Walk in the garden...

My prayer:
Awesome, amazing, wonderful father God.  I love you so much.  I worship you for who you are.  I am grateful for all that you do.  I praise you for what you accomplish. 

You are phenomenal God.  You created everything that is.  You are Lord of all.  The universe is your creation and I bow down and worship you.  I remain in awe of you every day.  I am stunned by your power, your love, your knowledge, your peace, your victory.  I am in awe of you. 

You are everything I could ever hope for.  You are my hope God.  Because of you, I know that i always have a hope and a future.  Because of you, I can accomplish things that I could never do on my own.  Because of you, I am assured a future forever in heaven with you.  I am assured of eternal life. 

Wow!  I think I take that for granted sometimes.  I can't really wrap my mind around forever, eternity and so I say the words, but I don't really understand it.  I am assured ETERNAL life because you died for me.  I am trying to let that sink in a minute. 

I have been feeling kind of old lately but if I think about it in terms of eternity, age really has NO meaning.  I have just begun my eternal life.  God, I can never thank you adequately for your sacrifice but I can give you my life.  I can dedicate my life to you.  I can be available and faithful to be your hands and feet anywhere and any time.  God I am yours.  Tell me anything you need and I will do anything I can to see it happen.  I love you Daddy!

What God Said Tonight:
Your faithfulness and your willingness is not in question. You remain one of my front line soldiers daughter.  I love your willingness to see my power work in people's lives. 

You will need some preparation for this next phase.  You will stretch further than you have in the past.  You will need to do some things that are uncomfortable, but you should be getting use to that. 

I love you and I am so grateful that I have you.  You are what I intended you to be.  I need your brothers and sisters to catch the servants heart that you have.  You prayed for it and I was more than happy to provide it for you.  It is how I intended you to be from the beginning.  Before pride, before sin, Adam and Eve were faithful servants and it was perfect for awhile. 

Now, there is much that is not perfect but when you take on the servant's heart, when you serve me and my people, when you give first and worry about getting yours later, that is close to that perfection we started with.  That is close to where I want us all to be. 

I want more than you know to move into the age of peace.  I am so ready to walk in the garden with you.  But, there are more that need to come to me.  There are some who don't know about me yet.  There are some that have only heard the religious rhetoric.  There are those who have been hurt by religion and people and have run from me.  There are even those who have never heard of me. 

I need every person to have the opportunity to choose.  When that is accomplished, we can leave the evil that has run rampant in this world and live in peace and joy.

Until that time, keep talking to me, keep listening to me and spend time with me in the garden.  I love you daughter. You will do great things.  You will reach many of those that I am talking about, the ones that don't know me.  Show me to them.  Help them to know me. 

Thank you daughter.  Rest in my love tonight.

Lean on me...

My Prayer:
Mighty God.  I am wiped out again tonight.  I love all the wonderful opportunities and all that we are doing.  At the end of the day, like now, I just am out of energy and ready to fall into bed...if I make it there! 

But, I am not complaining.  I truly love this time.  I love all the opportunities to minister, to pray to love on your people.  I love the opportunities at work to do new things every day.  I love that life is not stagnant right now but it is moving and full of purpose.  I truly love it God.  Thank you for this time and for all that you are doing.  You are my God, my Lord, my Father, my teacher and my redeemer and I love you more than I can ever say. 

What God Said Tonight:
My daughter, my love.  You are walking in my Spirit now and that is why it is so exciting.  You are where I need you to be.  I know that there is a lot, but I will continue to provide all that you need.  One step at a time, one moment at a time, one task at a time.  Just do a little each day and before you know it, we will have accomplished all that I set out for you to do. 

I have not and I will not give you more than you can handle.  But, I will give you enough that you can only handle it if you lean on me and trust me to help you through it.  I will give you enough that you can't quite carry it on your own so that you will always need me. 

I gave you skills, abilities and strength and all of that is good.  But I have to push you a bit so you don't rely on those things but you rely on me.  That is the only way you can truly be successful and accomplish everything that your heart desires.  Your dreams are bigger than your abilities.  That is where I come in. I am here to fill the gap and to make you more than you can ever be on your own. 

I will, I have destined you to succeed.  You are above and not beneath.  You will come out on top.  I promise.  I am with you and I always win.  Stay with it, one moment at a time.  I will continue to guide you and direct you.  Lean on me and trust me and we will get there before you know it.  Our destination is assured.  I love you daughter.  Rest and we will go at it again tomorrow, together.

You are worth it...

My prayer:
Glorious and awesome Lord.  Thank you for your protection.  Thank you for healing more people today! 

God you are incredible.  I love you so much.  I love being a part of your kingdom, your family and getting to be a part of your ministry.  Life is so crazy and exciting right now!  So much to do and all of it is fantastic!  I want to hold onto this season but part of what I love about it is that is constantly changing...kind of crazy, I want a season that is full of constant change to not change by keeping up with all of the changes...God, I am glad you know what I mean because I don't think I am doing a very good job of explaining it myself tonight. 

