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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:
Hi God! I am a bit early tonight but I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do more than talk with you, so here I am! God, life has been so serious lately. Tonight can we just hang out and talk? I don't ever want to be disrespectful, I love and respect you beyond measure. But, I also love it when we spend time together laughing, celebrating and having fun!
Life is so amazing right now. Sometimes I worry that it will stop, your miracles, your opportunities to minister, the blog...all of it. It is all so good, I just want it to keep going forever. But, even as I say that, I know me and as much as I love what you are doing right now, I always want the new thing too. I guess what I really want is to be able to be a part of what you are doing forever. Since you have promised me an eternity with you, I guess I don't have to worry about that.
God, will you always let me be a part of what you are doing? Since you can use anyone, will you always use me? I hope so.
Huh, here I started out saying I wasn't going to get serious tonight but that all sounded pretty serious. There is so much joy in living with you God. There is struggle and tests too, but there is SO MUCH JOY! I am happy to be your kid God. I am happy to be your hands and feet whenever you need me. I am happy to be yours.
What God Said Tonight:
I am happy you are mine too. I am happy that I am yours. We will be together forever. I will always have assignments for you. Sometimes the assignment may be to rest and let me take care of things but I will always have assignments for you. I know what you need and what will fulfill you better than you know yourself. As long as you trust me and follow my lead, you will live a full and satisfied life. That is what I want for you.
Don't worry about what you talk to me about. Whatever you want to talk about, I want to hear. When you are joyful, when you are sad, when you are successful, when you fail, when you on top of the world and when you are under a rock, wherever you are at, whatever you are thinking, I want to hear it.
You can't shock me or run me off just by sharing what is on your heart. I don't scare easy. I love you daughter and I want to know every corner of your heart and mind.
Sometimes we will be serious and deep together, sometimes we will laugh and all of it is joy. Even when you cry with me, it will be joy because it gives me the opportunity to heal you and comfort you. It is the opportunity for a praise report that you can use to help others. It is ALL JOY!
I love you and love to laugh with you. I love to cry with you. I love to dance with you and I love to sing with you. I love to be with you. Remember my love for you and let it strengthen you every day. Live in the happiness and joy that I have created for you. You think it is a coincidence that the "Happy Song" just came on your iPod? No coincidence my girl!
Be happy with me :)
My prayer:
Mighty Father God that makes me succeed. You really are amazing God. I continue to be in awe of how you work everything out. Thank you for today and for working everything out that seemed like such a mess. Taking each thing as it comes and dealing with that thing, trusting you to order my steps, it is a pretty fantastic way to live God. Thank you for guiding me always and being a lamp to my feet and light to my path. I will follow your lead always God. I love you and I am so grateful to you God. What is on your mind and heart tonight?
What God Said Tonight:
Freedom is how I want you to live. I want you to live in freedom. Freedom from worry, freedom from fear, freedom from sin. I did not intend for you to live bound up by all of the mess. I intend for you to live free. I intend for you to have the way out of bondage. You have been given that way out. Make sure that you are taking advantage of it in every area of your life.
Search for those parts of your life where you have no control. The areas where you do things you know you shouldn't, where you do things you don't even really want to do. Those are the areas that you are still in bondage.
It is time to be free. It is time for you to fully accept the gift of freedom provided by my sacrifice on the cross. You had access to it from the moment of my sacrifice but you still have to receive it. I love you and it causes me pain to see you bound and living in less than what I have for you. I don't need you to talk about it, not even to me, but I need you to recognize it and I need you to receive the freedom that you know is yours. There is no value in hanging onto the bondage. There is no benefit in bondage. There is great value in living free.
I love you and want you to have every good thing. Receive this good thing and live free tonight.
My prayer:
You are so amazing God. Another miracle healing praise report today! I love to see you work in people's lives and in their health!! I especially love it when they are not really expecting it and you do it anyway! What a crazy honor that you let me be a part of that God. That you let me witness it and be a part through prayer, what an honor. I love that you can use anybody God. I love that you can use big name people and I love that you can use a nobody like me. I love that you truly don't care who it is, you can use us all to accomplish your will if we are willing. Amazing God. Absolutely amazing. Thank you God for letting me be a part of what you are doing.
It is back to work tomorrow God and I am not sure I am ready. This has been such a fantastic Christmas weekend, I don't really want it to end. But, I am grateful for my job and I thank you for the new opportunities you have opened there for me. I pray God for your help to see your opportunities in my job and in every moment of my life. Help me to see your purpose in it all. I pray God that you prosper the work of my hands and make me successful so I can continue to do all that you have for me to do. I love you God. What is on your mind tonight?
What God Said Tonight:
It isn't over. The joy, the light, the branches of light that you experienced this weekend are not over. This weekend was a beginning not an ending. You are beginning this next season that I have been talking about. I am not sure you understand yet how momentous it is but you will.
My children are like branches of light going out into the world. Each one branching off and creating room for more lights. It is through this branching of light that we will light the world. It is through this branching of light that we will vanquish the darkness forever.
