Pain and suffering...

My Prayer:
My God.  My interest is you tonight.  I come with no agenda, just curious as to what is on your mind.  Thank you for another great day with great opportunities.  I love you God.  Speak to me?

What God Said Tonight:
I hear the cries of my people throughout the world.  I understand that this life is hard, painful and it seems like the suffering is more than you can take at times.  I would love to wipe away the terror.  I would love to wash away the pain.  I see you covered in dirt, in blood and I know your fear. 

I don't know that I can ever explain how it got to this point.  I have told you about the original sin that invited sin into this world and into your life.  You have heard it so many times, it has become just a story.  There was something more significant in that moment though that you do not yet understand. 

There is a grave responsibility that comes with knowledge.  As an adult, you gain knowledge you did not have as a child and with that knowledge comes responsibility.  The sin of eating of the tree of knowledge came with responsibility.  It was a responsibility that I never wanted you to have  It is a responsibility that requires that your actions have a cost.  Your sin has to be paid for.  For those who have received me, that sin is covered by my sacrifice.  So many have not received that redemption though and as a result, the wages of sin, death, run rampant in this world.  Destruction appears to rule at times. 

You won't be able to understand it yet, someday you will. Someday, there will be no more war and no more pain. Someday there will be no more suffering.  In that day, when we win, we will live in great peace and joy.  We will live as I always intended.  We will live in the light and the joy that I had planned in the beginning. 

In the meantime, live under my covering.  Let me protect you from harm, let me heal you from the pain, let me clean you from your sin. You live in this world but you are not of this world.  You are of me and my kingdom.  You belong to me.  You do not belong to the filth that surrounds you at times.  You are mine, now and forever.  I love you daughter.  Let me take care of you.

Choices...

My prayer:
Mighty all knowing God.  Father, I have been thinking a lot about choices today.  Choices seem so important.  Even choices that seem like small choices at the time can turn into great opportunities or missed opportunities. 

I was talking to a young woman today who was talking of how she use to ask you about everything, even what gas station to go to.  And, when she did, there was always something amazing waiting for her there.  It just highlighted what I have been thinking.  Our choices are so important. 

God, what if I made different choices and missed out on all of the amazing opportunities you have brought me?  On the flip side, what decisions have I made that unknowingly kept me from opportunities that you wanted me to have?  A pastor I know once said that he thought that judgement day for Christians would be watching all of the missed opportunities in our lives. That you would show us all of the things we could have had, done, and experienced if we had chosen your will for our lives in everything.

I don't know if he is right but if he is, I dread that day.  As much as I love most of my life, I don't look forward to finding out all of the things I missed because I was stubborn, prideful, self centered, or just stupid. 

God, help me to make good decisions.  Guide me in every decision. Help me to make the decisions that put me smack dab in the middle of your will for my life.  Please don't let me miss what you have for me. I want everything that you have for me.  Thank you Jesus!

What God Said Tonight:
Your decisions, your choices are important and it is good that you want to make good decisions, decisions that put you in my will for you .  But, my will is bigger than your day to day decisions. 

You have made a choice to follow me.  You reaffirm that choice every day.  The other decisions may effect the flavor of your day but the over riding purpose of the day, the week, the year, your life is set in place by me with your decision to live for me.  I have been given permission by you to guide and direct your life and I will do that .  I will take each decision that you make and create the opportunity that most directly leads you into the will and purpose that I have ordained for you. 

Every decision that you make to follow my will for your life makes that process easier.  It makes it easier on you because you make the choice and go into it freely.  When you choose things outside of my will for you, a correction has to be made and sometimes that is not comfortable.  But have no doubt, my will shall be accomplished in your life. 

You have given yourself to me and I do not take that responsibility lightly.  Your life is in my hands and I hold it as precious.  I will lovingly guide and direct you.  Seek my counsel in each decision and I will make the way easy for you.  But don't stress too much about it.  When it comes down to it, the only truly important decision is the one you made to live for me.  Everything else is frosting.  I love you daughter.  Don't worry, don't stress and don't fear.  I've got you.

Sacrifice...

My prayer:
Awesome sabbath God.  Thank you for rest and for restoration.  Father God, thank you for how you take care of me. 

So much of who you are and what you do continues to leave me in awe.  I look around and see how you can take one simple idea and within a few months turn it into a ministry that touches thousands of people throughout the world.  I could not have done that even if I had thought of it (which I didn't).  But here we are, 7 months after the night that you said, why don't you go ahead and start the blog that Pastor Joe recommended, and you have reached over 10,000 people all over the world.  I could have never imagined that sitting in this office on that June night. 

I could have never imagined the book, the fb fan page and the amazing people who post, comment and share.  I could have never imagined the opportunities to speak and to share.  I could have never imagined the prayer requests from all over the world.  I could have never imagined the opportunity to see you work and change people's lives like this! 

You are so incredible.  You truly can do anything.  I stand in awe God.  I can't wait to see what is next. 

I love you Father. Please continue to help me to be the person that can be of most help to you.  I love you teacher.  Please continue to bless and protect my family and friends.  I love you healer.  Please continue to hear our prayers and change our circumstances.  I love you Lord.  Please bless and anoint our worship services tomorrow God so they are pleasing to you and help your people.  I love you.

What God Said Tonight:
I love you too my daughter and I love to surprise you.  I love to show you what I can do with the small sacrifice that you make.  Like the young boy with the fish and a bit a bread.  He gave that small amount and in my hands it fed thousands. 

That is what I can do with your sacrifices.  Sacrifice your time to me and I will multiply it.  Sacrifice your money to me and I will multiply it.  Sacrifice your will to me and I will give you more than you could have ever imagined on your own.  I need you to give me sacrifice so I have something to work with but once you give it to me, I will give you back more than you can imagine. 

