Wisdom for the challenge...

My prayer:

Wonderful teacher. Every time I turned around today, people who I care about and who care about me were praying for me to have wisdom. Which is wonderful, I can always use more wisdom. But, it makes me wonder what you are up to or what I am up against next. What is it that is going to require me to have all this wisdom? 

I guess I am not really expecting you to tell me but it makes me curious. Then again, I am almost always curious. Maybe those two things go hand in hand?

Either way God, I will gladly and gratefully receive all the wisdom you want to pour out on me. Thank you for always giving me just what I need just when I need it.

What God Said Tonight:

I do have a challenge coming up for you but I am preparing you for it. You will have every tool and every weapon you need for this challenge. You will have the wisdom you need. You will have the strength you need. 

All you will need to do is stay focused on me, use the gifts I have given you and you will walk through the battle with no harm and no serious effort. You will walk through it already triumphant. 

Those that cheered you on in the past will be silent and those who were against you will rally behind you. It is not going to make a lot of sense to your rational mind but use the wisdom that I will give you and you will understand. 

You will know what I know about the activities in this spiritual realm. You will see in the places that no person can go. You will walk into the prophesies from the past. You are paving the way for the future.

Grow where you are...

My prayer:

Thank you for a wonderful day with family today God. Thank you for healing Mom's shoulder on the trail. Feeling you pop it back into joint was very cool! 

I have a lot of other thoughts running through my mind tonight God but nothing worth talking about. I would rather just listen to you. I love to hear your voice.

What God Said Tonight:

Every where you go, you see the plants of this earth growing. Even in areas covered in concrete, they find a way through. Why do they work so hard to grow where there planted and my children, who have many more gifts and abilities, fail to grow where they are planted?

I hear your prayers, 'move me, put me in position, guide me.' Tonight I tell you, grow where you are. I will move you in time. I will guide you always. I will position you for greatness. Those are all things I have promised and I will come through for you. While I am working those things you, grow where you are planted. Do all that you can right where you are. Find the opportunities and open doors that I have right now right in front of you. 

It may not be the immediate fulfillment to your dream but it will work you toward it. Your diligence and your faithfulness to what you have now will make a way for you to your future. 

I need more...

My prayer:

I want you to be enough for me. Nothing missing and nothing lacking. But I need more. I need more than I have right now. Maybe that means I need more of you. I don't know but I need more. 

I ache God. I feel like what I need is just beyond my fingertips and I can't or won't grab onto it. What is blocking me God?

What God Said Tonight:

I have left a legacy for you . I have left a purpose and a plan for you to live out in whatever way you want to. I have given you gifts and talents with the hope you will use them for my kingdom but I don't require it. 

There are many things that are clamoring for you attention and you time. There are many things that want to take you from me right now. You make the choice. All of it is your choice. I am not a prison warden. I have no desire to shackle you to a path that you do not want. I want to see you running free in the field. I want to see you living out your dreams. I just hope that I am in your dreams. 

I know you want me to lead you and guide you. I know you want me to give the answers that you are missing right now. But, sometimes the journey of discovering the answers is as important as having the answers. I will show you the way. And, if you choose to follow, you will have the answers you seek. You will fill the hole that you feel. 

I could fill the hole tonight. I could fill it right now. But you would be deprived of the experience of seeking and finding the answer that will last the rest of eternity. I want to see you healed fully. I am not interested in band aids. You are so desperate to have the hole filled but the hole makes you humble and vulnerable and that makes you teachable and lovable. 

My forever God...

My prayer:

THANK YOU GOD!!! What you did for me today was so amazing!! You redeemed my mistake so wonderfully!! You said to leave the closed door closed, I did and you made it all ok. Better than ok, you got all the money back plus a free upgrade!! THANK YOU!!! 

You are so good to me God. I love you and I am in awe of you. I am so crazy grateful that I get to be with you for an eternity. I never have to say good bye to you. Everyone, everything else in my life, at some point I will have to say good bye. Either for a temporary period of forever, I will have to say good bye. You are forever. I never have to say good bye to you. YEA!!!

What God Said Tonight:

I am your forever God. I was, I am and I will always be. My commitment to you, my covenant is for eternity and will never end. My love for you will outlast all existence. I am yours now and forever. 

