloss over you fear. You don't need to pretend it isn't there. Just give it to me. You have heard the saying that courage is taking action even when you are scared. Well, the action I need you to take is faith in me to work it all out. The action I need you to take is to bring me your fear and worry. Let me replace it with strength hope and peace. You are mine and I will not let you down.
I love you, now and forever.
My prayer:
I am beyond amazed with you God! Today was pretty phenomenal with the opportunities to serve you. Thank you for alerting me to a friend who was having a rough day. Thank you for the opportunity to help create another training program. Thank you for an amazing small group experience and for all that you are doing in our small group. God I am so very honored to be your hands and your feet. You are the BEST BOSS EVER!!!
I don't really have much more to say tonight God. I see you working everything out and I just pray that your will is done God. I am smart enough to know that your will is best and that if I just stay out of your way, you will accomplish amazing things and provide incredible experiences for me.
There are still a lot of needs God, both in my life and in the lives around me. But I am so completely confident tonight that you are taking care of each and every one of them, I can't do anything but thank you and praise you. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
What God Said Tonight:
I am showing you new depths. I am taking you to new places. Don't be afraid. It is the unknown, but I am with you and I promise you will love it.
Be wise, be discerning, listen to my voice and let me guide you. There will be some distractions along the way but stay focused on me and I will take you to places you can't even imagine. I will take to heights that you have only dreamed of.
I want to dream with you my daughter. I want to build with you. I want to walk and be with you forever. There are areas of the Kingdom that have fallen into disrepair. The buildings that once stood so tall and regal have fallen into ruble. I want to rebuild them, better and bigger than before. I want to build them with a new plan that is stronger and will withstand the test of time. Will you help to build them with me?
I want to show you my restorative power. You have been experiencing my creative power and now I want you to experience my restorative power. I want to build it all back up with you.
I love you daughter and I am so glad we get to share this stuff! Be blessed and rest. Tomorrow is a GOOD day!
My prayer:
You God are so amazing.
I am sitting here tonight imagining what it would be like to try to describe you to someone who had never heard anything about you. How do I describe someone who created everything that ever was or ever will be? How do I explain that they may likely never see you in this life but that your presence is more real and more powerful than anything else, ever? How do I explain a God who knows everything but wants to hear from us anyway?
How do I explain that you are all of these things and more and somehow, you still love each of us. Somehow, with everything you are responsible for, you are concerned about whether my meeting was successful, if I enjoyed my time with my friend and what I had for supper. You have numbered the hairs on my head. That is how much detail you care about when it comes to us.
God, fact is, you don't make a lot of sense. There is no one like you so there is nothing to compare you to. You are greater than anything else ever, so there is nothing, truly, to relate you to.
The only way to understand you, to know you, is to invite you into my life. Bottom line, that is the only way and then suddenly, everything that didn't make sense, begins to make sense. God, that is a big leap of faith though. I am so grateful that you got to me as a child when I didn't need everything to be so logical. I think I would have had a harder time making that leap of faith as an adult.
Obviously, God, despite you not making sense to people who don't know you yet, despite my inability to adequately describe you, somehow you still touch people's hearts so they can decide to invite you in. I guess that is the key. My attempts at explaining you and "convincing" people about you are completely inadequate, but that is ok. When it comes down to it, you are the one that convinces them. Maybe my feeble attempts open a door? I don't know.
What I do know is that you are more incredible and amazing than anything else ever and I love you more than I thought was possible.
What God Said Tonight:
Ah daughter, you know my heart. You know what is important to me. You know that what I want more than anything is for all of my children to know me.
I know that it is not easy. I know that I am outside of the "normal" and natural experience, but that is kind of the point isn't it? Who would want a God that is no more than they are.
I am what I am and people come to know me through many different avenues. Sometimes it is because someone tells them about me. They might be curious or they might just be ready. Sometimes it is because of a life that they witness, the life of a true believer that lives for me and reflects my love. That can convince more people than you know. Sometimes it is an event. You might think, and I know that you my daughter do think, that miracles convince a lot of people that I am real and that I am God. Funny though, they don't really. Sometimes they will, but only when the person was already close to believing anyway.
