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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:
All knowing God. So, I definitely was presented a new opportunity today like you said. My first reaction was to absolutely dismiss it and say, NO WAY! But then I remembered what you said last night.
Is this the opportunity you were talking about? It seems so unlikely. I don't see any possible way how this thing could be turned into a blessing. But maybe that is the point? Maybe that is exactly the kind of situation, one where I can't see it turning out well, where you can show up and show how you can turn EVERYTHING to my good.
Or, is this not what you were talking about. If I look at this opportunity logically, I would be crazy to do it. It would be a lot of work that would make very little difference in the world. At least that is what it looks like to me.
So God, what do I do? I need to hear you really clearly on this. If you want me to do it, fantastic, make it really clear to me so I know I am doing your will. I will do anything that you want me to. If this is not something you want me to do, if it is a distraction, show me that really clearly as well.
God you tell me when I lack wisdom to ask for it and you will give it to me. God, I ask for wisdom. Help me to know your will in this. I really need your help God. I don't know what to do.
What God Said Tonight:
I told you it wasn't going to be easy. I told you it would stretch you. I told you that you would think that it was not for you.
This thing is not what it seems. This is a test and a time for you to remember your roots. It is a time and an opportunity for you to serve for the sake of serving. To be my hands and feet for no purpose other than I am asking you to.
It will make more sense soon. You know what I want you to do. You are resisting because you don't want to do it but you know what I want you to do.
You have a choice. You always have a choice. You can choose to do only the things that I bring you that you like. You can choose to only obey my will when it is in line with yours. Or, you can be a fully devoted follower of me and do what I ask when I ask it. The difference is a life of goodness vs. a life of greatness.
You were made for greatness and I can tell you that you will never be happy with less than. I can tell you that you are on the brink. Do what want. Choose comfortable, safe and good. Or choose, dangerous, uncomfortable and great.
I love you no matter what. I will be with your forever no matter what. I will never leave you, no matter what. So do what you want, remembering the regret of "what if?"
My prayer:
Awesome and incredible God. You are so good God. Thank you God for the reminders today of the impact you make on people's lives. I am so very grateful to be a part of your ministry. I am so very grateful to get to be a part of you touching people's lives. There is nothing better, anywhere!
I pray God and ask that you continue to hear us and meet the many needs we have in this life. I sometimes think you must get tired of hearing us always needing, always asking. Life can be so tough sometimes and fact is, I can't live this life without your constant help.
I pray God over this coming week and ask that you continue the unmerited favor over my life. I love living in your favor!! I get such a kick out of seeing you prosper everything I put my hand to, as long as I am seeking you first, praying and giving you all the glory. Seems like a pretty easy price to pay for the crazy favor you continue to show me. Thank you Father. You are so very good to me!!
I pray also God that you show me how I can best bless and serve you this week. Father, show me the needs that you want me to fill. Show me the things you have for me to do. It has been awhile since we have done a "new thing." If it is the right timing, show me that new thing you want me to do this week. I love you God and I pray in the name of Jesus, amen.
What God Said Tonight:
I am here and I am waiting on you tonight. I have something that I have been holding on to until you were ready. I think the time is now and you are ready. I have a new thing for you and you will be surprised.
It had to wait for just the right time. It had to wait for you to be fully prepared. This new thing can be a blessing or a curse depending on if you are ready or not. I have waited purposefully to give you the best chance of receiving it as a blessing and not a curse. When you first see it, you may be tempted to dismiss it, but don't. When you find yourself saying, that can't be for me, stop. It likely is.
I have a new thing that will take faith, it will take stepping out. It won't be comfortable. It won't be easy. But, if you are ready, it will be a bigger blessing to you and to the world than you can imagine right now.
I have a bright and glorious future planned for you. You will do great things in my kingdom, and you will do even greater things if you are ready. Be waiting I will bring it to you.
I love you my sweet daughter. Rest for another eventful week. I am here for you every moment of every day and night. I will never leave you. I will always equip you for the things I ask of you. I will never make you do anything on your own.
I love your dependence on me. It took a long time to teach you that. Lean on me, call out to me and always ask for my help. It is a big part of why I am here and a big part of why I sent my son to die. I needed to be with you all the time, not separated by sin. Covered in the blood, I can keep you close at ALL times. I love you so much. Rest now and we will do more tomorrow.
