Open a window...

My prayer:
God my God.  It is so cold God.  No one can live in this cold without shelter.  I don't even know how the animals stay alive. 

God, I have been trying to avoid thinking about the people who don't have homes or don't have heat in their homes because it is too much, too painful, and I feel powerless to help.  It is nights like this God that I look around at the blessings you have given me and I think that I have not given enough. I think I have kept too much of your blessing.  I have not done enough.  Then I think, even if I gave everything I had, it would not make enough of an impact.  There would still be people cold, alone and homeless.

I don't like feeling powerless to help.  I am not big enough to handle this problem God.  I put them, each and every person who is cold, alone and afraid tonight, I put them in your hands and in your care.  I pray God with all the intensity and the fervor that I have that you make a way out of no way for them.  I pray God that you provide for them as their Father.  I pray God, as Jehovah Jireh that you meet all of their needs. 

God I pray that you show me the areas that I can help more. I pray that you show me the places where I can give more.  Those places that will make a real impact.  Those places that you have chosen, blessed and where you can multiply the gift, the blessing. 

God I don't know what else to do, or what else to pray.  It is hard to think about the people suffering tonight.  It is hard to know that it is happening and I sit here, not being able to help.  Maybe the best help I can be is to pray for them?  Maybe that is what they need more than anything.  I can't provide all of them with warmth, homes, hope and joy but you can.  I don't have the answers but you do.  Maybe this is one of those times where the best thing I can do is get out of the way so you can help.  Or, maybe that is a cop out and I tell myself that to feel better about sitting here in my warm house while they suffer.  God, please take care of them in Jesus name.

What God Said Tonight:
I feel the pain of your heart tonight my daughter.  I have heard and I will help.  The people who are on your heart tonight are also on my heart.  I have been making a way for them already. 

You are right to pray.  Anytime you have a problem that is bigger than you are, you should bring it to me.  I haven't seen the problem yet that was bigger than my ability to solve it.  I will be your everpresent help in times of trouble, whether that trouble is yours personally or whether that trouble is your brothers' and sisters' trouble. 

You are interceding tonight and that is good and important.  That intercessory prayer opens a window to heaven that allows my full power to be manifest on earth.  You should open that window more often.  You will be amazed at the results. 

True worship...

My prayer:
God I praise you!  I praise you and all that you are, all that you do.  I celebrate you tonight God.  I am so happy to be your kid.  I am so grateful to be a part of your plan. 

I love you.  I say it all the time and sometimes I wonder if you get tired of hearing it.  Then other times I think I can never say it enough.  If all I did was praise and worship you every moment for the rest of eternity, it wouldn't be enough to honor you God. 

I wish sometimes that I could sing and write songs for you.  I love when I find those truly anointed singers, song writers, worship leaders who express what I feel for you but do it so much more beautifully than my simple words.  God you deserve beauty.  You deserve that unexplainable perfect peace and joy that comes during true worship.

God I pray that my worship is always pleasing to you.  I pray and ask God, if there is something more, something different I can do with my worship of you that would please you more, tell me what that is.  I want, I need you to know how much I love you and how much you mean to me.  God hear my heart.  The worship of you in my heart is beautiful.  I don't know how to get it out so that I can express that beauty, but see my heart, hear my heart, know my heart.

I am so completely imperfect but I love you, I will remain faithful to you and I will serve you everyday and night for the rest of my life (everlasting life).  It is my ongoing vow to you God.  Please continue to receive me, covered in the blood of Jesus to do your will.

What God Said Tonight:
I like these nights of worship with you.  I like when you focus on me.  Not because I need it but because it is so good for you.  It strengthens you. It gives you peace.  It helps you to remember what is important and what isn't important. 