What is more convincing is seeing someone who loves me and lives according to my will in their life. When people see real faith, real trust and real love, that is what convinces them. When people feel that love from you, they begin to believe it might be possible that there is a God that loves them.
You were right to think that your talking to people opens a door for them to choose. It does. But so does your every day life. When someone cuts in front of you at the grocery store check out line, how you react effects people's opinions of me. When you give or don't give to others, effects people's opinion of me. You effect what people think of me. Remember to live a life that helps people to trust me and to want to know me.
I love you daughter. You are my billboard, my lighthouse. Shine for me.
My prayer:
My awesome Lord, God, Father. How are you? How was your day?
I had some things not turn out like I had expected but I am fully trusting you knowing that you have a purpose and plan that is better than any thoughts I may have had. I am waiting in anticipation for all that things you have talked about. I can't wait to see what you have planned. I am ready for Spring God. I am ready for the next season.
I need to ask your help with wildfires here tonight God. The smoke was so thick coming home. I pray and ask God that you put out the fires tonight. I pray God that you protect your people and their homes. I give this situation up to you God. I thank you God for hearing my prayers earlier today and keeping the fire from "M's" house.
I am kind of all over the place tonight God. I am having trouble focusing and my thoughts are just wandering all over. I love you and I trust you to take care of it all, including me.
What God Said Tonight:
The fires are not here to destroy but they are here to clear some things out. Much like your life, there are some things that need to be cleaned out, burned out, before we can move into this new season. The new season is all about new growth and I need the field to be cleared so the new growth has room to grow without being choked out by the weeds of the past.
I am not meaning to be cryptic, but sometimes the pictures of what is happening and going to happen are clearer than the straight words. I want you to understand what is happening. I don't want you to be afraid. I don't want you to worry that it is going all wrong. Everything is happening just as I have planned it. Everything.
Trust me and the process. We will get these things cleared out and the stage will be set and clear for the new Act to begin. You are right where I need you and everything is perfectly lined up. I love you daughter. Trust my love.
My prayer:
God my God. Today was awesome, amazing, incredible and every other word for great that I can't think of right now. Three miracle healings that I know about at our church today!! Other people who tithed for the first time. I can't wait to see what amazing blessings you pour out on them!!!
God you are awesome. You are so real and amazing and your power is for today, not just for "Bible Days" and I am so grateful that it is. Life would be so boring, dull, painful and worthless without your active power and love working in my life everyday. God you are so amazing. You should be the definition of amazing. When we look up amazing in the dictionary it should just say "God." Thank you so much for all that you did today and for letting me see and be a part of some of it!
I love watching you work God!
What God Said Tonight:
I am about to bring life out of darkness. There has been a dark hole that you thought was dead and lifeless. You thought it was a vacuum and that nothing could survive in it, but I am growing life from it right now and you are about to see the evidence of that growth. You are about to see the plants sprouting and growing from the darkness. The darkness was not dead and it was not a vacuum. It was an incubator for a precious new life that I have been working on.
There is new fruit, new growth that is going to come from the incubator, the dark place and it will be so good. It is fresh new life, spring green. There is a reason that I have waited for this time and this place to bring it about. You are about to experience a spring not only in the physical world but in your emotional and spiritual life as well. All is going to be fresh new and green.
I am bringing this about and it will be good. You have been prepared and you are ready for this. I can't wait to show it to you. It is not long now. Just a tiny but more of patience and you will see the new life that I have for you. You are going to love it. Rest well for the challenge of tomorrow. I love you.
My prayer:
My amazing God. I don't deserve you God. I don't deserve your blessings, your protection, your healing and your salvation. I don't deserve it. I am VERY GRATEFUL for it but I don't deserve it. I don't deserve any good thing really.
