I will...

My prayer:

God I need more of you. I need your help. I need your guidance. I need you to help me do what you have taught me to do and not what I feel like doing. I need to love better. I need to be confident in who I am in you and who you are in me. I need a lot of things that I can't do for myself. I need you God, now more than ever.

What God Said Tonight:

I am here. Now and always I am here. I am whatever you need whenever you need it. I cannot leave you unless you tell me to go. 

I love you so much and every good thing I have is yours. I will help you. I will guide you. I will be there for you when you get it right and when you get it wrong. I love you, not what you do. You will make mistakes. You will do things that you wish you hadn't done. You will. But, I will always be there for you when you do. I will always have a way out. 

I will provide for you every day for the rest of eternity. I will never let you hit the ground. You may fall, but I will catch you. I am yours and you are mine and that is forever. 

Practice runs...

My prayer:

Another thing I REALLY LOVE about you God is your patience with me. 

I find it amazing that you never get tired of giving me another chance. You never run out of second chances. 

I get impatient with myself, others, life, all the time. But you seem to always be ready to gather me up in your arms, kiss my head and say, "try again sweetheart." Thank you for your patience God.

What God Said Tonight:

Patience is easy when I know the end from the beginning. 

I know you are going to get there. I know already that you are going to figure it out. I know that in the end, you learn. I have already seen it. So, if it takes once, twice or four hundred times, it makes no difference to me. I am focused on the last time, the time that you do get it and understand. I am focused on what we can do and where we can go then. I don't sweat the 399 practice runs. 

I love you daughter. I will never lose patience with you. I am in this with you now and forever. 

Different perspectives...

My prayer:

Show me something new tonight God. Show me a new aspect of you. I want to know all of you that I can. I know that I have only begun to know you. Tell me something I don't know yet. 

I love you Daddy!

What God Said Tonight:

I have many new things for you. I am infinite and therefor I will never run out of new things for you. Who I am never changes but your ability to know me is always changing. I am only limited by your willingness to know me. 

If you will let me, I will show you all of me. You many not be able to comprehend it all but you will know that you have seen it. You will know that it is there. Then, we can spend the rest of eternity together while you come to understand it. 

Truth is, you never completely know anyone, not even yourself, so you may never know all of me. But, I will always be willing to share me with you. I will always give you all of me that you want. I love you and I love being in your life. 

We see things from a different perspective. It does not mean that one vision is more right than the other but it is different. When I look at life, I see it in context of eternity. When you look at life, it is hard for you to see beyond the moment. You imagine a future and you remember a past but you can only experience now. I can experience all, past, present and future at the same time. 

It is why waiting and timing can be such an issue for you. If you experienced time like I do, you would never worry about timing again. And the great thing is, because of our relationship, because I am in you and you in me, you can experience time through my eyes. Give it a try.

Always...

My prayer:

My Father, my savior, my God. I say "I love you" to you all the time and maybe so much that it loses its impact or meaning. Can I take just a minute tonight to really focus on how I love you? 

There are so many things that I love about you that it is difficult to count them all. One of the big ones is your constant faithfulness. I love that I can ALWAYS count on you. That you will ALWAYS love me. That you are ALWAYS there for me. And you ALWAYS will be. You are the God of ALWAYS and I LOVE that!

In this life where there are not a lot of things I can count on, I love that I can always count on you!

What God Said Tonight:

I don't know how to be less than always. I was there in the beginning and I will be there past the end. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning in the end. I always was and always will be. It is who I am. You can count on it because it is my nature. 

I will never let you go, my love, my child. I will see you through eternity. Go and rest for tomorrow has some new challenges and surprises for you.

Freedom...

My prayer:

More snow, more cold, more trapped. God, I know I am being melodramatic but it is how I feel. I have this overwhelming desire to just go, somewhere, anywhere but GO. It's all part of the same thing we talked about last night. And, I did listen. I understand there is a purpose in this and that I am prepared for the next season. What do I do right now? How do I keep from flying out of my skin?  

Listen to me. There are so many worse things happening in this world. So many greater needs. I probably just need to get my focus off of me. I am kind of sick of me right now. 

Thank you God for your patience, love, kindness, grace and mercy. I need every bit that you can give me.

What God Said Tonight:

How can you be trapped when you are free in me? Your prison is in your imagination. It is not real. 

You are the child of the most high God and here are no limits on what you can do in my power. There are no limits on where you can go in my power. There is only freedom, joy and peace. 

I am in you and you are in me and together we can do all things. It is true and I am about to show you how true it is. 

Remember, always, your freedom is in me. It is the only true freedom that there is. All other freedom is as much an illusion as our imagined jail. I love you. Be free with me. 

Uncomfortable...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I am uncomfortable. Physically, emotionally, spiritually uncomfortable. Now, usually that means that change is right around the corner which is good. I am ready for change that relieves this pressure. I feel like everything is just kind of boiling under the surface ready to boil over but not quite busting out yet. 

I ask God that your perfect will be done in my life in your perfect timing. I ask that in this "almost" time, you give me the peace to make it through.

Thank you Jesus!

What God Said Tonight:

I have you prepared, placed, and primed for the next season. That is what you feel. Just like you sometimes can feel that this world is not your final destination and you want to move on to the eternal life with me, sometimes you become aware that you have been made for, prepared for, something more that is not quite here yet. But, I promise it is on it's way. 

I had to prepare you ahead of time because when the time is here, it will all happen so fast you will need to be all ready, ready. 

Have peace in the knowledge that everything is for a reason. The preparation, the waiting, the feeling is all for a reason and it will bear fruit, it will matter. I love you child. Go and rest for tomorrow has its own challenges.

Connected...

My prayer:

I would much rather listen than talk tonight God. What is on your mind? LOVE YOU!

What God Said Tonight:

I have a few things to share tonight. I thank you for taking time to listen. I can sometimes get lost in the noise of life. Your life is so full of noise. So many voices that compete for your attention. I am grateful for times when you consciously quiet the noise just to listen. 

I have a plan I am working on right now. A plan for you life that is good. A plan for your group, your circle, that is good. A plan for the world that is good. All of these plans are intertwined. What I want to do in your life is connected to what I want to do in your circles, which is connected to what I want to do in the world. 

I wish you could see how connected everything and everyone is in the world. Even across time. It is all connected. You are all connected. There is no action or inaction that does not effect, eventually, the whole world. I know you have heard the saying about the butterfly in Japan flapping it's wings and there is more truth to that saying than you know. 

It is that inter-relatedness that makes your everyday life so important. It is that interdependence that makes every decision you make matter. So often you are told how insignificant you are in the grander scheme of things but I am here to tell you that you are significant. You are the child of he most High God and your role in this world, throughout eternity, matters. 

I love you and you are right where I need you to be for the plans that I have made.