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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:
Well awesome and amazing God, I made it to another Friday night! Thank you God for bringing me through this week. Thank you for amazing friends and family that remind me what this life is about when I get distracted or a little lost. Thank you God for all of the amazing blessings of this week! My God the favor you have shown me completely humbles me.
Mighty God you are so incredible! You are constantly making the impossible possible God and I don't understand it but I LOVE being a part of it!
I just had a thought God...you knew all of this was going to happen in my life. You knew the plan all along. During all of those nights when I was crying out, feeling like I was in a dead end job, stuck in a rut, not serving you like I knew you wanted me to and I knew you had gifted me to, during every prayer of "God help!", you knew about this season. You knew that there was a plan and a purpose that would lead me to this time where everything I touched would be blessed, when my job would feel not so much like work but something pretty cool that I get to do every day, when I would be able to flow in ministry and reach your people all over the world with your message. You knew this was coming. You tried to tell me. I wanted to believe you but it was so hard when I didn't see any evidence of it coming.
God help me to remember, next time I don't see the way out, help me to remember this time. Help me to remember that you know the outcome and if you are saying it will all be ok, it will be. Help me to remember that my life is ordained by you and you are guiding me. I love you so much God. Thank you for everything.
What God Said Tonight:
I am awfully glad you got that epiphany sweet daughter. I really do know the end from the beginning and I really do have a plan. I don't say those things just to hear myself or to give you false hope. I tell you those things because they are true and you can trust them.
We have a lot left to do in your lifetime and there will be many times when you can't see the purpose and the plan. There will be many times when you will have to trust me beyond what you can see and believe.
I am ready to take you to a new level. I talked to you about the preparation, the fire. Now you have a new level of understanding. Now we are ready to move.
There is a opportunity coming that I have waited a long time for you to be ready for. The time is here and the time is now. Don't be frightened by the new level and the opportunity. It is time. Don't miss out because of fear. Trust me and it will be amazing.
As good as your life is now, I have more to give you. I have more blessings for you. This is only preparation for what I have planned for you. I love you and your obedience and study have made a way for you. Your prayer has molded you. Your service has guided you to this time and this place with me.
Get ready and we will walk into the new stage, the new thing together. Take my arm and I will escort you in. I will be your host and your guide in this next thing. You are royalty and you are well prepared for this next season. Walk into it with your head held high.
I love you sweet daughter. Don't forget what you have learned. You will need it all.
My prayer:
Lord of my life, I love you. That's it really. I love you. I don't want to ask for anything tonight. I don't want tonight to be about me. I just want to hear your voice. I just want to experience you. I just want you God. Please come, be with me, talk to me, show me.
What God Said Tonight:
I am here. I am always here with you. I know that sometimes you recognize me more clearly than at other times, but that doesn't mean that I am more or less with you. I am always with you completely and fully.
The only thing that can take me from you is you. You are the only one who can choose to separate from me. I love you too much to force you, so, if you tell me to back away, I will. But otherwise, I am always here. I am always loving you. I am always surrounding you with my love, my protection. I love you so much. I spend my time surrounding you, not just because I want to protect you but also I want to encompass you, to feel and be a part of all that you are. I love all of you and I want to be a part of everything that you are.
I surround you like a fog with substance. I want to be in complete contact with you. I want to seep into every nook and cranny of who you are. I want to know all of you so I can bless all of you. Don't hide from me. I know everything already anyway. Open up to me so I can heal the broken places, strengthen the strong places and love every part of you.
I love you and there is no part of you that is exempt from my love. That is what my sacrifice did for us. It allows me to wash away your sin and love and experience all of you. Those that came before did not have that benefit.
I am saving you daily. I am healing you daily. I am loving you daily. I am your God now and forever. I will love all you forever. I will love you at your most unlovable.
Sweet daughter, I receive your worship and it is a sweet fragrance to me tonight. I really love this time with you. I look forward to it all day, knowing we will spend this time together. To know that I get to end every day talking to my child that I love, that is good. Rest in me. I am all around you and I will keep you safe and loved forever.
My prayer:
Awesome healing GOD!!!! You are so amazing! I love how you heal us!!! Tonight was fantastic GOD! Watching you and feeling you heal my two friends tonight was so perfect and wonderful! I never get tired of seeing you heal people. It is one of my most favorite things in the entire world! At some point, I will stop using exclamation points but I can't help it! It has been a couple of weeks since I have gotten to see you do that immediate healing and I have missed it!
