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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 God, Happy Anniversary! I can't believe we have really been at this for one year!! And look at what you have done in that year; tens of thousands of people have been touched by you in 109 countries! I clearly need to go to the Philippines someday. They love you so much!
I feel like I should say something profound tonight God. I mean this is truly a milestone. I never could have imagined when we started this what you had planned for it. I have learned so much this year about trusting you, about stepping outside of my comfort zone and simply saying YES to anything you have for me. What an awesome way to live!
I think because I have taken time to really listen to you every night, I am more aware of your will in my life than ever. That makes it easier to say yes when I know what you want. I feel like I know you better than ever. I feel your love more than ever. I can never truly express my gratitude for this year God. It goes deeper than anything I can describe.
I love you so much God and I can't wait to see everything this next year brings!! Sounds like it is going to be even more amazing!!!
What God Said Tonight:
Tonight is not about endings but it is completely about beginnings. Sometimes one thing has to end before a new thing can start. In this case, the new thing will layer on the current things and create a greater depth and anointing to reach people all over the world.
I told you once that you would be in charge of a worldwide ministry. I don't think you believed me but look around. We are there and it is only growing from here.
I have loved every night of this last year. I have loved getting so much closer to you. I have loved the trust and the commitment you have shown me. I love the faithfulness. I have loved being able to talk to so many that had been stuck.
I love you all of you so much. My heart swells just thinking about you. I am overwhelmed with my love for you. I want to be even closer. I want you to know me so well that you never have to guess my will for any situation. I want you to know me so well that my thoughts are your thoughts. I want you to know me so well that your natural instinct becomes my will for you. I want you to live this life to the full capacity that I have given you and let nothing and no one hold you back. I have placed in you everything you need to run the race, get running.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!! I am so proud to be your Daddy. I boast of you in heaven all the time. My children, look there! Look how beautiful she is! Look, look over there, he just overcame that struggle! And look, look there, they are worshiping me in truth and in spirit!
I love you now and forever. Take this beginning tonight and run with it my dear. I will be with you every step of the way.
My prayer:
What a week God! I can't believe it is already time to start over. Thank you for all that you did and all that you allowed me to do this week God. It was truly an honor to serve you and your people.
Tomorrow is our one year anniversary of doing this blog together. It is hard to believe it has been a year. I look back and remember that first night. I was so nervous but then I thought, no big deal, no one is going to read it. You proved me wrong on that! But what an immense honor it has been to be able to hear from you every night and to share what you say with the world. Wow, it isn't until I put it in plain words like that I realize just how amazing this year has been.
As you are stirring up this new dream in me God, my first thought has been, "Who am I to..." and I realize now that was exactly what I said when I first started up What God Said Tonight. I think that is the most likely question to ask when you put a dream in me. The dreams you put in me are always so much bigger than what I can imagine on my own. But, truth is, you always give me everything I need to accomplish it.
I am trusting you God in this new thing. I have seen first hand what you can do with an unlikely dream and I can't wait to see what you do with this one.
I love you so much!
What God Said Tonight:
Do you see it? Do you see it all coming together? Do you see how everything that you have ever done, ever experienced, ever learned, and everyone you have ever known is coming together for this time and this place to accomplish something beyond your wildest dreams?
I have given you and shown you the next step but know that step is one small step at the beginning of something that I ordained at the beginning of time and have only been waiting for you to be ready. The time is now and the time is here.
I am so excited that we are finally going to get this started. You are going to love it. There is so much to do but I will help you every step. I will ordain you to succeed. I will bless the work of your hands so that is multiplied one hundred fold. You will see the miracle of me in every minute of every day. You will be blessed beyond measure. You will bless others beyond measure.
All that you have ever done, all that you have ever sacrificed for me, is coming into harvest season right now. It is going to be a harvest like you will not believe. I have surrounded you with the people I need in your life. I have gathered the people I need you to take care of.
You will be blessed beyond measure if you continue to obey me and follow my lead. Don't get off track and don't get distracted.
