Leaning on God...

My prayer:

I am tired but at peace tonight God. I am here if you have anything you want to talk about. I am ready to listen. 

I love you so very much and cannot, will not, imagine my life without you. Or, imagine my death without you.

What God Said Tonight:

I am looking for someone who is willing to spend some private, quiet time with me tonight. I don't need a lot of fanfare or a big production. I just need someone willing to get quiet with me. I want someone who wants to dwell with me tonight. I want someone who doesn't need to make a show of it but truly just wants to be with me. 

If that is you, if you are willing, come now and let us be quiet together...lay your head against me and rest. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I will always love you. I will always be there for you. I am constant and I can be trusted with everything that you are concerned about. 

You don't have to be a part of the mess anymore. Let go. Let go and follow me. You will see that it is a much easier path than what you think it will be. Lean on me...please. I want you to. You are not a burden to me. You are the love of my heart and the apple of my eye. Please, lean on me and let me take it from here.

Keep learning...

My prayer:

All knowing God. Thank you for new wisdom and insight tonight. J in group tonight talking about how most of our disappointments in life are a result of us having unfair expectations of the people around us was a great revelation. Who am I to expect anyone to do things the way I want them to? 

I love when  you teach me things. Once you teach me, it seems so obvious. Thank you for putting people around me who know stuff I don't yet. Thank you for surrounding me with people who love me enough to teach me what they know. Thank you God for wisdom and for answers.

What God Said Tonight:

I have so much I can teach you. The amount of wisdom and knowledge available is as vast as the sand is in the desert. The landscape for learning goes farther than you can see. 

I will always be available to teach you as long as you are available to learn. When you find yourself feeling stagnant and not growing, it is likely because you have stopped being willing to learn. You  are yet being formed into my image. You are yet learning to be like me. 

I will teach you but I will never force you. Come to each day as if it were a class and be ready to learn. Your life is your class, your text is my Word, your test is eternal. I love you daughter. Keep learning.

Forever love...

My prayer:

I can't believe you got me through this day God! No sleep at all last night and somehow, you got me through a long day at work and here I am still conscious. What would I do without you? How does anyone get up in the morning without you in their lives? I love you God and can't wait to hear what you have to say tonight.

What God Said Tonight:

How can you be without me since I live in you? Anyone and I mean ANYONE who wants me in their life only has to ask and I am there. 

I will never leave you. I will never not be with you. I have chosen you, you have invited me and that is forever. I don't make half way promises. When I commit to something, when I commit to someone, I am in, all in forever. There is no divorce from me. You are my precious bride and we will be together forever. 

I love your face in the morning. I love the fragrance of your spirit. I love the way you look at me when no one else is looking. I love you my child and I am with you forever. 

Stained glass...again...

My prayer:

Amazing God. Life is really good right now but I am having a hard time getting excited like I should. You are blessing the ministry, people around me, and me and I am SO grateful; but the drive, the energy, the excitement for the next new thing that usually comes so naturally for me, doesn't seem to be there. 

I don't know why. I am not depressed, I am just kind of calm, but maybe too calm? I don't know if I am just at peace or if I am missing out on fully experiencing this wonderful season that you have created for us? I don't know. 

I am always picking myself apart and now I am picking myself apart about being too much at peace...that seems stupid. Thanks for listening God, even when I don't make sense.

What God Said Tonight:

I have compared you to stained glass in the past and I will do it again because it is the best way to describe this time. 

Right now, I don't need you to be the charging force to move things forward. I need you to be the calm, still glass that reflects beauty on everything around it. I need you to be the calm sure place that people come back to as they step into things they never imagined possible. I need you to reflect my light to them in a way that is so beautiful, it takes their breath away and encourages them to go back out and do even more. I need you to be my stained glass. 

Moldable...

My prayer:

God, you impressed me today. Thank you for showing me how you are working in so many people's lives. Thank you for answered prayers. Thank you for reconciliation and reconnection with people that I have missed so much. You are God and I am yours. I am here to do your will and tell your story. What part of the story do you want to tell tonight?

What God Said Tonight:

I have forged you out of metal and have shaped you in the fire. I have molded you into the perfect shape and the perfect tool to accomplish what we need to do today. 

The thing that I appreciate about you is that when it is time, and I put you back in the fire to reshape you, you don't resist. You willingly take on the new shape. 

I know that sometimes you wonder if the continual change in your life is a bad thing but it is not. It is just me getting to use you in new areas for my Kingdom. there are some people who are called to do one thing and that thing is something that they are the very best at. There are others, like you that I have called to fill many positions throughout time. 

You are not done changing and you are not done growing. Your shape is perfect for today but tomorrow, we may need to adjust. Know that the fire will never harm you but it will make it easier for me to shape you for the next job. I love you daughter. Stay moldable.

Amazing people...

My prayer:

Amazing and wonderful God. I worship you. I thank you. I am in awe of you and what you do. I am just crazy in love with you. I love that you still surprise me sometimes. If there is anything in me God that you want changed, let me know or just go ahead and change it. I want to be exactly who you want me to be. Nothing more and nothing less. 

Thank you for the amazing people you put in my life. Sometimes, I get to comparing myself to them and I am humbled. Their love of people is so beautiful. Their willingness to sacrifice for you is so amazing. Their willingness to risk for you is so brave. Thank you God for their example in my life and help me to grow as a result of being surrounded by them. 

I LOVE YOU

What God Said Tonight:

Deep calls out to deep my daughter. You are surrounded by like minded people. When you look around you and see amazing people, you can count yourself in their number. 

I love you daughter. It is ok to be humble, it is good to be humble, but don't devalue who you are. Understand that I have made each and everyone of my children as unique and amazing people. I have made you each with unique gifts and plans that are just for you. 

Appreciate the people around you but do not compare yourself to them. Comparison is a slippery slope to coveting and depression. When you look to others, appreciate what they bring and love them for it. But, remember that I have filled you with just as many, although different gifts, even if you don't always see them. You are very precious to me my love. 

Success...

My prayer:

Wow God! You worked everything out perfectly like you always do! Why do I ever worry about anything? 

Tonight was our first Prayer and Worship at the Park and it was raining like crazy, until we were supposed to start and then the sun came out. We had no idea what we were doing or how to do it and so we just put on the music and began to worship and pray and you started bringing all of those wonderfully hungry for God people to us! So many lives changed tonight God! 

Thank you for letting me be a part of it. Thank you for working it all out. YOU ARE WONDERFUL!

What God Said Tonight:

Of course I worked it all out, I called you to do it. Why would I ever ask you to do something and then not show up to make sure it worked out. That would be mean and I am not mean. 

I intend for you top succeed at everything you do. And, when you do what I have asked you to do, that is easy. 

I love you daughter. Keep following me and what I ask you to do and you will always succeed. Always.