Want...

My prayer:

Another pretty awesome day God. Not what I was expecting and not what I planned for but pretty awesome anyway.

I am struggling a bit again tonight though. It is an old issue that we have talked about before. I don't know why I can't let go of it. I don't know why I continue to want something I know is not good for me.  I can clearly see how if I got it, it would result in a lot of negative consequences. Knowing those consequences is what keeps me from trying to go after it. But, it doesn't stop me from wanting it.

My desire doesn't listen to logic. It doesn't listen to reason. It just wants.

I ask for your help and I don't even know for sure what I am asking for. I could ask for wisdom, but I don't think that would change it. I could ask for self control but that is just more management of the problem, not a solution.

I think what I need is healing. Healing of whatever it is in me that makes me want what is no good for me. That is clearly self destructive and therefor not what you have put in me.

Thank you God for your healing power in every part of me.

What God Said Tonight:

I have given my life for you. I have given my son for you. You are more precious to me than the finest diamonds and gold.

I have placed you in a place of protection. I have placed you in a place of waiting. I have placed you here, not forever but for now so that my will has time to fully manifest.

Your desire comes from a dream I have in put in your heart. Your direction of your desire is misplaced in time. I have more to do. I have more to set into place. I will not delay. I will see that it is done.

In the meantime, trust, wait, know that I have got you firmly in my arms. I will see you fulfilled and whole with every blessing that I have carefully set aside for you.

Don't fight, trust...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I need some help.

There are things that come up in me, reactions I have, emotions I have that I know are not loving, not kind, not patient, not any of the things that you would want from me. I do my best to turn from them. I try not to express them, but there are times when I just want to lash out.

I pray for your help in this one situation in particular that I have been talking to you a lot about. Help me to find a way to walk in love and not judgement. Help me to find a way to be generous and not jealous. Help me to find a way to give grace instead of judgement.

Thank you for your help.

What God Said Tonight:

You walk in the lion's den and you expect to be bitten. I can protect you but only if you are fully trusting in me.

If Daniel had fought the lions, they would have devoured him. If Shadrach, Mishach and Abendego had fought the fire they would have burned.

Don't fight the person or the situation. Trust in me and I will work it out. I will keep you safe. I will keep you all whole.

I have a plan, even in this. I have not led you here to leave you. I am.

God sees you...

My prayer:

What a great day God. Thank you for the fun and the relaxation. Thank you for helping me get done the things I needed to get done. I am excited and looking forward to tomorrow. You are so wonderful. Life with you is pretty fantastic!

I pray for your continued healing in me. Make me whole God so I can be the person you intended me to be and not just the person that the I became as a result of the abuses in this world.

What God Said Tonight:

Who you are is who you were meant to be.

You are my child. You are a royal priesthood. You are the love of my existence.

I am longing for the day when I no longer have to remind you of who you are and you will simply know it. I long for the day that the blinders that have been cemented onto your eyes are finally broken off and you can see yourself as I see you.

I see you in the shelter and covering of my son. I see you as the whole and beautiful person I created. I see you as toughened by this world but not destroyed. I see you surviving when you could have said quit. I see you with faith in the midst of large doubt. I see you as filled with peace in the middle of a firestorm.

I see you and you are all that I hoped for.

God with you...

My prayer:

It has been quite a week God. Lots of highs and lots of lows. I am worn out and grateful.

I don't feel like I have given you much quality time this week. I mainly was asking and begging for your help. I have missed our time of just hanging out together. I will make more time for that.

What God Said Tonight:

I am with you always. In good times and in bad. In busy times and when you are in rest. I don't need a lot of fan fare or recognition. I only need you.

Master transformer...

My prayer:

Amazing and awesome God! Thank you for the good news!! Thank you for healing my friend! Thank you for your continued work in his life for complete restoration! Thank you for taking this seemingly horrible thing and turning it into so much good!

I appreciate life differently. I appreciate people differently. I appreciate your blessings and opportunities differently. And that's just the good stuff in me that came out of it. You did so much more!

What an AMAZING GOD you are!

What God Said Tonight:

That which appears to be chaos can sometimes be art. That which appears to be tragic can be made into your blessing.

I am the master of taking things that appear one way and turning them into something completely different. I took chaos and formed it into earth. I took darkness and said let here be light. I take the tragedies and give you joy.

I love you more than you can know and my plans will take you farther than you can know.

Past and future...

My prayer:

I am trusting that tomorrow will be good report Monday. I am trusting that your will is being accomplished in every area of my life. I am trusting that you will bring me through any and every thing that comes up.

You God are so worthy of trust and I freely give you all of the trust I am capable of.

What God Said Tonight:

You have been prepared. Every event, every challenge, every success and every failure has brought you to this day. Every day and night of your life so far has been preparation for tomorrow.

You are not yet where you are going to be but you are not where you were. You are learning to live in the mystery of unresolved things. You are learning to live in patience with expectation. You are beginning to believe again that life may yet have some surprises for you.

You future is not your past but your past has prepared your future.
I love you and we are walking into this together, as always my love.

Fire...

My prayer:

You are so wonderful God.

Thank you for every word of encouragement and wisdom today. Thank you for the amazing good news and breakthrough. Thank you for reminding me with every breath that you are in charge and you are with me, now and forever.

You are SO WONDERFUL!!!

What God Said Tonight:

Kindling burns fast and it burns hot. Kindling is needed to start the fire. What is needed to sustain the fire is the large old logs that may seem less exciting but they last for the duration and keep you warm. Every fire needs both.

You have the kindling from today. You have the logs from your bank of experience. Put them together and you will burn for a long time.