The future is good...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I need you and your power manifested in so many areas of my life right now. And, they are all rather urgent. If you don't make these things happen, they are not going to happen. If they don't happen, I need a new plan and new direction. 

Thank you for healing, thank you for direction, thank you for provision and thank you for favor! You are amazing and I love you so much!!!

What God Said Tonight:

I am here and working on your behalf. I did not fall asleep. I did not look away. I am on the job and I will not let you down. 

I am in you and you are in me and we will see the future together. I see the future and I know that it is good. You can see me and know that I am good. 

Love you and rest in the complete assurance that I am working on your behalf, even right now.

The judge...

My prayer:

Wonderful God. I know we are not supposed to judge people and I really try hard to stay out of that role. But, I have to admit, sometimes, like today, when I find out that someone I know and trust is not the person I thought they were, or at least did not behave in a way that I thought they could (or at a minimum in a way I hoped they wouldn't), it is just hard. It is hard when people disappoint me. I don't expect anyone to be perfect but I had hoped for better from this person. 

Wow, as I am writing this I realize just how judgmental it is! Who am I to decide that someone else went too far over the line? Would I want someone else to do the same to me, NO. 

I guess it really doesn't matter. We are human and flawed. You covered us with your sacrifice. Anything we do or don't do is between you and us, not between us and us. 

Thank you for shining the light on my attitude. I will try to be more careful.

What God Said Tonight:

I did not come to condemn the world but to save it. I am not interested in pointing out errors, I am interested in restoring wholeness. I am the judge, but I have given a pardon through my son so that you, each of you, can know my love, know me and live the life I intended for you. Not the life of payment. 

I am guiding and directing you because you invited me into your life to do so. Not as a taskmaster and not as a judge. I have the authority and power to be both but I choose to be your friend.  

I ask that you have that same grace for those you love. 

Painted brick houses...

My prayer:

Life is good, you are great and I am ready to hear your voice...

What God Said Tonight:

Little brick houses of different bright colors, lined up along the road. In each, there is a family, a person, who has hopes, dreams, fears, and joy. Each one has a family that is trying to find their way through this life. Each one of them has a way of knowing and getting to know me. 

I don't see any theological requirements in that picture. I don't see any limitations in that picture. I only see people.

Every celebration will turn into a new mission, a new season. Every challenge will provide knowledge and understanding for the next challenge. Life can be really exciting if you see what is happening in the spiritual realm. 

End times...

My prayer:

One look at today's (or any day's) headline news stories and I have no doubt that we are in the end days that you described God. I guess I just didn't really realize that I would be living through them. Kids getting shot in schools, police shootouts shutting down highways, people being held hostage in a convenience store, and people walking up and hitting strangers hard enough to knock them out and kill them...for no reason. And that is just my neighborhood. Start looking globally and the story gets even more complicated. 

Sometimes when I get to thinking about it I become afraid, other times I get angry, and sometimes, most of the time, I ignore it, just so I can cope and live out each day. But, sometimes, every once in a while, I recognize how amazing it is that I am alive right now and witnessing the final hours of this season of humanity. Sometimes I get excited about what you will have for me to do in these days. Sometimes I recognize the privilege and the trust that you are showing by having me be alive during this season. I am ready God, let's do this!

What God Said Tonight:

It is not about the money or the numbers anymore. It is not about control anymore. It is now about the pure and complete relationship with and in me that people can be saved from sin and the effects of sin. 

Now is the time for people to know me, face to face and with no distance or interference. Now is the time that people need to get serious about what they believe and who they trust. 

The time for game playing is over. The time for truth has arrived. And nothing else will set you free. 

My baggage...

My prayer:

I am feeling super inadequate tonight God. Sometimes I look at myself and think that I have got so much baggage that I may never be whole. But, maybe none of us ever are until we are with you in heaven? But, that is not what you tell us. You tell us that you came to make us whole. Nothing missing, nothing lacking, perfect shalom. Well, I am sure not there yet and sometimes I wonder if I ever can be. 

I am tired of not being able to trust, I am tired of fear, I am tired of thinking, no matter how good or bad life is right now, if I am not careful, something horrible could be right around the corner. I know fear is not from you God. So why can't I get it out of my life completely and forever? 

What God Said Tonight:

I have come to make you whole. I have come to heal your hurts and redeem your soul. I have come that you can live forever with me. 

Your baggage and issues are part of what make you who you are and part of what make you compassionate for others. I came to earth, partially to experience your experience so I would know, first hand what life on earth is like. I did that because I love you. I did that so I could identify with the struggles you face. 

Your baggage makes you human and makes you humble. It is what makes it possible for you to reach and love people. 

I am not saying that I won't continue to help you mature and grow in your complete healing in me, I will. I am not saying that the things that have happened in your life as a result of this sinful world were good. I am saying that I have and will continue to use all of it for your good and for the good of those around you. 

Stop worrying about being perfect and know that you are perfect in me. Stop trying to fix yourself and know that I will change anything that needs to change in you when it needs to change. My grace is sufficient. End of story. My grace covers you completely. 

I love you and I will forever. 

God always has more...

My prayer:

God, I find myself trusting you in a whole new way these days. 

It never seems to amaze me how no matter how great I think our relationship is, you always have new levels of intimacy, joy, trust, blessing, peace. You ALWAYS have MORE! One of the many things that I LOVE about you! You never run out...of anything! 

What God Said Tonight:

I am the God of more than enough, it is true. I will always have more for you. I will always have more love, more healing, more joy, more peace, more excitement, more adventure, more knowledge. Whatever you need and whatever you want, I will have more. I love you sweet daughter and I will never run out. 

Stop for minute tonight and just feel me. I am in you always. I will never leave you. Feel me in you tonight. I want to connect with your heart tonight. We often connect through your thoughts and your intellect, cause I made you that way. But tonight, I want to connect directly with your heart. 

I am going to heal some holes in your heart form past pains and hurts tonight. I will make your heart whole so you can love without reservation. I love you and I have placed my love in you. My love will heal, my love will restore, my love will be the best anything you have ever had...and I always have MORE!

Let God...

My prayer:

I am awfully glad it is Friday night and I am here with you God. Can't wait to hear your voice.

What God Said Tonight:

I bring you peace tonight. I am lifting every worry, every concern, every need from you right now. I will take care of it all. You can trust me. I will bear every burden for you. 

All I need you to do is let me. 

Go and rest and know that I am God, who loves you and will take care of you always.