Hostage...

My prayer:

I am in uncharted waters God. I need you to guide every step, every choice, every word, in my life. I pray as well that you help me to gain everything I can gain in this season. I think there is a lot I can learn, a lot of ways that I can heal and grow in this season. Help me not to miss those opportunities. The only thing worse than going through a really tough season is going through it for no purpose. 

I love you God. I trust you. Guide me on this path.

What God Said Tonight:

You have entered the war. It is just not the kind of war that you might expect. 

The enemy is hiding behind fear and sickness. He uses lies and intimidation to try to frighten you away. He will tell you things that are not true but are solely intended to wear you down. 

Always remember my child, the battle is not yours. You are here, in the battle, in the war, but the fighting will be done by me. You are a hostage and as such I need you to maintain hope and know that I will bring you out. Otherwise, your job is really to just follow the steps as I lie them in front of you. 

I love you.

Humble yourself...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I need to know that no matter what, your will is accomplished in my life. Whether I make right decisions or wrong decisions, I need to know that you will turn it for my good and your will shall be accomplished. 

This is a pretty scary season I am walking in and I can't do it unless I know you are in charge. I don't have the courage, the wisdom, the physical strength to do this without you. But, I know that with you, all things are possible. 

ABOVE ALL, YOUR WILL BE DONE.

What God Said Tonight:

No mountain high enough, no ocean deep enough, no canyon wide enough to keep me from you my child. I am here, I have never left. You will not walk this alone.

Not only will you have me every step of the way but it is time that you better understand the love in your life. It is time that you better understand what you mean to people around you and learn to receive their love, their support. 

It is time to humble yourself my child. Admit you do not have the answers. Trust me to have them for you. 

I promise, on he other side of this are truly great things. I love you so much.

This journey...

My prayer:

Soooo, now I think I understand a bit of what you have been trying to tell me God! It really wasn't about what I was going through but it was about where, what I was going through, was going to take me. This has been a rough journey for sure and it has only just begun.

All that being said, thank you God for all of the reminders of the love that you have put in my life. So many people who just want to help. I felt cradled in love all day and I can't thank you enough for that.

What God Said Tonight:

I will show you many great things. Today was step one of understanding but there is more. There is more you will accomplish through this one journey. 

This journey that you are on, I will share this journey with the world. 

I love you. I am with you. I will guide you and yes, I will heal you. l love you sweet daughter.

Not broken...

My prayer:

This has been one of the toughest weeks of my life God. I don't know how to make sense of it. It has shaken me. Not shaken me about who you are but shaken me about what I can receive on earth. I have been blessed with seeing your healing power work effectively in my life in in the lives of those around me. This week I have not seen it in my life and I am confused. 

Thank you for the text from my friend about her experience with you healing this week. It was good to know you were still working in people's lives. But it does not feel like I was on the receiving end. Now, I don't know what I don't know. So, it could be that this all would have been much worse. I can close to going to the hospital. It could be without your intervention I would have spent the week in the hospital or ended my days here on earth. I could definitely see that as a possibility.

What I know is that you took stripes on your body so that I could be healed. What I know is that healing is the children's bread. What I know is that you have always come through for me with healing. So, I will stand on that knowledge, best as I can, believing you are going to finish this thing, quickly.

What God Said Tonight:

I am here. I have heard every prayer and cry for help. I am a loving God I am your Father. I do not turn a deaf ear to your pain. There are circumstances and situations outside of your control and outside of your ability to see them that are effecting your life right now. 

Nothing is broken though it seems as it is. Nothing is punishing you, although it can seem like it is. 

I am with you. Just a little longer now. I promise, there is a purpose.

Ask for your miracle...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I don't know what to do. This has wiped me out. I do not have enough, well, enough anything, to make this better. You are my only hope. Please help.

What God Said Tonight:

A miracle is not a miracle if it could happen any other way. I am the God of miracles I work, live, and breathe in miracles. 

The circumstance you are in is not always about what you have done, right or wrong. The circumstance can be a proving ground for my miracle. 

Don't be afraid to ask for your miracle. Your circumstance is screaming for it. Just ask.

Getting to the other side of this...

My prayer:

I really hate being sick God. Thankfully, it does not happen very often but yesterday and today have been pretty awful. I pray for rest. I pray for your healing power in me. I pray for divine health to fill me up and overtake this nastiness that has tried to settle on me. 

What God Said Tonight:

I am here. I am here. I am here.

You are not in this alone. You are not on a path to destruction. This is a slight bump. this is a hesitation, a minor roadblock, that will not stay.

Trust me to get you to the other side of this. 

Imperfect perfection...

My prayer:

Each day, I do my best to make good choices, smart choices. But even on my best day, I get a lot of it wrong. We are so imperfect God. And you love us anyway, which is amazing. But why are we so imperfect? 

Has it always been that way or has sin corrupted more than our souls? I just wish sometimes that I was better. Smarter, making better choices, more generous, more loving, just...more.

Forgive me God.

What God Said Tonight:

I ask you to consider that what you are seeing as truth right now, not real truth. It is not my truth. 

You are covered in my blood and my sacrifice. Through that veil, you are perfect. I never expected, I never made you, to be perfect on your own. If you were, you wouldn't need me. Your imperfection makes you the perfect child for me. As long as you are less than perfect on your own, you will know your need for me. If you were somehow able to find perfection on your own, you would no longer see your need for me and you could easily wander away. 

Your imperfection is what keeps you close to me. My sacrifice is what makes you perfect in spite of what you do, or don't do. 

I love you. Do not despise either the imperfection or the perfection in you. Both have a purpose and a meaning. Both are part of what keeps us as one.