You are such a miracle working God! Help me to always remember God that your miracles are for today, your miracles are for us, your miracles are for me. I was so tired before small group tonight God but I made it and it was so great, I felt so energized and then you showed up and started healing everybody! Now that will wake a girl up! I feel more awake, alert and energized right now than I have in weeks.
LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOD!!! THANK YOU!!!!
What God Said Tonight:
This is what it is all about. You have been a little lost and forgot the purpose of your ministry for a little bit. You forgot why we do this. Tonight, you are remembering and your celebration is echoed in heaven. The angels are dancing with you. They are laughing and singing and praising me with you. You feel the celebration in your spirit and in your soul.
You are privy to and witness to the miracles of my presence and you appreciate and celebrate it. You recognize my power in this world and we will be able to do much because of that. You faith, your ability to recognize my power in this world, and your willingness to see it accomplished, open that window allowing me to step in and make it happen.
I could do it without you but I love doing it with you. I love when we get to do these things together and celebrate together. Celebration is always a lot more fun when you have someone to celebrate with. I will shout from the roof tops that I am God and I will reign forever. Come shout it with me and the two voices will be stronger than one.
I love you daughter and tonight was fun! I love to celebrate with you. I love to see you get excited about what I am doing. I told you today would be amazing!
My prayer:
Thank you awesome God for the amazing rest last night. Today was busy but not quite so overwhelming. Thanks for lining everything up! The way you continue to bless me and pour out favor on me is beyond explanation. I love you so much and I am so grateful.
God I am also exhausted again and I ask that you give me that supernatural rest again tonight so I can accomplish everything you have for me. God I want to say more but I am not sure I can stay awake much more. Please God, hear my heart tonight and know that I love you more than anything and I am yours.
What God Said Tonight:
I don't need you to have a lot of words all the time. I just need you to show up. I just need you to be available to me. I need you to be open to hear me and to do what I tell you to do, even when it doesn't make sense to you.
You will rest tonight and you will have more to do tomorrow. We are in that kind of season. But in the midst, remember to take time to listen to me. In the middle of chaos remember that I am your peace. In the middle of business, remember that I am the reason and the purpose for your life. Keep me at the center of your life and everything else wll revolve around us like clockwork. Everything will fall into place and you will not have to stress or to strain.
The struggle with following my direction is always in the decision to do it. Once you decide you are with me, I will make the way straight. I will always make a way for you. You just need to decide that you want my will and then be open to what I tell you to do. Pretty easy on the one hand but can be the hardest thing in the world sometimes.
I am here and I will always be here. However, if you want more out of life, you will have to sacrifice. The increase comes from sacrifice. I will love you forever. I will prosper you when you sacrifice.
I will never let you down. Trust me now and forever and I will take you where you need to go, give what you need to have, and love you above everything else. Rest now for tomorrow is amazing.
My prayer:
Awesome God, I don't know what to pray about tonight. I spent all day just trying to keep up. No sleep last night, 9 hours of straight meetings at work, 2+ hour meeting at church tonight, more things on my to do list than I have paper to write on...I need your help God. I am not complaining, seriously. I am grateful for every opportunity. I am grateful for the intense favor you have on my life. I just need some help getting it all done. I am exhausted and it is only Monday! Help please God.
What God Said Tonight:
Rest. Come to me and rest. I will provide rest and restoration for you. I will give you everything you need to do everything that I have called you to do. If you are not getting it all done, maybe I haven't called you to do it.
Be careful though. Right now you are feeling overwhelmed but if you look at it, you are getting it all done. You are fulfilling every obligation and you prospering. Your feelings can deceive you into thinking it is more than you can take. Look at the facts though and you will be able to know when you are out my will and taking on more than I have for you.
I know you daughter and if I don't give you seasons like this, seasons where you have more to do than you think you can accomplish, you get bored.
Trust in me, lean on me, rely on me. If I asked you to do it, I will equip you to complete it. Stop trying quite so hard and trust in me to guide you to the next thing. I will put in front of you the next thing I need you to do as I need you to do it, just like I have in the past, and we will accomplish more than you ever thought was possible.
This blessing to overflow situation is affecting all areas of you life right now, including opportunities. Open wide and take it all in. Rest and trust in me. We can do this.
