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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:
God my savior and the designer of my life. I got to reflect today God on how amazing my life is. This life that you designed. I never could have put this life together. My silly little plans were so limited. Thank you God for having your will accomplished in my life instead of mine. I would have missed out on so much!
God, forgive me for the moments, hours, days that I forget how amazing and how blessed my life it. Forgive me for every time that I have taken you for granted. Forgive me for placing limits on me and on you. I am beginning to get a glimpse of what you can provide if I will just let you. I am all yours God and I love you more than life.
What God Said Tonight:
Live above the struggle with me. Live above worry with me. Live above the mess that doesn't matter and is only a matter of time before I wipe it away. Live above it with me.
Yes, you still live on earth but you don't have to live in it. You know how you so often feel during worship. When you can feel yourself puling above and watch yourself and those around you. I can help you live life that way. I can help you to live with a Kingdom mind. I can help you live so that what you see is my hope and my plan, not the barriers and limitations.
You have to want it though. Ask me and I will give it to you. I love you and I want to give things to you that you don't even know exist right now. We are moving into a season of growth and building. It is time to see so many dreams realized. There is also some restructuring. We need to know where everyone is supposed to be. It is hard but with me all things are possible. Love you my sweet daughter and this next season is a really good one. You are going to like it.
My prayer:
I've have done all I can do mighty God. Your strength never wears out but mine does and has tonight.
But, I can't imagine going to bed without hearing your voice. Talk to me God and tell me anything and everything you have wanted to say today that I was too busy to hear.
I love you God and I love your voice. I love how you let me be in a true relationship with you. It is wonderful and you are beyond wonderful.
What God Said Tonight:
I want to show you beauty tonight my daughter. I want you to see all of the beauty around you. You spent much of today focued on the ugly in life. I want to give you the antidote, the beauty in me, in my Kingdom, and the beauty in you.
See the colors, the light that shines around you even now? I love stained glass. It looks so much like what the spirit world looks like. The light shining through the different colors. It is so beautiful.
My Spirit is light in the darkness. My light is beautiful and it sends the darkness away. Darkness cannot survive in my light.
You have a color too. Your spirit has a color of light. Your friends can see it. What makes your light beautiful is it is a mixture of my light shining through you and the light that I gave you when I gave you life. It is so beautiful and it draws people even when they don't realize why they are drawn.
Look on the beautiful light for awhile tonight. Clear your mind of the ugly and focus on the beauty. I have more beauty for you than there is evil. I will always win out in the end, my light, my beauty will win out in the end. See the beauty all around you and keep it in your heart and mind, to wall off the ugly.
I love you daughter. I have many beautiful days left for you. Keep focused on the good and your life will be better. I love you, go rest and we will talk more tomorrow.
My prayer:
Jehovah Jireh my provider. God, I thank you tonight for a job that I love. It took a lot of years for me to figure it out, but I love the work you have given me. Today was great. The way you bless me is amazing. The way that you make me successful is a blast. I can't wait to see what is next!
None of it happened how I thought it would or should. All of those years of my whining to you about not being fulfilled, wanting to serve you full time, wanting to be in full time ministry. And now I get to serve you 24/7 and work at a job that pays me well that is a blast and teaches me things that help me serve you better...seems like maybe you had a plan in all of this.
God, forgive me for every time I doubted that you were going to work things out. Forgive me for every time I didn't trust you. Forgive me for my impatience. I love you SO MUCH!!!
What God Said Tonight:
I love you too my sweet daughter. I have had and continue to have a plan and a purpose for you and for your life. I would not have spent all of this time with you, I would not have taught you all that I have taught you, I would not have taken you through the things you have been through if I did not have a a purpose and plan for it all.
I am not a God of waste. I use everything. I turn everything around for your good. I can't help myself. When I touch things, they turn to good. When I speak things, they come to be. Everything I touch is blessed. Everything I curse is cursed for good.
I am God. That may sound silly but I think in this world of virtual reality and beyond reality movies, it is easy to forget that I truly am God. I am all powerful. There is none that is above me. There is none that know more than I do. I know everything, all the time. I have complete power and yet I am love and I will never use that power for anything other than for your good.
I love you more than I can say to you. Putting my love into words for you is like trying to cram a bed pillow into a coffee cup. It is just too much. Remember how big I am and how powerful I am so that you can know and trust that I will always work things out for you. Remember my immense love for you. Remember that you are mine and I will always make sure that you are blessed in the end. I will always protect you and I will always guide you. It is out of my great love for you that I do what I do. Rest tonight and know that I am God.
My prayer:
Magnificent God, I ask for your amazing presence to be with me here tonight. God, I know that you are always with me. I know that we get to talk and be together all day. But there are times like now, tonight, where I just need, I just want a extra turbo shot of your presence and your power.
Maybe it is not that there is more of you during those times. Maybe it is just that I take the time to recognize and focus on your presence which makes me experience it more.
God, I love your presence. I love what it can accomplish. I love how your presence heals. I love how your presence restores. I love your presence God. It is kind of like a drug for me God. I am addicted to your presence. I can't go very long without feeling and experiencing your presence in my life.
God I love you. I love you for who you are. Not for what you do for me, although what you do is amazing, but I love you and worship you for who you are. You are awesome and I can't wait any longer to hear what is on your mind tonight.
What God Said Tonight:
I am washing and renewing you in my blood and through my sacrifice. You are going through a purification right now. We are going to wash out the sin and we will wash out the things that get between you and me. I need you purified and whole for this next season. Let's get you washed up.
You can think of it as a spa day. I know you like those. I am gong to soak you in my blood and wash every part of you clean. I am going to wash out old things that you forgot were there. I am going to wash out fresh things that you picked up and have not yet gotten rid of. I am going to wash you clean and purify you for this next step, this next season.
