Life is...

My prayer:

Thanks for getting me through this day God. It kind of felt like a marathon. But, I get to end it here with you and that makes it a good day.

What is on your mind tonight God? If you have anything you want to talk about, I am here to listen.

What God Said Tonight:

Life is not about the thoughts that other people have about you, their judgements of your success or failure. Life is not about meeting expectations, yours or someone else's.

Life is about relationship. Life is about love. Life is an opportunity for you to get to know me in the midst of great challenges so you learn to trust me.

Think for a minute. Those people you most trust, those people you are closest to are all people that you have gone through tough times with. They have been there when you needed them. You learned that you could trust them even when the going got tough.

That is what life offers. An opportunity to get to know and trust me at a level that transcends thought and goes right to the gut awareness of someone who loves you and will never let you down.

There is more in life, more to enjoy, more to learn but the key opportunity for you is to get to know me and trust me. We have an eternity together. You should know what your getting into.

Unique...

My prayer:

What a privilege to see you heal. What a privilege to see you save. What a privilege to see your presence change the atmosphere. What a privileged to hear your voice.

God, I revel in the privilege of my relationship with you tonight. You are so wonderful and I take for granted your presence in my life. I forget that it is only by your ultimate sacrifice that I get to have this relationship. I forget that not everyone has this relationship with you.

Thank you for loving me. Thank you for dying so I could know you like this. I am ridiculously grateful for you God.

What God Said Tonight:

I have a unique relationship with each of my kids. No one relationship is exactly like another because no one person is exactly like another.

I love you all, more than you will ever know. That never changes. But, how we talk, how we interact, what you know of me, those things can be different from person to person. Just because I talk to you in one way, does not mean I will use that same method to talk with someone else. I might, but I don't have to.

I am  so vast that I could do the same thing in a different way everyday for the rest of eternity and still not run out of new ways to do it. I do not change but I am so vast that what you know of me will never be all of me.

I love you daughter and I love our relationship. It is special as you are special to me.

Everything's new...

My prayer:

I am so deeply grateful to you God. This latest core healing you did in me has truly given me a new life. Everything is new and I love it! I know I keep talking about this but it is just so magnificent!

God, Help me to share this with other people in a way that helps them to receive this kind of core healing for themselves. What an amazing world this could be if we were all healed and whole and living for you! That's the world I want to live in.

LOVE YOU!

What God Said Tonight:

A new heaven. A new earth. A new you.

I am the God of a new thing and I will continue to do a new thing in you as long as you are willing.

I have plans for us in the new heaven and new earth. I have plans for eternity for us. I know it seems like it has been a long time coming but in the midst of eternity, this has been but a tiny blip.

I have such great plans. Plans that only work if you are whole and healed. I love seeing you healed. It is my heart's desire to see you whole.

More...

My prayer:

What a wonderful day God! Thank you for rest and rejuvenation. Thank you for your favor. Thank you for hearing the prayers for healing and restoring the babies who were ill. You are awesome and I am proud to have you in my life.

What God Said Tonight:

I have more for you. I have so much more. Don't ever give up because where you are at is never the end. I have more.

Your life, sometimes very hard, other times not so hard, but don't ever give up or you will miss the "more" that I have for you.

We have eternity together my child. I will always have more for you.

God's favorite thing to do...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I am here because I love you and I love to hear your voice but truth is, there is not much left of me today. Physically and mentally I am worn out and really just want to crawl into bed.

I am very grateful for all that you have done for me this week. It has been a good week. I am also very grateful that tomorrow is Friday and we get a bit of a rest.

Let me hear your voice and feel your presence once more today.

What God Said Tonight:

My presence is in you and will never leave you. I am in you and you are in me, forever. I do love that you come to spend time with me not out of a sense of obligation but out of a true desire to commune with me.

Spending time with you and loving you, those are my favorite things to do. I love spending time with my kids.

I know you can't fully understand my love for you yet but you will some day. I know that you have to filter your understanding of my love with your experiences of love in life. But someday, someday you will experience the full force of my love for you.

You could not handle it right now but someday you will be able to take it. Someday, I will release the love and blessings I have been storing for you. That will be  a glorious day of great celebration in heaven and earth. It is going to be so exciting. The day I get to fully bless and restore my family will be the greatest day in the history of the universe.

New life...

My prayer:

I feel like I should talk about something else but I can't stop talking about or thinking about how everything is changed since you provided this latest core healing in me. 

 

Life feels brand new. I walk into the same experiences and circumstances but my reaction, how I feel, is completely different. I have a new confidence and freedom that is truly phenomenal. 

 

Thank you so much God for healing me and for how that healing has improved my life. Only you could do that. Thank you for loving me enough to do it. 

What God Said Tonight:

I have promised you new life. That new life is not a one time deal. Your life with me is a continual process of renewing. 

 

All things are made new in me. I will create in you a new thing. Not just at the moment you first make a decision to walk with me, but ongoing, every day, throughout eternity as long as we are in relationship together. 

 

I will renew your strength. I will renew your spirit. I will renew your youth. I will renew you over and over. I don't run out of new things for you.

Bubble over worship...

My prayer:

You have given me so much and helped me so much this week God. What can I give you? What would bless you?

What God Said Tonight:

I am blessed in  your worship. Your true worship.

Not the worship where you sing me a song because you think you should or because everyone else is. But the worship that comes from your heart. The worship that comes from your spirit. When you worship in spirit and in truth.

Where your love and awe of me just bubbles out of you in song, in prayer, in cries, in generosity, in almost any way. I love that bubble over worship. The kind you just can't hold in.