Bottom line, thank you for life, opportunity, salvation, healing, power, protection and every wonderful thing you do for us every day.  I love you more than life.

What God Said Tonight:
You are so very precious to me.  You mean the world to me my daughter  I have been teaching you a lot lately.  Thank you for your obedience and faithfulness. Thank you for listening and for being open to instruction.  But tonight, I want to love on you.  I want to remind you of how amazing you are.  You use that word with me all of the time.  You are covered by me, you are covered in my blood.  As such, you get to wear that "amazingness" as your cloak. 

My covering doesn't just sit on you like clothing though.  It soaks into you changing you into the person I intended you to be before sin polluted your life.  You are washed clean and more beautiful than any sunrise. You are more precious than the finest gold.  You are everything I hoped you would be.  You are perfect in my covering.  You are a royal priesthood.  I designed you for great things. 

You have begun a journey with me that will never be fully complete.  You and I get to travel on this road for eternity and I can't imagine anyone I would rather be with.  My children are my whole purpose. 

I am not disappointed in this side track we have taken as a result of sin.  I knew it would happen before I first created man.  I knew it and decided it was worth it.  I knew that I would need to sacrifice my son for your sin and I decided that you were worth it.  I knew that there would be wars and conflict and I decided you were worth it.  You are worth it daughter.  This time together is worth it.  Our future together is worth it.  I treasure my children and every moment with each of them.  I treasure my time with you.  You are worth it.  Know your worth in me. 

The secret of patience...

My Prayer:
Incredible Father God!  You are so amazing!  God I want to thank you for your patience with me.  You told me to start the new fan page for praise reports and answered prayers almost a week ago and I drug my feet a bit and almost talked myself out of it.  I decided that no one would want it or want to post on it. 

But then, I started thinking about every time that you have told me to do something that I have delayed doing and I knew I would be stuck right there until I did what you had told me to do.  So, today, I did it and you are already blessing it and spreading your word! 

Why do I doubt?  Why do I delay?  When am I going to learn?  I am asking you these questions but they are really the questions that you should be asking me.  But, you don't.  You just wait on me to figure it out.  You wait for me to realize that you have already taught me about this and even then, you let me choose.  God you are awesome.  What amazing patience you have.  

Thank you for teaching me.  Thank you for your patience.  Thank you for giving me room to learn and figure it out.  You are awesome God!  I really need to come up with some other words to describe you but my vocabulary simply isn't big enough.  Please don't ever give up on me God.

What God Said Tonight:
Why would I give up on you?  You are my daughter and my creation.  I know your potential.  I know your future.  It is easy to be patient when you know the end from the beginning.  It is easy to be patient when you know how it will all work out.  I know already every struggle you will face.  I know every battle you will try to fight.  I know every victory and every blessing in your life. 

I have all the patience in the world because I have an eternity with you.  You are still thinking of time in a worldly way and that is when you get impatient. But I see time for what it is.  I see time as an imperfect yard stick in a vast never ending existence that has no end.  How can you measure something with out end?  You can't.  There are no borders on time with me so time itself, as a measurement, has no meaning.  We have all the time we need. 

That does not mean that I don't have a schedule.  There are a series of events that need to happen.  I have laid them out for you.  Each and every one will happen and will happen "on time" according to my will.  But I am in charge of the timing.  Just as I am in charge of the timing in your life.  Once you realize that and stop fighting it.  Stop rushing some things, stop delaying other things and get into the river of my will and timing, your life will be much less stressful. 

I love you daughter and I promise, I will NEVER give up on you. NEVER.  Rest in my blessing for you tonight.   

Pain and suffering...

My Prayer:
My God.  My interest is you tonight.  I come with no agenda, just curious as to what is on your mind.  Thank you for another great day with great opportunities.  I love you God.  Speak to me?

What God Said Tonight:
I hear the cries of my people throughout the world.  I understand that this life is hard, painful and it seems like the suffering is more than you can take at times.  I would love to wipe away the terror.  I would love to wash away the pain.  I see you covered in dirt, in blood and I know your fear. 

I don't know that I can ever explain how it got to this point.  I have told you about the original sin that invited sin into this world and into your life.  You have heard it so many times, it has become just a story.  There was something more significant in that moment though that you do not yet understand. 

There is a grave responsibility that comes with knowledge.  As an adult, you gain knowledge you did not have as a child and with that knowledge comes responsibility.  The sin of eating of the tree of knowledge came with responsibility.  It was a responsibility that I never wanted you to have  It is a responsibility that requires that your actions have a cost.  Your sin has to be paid for.  For those who have received me, that sin is covered by my sacrifice.  So many have not received that redemption though and as a result, the wages of sin, death, run rampant in this world.  Destruction appears to rule at times. 

You won't be able to understand it yet, someday you will. Someday, there will be no more war and no more pain. Someday there will be no more suffering.  In that day, when we win, we will live in great peace and joy.  We will live as I always intended.  We will live in the light and the joy that I had planned in the beginning. 