There is no worship that is more beautiful or less beautiful to me, as long as it is true worship and not a show.  As long as it is real and not part of an obligation.  As long as it is real and not habit.  All real worship is beautiful to me.  I love the songs too.  I love the music and the corporate worship when you all get into groups to worship me together.  But I also love the worship when you and I are alone.  I love when you are so focused on me, everything else disappears.  I love when you recognize how close we are.  I love when you realize that I am already in you and just waiting for you to realize it.  I love these private and intimate times of worship.  I love being that close to you.  I love how you can experience me in those times.  I love how those times draw us closer together and build our relationship.  Most importantly, I love you. 

I enjoy when we get together with other people. Do not fail to gather together...that was me who said that.  It is important that you get together and support and love each other.  But set aside time for just you and me.  Set time aside to build your and my relationship. It takes time to build a relationship.  It takes commitment, faithfulness, open mindedness, attention and it takes love.  Give me these things and I can promise you a greater relationship, a greater power, and a greater life than you could ever imagine. 

I love you more than you can imagine.  As much as you love me, know that I love you more.  Your love is truly a reflection of my love for you.  Rest again tonight.  We have quite a bit to do tomorrow.

Time to study...

My prayer:
Awesome Father, God of all creation.  I am at a loss tonight.  I have fragments of thoughts running through my mind, but nothing to really talk about.  I have all the same desires of my heart. I am grateful for all of the same blessings.  I continue to lift up all of the same needs of my family and friends.  But, you know all of that. 

Life has been a constant state of change for awhile.  So much so that change is becoming common place.  I am not complaining.  I love change. I love the new things.  But, when change becomes common place, where do I find the same excitement that I use to get from change? 

Oh God, I don't know.  I mean really things are great.  I think I am just in a Sunday night funk.  Probably I need to stop talking and focus on listening to you.  I bet it will be a whole lot more interesting.  Love you Daddy.

What God Said Tonight:
Why don't you know your own mind tonight?  It is not like you to be  at a loss for words.  You are still on the path I have picked for you. You are still doing what I planned.  You don't need the bells and whistles every moment to show you that you are on the right path.  Let it be enough that I have told you that you are right where I want you to be doing exactly what you are meant to be doing. Let my words be enough. 

Life is not always excitement and fireworks.  If you had miracles in your life constantly, you would lose the appreciation for them.  Like you said about change, when change becomes common place it loses its excitement.  The same is true of most things. 

A day lived with me is miraculous on its own.  You will see great miracles and you will be a part of them.  I have told you that is so.  You have already seen many.  One day, two days, a season of quiet miracles, of the miracle of living each day, those are good seasons too.  They help you appreciate the rest. 

I need you to use this time to study.  I need you to use this time to build up your faith and your knowledge.  I need you to prepare.  The next season is on its way in my perfect timing.  I know you get restless.  Use the energy from that restlessness to fuel you to be better, to learn more to love more.  The rest will come in time.  Know my word better.  Sow it deep in your heart that it is ready and available at all times.  Spend time with me, asking, seeking, and sometimes just being with me. 

I am your light and I am your guide.  I am the answer to every question you will ever have.  I am the excitement you seek.  We have more excitement than you can imagine this year.  Wait until you see.  In the meantime, prepare and wait with anticipation.  I will keep my arms wrapped around you and keep you in my heart.  You are mine and I am yours forever.  See me in everything.  Not only did I create everything but I created it for a purpose.  Look for me, look for my purpose.  Learn, study, grow.  Love you so much my daughter.  Keep reaching.

Judgemental...

My prayer:
Fantastic day God! Thank you for another great sabbath, another great day of rest.  You are so amazing Father.  I love you and I love the life you have given me.  I know that I am not always as grateful as I should be. I know that I don't always get things right.  As a matter of fact, I so often do the opposite of what I know I should do.  If I were serving judgement on my own life, I don't think I would fare very well.  I am glad that you are the judge God and that you are more merciful and forgiving than I have ever been. 

How is it God that we who are so imperfect feel the right to judge others and point out what we see as their flaws?  Where did that come from?  It seems pretty pervasive.  Most people I know do it.  We may not all talk about it but most of us do it, judge others. 

