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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 and mighty God. Thank you God for the two miracle healing reports today! You are such an amazing God!! I love to see you heal God.
My heart is also heavy tonight God. I hurt someone I that I really care about. I was too wrapped up in my own stuff. God I ask you to heal the pain I caused. I have apologized, but it is not really enough. I ask for your help to make this right. I ask God if there is anything I can do to make recompense that you show me what that is.
I hate it when I hurt people. I don't mean to do it but I end up doing it sometimes and it is usually the people I care the most about. Help me God to be more thoughtful and less caught up in my own life, less selfish and more thoughtful. I ask God that you make me a better person.
What God Said Tonight:
It is not possible for you to live your life connected to other people and never hurt them. It is also not possible for you to live your life connected to other people without being hurt sometimes. It is a part of the human condition, not the best part, but it is a part of the human condition.
I love you daughter and I love your heart. You will find your own way to make this right. You will find a way to repair the relationship and move on. I will help. I am the God of reconciliation after all. The only real good that comes out of these times of hurt is that you become more sensitive. You, if you are paying attention as you are now, learn that your action and inaction can cause pain and you think twice next time.
Your life is pretty full right now and much of it is very good. However, if you miss the opportunities to bless and love your friends, your family, the people I have put in your life, the rest is not worth anything really. But I know you know this. It is written all over your face tonight. Listen to me and I will help you make this right.
Also, remember this the next time someone hurts you. Remember this time and remember how you feel. Remember that you did not intend the pain. Give the next person who hurts you the same benefit of the doubt. Empathize with the fact that they may have hurt you entirely unintentionally and that they want to make it ok more than anything. Forgive yourself and forgive the next person who hurts you. It is essential.
My prayer:
My God, I need to ask for forgiveness tonight God. I got REALLY angry tonight. I got so frustrated when things weren't going my way. I look at it now, now that the moment has passed and I can't figure out why I was so angry. Maybe it was all the built up stress. There have been a lot of changes and pressure lately at work. But I think it was mainly that I was being a spoiled brat and mad that things weren't going the way I wanted them to.
I am sorry for that God. You shouldn't have to put up with that from me. I am a grown woman and I shouldn't be throwing tantrums when I don't get my way. Please forgive me God. I will try to grow up a little and do better the next time things aren't going the way I think they should. I love you God.
What God Said Tonight:
You are my sweet daughter and I made you passionate. Anger, just anger, is not bad in itself. It is what you do with it that can hurt you and the people around you. I got angry. I get angry. It is a valid emotion.
You are right that your anger tonight was out of frustration and not a just anger. You are already forgiven for the rashness of your anger. You did not use your anger to hurt and that is good. You let it wring itself out of you. Now it is time to move on.
You can go ahead and get angry if you want to. But don't hurt people with it and don't let it stay around. Get it out, deal with the situation and move on. Anger was never meant to be something that is sustained. It was meant to give you the adrenaline and energy to deal with a urgent situation and then move on.
When I was at the temple and saw the selling and cheating that was going on, I was angry. That anger was important and useful. I responded to the anger, expressed it without hurting anyone, dealt with the situation and then moved on. That should be your picture, your model. Don't expect that you will never get angry or that you should never get angry. I did not make you that way. But follow my model when you get angry.
Rest in knowing you are covered and redeemed in my blood tonight. Trust me to wash you clean and restore you. I love you sweet daughter. Put the anger to rest tonight and let's move on.
My prayer:
Father God, thank you for today. Thank you for tonight. Thank you for favor. Thank you for a great small group. Thank you for hearing my prayer last night and providing a way for people.
Thank you for loving me and for choosing me. Thank you for creating me and redeeming me. Thank you for forgiving me. Thank you for blessing me and giving me everlasting gifts. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for speaking to me. Thank you for taking care of me. Thank you for providing for me. Thank you for protecting me.
Thank you for being my God, my Father, my teacher, my healer and my friend.
Thank you for the friends you have given me. Thank you for the family you have given me. Thank you for the kitty you have given me. Thank you for the opportunities you have given me. Thank you for giving to me. Thank you God for EVERYTHING!
What God Said Tonight:
You are welcome my sweet daughter. It is my pleasure and my plan to do all of that and more for you. You have not yet seen the blessings I have for you. I am already excited for the day when you look back and say, "How did all of THIS happen?" I look forward to that day when you answer your own question with "Only God."
It is easy to bless you when you realize and recognize that it comes from me. It is easy to bless you when you recognize the source and don't get caught up in yourself. It is easy to bless you.
I can't bless you when you get selfish or disobedient. Not because I don't want to bless you. I always want to bless you. But sometimes, those times when you are outside of my will for you, the best way I can bless you is to withhold the blessing. If I bless you when you are out of my will then you will be encouraged to stay outside of my will. There will be no reason to return to me. I need you to return to me at those times and I will greet you with a blessing and a kiss.
I want to bless you always. I want to give you all the desires of your heart. I want to give you beautiful things. I want to give you talents and opportunities. I want to give you experiences. I want to give you so much. Stay in position so that I can. Stay humble and submitted to me so I can bless you more. That is the only way the blessing won't destroy you.
It is the undeserved blessing that is most dangerous. If you receive it with the wrong mind set, the wrong understanding, it can destroy you. So, as much as I want to give you all of these things, I have to wait for you to be in position, in right standing with me to truly bless you the way that I want. Not because I am a tyrant but because I want you to receive these things without being ruined.
How many times have you seen movie stars or music stars who start out humble, wonderful and happy only to end up destroyed with drugs, addictions and strife after the fame. If I bless you when you are out of position, out of my will, it will destroy you as surely as fame destroys them.
I love you so much. Continue to search out those areas in your life that are not right. Those areas that are not in my will for you, and get rid of them. Change them. Do whatever you have to do. As you clean those things out of your life, it releases me to bless you even more.
I love you so much. I love you no matter what. I love you even when I can't bless you. It is because of my great love for you that I can't always bless you the way that I want. Don't be discouraged. You will have all of the things I have promised. Just get in and stay in the position to receive them so they don't destroy you. Be obedient, be faithful, be sold out to me, and I will pour out the blessing you cannot contain. I promise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