My prayer:
Awesome and incredible God. I am sitting here tonight and it just kind of hit me, the incredible honor of being able to have a relationship with you. A relationship with God. That is kind of crazy when you think about it. How is it possible that seriously flawed me gets to have a relationship with you? How is it possible that you love me?
I know, I am covered in your blood and that makes it possible, but how in the world did you decide I was worth dying for? I know I have been taking my relationship with you for granted lately. You have been so awesome and blessing me left and right and I have been grateful for it all. But in the showers of blessing, I think I kind of forgot the awe of being able to know you, being able to talk to you, and being able to hear from you.
I found myself saying earlier tonight, "Well, anyone can hear from God." which, while it is true, I was somehow implying that made it less special, less amazing than it is.
God, thank you for letting me have a relationship with you. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for providing a way for me to know you, hear from you and spend time with you. Thank you God for letting me in. Life would not really be worth it without you in it. I love you God!
What God Said Tonight:
I need you to listen carefully to me tonight daughter. You need to understand that there is nothing more important than our relationship. You need to understand that it is through that relationship that everything else is possible
I am all about relationships. There is more power in one relationship than is produced by the sun in one year. There is more power and more ability to effect change in one relationship than in anything else. Your relationships with each other are very important. You relationship with me is most important. When we are in covenant, when we are closely aligned, on the same page, and agreeing with each other, nothing can stop us. We can take on the world and win every time.
When you get distracted by life, by religion, by other people, that is when we start to run into trouble. Relationships need nurturing and attention. A plant, once planted, needs attention water, food and sunshine, or it will die. If it is missing just one element for a long enough time, it will die.
The same is true of our relationship. It needs attention. It needs to be fed with the word. It needs to be watered with my spirit and with worship. It needs the light of my truth. It needs time and attention to grow. If it is missing one of these things, it will wither and die. I need you to nurture our relationship. I need you to take special care of it right now. It is under attack but it will all come out fine. The attack is only proof that we are going to a new level.
I love you so much daughter. Give attention to our love. Give attention to the things that keep us close. I will love you now and forever because you are mine and I am yours.
My prayer:
Awesome protector. Every once in awhile I get a little insight into some of the stuff you have protected me from God and I am amazed. There are so many things that could hurt me, even kill me, that I don't have to face because you protect me from them. There are so many threats that you fight off for me. Half of the time, I don't even realize there was a threat until it is over!
There is that scripture that says no weapon formed against me will prosper. Tonight I am getting some fresh insight on that one. There are the physical threats that you have protected me from like nearly drowning, daily threats on the road, and sickness. And then there are the more subtle threats.
Not that I have never been hurt. You know that isn't true. I think that is where fear comes in. When I look back and see the times that I have been hurt, sometimes hurt badly, I get scared that I will get hurt again. But, if I think about it, ever since I started living my life for you, the few times I do get hurt, the hurt doesn't last. You are always there and pull me out. You always give me the comfort I need. You always bring around me the people I need to love me through it.
Thank you God for every threat that you have protected me from, both the ones I know about and the ones I don't know about. Thank you for protecting me physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Thank you for being my protector. Thank you God that you make sure that no weapon formed against me will prosper. Thank you God for healing the few hurts that get through to me. Thank you God for loving and protecting me.
What God Said Tonight:
Waking up in the morning takes courage. Getting out of bed and facing the world takes courage. Sweet daughter, I am glad that my protection provides the courage you need to face the world. That is a big part of why I do it. The biggest reason why I protect you is that I love you so much I can't help myself. What Father would allow harm to his daughter if he could protect her from it?
There are times when for one reason or another, some amount of pain has to be experienced. It is related to the sin of the world. I promise though that I will always be there to heal the pain. I promise that I will always find a way for that pain to benefit you and the people around you. You will never suffer for no reason.
I will always keep my angel armies around you. You have a security detail that goes with you wherever you go. Your President is not better protected than my sweet daughter.
Part of me is glad that you don't always recognize that protection. It means that you trust me enough to protect you that you don't have to think about it. But, times like tonight are also good to remind you that I am here and I will not let the weapons formed against you prosper. They will not accomplish what they were designed to accomplish. I will deflect every attack against my children.
I love you. Rest in the assurance of my protection tonight and always.
