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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:
Sweet God, I am sitting here tonight just feeling so blessed. God, this new level of peace is amazing.
Thank you for an amazing night with my small group family. Those people really know how to love. How did I get to be so blessed to be put in the middle of them? How did I get to be so blessed to be a part of your ministry? How did I get to be so blessed to be able to talk to the most high God? How did I get to be so blessed to hear you speak? How did I get so blessed God? I know I don't deserve any of it. Your grace and mercy are phenomenal God! Thank you for blessing me! Thank you for being a blessing! Thank you God!!!
What God Said Tonight:
You are blessed so you can be a blessing. You are favored so you can favor others. You are my lighthouse remember. Shine for me. Let people see the blessed life you live with me. Let people see what blessings they can have. Let is shine.
I bless you for a lot of reasons. First, because I love you. Second, because I can't really help myself. Third, because I need you to be that lighthouse, that example to the world of what a relationship with me can be like.
Fact is I love you too much not to bless you. I couldn't do it. Can you imagine loving someone and never giving them anything, never doing anything for them? I might have to challenge whether you really loved them if you never gave to them. My blessing your life is a natural consequence of my intense love for you.
I love you daughter. Pass on the blessings and watch them grow and multiply. Every blessing you give away grows and becomes a bigger blessing than when you first received it. I love you. Stay blessed.
My prayer:
Incredible God, the more I know you the more I love you. The more I love you the more I trust you. The more I trust you the more I want to serve you.
I am addicted to your presence and your power. I can't get enough of you God. You are all that I want. You are everything I need. You are worthy God.
God cover me in your blood that I can be acceptable to you. Cover my sin, my faults, every place that I fall short and let me climb up in your lap. Let be near you God. Let me hear your voice. Let me be a part of what you are doing.
If you were a person, they would probably arrest me for stalking you God. I sure am glad you are the most high God and you can handle my love, no matter how intense and crazy it might get. I love you God, every day, every minute, in every circumstance. I love you.
Tell me what is on your mind tonight. My favorite time of every day is when I get to concentrate and listen to your voice.
What God Said Tonight:
Tonight is special and sweet. I have been waiting for you. I have been waiting for you to be ready for tonight.
I have something for you. I have a gift. I have been holding onto it until you were ready and that time is here. You are going to notice a greater anointing and a greater power. You are going to notice that things that use to be difficult are not so difficult all of a sudden. You are going to see things you did not think were possible. You are going to see the realization of things that you hoped for but have not seen. You will be amazed at the difference.
I love you sweet daughter. Walk in this new power, this new anointing and get ready to use it for my glory. I have some great things planned and I am ready to get started. Receive this gift and you will not be sorry. You are so precious to me and I have waited a long time for this moment, this night.
You feel that sense of peace? You feel that power and confidence coming into you right now? That is me. That is my Spirit moving in you building and ready to burst out. Don't worry, you will have plenty of opportunities to see that power at work.
I love you daughter. Thank you for waiting. You will be blessed.
My prayer:
Awesome God. I have to kind of laugh at how my words said in jest always seem to come back to tease me. It was just last week that my nephew said, "Life is confusing." And I, half teasingly said, "Yea, but that is what makes it interesting." It serves me right that I am sitting here tonight and the first thought that comes into my mind is "Life is confusing!" Not so funny when you are the one confused!
God, you keep telling me to wait just a little longer and you are going to show me the big picture. I am trying but you know that waiting is not my strong suit. I get to wondering, did I miss it? Did you tell me the next step and I wasn't paying attention? Or, am I off track and you are waiting for me to get back on track to tell me next step? Or, am I too impatient and I just need to wait? See, confusing!
I love you God so much and I want to do exactly what you want me to do. I want to do it because I love you and I want to do it because I know if I do exactly what you want me to do, it will be a huge success and accomplish everything you need it to. God I want to be useful. I want to be full of use for you. As soon as you are ready, tell me the next step in this dream. If I miss it, please yell it to me until I get it. Thank you Jesus. I love you and your plans.
What God Said Tonight:
My daughter, I can prosper you wherever you are. You are reading about Joseph and he is a great example of what I can do. I can prosper you as a slave or a prisoner. I can prosper you as the leader of a great nation. I can give you favor anywhere and everywhere you go.