I love you so much and will never let you go. I love spoiling you and I plan to do a lot more of it. Stay in a position to receive and you will not believe the blessing.
My prayer:
Awesome God, I am not sure what to pray tonight. I am not sure what to talk about. The last few days have been a whirlwind and my head is spinning a little. Thank you for giving me rest and some perspective today. Thank you for good friends who can help see clearly when I am a confused. Thank you for the opportunities you are bringing me. Thank you for being the God of all creation and still loving me so much.
God I pray and ask for more Holy Spirit power in my life. I pray God that greater things than this will I see. I pray that the amazing miracles you have shown me are only the beginning. I want to see you do crazy wonderful stuff.
I love you Daddy. I am all yours. Even if you never did another thing, what you have done already is enough. But, that is easy for me to say because I know you will keep blessing, guiding and loving me. I love that you can't help but love me. God change my mind and my heart where it needs to be changed. Show me the future path so I don't get stuck in circles of the past.
I am yours forever God.
What God Said Tonight:
You are healed You are healed physically, mentally and spiritually tonight. You will begin to understand that healing more over the next several weeks but Know that tonight was the night of the healing.
Tonight is the night for you to get free of anything that is holding you back. Tonight is the night for you to prepare because you are going to a new level very soon and you will need to carefully choose who and what you take with you. Not everyone can go where we are going next. It takes preparation and quietness of spirit. If you are at all not at rest, you may cause some rather disastrous results.
You have found your peace in me, don't lose it. Remember that peace no matter what comes at you. Find that place of peace in every storm. I am your refuge and your strength and you will need an abundance of both in the next season. Listen to your prophetic friends. They are in your life for a reason. Everything that happens in your life, every person in your life, is there for a reason. There really are no accidents or coincidences in your life.
Trust me, this is going to be big and wonderful.
My prayer:
I know I say it all of the time God but you are AWESOME!!! What a great night. What great people. What a great service. What a great reunion!
And, God, there were a few too many coincidences tonight for me to think it was all just chance. What are you up to? I feel another change coming on, but I am crazy curious to know what it is. What is my next step God?
I love you and it is pretty late so I think I will turn it over to you so you can maybe let me in on what you are up to? Love you no matter what God!!!
What God Said Tonight:
You are not living in darkness. I have given you eyes to see, use them. The future is not a big mystery. You and I talk about it all of the time.
Now, am I going to tell you the details about how we are going to accomplish everything I have planned? Not usually. Usually, I will need to keep that somewhat hidden. Not because I am trying to make you worry but mainly to make sure you keep your hands off until it is the right time. You always want to help me and I appreciate that servant's heart. But sometimes you trying to help makes it worse on you and me. So, there are things that are so important that I have to keep it a bit hidden until you are ready to see it or until I have something for you to do.
Tonight was a beginning. Tonight as ordained from the dawn of time. You already know that we will have a great future together and you already know that the more you give me your life, the more of your life that you give me, the more I bless you at every corner. Anything you give to me, I will bless. Anything you withhold from me is cursed.
I love you. Go to sleep before you fall over!
My prayer:
Awesome God! You are amazing! The things you are able to do, the people you bring together to do them, the gifts you give us to do them, the way you work every circumstance together into your perfect plan...I have no words God. Amazing, incredible, awe inspiring, begin to describe what I feel but they all fall short.
Tonight was awesome God. I believe that what you are planning for tomorrow will blow my socks off! THANK YOU GOD for letting me a part of your work, your ministry. Thank you for letting me be a part of reaching people for you. I am not now, nor will I ever be worthy but I am GRATEFUL!!!
God, help me stay focused on all of the amazing things you are doing. Please help me to not get distracted by the attacks and the spirit of judgmentalism and religion. Help me God to keep my eyes focused on you and your plan. LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
What God Said Tonight:
I have had this plan for you since the beginning of time. It is fun to see you getting excited now that you are seeing more and more of it unfold.
