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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:
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.