You don't tell us to judge others.  You tell us to love them and leave the judgement to you.  Why do we, why do I so consistently get that wrong? I pray God and ask for your help.  I ask that whatever it is that makes me judgemental of others that you take that out of me, that you help me to love and never judge.  I pray that you help me to remember that you are the only judge and more than capable of fulfilling that role. 

You are my everything God.  Help me get this right. In Jesus name, amen.

What God Said Tonight:
Judgement, being judgemental is a tricky thing.  It is attractive because as long as you are judging someone else critically, you can feel that you must be better than them to be able to recognize their flaw.  But the thing is, you only recognize the flaws in others that you yourself have.  When you're finding fault with your brother, with our sister, you need to take out your mirror and check yourself.  I guarantee that most if not all of the time, you will find that very same flaw within yourself. 

So, being judgemental of others, in truth, does not prove that you are better than they are, it only exposes the areas that you still need to work on.  The more you think of it this way, the less you will find yourself being judgemental.  You are not here to judge.  You are here to love. 

One of the best ways to love your brother and sister is to recognize the similarities between you, the connections.  Those connections and similarities can be positive traits or negative or even neutral but they are the connections that make you build your relationships.  Concentrate on the connections and similarities to bring you closer together instead of allowing judgemental attitudes tear you apart.  Take that thing that satan meant to harm you and use it as a tool to recognize commonalities and connect. 

I love you daughter, flaws and all.  I love the process of your perfection. You are on a path of growth and divine purpose.  I have great plans that have yet to be realized in your life.  Each sin that you expose and deal with brings you one step closer to that future.  Keep digging, keep asking, keep seeking.  I am here with you in it all.  I love you forever.

At the core...

My prayer:
Awesome God, thank you for an awesome day.  You are so amazing God.  I know I keep saying it but it is never really enough.  I can never tell you how I truly feel about you because there simply are not enough words. 

My God, thank you for putting such amazing people in my life.  Thank you for this life that you designed for me.  I love you so much!  What an amazing privilege that you allow us to talk to you.  What a ridiculously fantastic honor that you talk back to us God. 

I pray God that you are never silent in my life.  I need your voice and your guidance every day.  I am nothing without you.  I can do all things through you though. 

I seem to be hearing a lot about knowing who I am according to you God.  About recognizing my worth through you and your opinion of me, not through my own eyes, my accomplishments or other people's opinions of me.  If I could truly get that, if I could truly derive my worth from what you think of me and how you see me, then pride, jealousy, envy, self doubt and all of that would never be an issue again. God help me to get there.  Help me to know who I am by who you say I am and nothing else.  I think that would be  a very good thing. 

I love you God.  What is on your mind and heart tonight:

What God Said Tonight:
It would be a very good thing.  I have tried to convey to you how I feel about you, how I see you.  I have spent thousands of years trying to get my children to see themselves and others the way that I see them.  I know it is hard.  It seems unnatural.  But really, it is the most natural thing in the world.  It is the image that I created you in. 

If you can understand your source, that you were made in our image and for a great purpose, if you can understand and truly believe your origin, you might begin to understand your worth and who you really are. 

You are not a combination of your experiences and your accomplishments.  Those are your experiences and those are things that effect you.  But at your core, at the source of who you are, is my image. 

When you look to me and love me, when you are in awe of me and when you have those feelings of incredible amazement, understand that you were made in that image.  At your heart and at your core, that is who you are.  You have trouble seeing it because the experiences and trauma of sin and life blind you to it.  They are like layers of burlap cloth.  Heavy and course and as they are layered on top of you, they block out all of the light. They block the essence of who you are until even you don't remember.  It is time to shake off the burlap sacks and see the light and the essence of who you are again. 

I died so that you don't have to keep the covering of sin over you anymore.  I came and died so that you could be free and let that light shine again. 