In the meantime, live under my covering.  Let me protect you from harm, let me heal you from the pain, let me clean you from your sin. You live in this world but you are not of this world.  You are of me and my kingdom.  You belong to me.  You do not belong to the filth that surrounds you at times.  You are mine, now and forever.  I love you daughter.  Let me take care of you.

Choices...

My prayer:
Mighty all knowing God.  Father, I have been thinking a lot about choices today.  Choices seem so important.  Even choices that seem like small choices at the time can turn into great opportunities or missed opportunities. 

I was talking to a young woman today who was talking of how she use to ask you about everything, even what gas station to go to.  And, when she did, there was always something amazing waiting for her there.  It just highlighted what I have been thinking.  Our choices are so important. 

God, what if I made different choices and missed out on all of the amazing opportunities you have brought me?  On the flip side, what decisions have I made that unknowingly kept me from opportunities that you wanted me to have?  A pastor I know once said that he thought that judgement day for Christians would be watching all of the missed opportunities in our lives. That you would show us all of the things we could have had, done, and experienced if we had chosen your will for our lives in everything.

I don't know if he is right but if he is, I dread that day.  As much as I love most of my life, I don't look forward to finding out all of the things I missed because I was stubborn, prideful, self centered, or just stupid. 

God, help me to make good decisions.  Guide me in every decision. Help me to make the decisions that put me smack dab in the middle of your will for my life.  Please don't let me miss what you have for me. I want everything that you have for me.  Thank you Jesus!

What God Said Tonight:
Your decisions, your choices are important and it is good that you want to make good decisions, decisions that put you in my will for you .  But, my will is bigger than your day to day decisions. 

You have made a choice to follow me.  You reaffirm that choice every day.  The other decisions may effect the flavor of your day but the over riding purpose of the day, the week, the year, your life is set in place by me with your decision to live for me.  I have been given permission by you to guide and direct your life and I will do that .  I will take each decision that you make and create the opportunity that most directly leads you into the will and purpose that I have ordained for you. 

Every decision that you make to follow my will for your life makes that process easier.  It makes it easier on you because you make the choice and go into it freely.  When you choose things outside of my will for you, a correction has to be made and sometimes that is not comfortable.  But have no doubt, my will shall be accomplished in your life. 

You have given yourself to me and I do not take that responsibility lightly.  Your life is in my hands and I hold it as precious.  I will lovingly guide and direct you.  Seek my counsel in each decision and I will make the way easy for you.  But don't stress too much about it.  When it comes down to it, the only truly important decision is the one you made to live for me.  Everything else is frosting.  I love you daughter.  Don't worry, don't stress and don't fear.  I've got you.

Sacrifice...

My prayer:
Awesome sabbath God.  Thank you for rest and for restoration.  Father God, thank you for how you take care of me. 

So much of who you are and what you do continues to leave me in awe.  I look around and see how you can take one simple idea and within a few months turn it into a ministry that touches thousands of people throughout the world.  I could not have done that even if I had thought of it (which I didn't).  But here we are, 7 months after the night that you said, why don't you go ahead and start the blog that Pastor Joe recommended, and you have reached over 10,000 people all over the world.  I could have never imagined that sitting in this office on that June night. 

I could have never imagined the book, the fb fan page and the amazing people who post, comment and share.  I could have never imagined the opportunities to speak and to share.  I could have never imagined the prayer requests from all over the world.  I could have never imagined the opportunity to see you work and change people's lives like this! 

You are so incredible.  You truly can do anything.  I stand in awe God.  I can't wait to see what is next. 

I love you Father. Please continue to help me to be the person that can be of most help to you.  I love you teacher.  Please continue to bless and protect my family and friends.  I love you healer.  Please continue to hear our prayers and change our circumstances.  I love you Lord.  Please bless and anoint our worship services tomorrow God so they are pleasing to you and help your people.  I love you.

What God Said Tonight:
I love you too my daughter and I love to surprise you.  I love to show you what I can do with the small sacrifice that you make.  Like the young boy with the fish and a bit a bread.  He gave that small amount and in my hands it fed thousands. 

That is what I can do with your sacrifices.  Sacrifice your time to me and I will multiply it.  Sacrifice your money to me and I will multiply it.  Sacrifice your will to me and I will give you more than you could have ever imagined on your own.  I need you to give me sacrifice so I have something to work with but once you give it to me, I will give you back more than you can imagine. 

I don't ask you to sacrifice so you will have to go without.  I ask you to sacrifice so that I can give it back to you multiplied.  I don't ask you to sacrifice because I need the specific thing that you are sacrificing.  I don't need it in itself, but I need it so I have something to multiply back to you. 

I am a creative God and I can create the entire world out of nothing, out of chaos.  But what I want to teach you about is the art of giving, the joy of giving.  I want you to understand the giving and receiving paradigm that I function under.  It is what the sacrifice of my blood is based on.  It is what the law of Moses was based on.  It is what you need to know to live the full and blessed life that I have for you.  So much is tied up in it.  Learn that giving, sacrificing, is not about losing something but it is always about gaining something. 

I love you daughter.  You are right where I need you to be but don't stop here.  We have a long way to go and it will be more amazing than you can imagine.  Be blessed my daughter.