My prayer:
Amazing God of everything and everyone. God I remain utter awe of you. You continue to perform true miracles every day and I love it! Another miracle healing tonight God, well I guess there were probably a lot of them but one that I know about.
You are so amazing!! God, I am so anxious to hear what you have to talk about tonight, I think I will shut up and listen. I love you so much God. You are the purpose and the point to my life.
What God Said Tonight:
Why is so amazing that I would heal my children? Wouldn't you heal your child if you could? My healing is nothing more than the overflow of my compassion of my love for my children. I know that it seems miraculous to you and it is. But truth is, most of the time I can't help myself.
I want to see my children living in divine health. I want so desperately to see my children free from the disease, the pain that ravages this world right now. Soon, very soon, it will not be a problem anymore. When there is the new heaven and the new earth, there will be no more sickness and no more pain. There will be a life free of those things. Until that time, I will continue to heal. I will continue to heal the people around you because I know how much you love to see it. I know what it does for your faith.
I will heal bodies and I will heal hearts. I will heal your spirit. I will heal you and you will be strong and ready to face another day. My love for you is overflowing and the result, the stuff dripping over the edges is healing and joy and peace. Jump into my bowl of love and you won't ever have to know pain again. Live in my love and you will be at peace. There is no pain, no worry, no strife in my love. Live in the bowl of my love. I have more great things for you.
My prayer:
Awesome Father. God, I wish I was a better person. I wish that I never had a bad thought about someone. I wish I never got jealous. I wish that I always thought about others before myself. I wish that I never said the wrong thing, did the wrong thing, or thought the wrong thing. I just wish I was better.
I love you so much and I worry sometimes that when people see that I don't always do the right things, they will think badly of you. God, I know that I can never be perfect, but I pray and ask that you continue to make me better, not for my sake but so people don't get confused about who you are and how great you are.
What God Said Tonight:
Your life is a continual journey and each day you are more like me and more like the person I created you to be. You will have days of progress and days of set backs but it is all a journey and your destination is assured.
Your desire to want to be better is good. Your feelings of inadequacy are a waste. They are a waste of effort and they don't make anything better. They don't make you better. Do your best to be the best you that you can be each day. That is all I care about. I care that you try. The failures and shortcomings, the sin, is what I died for. Just continue to try, I will cover the gap.
People don't need you to be perfect to see me. People who don't know me yet need to see that you are just like them but you have a hope they don't have. People need to see that you are just like them but you have a relationship that they don't have. People need to see that you are just like them but that because you know me, your life is better, more successful and you are more at peace.
They don't need you to be perfect. They don't understand or trust perfect. I am the only perfect one. Be you, it is enough, and continue to try to be your best. I love you right where you are.
My prayer:
God you are incredible! You listen, you love, you provide, you prosper and you save me. Today was more examples of how you destine me to succeed. I barely do anything and you turn it into success. You make me effective. One tiny action with your favor is better than 80 hours of work without your favor.
Your favor is such an amazing and unmerited gift! You sure give good gifts God.
It is so important that I never live a single second outside of your presence. I need you so much. Now that I know what life is like with you, I don't ever want to be without you.
Thank you for favor on my job and the new potential client. Thank you for hearing the prayers and healing N's sister. Thank you for guiding me and showing me what to do. Thank you for making me effective. Thank you for choosing me God. I love you so much!!
What God Said Tonight:
What you are experiencing now is what I have always hoped and wanted for you. There were so many years when I wanted to give to you. I wanted to bless you but you would not receive it. You had convinced yourself that you didn't deserve it and just closed yourself off to what I was trying to give you.
So many of my children get caught in that. Life beats you up and satan lies to you and you think you have to earn my gifts. Since when is a gift earned? Do you earn your birthday gifts each year? No, a gift, by definition is something you have not earned but that someone wants to bless you with.
I am so glad that you are finally willing to receive some of the gifts I have for you. I have more, when you are ready. I have been storing up gifts for you for years and hoping and waiting for the day that you would be ready to receive them. You have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
I love you so much and I want to lavish you with gifts. You know how I say that I will bless you to overflow? That is the kind of gifts and blessing I am talking about. I want to pile them up on top of you so you are so covered that all people see is the blessing. Like a pile of Christmas presents towering and covering you. So beautiful that people will want it for themselves. That is the real point.