Do you understand that I can truly use you wherever you are? I am not stuck with circumstances as they are. I am the God of everything, all powerful and I can change what I need to change.
Seek me, every day and every night. Keep listening and taking time for me. You won't miss it I promise. As long as you are paying attention, you wont miss it. I won't keep it obscured much longer. I promise it will all make sense one day. Until then, trust me in your confusion. Trust that even this, even this confusion has a purpose and is a part of my plan for your life.
I love you now and forever and I have a plan and purpose for you that is so very good. Hang in there girl. You are nearly to the end of these season. Don't give up.
My prayer:
Amazing God. This weekend has gone by much too quickly. There are so many things that I wanted to do that I didn't get done. Tomorrow it is back to work and a busy week.
Sometimes it feels like my life gets so full of routine busy work that I miss out on the things that matter. I go days, weeks, months without really sitting down with dear friends. I put off doing things I love because I am "just too busy." God there has to be something wrong with living life like that.
I feel like it is a time to re-prioritize again. Time to spend more time on the important stuff and less time on the stuff that won't matter even one year from now or even maybe tomorrow.
God you tell us when we lack wisdom we should ask for it and you will give it to us. I ask for wisdom tonight God. Help me to reorganize in a way that makes more sense. I already hear you saying to love you with all my heart, mind and soul and to love others like myself. Sounds like the framework for reorganization to me.
I love you God. What else is on your mind tonight?
What God Said Tonight:
You know one thing I love about you daughter, you are never satisfied. You are always looking for more. The great thing is, I always have more. You can never use up all that I have for you. I will always have more for you. More blessings, more lessons, more challenges, more to do.
You are dear to my heart and I will never let your life get boring for long. You have had some glimpses of what we are going to do next but I am getting ready to show you the whole picture. It is nearly time to move forward. Trust me. I will lead you always. I am with you always. I have everything you need. You can't see it all yet but you will.
The next steps are going to be so exciting, you need this time of relative calm to balance it out. I am a seasonal God and you are about to finish another season and go into a new season. That is why you are feeling restless. That is why life is not satisfying you now. That is why you want to move your priorities around.
I will show you the path and the pattern. I will show you the next step. I will show you all of it. No need to struggle. I have it all under control and you are about to see it all so clearly. Trust in me until then.
I love you daughter. Rest well knowing that my plan is in place and working perfectly.
My prayer:
Mighty and incredible God. I need to feel your presence tonight. Not because anything is wrong. Not because I need anything specific. I just need to feel you. I need to hear you. I need your presence to be real and tangible tonight God. I need you.
I am nothing without you. I want to get closer to you tonight God. I want to know you better. I want to see you in ways that I haven't seen yet. I want to understand things about you that I don't understand yet. God I am all yours.
Mmmm, there you are. I know you are always with me, but there are times like right now that I can feel you more. When I know that I know that you are here and present with me.
God I am hungry for more of you. I love the relationship we have but with you, I never get enough. I always want more. I always know that there is more of you and I want to know all of you. I don't know if I could handle it. It may be that you are too big to know all of you. But I want it. You are so amazing, incredible and so very good. God, I want more, if you think I can handle it. I love you God.
What God Said Tonight:
I am here and I will never leave. It is good that you want more of me. It is good that you hunger to know me.
The truth is, you have me in your life as much as you allow me to be in your life. If there are any parts of your life that I don't seem to be there, it is because you put up the wall, not me.
I love you so much and I will give you everything you will allow me to give. It has been said that I am a gentleman and I guess that is true in that I don't go where I am not wanted and I don't force myself onto anyone.
You were asking questions earlier tonight about the faithfulness of some people who believe in other gods than me. You see them praying more regularly. You see them outwardly being more obedient to their religion than my people are to me. There is a major difference. My people are free. I give you all freedom of choice. Not only the freedom to choose a life with me or not. But even after you have chosen me, I give you freedom to choose.
You are in control of how much of me you know. You are in charge of how much of me you have in your life. I know this is kind of a hard message tonight but it is truth. If you want more of me, let me in more. If you want to know me better, spend more time with me. If you hunger after me, turn off the TV and spend that time in my Word.