Where you say my righteousness is like filthy rags...I know what you mean. I am not deserving and yet you saw something worth saving. You saw something you could use. You saw something in me to love. I don't know how you saw through all of the garbage, the hurt, the yuck to see something worth saving but THANK YOU for seeing it!
Thank you for not giving up on me. Thank you for teaching me how to be better. Thank you for changing my heart and showing me how much better life is when I live it your way!! I love you God. Thank you for finding a way to love me.
What God Said Tonight:
Loving you is not so hard. At the root of you, the essence of who you are, there is me. I am the model that you were created from. I created you in my own image. Your core is in it's very essence, good. Your core is love. Love can't help but be drawn to love. Has life covered up that love with a lot of layers of garbage? You bet, but the core is still love. That is the root of who you are. I love the love that is in you.
When in doubt, love. When you want to please me, love. When you want to be in my will, love. When you want to feel better and more in touch with me and yourself, love. It is the core of everything really. Love, true love, is the core, the purpose and the meaning of it all.
Can you love for no reason at all? Try it. I promise you will like it. It is what you are made out of and what you were made to do.
I love you my sweet daughter and I find a lot of worth in you. I value who you are. I value your core and your experiences. I value the decision you make every day to live for me.
I love you daughter. Don't ever forget it and that love gives you your worth. You are loved by the Most High God and the Creator of the Universe. What more do you need? Your worth is more than rubies and more than gold. You are mine.
My prayer:
My Father and my healer, my protector and my Lord. How are you tonight God? What is on your mind. It has been all about me, my needs, the needs of my friends for awhile now. What do you want to talk about? I love you Father.
What God Said Tonight:
Yea, it has been about you but I asked you to share you stuff because the stuff you experience is the same that all of my children experience at one time or another. Your sharing is helping me to talk to them too. Until they are ready to hear me personally, this let's me talk to them and encourage them.
I am thinking and doing the things that I am always thinking and doing. I am loving you above all. I am thinking about your future and how amazing it will be. I love to think about my children and to see them grow and excel. It is one of my favorite things.
I am thinking about the children that are still lost. I am thinking of new ways to reach them. I am thinking about how I can speak to them so they will hear me. I am almost desperate for them to hear my voice and to make a decision to live for me. What happens if they don't is unthinkable in many ways.
I am thinking about the past the present and the future. They are really all kind of the same thing for me. I am thinking about the big picture and I am thinking about the smallest being. I am omnicscient and I can think of all things at once.
I am devoted to you, to my children and I am keeping you first. Can you keep me first? That is enough for tonight, you rest now and we will talk again tomorrow.
My prayer:
My God, Lord and protector. I am here tonight and I am a little nervous about tomorrow. Did I make the right choice? Is it going to be ok? Is this your will? Is it ok?
God, I know you have not given me a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. I know that, but it doesn't really feel like it tonight. God, I am in your hands.
Thank you for always taking care of me. Thank you for amazing people who surround me with love and with prayer. Thank you for making everything work to my good. Thank you for being God, almighty Father and King. I love you God. I praise you God. I worship you God. I am truly crazy about you God. I am truly nuts about you! I am in your hands God.
What God Said Tonight:
No fear my daughter. No weapon formed against you will prosper. You know that I am bigger than every attack and I will make it all work for your good. I have promised and I stand by my promises.
Be assured tonight that you are mine and that I will ALWAYS take care of you. I will never let you go. I will be your covering and your shelter. I will defend you to the end of the earth. I will protect you against all enemies. I will never let you down and I will never let you come to harm. I am a shield for you daughter. I am your helmet and your breastplate. I am your sword and I am your belt. I am your armour for this battle called life and I will cover and protect you for ever.
I love you so much. No weapon formed against you will prosper. I will never allow them to touch you. I am so in love with you. I love you with a violence and a fervor that makes it impossible for any harm and evil to touch you. You are completely covered by me daughter and I will not let you be exposed. Rest assured tonight and walk with confidence into tomorrow.