Remind yourself daily of who you really are.  Remind yourself every day that you and all of your brothers and sisters were made in our image.  That the reflection of us is in your core being.  You are my children.  I say it a lot but take a minute tonight and really think about that.  You are not only my children in that you are my charge and responsibility that I love and take care of. You are also my children in that you have my DNA.  You were created in our image.  You have me in you.  You, at the core, at the deepest level are a reflection, a copy of my image. 

When you look in the mirror, start looking deeper, see the core, see me.  Remind yourself of this every day.  Remind yourself that under the experiences of you and of our brothers and sisters, at the core, you are the same reflection of me.  That is what makes you so special and so important.  The children of the most high God. 

You are so beautiful.  I cherish you.  You are my royalty placed on this earth to rule and to serve.  I love you my shining star.  Sleep well again tonight.

I see all of you...

My prayer:
Mighty God you are so amazing.  I love you God.  I remain in awe of you every day.  God, miracle healing, right now, right here, every day.  Miracle provision, right now, right here, every day.  God you are an every day amazing God. 

Thank you that every morning, you are the first thing I experience.  Thank you for being my last thought, my last experience before I go to sleep.  Thank you for the dreams you give me.  Thank you God for being in me, in my life, every day. 

When I decided to really start living my life for you God, I had no idea how great it would be.  I had no idea what it was to live with purpose, joy, and miracles every day.  Had I known, had I really known, I wouldn't have wasted all of those years.  I wouldn't have wasted my time going after what the world has to offer.  Forgive me for wasting time.  Forgive me for every moment spent away from you.  Thank you God that I never have to live another day, another moment without you.  I love you God.

What God Said Tonight:
Don't worry about time lost.  You know that time is relative.  I can make time, stretch time, shorten time.  I have the timeline under control.  We have eternity together. 

Every moment of your life has led you to me here today.  Every moment has had purpose.  Every moment is packed with purpose and intention for your life. 

So, yes, the years when you were running from me were hard.  Hard for you and hard for me.  But I was always with you and I knew even then that we would be here together tonight.  You and me together forever.  I knew even in your darkest moment that we would have these times of intense joy and intimacy together. 

I know your potential.  When I see you, I don't just see who you are today, I see who you can and will be.  I see the who you were and what you came through.  I see all of you and I love every part of you.  I love the struggles you survive.  Your scars are beautiful and show your strength and wisdom gained.  I love the striving in you today to be all that you can be.  I love the future you that is doing and accomplishing things you cannot imagine today.  I love all of you. 

I know that you don't see yourself this way but I wish you could.  I wish you could know you the way that I do. 

I wish you could know others this way too.  It isn't hard to love someone when you understand the the pain they have survived, the struggle they are in today and the incredible future planned for their lives.  When you see the whole picture, it is easy to love them. 

Rest peacefully tonight, no regrets.  Value yourself as I value you.  You are my most precious gem.  Sweet dreams my love.

Pay attention...

My prayer:

Wow God, 22 minutes of technical difficulties just to get the blog editor to load tonight! You must have something REALLY good to say tonight if there was that much trouble trying to block it! I love you and I will get out of your way. What is on your mind.

What God Said Tonight:

Watch and wait. There is about to be a move of my Spirit like you have never known or heard about. You will be going about your everyday business and there will be unexplainable things, unexplainable blessings and miracles.

They will be all around you but you will have to pay attention. Many people will have the same miracles happening in their lives, but they will miss it. It will be miraculous but somewhat subtle as well. It will be for those who are paying a attention. Pay attention so you see what I am about to do.

I don't need everybody to see this new move, this expression of my power on earth. This is just for my children. This is just to bless and strengthen the faith of my children. So please pay attention. Don't put your blinders on getting busy with everyday, routine tasks. Open your eyes to the miracle that is me in your life. Open your mind to the possibility that I am going to do a brand new thing. Keep your spirit open to receive what I have to give.

You are my chosen and I have some very special things to show you, to share with you, if you pay attention. I love you and I want to show you these things. I want you to understand what I have available for you. I want you to understand my power and my ability to accomplish anything. ANYTHING. I want you to see this so open our eyes. I love you so much. Don't miss this.