I don't ask you to sacrifice so you will have to go without.  I ask you to sacrifice so that I can give it back to you multiplied.  I don't ask you to sacrifice because I need the specific thing that you are sacrificing.  I don't need it in itself, but I need it so I have something to multiply back to you. 

I am a creative God and I can create the entire world out of nothing, out of chaos.  But what I want to teach you about is the art of giving, the joy of giving.  I want you to understand the giving and receiving paradigm that I function under.  It is what the sacrifice of my blood is based on.  It is what the law of Moses was based on.  It is what you need to know to live the full and blessed life that I have for you.  So much is tied up in it.  Learn that giving, sacrificing, is not about losing something but it is always about gaining something. 

I love you daughter.  You are right where I need you to be but don't stop here.  We have a long way to go and it will be more amazing than you can imagine.  Be blessed my daughter.

Get closer...

My prayer:
Awesome God.  I am ready to fall asleep sitting up.  I love you and I am here out of faithfulness to you but I need you to take it tonight.  Thank you for all that you did today in my life, in my friends' lives and for being generally amazing.

What God Said Tonight:
Sweet daughter, you are tired.  I appreciate your faithfulness in coming here to be with me anyway. 

I love that you are willing to sacrifice for our relationship.  That is the point of all of this.  To get closer.  To get so that you know me better than you know yourself.  The more you know me, the easier it is to recognize my voice and to hear me.  The easier it is to hear me, the more quickly I can help you and the more quickly I can let you know when I need you to do something. 

Each time we meet, each time that we talk, you are getting to know me better.  There will be a day when we are so close it will remind me of my days with Adam before the fall.  I want that day to day closeness with you.  I want you to hear me no matter what.  Whether you are busy or calm, whether you tense or relaxed, whether you are in need or at peace, I want you to hear me. 

There are times when I need to tell you something, something that you need to know for the very situation at hand. I need you to hear my voice clearly, for your sake and for mine.  You are going to see great things with me.  We will do great things. But to do them we have to be closer than we are right now and that only happens by spending time together.  I want you to know me as well as you know yourself, maybe even better. 

So, thank you for coming tonight even though you are tired.  You can rest now and I will give you rest.  You will awake refreshed and ready for a new day.  You will wake up strong and raise up on wings like an eagle.  I love you daughter. Sleep well but stay in my presence always so you can know me.

Ordinary miracles...

My prayer:
Mighty God, I am not sure what to pray about tonight.  You as always are awesome.  You took care of me and everything I needed today.  It was a busy day but an ordinary day. I am not complaining; ordinary is good now and then.

Thank you for an ordinary day where nothing bad happened and everything went generally smoothly.  Thank you for work to keep me occupied, challenged and paid.  Thank you God for taking care of me again today.  Thank you for amazing people in my life. Thank you for the inspirations on how to document and share the testimonies of your answers to prayers.  It is going to be awesome!

I love you God, what is on your mind tonight?

What God Said Tonight:
It is in the ordinary that the extraordinary becomes visible.  It is the backdrop of the ordinary that allows the extraordinary to shine through.  Do not despise the ordinary.  It, like everything, has a purpose. 

It is the ordinary that is the fabric of life.  The memorable events are the highlights, the flair.  But is is the ordinary day to day that is the base and fabric that holds it all together. 

I love you daughter.  I cradled you today and kept you safe.  I kept you from the many pile- up accidents on the highway this morning.  I kept you from unknown assaults on your character.  I kept you from creating situations that you would regret in the future.  Sometimes the miracle is in what didn't happen.  Sometimes the gift is in the ordinary.  Sometimes the praise report is that nothing happened.  It could have been so much worse. 

Recognize me in the showy miracles but recognize me in the ordinary miracles.  Recognize my power in the things that don't happen as well as in the things that do.  I love you daughter and I will always take care of you.  Enjoy this ordinary time because it is a miracle.

Healing miracles...

My prayer:
Awesome God!!!! THREE MIRACLE HEALING PRAISE REPORTS TODAY!!!! Look at you go God!  You are such an amazing healing God. 

Thank you for healing the respiratory issue with my friend this morning, thank you for healing my mom's GI thing tonight and thank you for healing my fb friend's mom who was in the ER. 

YOU ARE AMAZING!!!! Your healing power is AMAZING!!! I love to see you heal people God! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!  God I love you.  You thought of everything.  Not only did you provide a way for all of my sins to be forgiven but you didn't stop there.  You also allowed yourself to be beaten to heal my diseases, to heal our diseases.  You didn't have to do it but you did. Jesus, you were beaten beyond recognition.  Some translations say you were beaten so badly that you were not even recognizable as human.  I am so sorry that happened but I am so grateful that you paid the price. 

And Jesus, as long as I am alive, you did not pay the price for nothing.  I will continue to pray and receive your healing power for myself and for others.  I will continue to call on you to heal us God. I will continue to praise you God and I will continue to be beyond grateful for every time that you heal us.  YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!  I know I keep saying that but there is no other word I can think of that expresses how, well, how amazing you are!!  I love you God.  Thank you again.

What God Said Tonight:
Sweet daughter I love to see you happy.  I love to see you celebrating.  Healing is in my DNA so to speak.  I am made of love. I am love and being love, the natural result is healing.  Love is the power behind the healing. 

Love is the most powerful thing in the world.  It can create and heal.  It can also be distorted and become something other than love.  When that happens, it can cause more pain than you can imagine.  Keep your love pure and holy sister.  Allow your love to heal and not harm. 

I love to heal people too mostly because of how it builds your faith.  There is something about being healed when you are sick that makes you believe anything is possible.  The problem is, not everybody remembers the miracle after they are healthy for awhile.  It is good to write the miracles down and have a memorial of them. I like the thought you have been circling around about a place to post praise reports to strengthen people's faith and hope.  Go ahead with that, it will be good. 