I love you daughter and I want to be so in your life that they cannot tell where you end I begin. But, it is up to you because you are my free child. You are not my slave. You are free.
Whenever you need me, I am here. Whenever you want me, I am here. Whatever else happens, I am always here with you, loving you.
My prayer:
All powerful God! I can hardly believe I made it through this day. Only you can take three hours of sleep and somehow make that enough!
God, I am reading about Jacob's (Israel's) sons, the ones who the 12 tribes of Israel are named after and I am being struck by how messed up their lives were. I shouldn't be surprised by it. It is not like it is the first time I have ever read about them, but for some reason it is hitting me hard this time. I just got done reading about Judah whose descendants became a nation all on their own and I just read about how he was soliciting a woman that he thought was a prostitute who turned out to be his daughter in law. This after he and his brothers sold their brother Joseph into slavery. And yet you used him to father a nation of praisers!
I need to remember that more often. I need to remember that you can use anyone, no matter where they have been or what they have done. I need to remember that even when I mess up, you can still use me for your glory. I need to remember to leave my judgmental self out of it and watch what you do and how you use every situation.
I love you God. What is on your mind?
What God Said Tonight:
You are studying like I asked and it is good. When you study, really study my word and pay attention, I can teach you so much. Everything that I teach through my word is one less thing you have to learn the hard way. Every minute you spend in my word is protection against the struggles of life, if you are paying attention while you study.
I would much rather teach you that way. It is so much less painful and I hate to see you hurt. I love you so much. Keep studying and I will keep teaching. Consider your study as protection. Learn all that you can so you can live in joy and not in torment.
I gave you all the answers in that one book. What you experienced tonight, where you read the same thing you have read before but it effected you differently...that is the proof that my word is alive. It will meet your every need. It will give you every answer.
When you want to know me better, read my word. When you want to get closer to me, read my word. When you are lost and need answers, they are in my word.
I love you so much daughter. Do get some rest tonight and tomorrow. It is Sabbath time again and you need it. Rest well.
My prayer:
Awesome God. Thank you for the things that you teach me. It seems like I am living and learning a lot of lessons that prove that "good" is the enemy of "great." I heard that saying once and I am not sure that I really believed it, but I am beginning to.
When life is going good, it is really hard to let go of the good things in the pursuit of even greater things. Wow, even as I type that God I realize, what in the world am I complaining about?! You are awesome and good or great, life with you is more than I ever could have imagined. No more complaining from me tonight God!
You truly are incredible. You are the God of everything but you care about my smallest concern. You are the creator of the universe but you take the time to listen and talk to me every day. You are all powerful, all knowing, ever present, and you still love each and everyone of us, no matter what. It sounds unbelievable and is until we experience you. I think that is part of why it is hard for some people to believe, God. You don't make sense but you are so amazing.
Thank you God for being bigger than my ability to imagine you.
What God Said Tonight:
Hi sweet daughter. It is good to be with you here tonight. I don't have much to say tonight. I want to spend this time together, enjoying each other's presence.
You don't need to discount the things you struggle with. Every struggle is important; but, every struggle is the same to me. I am the answer to every struggle and I am bigger than every struggle. They really are all the same to me. Much like sin. All sin is the same to me. There is no big sin or small sin in my eyes. All sin takes you away from me and that is why I hate it so much.
I love you though. My love for you is beyond everything else. It is greater than everything else. It is the the thing that covers, heals, and changes everything.
I am so glad that you love me too. I don't talk about that much but your love for me means more to me than I can tell you. It is why I like hanging out with you. It is why I want us to keep talking every day and every night for eternity. Have you ever noticed that it is a lot more fun hanging out with people who you know love you? Those are the people you want to be around. It is the same with me. Yes, I want to reach the people who don't know me yet and that is a burning desire. But sometimes, I just want to hang out with people who love me.
Promise me you will always take time to hang out with me and love me? I promise I will always take time to hang out with you and love you.
Rest tonight. Tomorrow won't be much easier than today but I will be with you all day, I promise. I love you sweet daughter and I will watch over you always.
