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The History: A couple of years ago, I started journaling my prayers and God's responses to them. I told my friends about this, they were really interested. I told my Pastor about it and he said, how about sharing those on line. When I asked God, He said, my words are for you, but not just for you. And, here we are...I hope He speaks to you in these words.
My prayer:
Awesome God! This was the best Christmas eve of my life so far!! Tonight was awesome God! Thank you!!! Awesome worship, great presentation of your birth, great message, opportunities to pray for people and to minister, God it was awesome!! You even had them play my FAVORITE Christmas song, and that one never gets played in church because it is so hard!
God you have truly poured out a blessing on me that I cannot contain tonight! God I almost feel guilty. This is your birthday. I should be giving to you not receiving so much from you. God, you have my heart, my mind and my spirit. Anything that I have is yours. I commit my whole life to you. I love you so much. Thank you for tonight. What a great celebration!!! Can't wait to see what we do together tomorrow! I LOVE YOU!!!!
What God Said Tonight:
My sweet daughter. Don't you know that it is my greatest pleasure to give to you. The line between giving and receiving can be completely blurred if it is done right. If you give from your heart, you receive as much as you give. When I give to you, I receive a multiplied blessing back. Just like you, when you give, you are blessed more in the giving than when you receive.
True heartfelt giving, the relational giving that your Pastor talked about tonight, doesn't keep track of who gave and who received. It is all a part of the same. When my son Jesus died for you, it was a great gift that he gave freely. However, he received, we received, the opportunity to see our children restored to us through that gift. So, who received the greater gift? I value the return of my children above all else. I received as much as I gave in that one transaction, that one gift.
When you give like that, you will never grow tired of giving. You will never burn out or run out of steam. When you give from your heart the very gift that you give will multiply itself back into your life.
Tonight I have received as much as I have given. Your receipt of the blessing is my gift. Thank you for being with me tonight. Thank you for spending time with me this season. You were thinking about it today that Christmas is not a holiday that I asked for. It is not like Passover where I told my children to observe the holiday in remembrance. Christmas is something that you all came up with. But, that doesn't make me love it less, it makes me love it more. I love that you choose a day and season to celebrate my birth. I love that we get to spend this time together.
You will be blessed as you bless. You will be comforted as you comfort. You will be healed as you pray for healing. You are my very own gift and I love you .
My prayer:
Awesome Father. What a great designer you are. I have been thinking about this last year and all of the things and experiences you have woven together in my life and in my friends lives to create magnificent things. Books, CDs, websites, this ministry, new jobs, new babies, new relationships, and more, it is really quite remarkable God.
One of the things that I love about you God is how you take seemingly unrelated things in my life and weave them together to create an opportunity, an opportunity to serve you, to bless people and to be blessed. I always go back to Joseph's life and the series of tragic things that were done to him that you worked together for his good and the good of his family, his country. I can see that same thing mirrored in my life and in the lives of my friends.
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to go through the tragedy part, but I am so grateful that you weave the good the bad and the ugly together to create new life and new opportunity. I am grateful that you have a plan and a purpose for us. God I love you and thank you for how you orchestrate my life and give it meaning. Tell me what is on your mind tonight.
What God Said Tonight:
This year has been great. I told you it would be. I am glad you listened. I am glad that you hear me and you do what I tell you to do, at least most of the time. I am grateful to have children that take the time and the effort to listen to me. I am always talking, not always is there someone to listen. Not always is there someone to hear what I have to say.
The purpose and plan that I have for you and for all of my children is so great. You see the tapestry of your life. If you could see it from my perspective and see the tapestry of the kingdom, the tapestry of all of your lives, all of your purposes weaving together for one over riding purpose, now THAT is BEAUTIFUL.
You are beautiful. You are beautiful in your joy and in your struggle. I love to look at you. I love to watch you and see you live out this life I have for you. I love to be with you. I love to talk to you and I love to listen to you. Fact is, I just simply love YOU. The beauty of your spirit and of your purpose is a joy to me. You delight me daughter and I love you.
See the beauty of this life, of your friends, of the kingdom. The beauty is there to be appreciated. I created it for you. Receive the beauty as my gift to you this Christmas.
My prayer:
Mighty God and awesome Father. The creator of everything that ever was or ever will be. You are so amazing and beyond my ability to really comprehend God. I learn more about you and get to know you better every day and still feel like I only know the very tip of who you are. There is so much to you.
You who are all knowing and all powerful. Let me try to wrap my mind around that a minute. You know EVERYTHING. My Dad, My Lord knows everything there ever has been to know or ever will be. You have the answer to every question, even the ones that are never asked. EVERYTHING.
Ok, so if I can find a way to understand that, now to understand that you are all powerful. You are the most powerful force ever. Nothing is more powerful than you. You are more powerful than earthquakes.
Let's say I get that, I am not sure that I really do, but let's say I do. Now, you are the creator of everything that ever has or will exist. You created the air, the water, the animals, the plants, the planets, the stars, the molecules, me.