I am with you now and forever.  I will hear you when you call me and I will answer.  I am your God and your Father.  I am your teacher and your protector and yes, I am your healer, and I always will be.  You my sweet daughter continue to grow and move and do all that I have called you to do.  You are going to love what is coming next.

Enjoy life...

My prayer:
Awesome and mighty God.  Today was a surprise!  Things didn't go like I thought but they were fun!  I love your surprises.  I love that you continue to surprise me.  Reverb online church was awesome tonight God.  Over 100 people got saved!  That had to be a BIG PARTY in heaven!!

God I truly love you.  I love the things that you love.  I haven't always felt that way.  I haven't always even understood the things that you love and I definitely haven't always loved the same things that you do.  But now, after all these awesome years with you, I love to see you happy and love it when I get to be a part of something that makes you smile.  God I pray that I always make you smile. 

What God Said Tonight:
You make me smile  Your desire to make me smile makes me smile.  I love you too my daughter.  You are right, every time one person receives the forgiveness that I bought for them, we rejoice in heaven.  There is nothing better.  I love to see my kids come home.  The souls that were saved tonight are so precious to me.  I love them so much and I have waited so long for them. 

Much of life is so serious.  We must take the moments to laugh, to celebrate, to enjoy the wonderful things, the beautiful things, the precious things.  Once in awhile, step out of the struggle you are in and just enjoy life.  Enjoy the blessings.  I promise they are always there.  Sometimes they are covered by the mess that you are in.  They can be covered by the garbage that has landed on your life.  But push the garbage aside once in awhile and find the treasure, the blessing, the joy that I have for you and enjoy it.  Enjoy life.  It is ok.  Even in the midst of the garbage, it is ok. It is ok to laugh with me.  It is ok to celebrate with me.  It is ok to enjoy life with me, even in the midst of the garbage. 

I am your joy and your strength and I will always make sure to have blessings in your life.  Search them out and enjoy life.

Snow...

My prayer:
My God, Father, King of all Kings, maker of everything.  It is so crazy to think that you, as great and unthinkably amazing as you are, love me, care about me, died for me.  I think that is why it is so hard for many of us to come to you in the first place.  It doesn't make logical sense that you, being you, would care about me.  I am a tiny speck.  I am nothing really.  Why would you care?  Why would you die for me?  And yet, I know it is true.  You tell me in so many ways. 

Maybe it is because I don't have my own children that it is hard for me to understand.  Maybe if I had my own kids I would understand better the love that comes from creating a person.  Maybe I would better understand that mother's or father's love that cannot be denied.  Maybe it is easier for people with kids to understand and believe that you love them no matter what. Not because of anything they have done but because they exist and because you created them.  Maybe. 

I may not understand it fully but I believe it.  There would be no reason for you to lie to me about something like that.  You tell me in so many ways how you love me.  I appreciate every one of them God.  Because I have a hard time understanding that kind of love, I need to hear that you love me frequently.  I need to see it.  I need to experience it.  Without those reassurances, I can begin to doubt.  I am sorry for my weakness God but you say it is in our weakness that you are made strong.  Be strong in me God.  

What God Said Tonight:
I am your strength.  I am a strong tower that you can run to.  I am more powerful than any force in the universe and I am on your side.  I will always fight for you.  I will always strengthen you. 

I do love you more than I can tell you.  I love you so much it is like a white blanketing snow that covers everything else.  The shapes underneath the snow are blurred until it becomes one soft pure white expanse.  That is what my love is like.  The details, the actions, the sins, the shape of your life becomes blurred in that blanket of love.  It is covered in my love for you until it is pure, white and holy. 

I love you to the end of time, covered in my blood and protected by my strength.  Rest tonight in complete assurance of my love.  Face tomorrow in the same assurance.  My sweet daughter, you are so precious to me.  Rubies pale in comparison.  Gold is a poor and clouded reflection of your worth.  Diamonds cannot begin to sparkle enough to show off your worth.  I love you with all that I am.

Gifts of greatness...

My prayer:
My God.  You have put such amazing and talented people in my life.  Sometimes I just stand in awe and look around me.  Your gifts in your people are so beautiful.  Whether it is singing, playing an instrument, teaching, encouraging, giving, loving, preaching, wisdom, artistic expression or something else, the gift itself is not what amazes me so much, but the vast amount of gift that you have given us amazes me.  When we learn how to use and live in that gift and let you really work through us, the results are incredible. 

Maybe you have given everyone in the world these gifts.  I don't know everyone but I know from looking around me that you have given an amazing amount of gifts to the people you have put in my life.  I feel like you have surrounded me with greatness.  It keeps a girl humble! 

Thank you for surrounding me with your greatness God.  Thank you for surrounding me with people that you have filled to the brim with your greatness.  Thank you God for your gifts.  I love you!!

What God Said Tonight:
Gifts.  Life is a gift.  Life is a choice and life is a gift.  You did not earn the right to be born.  You do not can not earn the right to wake up in the morning.  It is a gift.  The people who recognize the gifts in their lives and recognize me as the gift giver are most likely to get more gifts.  I can pour out gifts on the people who remain humble.  I cannot pour out the gifts on the people who become proud because it will destroy them. 

Remember that my motivation for everything I do is my love for you. My motivation is my love for my children.  I will never do anything to harm you and I will do everything possible for your good.  I have given you the gifts that I need you to have.  I have given you the gifts that have the best possibility of blessing you and making you all that you can be.  I have given you the gifts and the tools.  Your job is to use them and become proficient with them. 

I love you so much daughter.  I haven't told you that enough lately.  I love you to the very depth of who I am.  At the very source of me is my love for you.  It is the purpose and the reason for everything I do.  I love you for who you are, not what you do.  I love you because you are mine, not because you are good.  I love you because I can't help it.  I created you to love you. 