The plan has always been there. I always knew that we would be here together some day. That is part of why it is so easy for me to love you no matter what. I know where we end up. I know who you are after the mess is all over. I know who you are when you have been through the fire and have come out on the other side purified.
You so often ask me how I can love you so much when you are such a mess and it is easy, I don't see the mess. I see you covered in my blood and perfected in the future I have planned for you. When you were crying out to be in full time ministry, I already knew this day would happen. I am always your calm in the storm and your peace because I know the end of the book. I know how you turn out. I know how we turn out.
I know what the new heaven and the new earth is like. I have walked the streets of gold and it is good. You will love it so much. I can't wait to show you.
Trust me, trust that the future I have is good, and enjoy the ride. We have some truly great times ahead. You are going to be glad you lived to see these days coming up because they are TRULY good! I love you daughter, try to get some rest. Big day tomorrow!
My prayer:
Awesome God, thank you for your help at work again today. You are so awesome! I don't know what I would do without you.
So many things are so great now God. I am so blessed by you. But tonight, I had someone telling me that she admired that I was "there" that I had found contentment and that I didn't struggle...LOL! I tried to tell her that I struggle all the time. I tried to explain that the struggle is a part of life and let's me know that I am growing and not stagnant. I tried...but I don't think she believed it.
Why do we so often think that we have to have it all together. Where did we get the idea that was the goal? You never once told us that we had to be perfect. What you told us is that there is not one of us who is without sin. EVERYBODY sins, that is what you said. When did we decide that we are supposed to be the one exception to that rule? You know I am the worst at falling into that performance/perfection trap. Where does it come from God? The only perfect one is you. My only hope is to stay covered in the blood of Jesus and try not to mess up too bad.
God forgive me if I ever made anyone feel like they needed to be "perfect." Forgive me God if I ever let anyone think that I have it all together. Help me God to better understand and reflect that this life is not about being perfect, except in being perfected by you through your salvation. I love you God, more now than ever before. I love you forever.
What God Said Tonight:
You are reflecting me and it is my perfection they see. That is what you need to tell people, the "perfection" the "peace", the "contentment" they see is me in you not actually you.
You are my willing vessel and I am so glad for that. Being my vessel I fill you up. When people look into you, they see the reflection of me like the tea in a cup of tea. Depending on their angle, their perspective, they will either see you, the vessel/cup, or they will see me, the tea. The cup may be chipped and flawed. It may have cracks and it may be misshapen, but the tea in the cup is still, calm, and no less beautiful because of the cup it is in.
Your purpose is to be my vessel. The purpose of a tea cup is to hold tea. That people see me in you is only right. To help them understand that you are no different than them and that they can be a tea cup too, that is your goal. That is what will lead people to a real relationship with me. Keep at it girl. I believe in you.
My prayer:
Father God. I am sitting here tonight not knowing what to talk about with you. So many thoughts are running through my head, all of them disconnected from each other and none of them really matter anyway.
How about we just listen to you tonight. Like Arthur always tells you, if you need someone to talk to tonight God, I am here. Love you so much and your presence is worth more to me than anything else.
What God Said Tonight:
Daughter, sweet daughter, listen close. Pay close attention. There are some things you really need to understand. Your life, the things you do, the decisions you make, the things you say, have significance that you do not understand or see. I am working through you for a reason.
I need to touch and talk to the people within your sphere of influence. I need them to know me. I need them to understand that I am here and waiting for them.
I will continue to increase that sphere of influence as long as you listen to me and tell people about it. The more people you connect with, the more opportunities I have to touch people's lives. I will increase you because increasing you results in increasing my kingdom.
I am in it for the long haul and I am in it to save lives. My purpose is and always has been to save my children. As long as you are with me, I will expand your borders.
You will look back on these days as the days of small beginnings. Do not despise the small beginnings Small beginnings are good and precious. Be my voice and we will reach the world.
I love you and I trust you. Don't get tired, don't give up, keep talking, connecting and loving my people. Their lives depend on it and I am depending on you. I love you sweet daughter. Sleep well.