I am getting tired of darkness on this earth. I am getting fed up with seeing evil win even the smallest of battles. The time is coming that satan will be put in his place forever. The time for your banquet to be set before your enemies is nearly here.
Keep at the work of the kingdom so I don't have to delay this any longer than is absolutely necessary. Keep talking about me, keep praying, keep showing people my power. Keep lighting the world and creating new branches as you bring my light to other peoples lives. Light up my children throughout the world so we can end this sin riddled time and move into the wondrous time of living for eternity together forever in joy and free from the shackles of sin. There is a velvet throne waiting for my children. Keep at the work, being my hands and my feet so we can finish this race.
I love you daughter. You are the apple of my eye and I love doing these things with you and for you. I love spending time with you. I loved this Christmas and look forward to next year together.
My prayer:
Awesome and mighty God, Father, thank you for another amazing day. Before I get too far into this, Happy Birthday Jesus! I know that this was likely not the actual day over 2,000 years ago that you were born but since I don't know the real date, Happy Birthday!
I love you God. I thank you Jesus for all that you did for me. Thank you for living to understand me better. Thank you for dieing so my sin would be covered. Thank you for rising out of death, defeating satan and death so that I can have everlasting life with you.
God, I have said those words many times, I have heard them in many church services. But, when I stop to think about each one of them, really stop to think, each statement is more unbelievable than the last. The God of the universe decides to be born as a human and live as a human. Ok, kind of unbelievable but not unthinkable. You are God, you can do whatever you want. If you want to try out being human, ok. But then, you chose to die for me to pay for my sin. You chose to die for me. That is a bit more unthinkable. That kind of sacrifice comes only with GREAT love. I think the only one I know of who would die for me other than you is my mom. So, to accept that you died for me, I have to accept that you love me, A LOT. But then it just gets crazy. You resurrected yourself from the dead, defeated satan and death and I get to live forever with you. What part of that sentence is believable in every day life? And yet, it is true. Every word of it is true.
God you are so amazing, so powerful and so wonderful. I can't believe I get to live everyday with you and I can't imagine living one second without you. Thank you for teaching me the truth of who you are and what you have done. Thank you for showing me how to believe the unbelievable and see it work in my life. Thank you God for being you and loving me. I hope you had the best birthday ever today Jesus!! Let's keep the celebration going tomorrow as we worship. Love you so very much.
What God Said Tonight:
Wait and see my daughter. We have a great year ahead of us. You thought this last year was great, wait until you see what is to come.
I do love these celebrations with you and with my children. Today was good but it has me thinking about your future about our future together. I can't wait to see your face when we get to do the things we are about to do. You haven't even imagined most of it. You are going to see my power like you have never seen before. You are going to see miracles you have yet to imagine. You will also see things that you have hoped and dreamed about. You will see the manifest miracles that you have heard of but not yet seen. Healing miracles will remain prominent in your life. You are called to it. But you will begin to see more and more miracles in other areas as well. You will begin to see my power in a whole new way.
I am tired of my children living with less. I am tired of my children living below thier privilege level. It is time for my children to take their rightful place. It is time for my children to step up and be counted. It is time for my children to stand out and be recognized as the priests and kings that they are. It is time.
My power is coming to the world, to you my daughter. Wait and see how awesome it is. I love you and know that I can trust your faithfulness with this. We are going to have a blast this coming year. I promise. I love you daughter. Thank you for today. I will remain with you always.
My prayer:
Awesome God! This was the best Christmas eve of my life so far!! Tonight was awesome God! Thank you!!! Awesome worship, great presentation of your birth, great message, opportunities to pray for people and to minister, God it was awesome!! You even had them play my FAVORITE Christmas song, and that one never gets played in church because it is so hard!
God you have truly poured out a blessing on me that I cannot contain tonight! God I almost feel guilty. This is your birthday. I should be giving to you not receiving so much from you. God, you have my heart, my mind and my spirit. Anything that I have is yours. I commit my whole life to you. I love you so much. Thank you for tonight. What a great celebration!!! Can't wait to see what we do together tomorrow! I LOVE YOU!!!!
What God Said Tonight:
My sweet daughter. Don't you know that it is my greatest pleasure to give to you. The line between giving and receiving can be completely blurred if it is done right. If you give from your heart, you receive as much as you give. When I give to you, I receive a multiplied blessing back. Just like you, when you give, you are blessed more in the giving than when you receive.
True heartfelt giving, the relational giving that your Pastor talked about tonight, doesn't keep track of who gave and who received. It is all a part of the same. When my son Jesus died for you, it was a great gift that he gave freely. However, he received, we received, the opportunity to see our children restored to us through that gift. So, who received the greater gift? I value the return of my children above all else. I received as much as I gave in that one transaction, that one gift.
When you give like that, you will never grow tired of giving. You will never burn out or run out of steam. When you give from your heart the very gift that you give will multiply itself back into your life.
Tonight I have received as much as I have given. Your receipt of the blessing is my gift. Thank you for being with me tonight. Thank you for spending time with me this season. You were thinking about it today that Christmas is not a holiday that I asked for. It is not like Passover where I told my children to observe the holiday in remembrance. Christmas is something that you all came up with. But, that doesn't make me love it less, it makes me love it more. I love that you choose a day and season to celebrate my birth. I love that we get to spend this time together.