You are so precious and spending time with you is one of my favorite things to do.  Can we spend more time together?  I will multiply your time if you give it to me but I want more of your time. Not doing anything, just being together.  We are doing a lot right now which is good and necessary but I don't want to lose the intimacy with you in the process.  I don't want to lose the deep connection.  I want us to be even closer tomorrow than we were today.  To make that happen though it needs to be your choice.  I can ask, but I need you to draw closer to me and I will draw closer to you.  Are you willing? 

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Choose...

My prayer:
Mighty God I worship you.  I adore you God.  I can't help myself.  I love you so much.  You are so incredible!

You gave me more opportunities to see your healing power today God.  I am praising you in advance of the praise reports.  I am confident in your healing power. Thank you for the courage to ask the woman in the grocery store if she wanted prayer for her leg.  Thank you God for making her whole!

You are amazing God.  How about I stop talking so you can.

What God Said Tonight:
Life is an opportunity. It is an opportunity to make the right choices.  It is an opportunity to love.  It is an opportunity to use your free will for good.  You are designed and created to have choices.  Life is your opportunity to use those choices. 

Recognize the choices you have in every day, in every minute.  Life is your choice.  What you make of your life is your choice.  Who you choose to bless and curse are your choice.  Who you will believe and who you will follow are your choice.  Choosing not to chose is your choice. 

I want you to make good choices daughter.  Choices that enhance your life and ensure your future.  I want you to make choices that bring blessings to you. I want you to make choices that bless other people.  I want you to chose me and my way every minute.  Chose the things that I love.  Chose to always follow my instruction. Choose me every minute as I have chosen you.  Use this life, this opportunity to choose me and my ways. 

I love you.  I know that you are waiting and trusting.  It is time to chose.

Hurting...

My prayer:
Awesome and mighty God.  Thank you God for the two miracle healing reports today!  You are such an amazing God!!  I love to see you heal God. 

My heart is also heavy tonight God.  I hurt someone I that I really care about.  I was too wrapped up in my own stuff.  God I ask you to heal the pain I caused.  I have apologized, but it is not really enough.  I ask for your help to make this right.  I ask God if there is anything I can do to make recompense that you show me what that is.

I hate it when I hurt people.  I don't mean to do it but I end up doing it sometimes and it is usually the people I care the most about.  Help me God to be more thoughtful and less caught up in my own life, less selfish and more thoughtful.  I ask God that you make me a better person.

What God Said Tonight:
It is not possible for you to live your life connected to other people and never hurt them.  It is also not possible for you to live your life connected to other people without being hurt sometimes.  It is a part of the human condition, not the best part, but it is a part of the human condition. 

I love you daughter and I love your heart.  You will find your own way to make this right.  You will find a way to repair the relationship and move on.  I will help.  I am the God of reconciliation after all.  The only real good that comes out of these times of hurt is that you become more sensitive.  You, if you are paying attention as you are now, learn that your action and inaction can cause pain and you think twice next time. 

Your life is pretty full right now and much of it is very good.  However, if you miss the opportunities to bless and love your friends, your family, the people I have put in your life, the rest is not worth anything really.  But I know you know this. It is written all over your face tonight.  Listen to me and I will help you make this right. 

Also, remember this the next time someone hurts you.  Remember this time and remember how you feel.  Remember that you did not intend the pain.  Give the next person who hurts you the same benefit of the doubt. Empathize with the fact that they may have hurt you entirely unintentionally and that they want to make it ok more than anything.  Forgive yourself and forgive the next person who hurts you.  It is essential. 

Get angry...

My prayer:
My God, I need to ask for forgiveness tonight God.  I got REALLY angry tonight.  I got so frustrated when things weren't going my way.  I look at it now, now that the moment has passed and I can't figure out why I was so angry. Maybe it was all the built up stress.  There have been a lot of changes and pressure lately at work.  But I think it was mainly that I was being a spoiled brat and mad that things weren't going the way I wanted them to. 

I am sorry for that God.  You shouldn't have to put up with that from me.  I am a grown woman and I shouldn't be throwing tantrums when I don't get my way.  Please forgive me God.  I will try to grow up a little and do better the next time things aren't going the way I think they should.  I love you God.

What God Said Tonight:
You are my sweet daughter and I made you passionate.  Anger, just anger, is not bad in itself.  It is what you do with it that can hurt you and the people around you.  I got angry.  I get angry.  It is a valid emotion. 

You are right that your anger tonight was out of frustration and not a just anger.  You are already forgiven for the rashness of your anger.  You did not use your anger to hurt and that is good.  You let it wring itself out of you.  Now it is time to move on. 

You can go ahead and get angry if you want to.  But don't hurt people with it and don't let it stay around.  Get it out, deal with the situation and move on.  Anger was never meant to be something that is sustained.  It was meant to give you the adrenaline and energy to deal with a urgent situation and then move on. 

When I was at the temple and saw the selling and cheating that was going on, I was angry.  That anger was important and useful.  I responded to the anger, expressed it without hurting anyone, dealt with the situation and then moved on.  That should be your picture, your model.  Don't expect that you will never get angry or that you should never get angry.  I did not make you that way. But follow my model when you get angry. 

Rest in knowing you are covered and redeemed in my blood tonight.  Trust me to wash you clean and restore you.  I love you sweet daughter.  Put the anger to rest tonight and let's move on.

In position for blessing...

My prayer:
Father God, thank you for today.  Thank you for tonight.  Thank you for favor.  Thank you for a great small group.  Thank you for hearing my prayer last night and providing a way for people. 

Thank you for loving me and for choosing me.  Thank you for creating me and redeeming me.  Thank you for forgiving me.  Thank you for blessing me and giving me everlasting gifts.  Thank you for teaching me.  Thank you for speaking to me.  Thank you for taking care of me.  Thank you for providing for me.  Thank you for protecting me.