I love to bless you because you are my daughter and I love to show you how I love you. But the real point of the blessing is to show others what they could have if they chose. The real purpose of the blessing is to share it. I will bless you all the days of your life, if you will let me. I love you daughter. Stay blessed.
My prayer:
Incredible God. Your plans and your purpose make so much sense, in hindsight. Looking back, I can see how everything had to happen how and when it did in order to turn out so wonderful. I didn't understand it as it was happening. I couldn't see the end from the beginning like you can. All I could see was the delays, the lack of progress. But now, I can look back and see that everything was just waiting for the right time. Now, I see how perfect you made it all. Now I can see you purpose in it all.
God I pray that you continue to help me to be better at trusting that you are working everything out, before I see how it is going to work out. Even when it takes a LONG time, help me to remember nights like tonight where it all seems so clear and I "get it."
Thank you God for always knowing what is best and when is best. Thank you for making me wait for best even when I want what is right now. Waiting for your best is always better.
I love you God and I am all yours.
What God Said Tonight:
Time matters a lot more to you than it does to me. I have always been and will always be. In the landscape of eternity, time really has no meaning. Time is a series of artificial benchmarks that don't have any meaning other than to categorize your day, your life.
Stop being so time conscious. Spend your time wisely but don't keep one eye on the clock. Time is important only in how you spend it not in how much has passed. Time is a currency that is more valuable than gold but is infinite. Spend your time wisely.
Spend time with me. Spend time with your family, with your friends. Spend time focused on the things that matter. Don't waste time. Don't throw time away. It is far too valuable for that. But don't save time up or put it off. It is infinite in your life but there will never be another now. There will never be another opportunity to do what you are experiencing and doing right now. Even one second later, it is changed and different.
Now is fleeting and should be cherished. Now is all you really have. But with me, you have an infinite number of nows. I don't mean to get so deep but it is important to understand what time is and what it isn't. I am in all times at once My now is infinite. Don't stress so much about time but be a wise steward. Care for it as carefully as you do your money.
I love you daughter and I want to spend all of the time that you will allow me to with you. I love to spend time with you. You and me forever.
My prayer:
Mighty creator and King. My healer and teacher. My Father and my friend. Today was tough but we made it to this time together. I love ending every day with this quiet time with you. I love that it is always a surprise, that I never know what I am going to say, let alone what you are going to say. I love that it is just a time when I get to share my heart with you and I get to hear your heart.
Tonight I am grateful that you are in me and in my life. Tonight I am grateful that no matter what happens, how hard life can be, no matter what people say or think about me, I know that you love me. I know that you think I am wonderful. Thank you God for telling me over and over that you love me until I finally believed it. Thank you for making your love more relentless than my doubt. I love you God.
What God Said Tonight:
What was hard about today? It was not that there was so much to do. You have had days much more full than this. Your attitude slipped today and that is why you struggled. You forgot to praise me. You forgot that all of this favor is only because I love you. You got complacent and when your attitude was off and things didn't go quite your way, you got frustrated and discouraged.
Don't be discouraged. Today was not as bad as you think. You just need to re-frame a bit. Remember who I am. Remember who you are. Remember that you are a Royal Priesthood and the first son of the most high God.
That is why you have had so much favor. You have had the favor because there is a lot we need to do. I need you to remember who you are at all times so you have the confidence to do what is next. I need you to have the confidence of knowing who you are, even when no one else knows. Even when no one sees value in you, I need you to know where your value comes from and walk with confidence.
These next things that we are going to do are going to take a lot of confidence and there will not always be people there to tell you are doing well or that they are proud of you. You will have to be motivated and satisfied with my approval and my direction. You will have to be satisfied with doing right and doing well. I need you to be able to stand and walk independent of the support of others. For awhile, you will need it.
It is going to feel a bit like a trek through the desert but I will be your oasis. Learn this one thing and you will accomplish many great things in the future. The plan on your life is unchanged and it is destined. I love you sweet daughter.