You are the Alpha, the beginning. Before there was anything, there was you. And, somehow you are also the Omega, the ending. After everything is gone, at the end of everything else, you are there. That is about where my ability to comprehend you ends.
Then, to realize that you are all of that and more, and you love me. You take time to make sure my life is going according to plan. You take time to talk to me every day. You take time to make sure I am loved every day and provided for. You listen to me every day no matter how small or petty my thoughts may be. How is that possible?
God, I think I have been in "church" long enough now that I take for granted some things. We always talk about you being Alpha and Omega, all knowing, all powerful, creator of all things and more, but I am not sure that I have really spent time thinking about what that all really means.
God help me to truly understand you better. Help me to truly know you better. Help me to have a deeper understanding of who you are and what is important to you. Help me to know you and understand you. I love you God and I want to know everything there is to know about you.
What God Said Tonight:
You are getting to know me better every night and every day. You get to know me better every time you read the Bible. You get to know me better every time you pray. You get to know me better every time you listen to me. You get to know me better every time you look at this world and wonder at the creation of it all.
I love you daughter and you know me better than you think. I gave you a mind and I love that you use it to reason me out, to think about me logically. However, much of knowing me is Spirit, emotion, heart connection. So much of knowing me is felt, not reasoned.
Your brain can understand much about me but even if you study every minute of every day for the rest of eternity, you will never fully know me that way. Much of who I am has to be experienced, not reasoned. I know you like to think things through. You like to use that brain I gave you and that is good. But really, get out of your head tonight and feel me. Get out of your head and experience me. Get out of your head and see me. I am here with you now. Know me by being with me and me being with you.
Part of why I got angry with the religious people when I was on earth was because they had gotten so busy with study and so busy trying to reason and argue it all out, they forgot to spend time with me. They forgot that I had all the answers and if they asked me, they could save a whole of time and strife. Ask me your questions, listen to my answers and take the time saved to just be with me.
I love you daughter. Don't stop thinking but sometimes, let your mind rest and just be with me. I love you so much and I cherish our time together when you are focused on me. I cherish you worship. I cherish you attention. I cherish you my sweet daughter. You rest but stay with me always.
My prayer:
Mighty God, my Father. Your birthday celebration is almost here God! Every year, Christmas seems to sneak up on me. I never feel like I am ready. God, Jesus, I hope this year is a good celebration of you and for you. We have some special things planned. I hope you enjoy them. I hope God that you get everything you hope for. I pray God that our worship is that sweet fragrance for you. I pray and hope that you can feel our love for you this Christmas. God if there is anything special you want, please let me know. Anything I have the ability to give is yours.
What God Said Tonight:
I am excited for the celebration. I am excited that so many of my kids remember the purpose of this celebration. I am waiting with anticipation the celebration we will have.
I love that you plan to celebrate each year with me. I love your worship. I love how you take the time to wonder what I want and ask me. Most years, at least recently, I have told you something specific that I wanted for Christmas. There was the year of the big outreach donation, the year of the Denver Rescue Mission support and more. This year, I haven't been specific.
This year, I am more interested in spending time with you than I am in what you can or will give. I know that I have your heart and I don't need your money. I just want to enjoy the day with you. I want to enjoy the season with you. I love to spend time with you. That is the greatest gift for me.
Take plenty of time this season to spend time with me. Take the time to celebrate with me that we have come through another year with flying colors. This has been a pretty phenomenal year and many people have been touched by my Spirit. Many have made a decision to live for me. Many have heard the gospel for the very first time.
This is a year to celebrate. This is a life to celebrate. This is a season to celebrate. That is all I want. Celebrate with me my daughter. Party on earth as we are in heaven. I love you and can't wait to celebrate with you.
My prayer:
Mighty God you are awesome and I am yours. I am also really tired. I am not sue I can put two thoughts together tonight. What do you have to talk about God?
What God Said Tonight
I am here and I will give you peace. My peace that is not reliant on circumstances. My peace that is not reliant on people. My peace which passes, goes beyond your ability to understand it. I am here with that peace tonight.
I am not here to change the circumstances tonight. Every circumstance in your life right now is there for a purpose and changing it would interfere with that purpose. But I can give you total peace in the middle of it. I can be your strong tower. I can protect you. I can cover you and wrap myself around you keeping you warm in the cold. I will be like a fur blanket, wrapped around you from head to toe, protecting you keeping you warm in the worst of blizzards. I will wrap you to the sled and drive you through the storm.
You don't want me to stop this storm. The storm will create the provision for your promise. But I can take you safely through the storm, safe and warm. I just need you to continue that total trust and in return I will give you total peace.
I love you daughter. You know my love for you cannot be measured. I promise, this storm that is cold and blinding at times will be the building blocks of the promise of tomorrow. It will provide the living water to pour out in the next season. Just like every year when I bring the heavy snow to your mountains. The snow is deep, it makes living normal life difficult and sometimes it is so bad that everything has to stop. But, in the spring, when the sun comes out and begins to warm the snow, it melts and provides all the water you need to water the entire plains.