Thank you for being my God, my Father, my teacher, my healer and my friend. 

Thank you for the friends you have given me. Thank you for the family you have given me.  Thank you for the kitty you have given me.  Thank you for the opportunities you have given me.  Thank you for giving to me.  Thank you God for EVERYTHING!

What God Said Tonight:
You are welcome my sweet daughter. It is my pleasure and my plan to do all of that and more for you.  You have not yet seen the blessings I have for you.  I am already excited for the day when you look back and say, "How did all of THIS happen?"  I look forward to that day when you answer your own question with "Only God."

It is easy to bless you when you realize and recognize that it comes from me.  It is easy to bless you when you recognize the source and don't get caught up in yourself.  It is easy to bless you. 

I can't bless you when you get selfish or disobedient.  Not because I don't want to bless you.  I always want to bless you.  But sometimes, those times when you are outside of my will for you, the best way I can bless you is to withhold the blessing.  If I bless you when you are out of my will then you will be encouraged to stay outside of my will.  There will be no reason to return to me.  I need you  to return to me at those times and I will greet you with a blessing and a kiss. 

I want to bless you always.  I want to give you all the desires of your heart.  I want to give you beautiful things.  I want to give you talents and opportunities.  I want to give you experiences.  I want to give you so much.  Stay in position so that I can.  Stay humble and submitted to me so I can bless you more.  That is the only way the blessing won't destroy you. 

It is the undeserved blessing that is most dangerous.  If you receive it with the wrong mind set, the wrong understanding, it can destroy you.  So, as much as I want to give you all of these things, I have to wait for you to be in position, in right standing with me to truly bless you the way that I want.  Not because I am a tyrant but because I want you to receive these things without being ruined. 

How many times have you seen movie stars or music stars who start out humble, wonderful and happy only to end up destroyed with drugs, addictions and strife after the fame.  If I bless you when you are out of position, out of my will, it will destroy you as surely as fame destroys them. 

I love you so much. Continue to search out those areas in your life that are not right.  Those areas that are not in my will for you, and get rid of them.  Change them.  Do whatever you have to do.  As you clean those things out of your life, it releases me to bless you even more. 

I love you so much.  I love you no matter what.  I love you even when I can't bless you.  It is because of my great love for you that I can't always bless you the way that I want.  Don't be discouraged.  You will have all of the things I have promised. Just get in and stay in the position to receive them so they don't destroy you. Be obedient, be faithful, be sold out to me, and I will pour out the blessing you cannot contain.  I promise.

Open a window...

My prayer:
God my God.  It is so cold God.  No one can live in this cold without shelter.  I don't even know how the animals stay alive. 

God, I have been trying to avoid thinking about the people who don't have homes or don't have heat in their homes because it is too much, too painful, and I feel powerless to help.  It is nights like this God that I look around at the blessings you have given me and I think that I have not given enough. I think I have kept too much of your blessing.  I have not done enough.  Then I think, even if I gave everything I had, it would not make enough of an impact.  There would still be people cold, alone and homeless.

I don't like feeling powerless to help.  I am not big enough to handle this problem God.  I put them, each and every person who is cold, alone and afraid tonight, I put them in your hands and in your care.  I pray God with all the intensity and the fervor that I have that you make a way out of no way for them.  I pray God that you provide for them as their Father.  I pray God, as Jehovah Jireh that you meet all of their needs. 

God I pray that you show me the areas that I can help more. I pray that you show me the places where I can give more.  Those places that will make a real impact.  Those places that you have chosen, blessed and where you can multiply the gift, the blessing. 

God I don't know what else to do, or what else to pray.  It is hard to think about the people suffering tonight.  It is hard to know that it is happening and I sit here, not being able to help.  Maybe the best help I can be is to pray for them?  Maybe that is what they need more than anything.  I can't provide all of them with warmth, homes, hope and joy but you can.  I don't have the answers but you do.  Maybe this is one of those times where the best thing I can do is get out of the way so you can help.  Or, maybe that is a cop out and I tell myself that to feel better about sitting here in my warm house while they suffer.  God, please take care of them in Jesus name.

What God Said Tonight:
I feel the pain of your heart tonight my daughter.  I have heard and I will help.  The people who are on your heart tonight are also on my heart.  I have been making a way for them already. 

You are right to pray.  Anytime you have a problem that is bigger than you are, you should bring it to me.  I haven't seen the problem yet that was bigger than my ability to solve it.  I will be your everpresent help in times of trouble, whether that trouble is yours personally or whether that trouble is your brothers' and sisters' trouble. 

You are interceding tonight and that is good and important.  That intercessory prayer opens a window to heaven that allows my full power to be manifest on earth.  You should open that window more often.  You will be amazed at the results. 

True worship...

My prayer:
God I praise you!  I praise you and all that you are, all that you do.  I celebrate you tonight God.  I am so happy to be your kid.  I am so grateful to be a part of your plan. 

I love you.  I say it all the time and sometimes I wonder if you get tired of hearing it.  Then other times I think I can never say it enough.  If all I did was praise and worship you every moment for the rest of eternity, it wouldn't be enough to honor you God. 

I wish sometimes that I could sing and write songs for you.  I love when I find those truly anointed singers, song writers, worship leaders who express what I feel for you but do it so much more beautifully than my simple words.  God you deserve beauty.  You deserve that unexplainable perfect peace and joy that comes during true worship.

God I pray that my worship is always pleasing to you.  I pray and ask God, if there is something more, something different I can do with my worship of you that would please you more, tell me what that is.  I want, I need you to know how much I love you and how much you mean to me.  God hear my heart.  The worship of you in my heart is beautiful.  I don't know how to get it out so that I can express that beauty, but see my heart, hear my heart, know my heart.

