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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, powerful God. Thank you for all that you are and all that you did today.
Thank you again for protecting M and her family from the tornado! What a beautiful miracle that was God!! You lifted that tornado up off the ground and over their car keeping them safe...whoa! You are truly awesome God and life with you is so much better than life without you ever was.
I love you God and I better turn things over to you before I fall asleep in this chair. I love to hear you God.
What God Said Tonight:
What do you need daughter? You haven't asked me for much in a long time. You have not because you ask not. Those are my words that you often use in jest but they are true none the less.
What do you want daughter? What do you need? I hear your requests for everyone else but what about you? Don't forget to ask me for you sometimes. I love that you so often come just to talk and spend time with me. I love that, but bring me your worries and your needs too. Don't expect that I already know them. I do, but there is power and activation through prayer. Your prayer makes it possible for me to act in a situation. Your prayer opens the door. Your prayer reaches into heaven and creates a tunnel that I can act through to change the circumstance.
It is not always you that needs to be changed, sometimes it is the circumstance. Pray to me about the circumstance and create an avenue for me to act.
I love you so much. This is the beginning of a new journey together but this one we will have more help than we have ever had before. So many helping hands you will be amazed. Go and rest now.
My prayer:
Awesome and amazing God who saved me, loves me, guides me. God, twice in the last three days I have had people tell me there is no evidence that you exist. Funny thing, I haven't even felt the need to argue. It would be like trying to convince someone that my mom exists. All I have told them is that I know you exist because of my relationship with you. I know you exist because I know you. I know you exist because my life is radically changed with you in it. And that is it really. You are because you are.
Does that mean my life is perfect? Does that mean I am perfect? NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOO! But it means that I know you are perfect. It means that I know you are working out everything in my life. It means that I have a hope for a future. I have hope that tomorrow, every tomorrow, can and will be better than today.
God, thank you for hope. Thank you for "proving" to me how real you are. God I pray that you continue to show people just how real you are so they can get on board before it is too late. I love you so much God. Thank you for expaining things to me today. Thank you for being my everything.
What God Said Tonight:
Wait until you see tomorrow! All of the things that worried you today, all of the things that seemed so wrong today, are mixing together for something so amazing you will not believe it.
The mixing process is messy. It's like when you bake a cake, well, when someone bakes a cake. The messiest part is the mixing. If you do it too fast, you can splatter the batter all over the place and ruin it. If you mix it too slow, you will not get the right consistency and you will ruin it. But done carefully at the right speed for the right amount of time and you have perfect batter that once it is put through the fire, makes a delicious cake.
We are baking a cake in your life and right now, we are in the mixing period. It doesn't look like much right now but wait for it all to come together. Next is the season of the fire. That is where it all is changed from a goopy mess to something beautiful.
This cake is worth it even though it doesn't look like it now. Be patient in the process and you will see great things. I love you so much daughter. Stick in there with me and we will see a new victory. I love you and I am with you always. Let's go at this next week together. There is a lot more to do, but I will be with you. Rest now daughter and you will be ready.
My prayer:
Awesome and mighty God. Tomorrow is a big day. Tomorrow is the day we formally recognize what you did for us and celebrate your ressurection. Tomorrow is a big chance to reach a lot of people for you.
I pray God that you draw in every person that you want to touch tomorrow. Help us God to say what you would have us say, do what you would have us do, and most of all to reflect you in everything.
God I pray that all of the people who will go to church because "it is Easter and that is what you do," be surprised by your power, your grace and your mercy. I pray God that they leave the service changed. I pray God that they see you in a new and more real way than ever before.
Thank you God for the opportunity to serve your people.
What God Said Tonight:
What you do tomorrow is not as important as what you do every other day of your life. People are not often convinced by a service, a message alone. People are convinced by seeing me in your life every day.
I will bring a lot of people to you and to services tomorrow; but they will be people who have been prepared by you and people like you living next to them everyday. You are the evidence that they need to see. Your life is the proof they need to see that I exist and that I love them. You are my walking billboards.
Be ready to receive and reap the bounty tomorrow. There will be a lot who choose me tomorrow. There will be a lot of people who decide, after all of this time, that tomorrow is the day they are going to choose. Tomorrow is the day they are going to change their lives. But as you see each of these people make this marvelous choice, remember that what brought them to it was the many people who have been planting seeds in their lives. You get to see and be a part of the harvest but you did not plant all of the seed.
I love you daughter. Remember the importance of your everyday life. Remember that you are as much a farmer planting seeds as you are a fisher bringing people in. You are my hands and feet and I appreciate and love you so much. I will remain with you always, you can count on it.
My prayer:
My God and my salvation. Good Friday...what a weird thing to call this day when we remember the ultimate sacrifice that you made for us. The betrayal, the beating the unjust punishment, the painful horrifying death, and the moment when God the Father had to look away, all so much more than any of us could take. Which was really the point I guess.
We were never going to be good enough on our own to be saved. We were never going to be able to withstand the sacrifice required. So you did it for us. That is so like you. You pick up where our abilities end. You make it possible for us to be and do so much more than we could ever be or do on our own.
God, you are my salvation, you are the purpose of my life, you are my success, you are my healer, you are my friend and you are the best part of me. I love you so much. I lifetime of "thank yous" could never express my gratitude for your sacrifice. Because of what you did, I am going to heaven some day. Because of what you did, I get to know you in this life. Because of what you did, I get to live a life full of hope, favor and dreams.