This storm is storing up living water for your spring. Try to see it that way and rest in my peace, the cocoon of peace that I have made for you.
My prayer:
My God, Daddy, I am not sure what to pray about tonight. Today was terrible and wonderful all at the same. Terrible because of being hurt, wonderful because of the amazing church family you have given me who rallied around, prayed and loved on me. That really made all of the difference God.
I love you so much and your love is often enough all on its own. But, I am weak and I need a love I can touch sometimes. God you told me earlier tonight and in the past that you would always put people in my life to love me. They may not be the same people over time, but there will always be people to love me.
Why is love so important? Why is it that without love, we often either die or kill ourselves? Living with too little love is like living with too little oxygen. It numbs me until I can't really do anything but pass out and if it doesn't change, die.
God thank you for teaching me the hard lesson over the last several years that the answer to hurt, the answer to a lack of love is not to isolate. The answer is to run to you and your people. There is where the healing is. There is where the love is. Thank you God. Thank you for my church family. Thank you for people in my life who love me. Thank you for people in my life for me to love.
I may not understand why love is so important, but I definitely know it is. Fact is, you are love. No wonder it is important! The creator of the universe and my Daddy is love, of course it would be important. God I really do love you so much. What is on your mind tonight?
What God Said Tonight:
Love is the most important thing that ever was or ever will be. Love is the only reason for all of this. The only reason for humanity, the only reason for this universe, the only reason to do anything is love.
There is no parallel to love. There is nothing that can or ever will compare. It is in and of itself the most important thing to ever exist. Just the sense of a possible lack of love can throw us into a tail spin. Why to you think I so often got angry with Israel in the past? They kept forgetting me. To be forgotten is one of the worst ways to feel unloved. If someone is hating you and talking bad about you, you at least still know that they are thinking about you. To be forgotten, that is beyond painful. The lack of love demonstrated in that forgetting is truly horrible. It is like a avalanche of crushing rocks that fall on me. It is a darkness that tries to envelop me. It is beyond pain.
To love and be loved, that is all there really is. Everything else is filling time. Everything else doesn't matter at the end of the day. All that matters is who you have loved and who has loved you.
Love well my daughter. Remember the pain of today not to feel the pain again but to remind you of the importance of loving people so that no one ever feels the way you did today as a result of your actions.
Love well. Love me, remember me. Trust me. I promise you will never out love me. I will always pour out more love onto you than you can give to me. No contest. I will shower you with my love forever because you are my focus and my everything. You are my creation and my daughter. You are my beloved servant and I will love you well.
Love is the light that banishes darkness. Love is the power that shatters rock. Love is the joy and the purpose and the plan I have for your life. Live in the light of love and love well.
My prayer:
Awesome day God! Thank you for the gift of today. You are amazing. Thank you for rest and opportunities. Thank you for your divine health. Thank you for how you take care of me.
God your divine health and healing is so amazing. While you continue to keep me healthy and strong, almost everyone I know has been sick in the last couple of months. There are flu viruses, upper respiratory infections, sore throats, coughs, pinched nerves, auto immune problems, cancer and more.
It seems like sickness is rampant in the world right now, but I know God that is not how you intend for us to live. You were beaten just so we could receive your healing. I have seen you miraculously heal so many people and it is awesome to get to watch you do your work. There are also a lot of people who are still sick.
What is the problem God? If your will is that we live in divine health and you suffered the stripes on your back just so we could be healed, why aren't more of us living in health and being healed? Is it a receiving problem, a faith problem, what are we doing wrong God?
I love you God. Thank you for listening.
What God Said Tonight:
It isn't that you are doing anything wrong. You are seeing more and more miraculous healing because the time is running short and it is needed now more than ever. As the final days end, you will see me move more and more. You will see divine healing more and more. It is all a part of faith building so you will be prepared for the final days.
I hear the question of your hear tonight as well, "Why isn't everyone healed?" There is no one answer to that. Each situation is unique. Sometimes, people are not willing to be healed. Sometimes people don't realize it but they get some benefit out of being sick and don't want to give it up. Sometimes, there is a spiritual battle going on that delays the healing. Sometimes there is no one there to stand in the gap and the person them self doesn't know about the gift of healing. That is the one of the saddest situations and why I need people like you praying more and more for the sick. Sometimes, people have put their faith in things other than me to heal them. Sometimes, there is a greater purpose and plan that you don't see yet.
As I say, each situation is unique. What I need from you is to keep telling people about the healing power that is their's. I need you to keep praying. I need you to keep sharing the praise reports so that people realize what is their's. So people understand the gift that I want them to have.
With people like you spreading the word it is possible for the entire kingdom to get a hold of this. If every child of mine were to realize the strength and power they have in my divine health and healing, can you imagine what we could do?
You know that this is where your future ministry is headed. We have talked about it a lot. Keep asking every question you have because I need your faith to be unshakable in this area. I need you to stand in the gap. I need you to tell and show others the life of divine health that they can have.
I love you daughter. Don't ever stop asking questions. I promise I will never stop answering. I love you. Rest, we have a lot to do tomorrow.