I am so completely imperfect but I love you, I will remain faithful to you and I will serve you everyday and night for the rest of my life (everlasting life).  It is my ongoing vow to you God.  Please continue to receive me, covered in the blood of Jesus to do your will.

What God Said Tonight:
I like these nights of worship with you.  I like when you focus on me.  Not because I need it but because it is so good for you.  It strengthens you. It gives you peace.  It helps you to remember what is important and what isn't important. 

There is no worship that is more beautiful or less beautiful to me, as long as it is true worship and not a show.  As long as it is real and not part of an obligation.  As long as it is real and not habit.  All real worship is beautiful to me.  I love the songs too.  I love the music and the corporate worship when you all get into groups to worship me together.  But I also love the worship when you and I are alone.  I love when you are so focused on me, everything else disappears.  I love when you recognize how close we are.  I love when you realize that I am already in you and just waiting for you to realize it.  I love these private and intimate times of worship.  I love being that close to you.  I love how you can experience me in those times.  I love how those times draw us closer together and build our relationship.  Most importantly, I love you. 

I enjoy when we get together with other people. Do not fail to gather together...that was me who said that.  It is important that you get together and support and love each other.  But set aside time for just you and me.  Set time aside to build your and my relationship. It takes time to build a relationship.  It takes commitment, faithfulness, open mindedness, attention and it takes love.  Give me these things and I can promise you a greater relationship, a greater power, and a greater life than you could ever imagine. 

I love you more than you can imagine.  As much as you love me, know that I love you more.  Your love is truly a reflection of my love for you.  Rest again tonight.  We have quite a bit to do tomorrow.

Time to study...

My prayer:
Awesome Father, God of all creation.  I am at a loss tonight.  I have fragments of thoughts running through my mind, but nothing to really talk about.  I have all the same desires of my heart. I am grateful for all of the same blessings.  I continue to lift up all of the same needs of my family and friends.  But, you know all of that. 

Life has been a constant state of change for awhile.  So much so that change is becoming common place.  I am not complaining.  I love change. I love the new things.  But, when change becomes common place, where do I find the same excitement that I use to get from change? 

Oh God, I don't know.  I mean really things are great.  I think I am just in a Sunday night funk.  Probably I need to stop talking and focus on listening to you.  I bet it will be a whole lot more interesting.  Love you Daddy.

What God Said Tonight:
Why don't you know your own mind tonight?  It is not like you to be  at a loss for words.  You are still on the path I have picked for you. You are still doing what I planned.  You don't need the bells and whistles every moment to show you that you are on the right path.  Let it be enough that I have told you that you are right where I want you to be doing exactly what you are meant to be doing. Let my words be enough. 

Life is not always excitement and fireworks.  If you had miracles in your life constantly, you would lose the appreciation for them.  Like you said about change, when change becomes common place it loses its excitement.  The same is true of most things. 

A day lived with me is miraculous on its own.  You will see great miracles and you will be a part of them.  I have told you that is so.  You have already seen many.  One day, two days, a season of quiet miracles, of the miracle of living each day, those are good seasons too.  They help you appreciate the rest. 

I need you to use this time to study.  I need you to use this time to build up your faith and your knowledge.  I need you to prepare.  The next season is on its way in my perfect timing.  I know you get restless.  Use the energy from that restlessness to fuel you to be better, to learn more to love more.  The rest will come in time.  Know my word better.  Sow it deep in your heart that it is ready and available at all times.  Spend time with me, asking, seeking, and sometimes just being with me. 

I am your light and I am your guide.  I am the answer to every question you will ever have.  I am the excitement you seek.  We have more excitement than you can imagine this year.  Wait until you see.  In the meantime, prepare and wait with anticipation.  I will keep my arms wrapped around you and keep you in my heart.  You are mine and I am yours forever.  See me in everything.  Not only did I create everything but I created it for a purpose.  Look for me, look for my purpose.  Learn, study, grow.  Love you so much my daughter.  Keep reaching.

Judgemental...

My prayer:
Fantastic day God! Thank you for another great sabbath, another great day of rest.  You are so amazing Father.  I love you and I love the life you have given me.  I know that I am not always as grateful as I should be. I know that I don't always get things right.  As a matter of fact, I so often do the opposite of what I know I should do.  If I were serving judgement on my own life, I don't think I would fare very well.  I am glad that you are the judge God and that you are more merciful and forgiving than I have ever been. 

How is it God that we who are so imperfect feel the right to judge others and point out what we see as their flaws?  Where did that come from?  It seems pretty pervasive.  Most people I know do it.  We may not all talk about it but most of us do it, judge others. 

You don't tell us to judge others.  You tell us to love them and leave the judgement to you.  Why do we, why do I so consistently get that wrong? I pray God and ask for your help.  I ask that whatever it is that makes me judgemental of others that you take that out of me, that you help me to love and never judge.  I pray that you help me to remember that you are the only judge and more than capable of fulfilling that role. 

You are my everything God.  Help me get this right. In Jesus name, amen.

What God Said Tonight:
Judgement, being judgemental is a tricky thing.  It is attractive because as long as you are judging someone else critically, you can feel that you must be better than them to be able to recognize their flaw.  But the thing is, you only recognize the flaws in others that you yourself have.  When you're finding fault with your brother, with our sister, you need to take out your mirror and check yourself.  I guarantee that most if not all of the time, you will find that very same flaw within yourself. 

So, being judgemental of others, in truth, does not prove that you are better than they are, it only exposes the areas that you still need to work on.  The more you think of it this way, the less you will find yourself being judgemental.  You are not here to judge.  You are here to love. 