You only lose me when you walk away away from me. When you choose to say good bye. I don't ever leave and I will be right here waiting for you when you come back. 

Rambling with God...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I have no idea what to talk about tonight. 

What a wild week. I am grateful that you have gotten me through to nearly Friday. I will definitely need your help tomorrow. Several challenges that I know about (probably lots more that I don't know about). 

God, I am so dependent on you. Sometimes I feel weak because I know I can't do anything worthwhile without you. But you say that being totally dependent on you is a good thing. You tell me that it is when I am completely reliant on you, that we can do the impossible together. And, since I seem to have impossible situations in my life on a regular basis, it is a good thing you are there to make the impossible possible. 

Ok, I am rambling now. I should have stuck with "I don't know what to talk about." Fact is, I am crazy about you and so unbearably grateful for you in my life. My life has no meaning, no purpose, no power, and no joy without you. Love you Daddy!!

What God Said Tonight:

You can ramble with me anytime my daughter. Truth is, I simply enjoy spending time with you. You are the apple of my eye and I am happiest when I get to spend time with my children while they are focused on me. 

I am interested in every thought that you have. I am invested in every desire of your heart. I am a part of every emotion that you experience. When you hurt, I hurt. When you celebrate, I celebrate. 

I love you more than you will ever know. It is a love that goes deeper than actions and will last forever. I will always work on your behalf because you are my beloved. 

You may find yourself doubting most everything in life at one time or another. You will question what is real and what is not. The one thing that you do not ever have to question or wonder about is my love for you. My love for you is more real than the chair you are sitting on. My love for you will last longer than the mountains. My love for you is rooted in our relationship and will only grow stronger and bigger the longer we are together. 

Scared and called...

My prayer:

There are times God, like now, where I feel so inadequate. I guess that is the side effect of stepping out in faith for you. When I agree to do things that I know I am not capable of but you have said to do it...SCARY! 

It is so much easier when you prepare me to do something and then I get to use my gifts and skills to make it happen. That is a lot of fun and well within my comfort zone. 

But this, this thing you have me doing, there are so many parts to it that I simply can't do. You have to show up and take care of it or it will fail. And I know you don't want it to fail. I don't want it to fail. It can't fail. It is too important. 

God, I believe without a doubt that you asked me to do this. I know that you destine me to succeed and I am choosing, with everything I know how, to trust that you will work it out. 

What God Said Tonight:

I have never left you and it is all happening on my time schedule. I have everything prepared. Your job is to follow my lead. I will put in front of you each thing that you need to do as you need to do it. I will continue to bring around you the people you need to help. I will make you and this succeed because it is in my heart to do so. 

Are those the assurances you needed to hear tonight my daughter? I am happy to tell you as often as you need it. But me telling you doesn't make it more true. It is true no matter whether I tell you or not. 

I will not let you down. I will see you succeed. I don't call you to things to leave you and watch you fail. I only call you to things that will further my kingdom and build your character. I love you.

Closed door...

My prayer:

So God, I gave up on something today. But, I think it was smart to give up on it. You know I am not a quitter and I hate admitting defeat; but sometimes, it is better to walk away than to try to force something to work that was not created to work in the first place. 

Knowing it was the smart thing to do does not make it easy. I wish I had been smarter to begin with to avoid the wasted time on this thing for the last three months. I wish I would have known then what I know now. I wish I would have spent more time asking you about it and less time asking you to bless it. 

Wishing doesn't change anything but maybe I have learned something for next time. I ask that you help me to remember the lessons learned on this so I don't have to repeat them in the future. I would really rather not ever have to experience this again.

What God Said Tonight:

Situations are complicated and just because you choose to walk way from something that is not working does not mean you give up, necessarily. Sometimes following my will and my best for you means walking away from things and situations that you thought you wanted. 

You so often pray that I open every door that I want open in your life and I close every door I want shut. This, my dear, was a closed door from the beginning. It just took you a few months of banging your head against it to convince yourself it was truly closed. 

Leave the closed door behind, no regret, no guilt and move forward to the open door in front of you. I will guide you and direct you. I will show you the open doors. 

But, please do not go back to the closed door and bang your head against it any more. It is closed for a reason. Not because you or anyone else did anything wrong but because I have a better way for you.