There is no righteousness outside of my salvation and covering on your life. I will be your righteousness that goes before you. I will keep you sanctified, set apart, for my purpose and my plan for you life. I will keep you protected and whole so you are ready. I will keep you close so you know where to go. I will lead you so you know how to finish.
I am yours now and forever. I ask that you trust me. Be sanctified, made whole, and be ready.
My prayer:
Amazing God. I have felt all day, all week, maybe even all month that I am waiting for something but I don't know what it is. I am anxious for something, but I don't know what it is. I feel like things aren't moving as fast as they should or as fast as I want them to. You know me God, I am not very good with patience.
The weird thing is, I don't know what I am impatient for. In some ways, I have been looking at life from 10,000 feet lately and realizing that all of this is just temporary, just a dress rehearsal for what really matters which is eternity with you. I look at my day to day life, I look at all the people around me living their day to day lives, and I think, are we really making a difference? Have I done anything today that will effect eternity? Have I done anything today that will help one more person make a life changing, eternity changing decision to live with you? I am not sure. Maybe one or two small things but is it enough? Is it ever enough?
Searching for purpose tonight God. Remind me God why this temporary vapor we call life matters? I love you Daddy and I want to do what ever you have planned for me. Please let me know when I am not doing enough and show me how to do better. Thank you Jesus!
What God Said Tonight:
Life is a precious gift that I have given you. It is the first and important step in your eternity with me. There are great joys in life and there are great lessons to learn. There are things that you can learn in life that don't have the same impact after your life is over.
There are things that you can do in life, while you have freedom of will and free choice that will determine how you spend eternity. There are decisions that you make today that will have impact on your eternity. Your actions have impact on other people's decisions for eternity. Life is a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow. You are not promised tomorrow in this life.
That is why your decisions, how you choose to spend today is so important Once you leave this life and come to live with me in heaven, you no longer have access to people who have yet to choose a life with me.
You ask why your life is important. Your life is important because it becomes a testimony to people and helps them to make a decision to live with me. Your life is important because it determines how and where you spend eternity. It is important because it is your training ground. It is important because I gave it to you and I never give you bad gifts. I only know how to give good gifts.
You must understand that you decisions, your actions, your words, all have eternal impact for you and others. Spend your life wisely, making good decisions, being a positive influence, helping people to make right decisions for their future. I love you daughter and your life is important because it is yours and you are mine.
My prayer:
Awesome Father. Today was a barrage of negativity. Nearly everyone I talked to today was miserable and complaining about their situation. God, you know that I try to keep a positive word in my mouth. You know that I have learned about speaking life and not death. But, sheehow! That was hard to do today. It is days like today where I want to close the door and hide until it is over. But then I think, if I do, who will give them a hope? Who will point out that there is often a silver lining and that you will work everything out?
God, I pray and ask that you help me to always speak life and hope. I pray God that you help me so that I don 't get drug into the whirlpool of negativity but that I help pull others out. I
I love you God and I know that my hope is in you and always will be. I will never be hopeless again because I will always have you and as long as you are in it, there is hope. Thank you Jesus!!
What God Said Tonight:
You have encouraged yourself tonight my daughter and that is good. There are days when you will be the only one who can see a way out. There will be days when you will be the only one to hold onto their faith, to hold onto me.
There will be days when someone will do that for you. The day that you can't hold onto your hope, I will always have someone there who can hold on for you. I have waited to long for you, worked to hard for you, sacrificed too much for you to let you go.
As long as you are listening, you will hear my voice. As long as you desire my will in your life, you will have it. You always get to choose but I am here for your forever.
I love you daughter. Be that ray of hope to the world. Be that lighthouse. I will be the light. I love you and I won't ever give you up.
My prayer:
God I am amazed by your power. I am amazed at how your presence changes everything. I am amazed at how you heal. I am amazed at how you can give someone as simple as me, words that turn out to be just what someone needed to hear. I am amazed by you God. The more I get to know you and the closer I get to you, the more amazed I am. What a privilege it is to know you. What a greater privilege it is that I get to serve you. You are amazing.
God, we are about to start another week with challenges all its own. I pray and ask God that your will be done. In every word that I say, every action I take, every thought that I have, I pray your will be done. I pray God that you make me a blessing to those around me and not a curse. I pray God that I am a better person tomorrow than I am today. I pray God that your purpose and plan for my life be perfectly accomplished in your perfect timing. My God, cover me and help me to be everything you want me to be. I love you so very much. In Jesus name, amen.
What God Said Tonight:
I want to walk with you in the fields tonight. I want to sit with you and have you see what I see for awhile. I want to relax in the moonlight with you and tell you just a few things that you need to know.
There is great pain and suffering all around you. There is so much to do for my people. You cannot do it on your own. But, I can. You can not heal the hurts, but keep relying on me and I will. My healing power is greater than the power of satan to cause pain. My comfort and my peace are stronger than his torment. I have an answer for every form of suffering and I will give it to you every time you come to me for help. I will never leave you helpless. I will never leave with no help to give someone. You can count on me.
I am your help, your hope, your healing. There is a reason that I use the analogy of a shepherd and his sheep so often. My sheep, my children, are going through life, blindly following the herd, eating, drinking, and playing around. But, when they fall in a ditch, when the wolf comes and tries to kill them, when they are bloody and beaten, they don't have the ability to help themselves out of it. I am your shepherd and I will always get you out. I am your shepherd who will always bind your wounds.
I will take care of you forever and I love you more than you will ever know. I love to take care of you. You are so precious to me. Let me rescue you. Let me comfort you. Let me be a safe harbor for you in a storm. I am yours forever.