One of the best ways to love your brother and sister is to recognize the similarities between you, the connections.  Those connections and similarities can be positive traits or negative or even neutral but they are the connections that make you build your relationships.  Concentrate on the connections and similarities to bring you closer together instead of allowing judgemental attitudes tear you apart.  Take that thing that satan meant to harm you and use it as a tool to recognize commonalities and connect. 

I love you daughter, flaws and all.  I love the process of your perfection. You are on a path of growth and divine purpose.  I have great plans that have yet to be realized in your life.  Each sin that you expose and deal with brings you one step closer to that future.  Keep digging, keep asking, keep seeking.  I am here with you in it all.  I love you forever.

At the core...

My prayer:
Awesome God, thank you for an awesome day.  You are so amazing God.  I know I keep saying it but it is never really enough.  I can never tell you how I truly feel about you because there simply are not enough words. 

My God, thank you for putting such amazing people in my life.  Thank you for this life that you designed for me.  I love you so much!  What an amazing privilege that you allow us to talk to you.  What a ridiculously fantastic honor that you talk back to us God. 

I pray God that you are never silent in my life.  I need your voice and your guidance every day.  I am nothing without you.  I can do all things through you though. 

I seem to be hearing a lot about knowing who I am according to you God.  About recognizing my worth through you and your opinion of me, not through my own eyes, my accomplishments or other people's opinions of me.  If I could truly get that, if I could truly derive my worth from what you think of me and how you see me, then pride, jealousy, envy, self doubt and all of that would never be an issue again. God help me to get there.  Help me to know who I am by who you say I am and nothing else.  I think that would be  a very good thing. 

I love you God.  What is on your mind and heart tonight:

What God Said Tonight:
It would be a very good thing.  I have tried to convey to you how I feel about you, how I see you.  I have spent thousands of years trying to get my children to see themselves and others the way that I see them.  I know it is hard.  It seems unnatural.  But really, it is the most natural thing in the world.  It is the image that I created you in. 

If you can understand your source, that you were made in our image and for a great purpose, if you can understand and truly believe your origin, you might begin to understand your worth and who you really are. 

You are not a combination of your experiences and your accomplishments.  Those are your experiences and those are things that effect you.  But at your core, at the source of who you are, is my image. 

When you look to me and love me, when you are in awe of me and when you have those feelings of incredible amazement, understand that you were made in that image.  At your heart and at your core, that is who you are.  You have trouble seeing it because the experiences and trauma of sin and life blind you to it.  They are like layers of burlap cloth.  Heavy and course and as they are layered on top of you, they block out all of the light. They block the essence of who you are until even you don't remember.  It is time to shake off the burlap sacks and see the light and the essence of who you are again. 

I died so that you don't have to keep the covering of sin over you anymore.  I came and died so that you could be free and let that light shine again. 

Remind yourself daily of who you really are.  Remind yourself every day that you and all of your brothers and sisters were made in our image.  That the reflection of us is in your core being.  You are my children.  I say it a lot but take a minute tonight and really think about that.  You are not only my children in that you are my charge and responsibility that I love and take care of. You are also my children in that you have my DNA.  You were created in our image.  You have me in you.  You, at the core, at the deepest level are a reflection, a copy of my image. 

When you look in the mirror, start looking deeper, see the core, see me.  Remind yourself of this every day.  Remind yourself that under the experiences of you and of our brothers and sisters, at the core, you are the same reflection of me.  That is what makes you so special and so important.  The children of the most high God. 

You are so beautiful.  I cherish you.  You are my royalty placed on this earth to rule and to serve.  I love you my shining star.  Sleep well again tonight.

I see all of you...

My prayer:
Mighty God you are so amazing.  I love you God.  I remain in awe of you every day.  God, miracle healing, right now, right here, every day.  Miracle provision, right now, right here, every day.  God you are an every day amazing God. 

Thank you that every morning, you are the first thing I experience.  Thank you for being my last thought, my last experience before I go to sleep.  Thank you for the dreams you give me.  Thank you God for being in me, in my life, every day. 

When I decided to really start living my life for you God, I had no idea how great it would be.  I had no idea what it was to live with purpose, joy, and miracles every day.  Had I known, had I really known, I wouldn't have wasted all of those years.  I wouldn't have wasted my time going after what the world has to offer.  Forgive me for wasting time.  Forgive me for every moment spent away from you.  Thank you God that I never have to live another day, another moment without you.  I love you God.

What God Said Tonight:
Don't worry about time lost.  You know that time is relative.  I can make time, stretch time, shorten time.  I have the timeline under control.  We have eternity together. 

Every moment of your life has led you to me here today.  Every moment has had purpose.  Every moment is packed with purpose and intention for your life. 

So, yes, the years when you were running from me were hard.  Hard for you and hard for me.  But I was always with you and I knew even then that we would be here together tonight.  You and me together forever.  I knew even in your darkest moment that we would have these times of intense joy and intimacy together. 

I know your potential.  When I see you, I don't just see who you are today, I see who you can and will be.  I see the who you were and what you came through.  I see all of you and I love every part of you.  I love the struggles you survive.  Your scars are beautiful and show your strength and wisdom gained.  I love the striving in you today to be all that you can be.  I love the future you that is doing and accomplishing things you cannot imagine today.  I love all of you. 

I know that you don't see yourself this way but I wish you could.  I wish you could know you the way that I do. 

I wish you could know others this way too.  It isn't hard to love someone when you understand the the pain they have survived, the struggle they are in today and the incredible future planned for their lives.  When you see the whole picture, it is easy to love them. 

Rest peacefully tonight, no regrets.  Value yourself as I value you.  You are my most precious gem.  Sweet dreams my love.

Pay attention...

My prayer:

Wow God, 22 minutes of technical difficulties just to get the blog editor to load tonight! You must have something REALLY good to say tonight if there was that much trouble trying to block it! I love you and I will get out of your way. What is on your mind.