Thank you Jesus for what you did. Thank you Father for sacrificing your son for me. Thank you Holy Spirit for living in me. I love you God more than I can say.
What God Said Tonight:
I love you and I would do it all again tomorrow if I needed to. If it would bring one more of my children home, I would do it again. My only motivation is to get as many children home as possible.
I hate to lose even one. The consequences are too dire. The lake of fire, hell is so much worse than you have been able to imagine. It is your worst nightmare on steroids. It is everything you could imagine but 100 times worse. There is no joy, there is no peace, there is nothing but pain and torment. I can't stand to see my children there. I will do what ever I need to do to get as many of my kids with me as possible.
I will need you to do anything and everything possible to bring my people in. I need you to be the fisher of men that I have called you to be. I can convince them, but I need you to reach out to them and bring them in. I will give you words, just like tonight, and I will prepare their hearts. But be ready always.
Don't let my sacrifice be wasted. Make sure that my death is for a purpose.
I love you enough to die for you and I would do it again. Rest now, we will talk more tomorrow.
My prayer:
Awesome and all powerful God. You are simply wonderful. I look forward to this time with you all day. What do you want to talk about tonight? What is on your mind? I love you God and I am here and ready.
What God Said Tonight:
My angels are with you tonight. I have sent them to you to prepare for battle. But don't worry, don't be afraid, it is not a battle you will fight. That is why I sent them
The battle is spiritual. You will likely notice some things that spill over, but my angels cannot and will not lose. I can promise you that. My warrior angels are with you. There are more angels in existence than there are people.
You are tired from the race and your time to rest is nearly here. In the meantime, keep at the fight, duck when the enemy takes a swing and let my angels defend you. The fight is fixed and we win but listen to me and trust me to keep you from harm.
Rest tonight for more tomorrow. Remember I am with you always. My angels will defend you. You are safe despite chaos around you. The things happening around you have very little to do with you and your eternity. Look to me for that. I am your future and I am your hope, always. Rest now and see the battle fought tomorrow. I love you my sweet warrior daughter.
My prayer:
My awesome God. Thank you God for putting such amazing people in my life. I spent so many years pushing people away, trying to protect myself. I didn't realize what I was missing. I didn't realize the incredible gifts you have given to people and how much better my life is with them in it! Talented, smart, sweet, giving, loyal, honest, and real...are all of your kids like this or have you just surrounded me with your best?
Either way, THANK YOU! Thank you for the family and friends you have given me. Thank you for the people you created them to be. Thank you for the blessing they are to me. Thank you for helping me to get out of my own way and teaching me how to let people into my life. I love you God and I am so grateful that you give me EVERYTHING and EVERYONE that I need.
What God Said Tonight:
You are seeing my people with Jesus goggles on tonight and that is good. When you see people covered in the blood of the Lamb, you can see them for all they are meant to be and not get distracted by the sin. You see their spirit and the truth of who they are, not what circumstances and life have turned them into. You see them like I see them and you can't help but love them.
It is the way I see you too. Covered in the blood and everything I created you to be. I died so that you could receive the forgiveness for yourself, of course, but I also died so you could begin to see your brothers and sisters through that same blanket of forgiveness.
Live in peace with your brothers, with your sisters. Find the greatness in them and nurture it. Encourage the greatness in them and I will encourage the greatness in you. Be blessed and know that I love you more than I can say. Sleep sweetly.
My prayer:
Mighty God, Father. Sometimes I have to stop and just be amazed by you. I am amazed that even though you are you, God of everything, you let me know you, talk to you, hear from you. That is so irrational and crazy.
I know you love me because you tell me and show me a lot but sometimes I have to wonder why you do. I am so grateful that you do. I can't imagine life without your love. But, why? Why would you love someone who gets it all wrong more than she gets it right? Why would you love someone who is so much less than you? I mean if you were the universe, I would be less than a speck of dust. How do you even notice me, let alone love me?
I guess the "why" doesn't really matter. The only thing that matters is that you do love me and that makes everything worthwhile. But, you know me...I think my first word as a baby was "why?"
I remain in awe of you God. I remain in awe of who you are, what you do and that somehow, you decided to love me. I remain all yours God.
What God Said Tonight:
Watch for the new season and you will understand things tomorrow that you did not understand today. Keep asking your questions, you will get the answers. There are so many mysteries in this world. I have the answers and I will share them each with you as you are ready for them. I know that you often think about all of the questions you will ask me when you get to heaven. Don't wait. Ask now and I will tell you all that I can. All that you can understand. Some answers will need to wait for you to grow into a place where you can understand the answer but I will give you the answer as soon as you are ready.
I don't want to be mysterious with you. I don't want to be mysterious with my children. I want you to know everything and be armed with that knowledge and that truth. I gave you the Bible just for that purpose. It is our text book for life. I put in it everything you need to know. The answers to your questions are there too.
Think about what I have told you in your Bible. I created you, I knew you before you were in your mother's womb. I sculpted you as a potter. I am with you always. I died for you. I created the world for you. I did it all for you.
You ask why I love you, how could I not? I have invested everything in you and in your life. I live inside of you. I am your Father and your friend. I am love. I am not a loving God, I am love. I can't help but love. How much more will I love my creation, my child? I have created you and chosen you. Of course I will love you. I understand that in some ways it doesn't make sense but if you look at at it from my perspective, it makes all of the sense in the world.
I love you and that truly is the important piece. Receive my love, accept my love tonight. Rest in my love. Know that I am with you now and forever. Know that my love for you can never be challenged and can never wane. I am yours forever.