You will be blessed as you bless. You will be comforted as you comfort. You will be healed as you pray for healing. You are my very own gift and I love you .
My prayer:
Awesome Father. What a great designer you are. I have been thinking about this last year and all of the things and experiences you have woven together in my life and in my friends lives to create magnificent things. Books, CDs, websites, this ministry, new jobs, new babies, new relationships, and more, it is really quite remarkable God.
One of the things that I love about you God is how you take seemingly unrelated things in my life and weave them together to create an opportunity, an opportunity to serve you, to bless people and to be blessed. I always go back to Joseph's life and the series of tragic things that were done to him that you worked together for his good and the good of his family, his country. I can see that same thing mirrored in my life and in the lives of my friends.
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to go through the tragedy part, but I am so grateful that you weave the good the bad and the ugly together to create new life and new opportunity. I am grateful that you have a plan and a purpose for us. God I love you and thank you for how you orchestrate my life and give it meaning. Tell me what is on your mind tonight.
What God Said Tonight:
This year has been great. I told you it would be. I am glad you listened. I am glad that you hear me and you do what I tell you to do, at least most of the time. I am grateful to have children that take the time and the effort to listen to me. I am always talking, not always is there someone to listen. Not always is there someone to hear what I have to say.
The purpose and plan that I have for you and for all of my children is so great. You see the tapestry of your life. If you could see it from my perspective and see the tapestry of the kingdom, the tapestry of all of your lives, all of your purposes weaving together for one over riding purpose, now THAT is BEAUTIFUL.
You are beautiful. You are beautiful in your joy and in your struggle. I love to look at you. I love to watch you and see you live out this life I have for you. I love to be with you. I love to talk to you and I love to listen to you. Fact is, I just simply love YOU. The beauty of your spirit and of your purpose is a joy to me. You delight me daughter and I love you.
See the beauty of this life, of your friends, of the kingdom. The beauty is there to be appreciated. I created it for you. Receive the beauty as my gift to you this Christmas.
My prayer:
Mighty God and awesome Father. The creator of everything that ever was or ever will be. You are so amazing and beyond my ability to really comprehend God. I learn more about you and get to know you better every day and still feel like I only know the very tip of who you are. There is so much to you.
You who are all knowing and all powerful. Let me try to wrap my mind around that a minute. You know EVERYTHING. My Dad, My Lord knows everything there ever has been to know or ever will be. You have the answer to every question, even the ones that are never asked. EVERYTHING.
Ok, so if I can find a way to understand that, now to understand that you are all powerful. You are the most powerful force ever. Nothing is more powerful than you. You are more powerful than earthquakes.
Let's say I get that, I am not sure that I really do, but let's say I do. Now, you are the creator of everything that ever has or will exist. You created the air, the water, the animals, the plants, the planets, the stars, the molecules, me.
You are the Alpha, the beginning. Before there was anything, there was you. And, somehow you are also the Omega, the ending. After everything is gone, at the end of everything else, you are there. That is about where my ability to comprehend you ends.
Then, to realize that you are all of that and more, and you love me. You take time to make sure my life is going according to plan. You take time to talk to me every day. You take time to make sure I am loved every day and provided for. You listen to me every day no matter how small or petty my thoughts may be. How is that possible?
God, I think I have been in "church" long enough now that I take for granted some things. We always talk about you being Alpha and Omega, all knowing, all powerful, creator of all things and more, but I am not sure that I have really spent time thinking about what that all really means.
God help me to truly understand you better. Help me to truly know you better. Help me to have a deeper understanding of who you are and what is important to you. Help me to know you and understand you. I love you God and I want to know everything there is to know about you.
What God Said Tonight:
You are getting to know me better every night and every day. You get to know me better every time you read the Bible. You get to know me better every time you pray. You get to know me better every time you listen to me. You get to know me better every time you look at this world and wonder at the creation of it all.
I love you daughter and you know me better than you think. I gave you a mind and I love that you use it to reason me out, to think about me logically. However, much of knowing me is Spirit, emotion, heart connection. So much of knowing me is felt, not reasoned.
Your brain can understand much about me but even if you study every minute of every day for the rest of eternity, you will never fully know me that way. Much of who I am has to be experienced, not reasoned. I know you like to think things through. You like to use that brain I gave you and that is good. But really, get out of your head tonight and feel me. Get out of your head and experience me. Get out of your head and see me. I am here with you now. Know me by being with me and me being with you.
Part of why I got angry with the religious people when I was on earth was because they had gotten so busy with study and so busy trying to reason and argue it all out, they forgot to spend time with me. They forgot that I had all the answers and if they asked me, they could save a whole of time and strife. Ask me your questions, listen to my answers and take the time saved to just be with me.
I love you daughter. Don't stop thinking but sometimes, let your mind rest and just be with me. I love you so much and I cherish our time together when you are focused on me. I cherish you worship. I cherish you attention. I cherish you my sweet daughter. You rest but stay with me always.