What God Said Tonight:

Watch and wait. There is about to be a move of my Spirit like you have never known or heard about. You will be going about your everyday business and there will be unexplainable things, unexplainable blessings and miracles.

They will be all around you but you will have to pay attention. Many people will have the same miracles happening in their lives, but they will miss it. It will be miraculous but somewhat subtle as well. It will be for those who are paying a attention. Pay attention so you see what I am about to do.

I don't need everybody to see this new move, this expression of my power on earth. This is just for my children. This is just to bless and strengthen the faith of my children. So please pay attention. Don't put your blinders on getting busy with everyday, routine tasks. Open your eyes to the miracle that is me in your life. Open your mind to the possibility that I am going to do a brand new thing. Keep your spirit open to receive what I have to give.

You are my chosen and I have some very special things to show you, to share with you, if you pay attention. I love you and I want to show you these things. I want you to understand what I have available for you. I want you to understand my power and my ability to accomplish anything. ANYTHING. I want you to see this so open our eyes. I love you so much. Don't miss this.

The field of your future...

My prayer:
Awesome God!  You are ALWAYS so right about EVERYTHING!  God thank you for wisdom and understanding.  Thank you for incredible friends who know exactly what to say even when they may not even understand what all is going on.  Thank you for friends who pray even when I don't ask for prayer.  Thank you for the amazing love you have surrounded me with--your love, love from family, love from friends. 

God, how incredible you are!  THANK YOU!!! I pray God that you multiply the blessing back to the amazing people you put in my life to bless me.  I pray that you multiply the blessing they give me back into their lives.  I ask God that you let me be a part of the blessing if possible but more importantly, BLESS THEM!  They deserve every good gift you have God. 

Pour out your blessing on your children tonight!  Pour it out to overflow on your children God.  Let them be drunk in the overflow of your Spirit.  Wow, I feel like dancing!!!  Now you know that doesn't happen a lot! LOVE YOU!!!

What God Said Tonight:
It is good to see you back!  It is good to see you out of the valley tonight.  All it really took was some changed perspective.  Seeing the pain, the emotion for what it truly was. 

Be able to recognize your enemy.  He truly wants to destroy you.  You are under my protection and I won't let him actually destroy you as long as you don't let go of me, but, he will try.  It is his job.  It is what he does and who he is.  

He hates my children.  He hates my children who worship me.  You don't need to focus on him.  The more you focus on something the bigger it can get in your life.  But be sure to recognize him quickly and use the weapon of my Word against him.  You will prevail.  We will always win when we fight together.  The quicker you can recognize the source, the quicker you can get free. 

I love you daughter and I am always with you.  You go ahead and celebrate tonight.  You have come through the valley and you are poised to step into the future I have been telling you about.  That future is so good, you truly can't imagine. 

Take my hand and lets step into the field of your future.  The grass is ripe and ready for harvest.  The sun is out and shining golden on the stalks.  They are ready for you and me.  Let's get to work.  Love you to the depth of me and with everything that I AM.

Up to the challenge...

My prayer:
Awesome God, my Father.  God I worship you.  I am grateful for you.  Thank you for the talk during our hike today.  I love those times of just prolonged conversation.  I needed to hear from you. 

I still have some work to do to get through this season but I feel more confident that I can.  God, as long as I have you, I have hope and can make it through anything.  As long as I hear your voice I can do what you are asking me to do.  Please always let me hear your voice. 

I love you God.  It has been all about me lately God.  What is on your mind?  What can I do for you tonight, tomorrow, forever?

What God Said Tonight:
Do not fear.  I sense some level of fear remains with you.  Fear that you cannot do what I have asked you to do.  Fear that you are not up to the challenge.  You are or I would not ask it of you. 

It will not be easy.  Growth is never easy. Sometimes I need you to stretch for me.  Sometimes I need you to struggle for me.  Other times, I need you to relax and let me take the reins.  Sometimes it all flows and you don't even feel like you are doing anything.  Those can be times of growth too, especially for you.  You would always prefer to act instead of sitting back and letting someone else act.  So, even though this challenge is hard, focus on the fact that you have the control and the ability to take action.  I have given you that ability, that control for this situation to help you grow.  Be glad that you get to be active in this one.  That might make it less hard. 

But regardless, step out and trust.  Step out and do what I have told you to do.  Step out and love even when you have no reason to believe you will receive the love back.  Trust even when you are afraid.  Do this because I need you to do it.  Do this trusting me to take care of you. 

I love you  and I know you can do this.  I know you are up to the challenge.  Do not fear tomorrow.  Do not fear failure.  Do not fear the challenge.  How many times have I asked you to do something crazy impossible and later it turned out to be just the right thing?  I will never lead you wrong.  I will guide you always. 

I have a great and mighty future for you and I am leading you always into it.  You just have to follow, trust and step into the challenge.  Like all challenges, it won't be as hard once you get started.  Listen for me throughout and lean on me to guide you through.  I love you daughter.

Spread the love...

My prayer:
God my God.  Father, I don't know how to pray tonight.  Life is so good right now.  Circumstances are so good.  You have worked everything out and you are prospering me everywhere I go.  You are moving in the lives of the people around me, changing circumstances and prospering them.  It really is amazing and I am so grateful God.  I really am.  But, my feelings, my emotions are definitely not matching the circumstances. 

I know I can't trust my feelings, especially in times like this.  I feel like my feelings, my emotions are on a roller coaster again.  My instinct right now is to withdraw from people mainly because I don't want to be around me, so why would they.  And God, I am frustrated with myself.  This is all stuff I thought I dealt with years ago!  Why am I having trouble with it now again?  What am I missing God?  What am I doing or not doing?  What do I need to change? 

I try to not isolate, to connect with people but it feels so fake right now.  It feels like I am forcing it and it feels so awkward.  I love the people you have put in my life God.  I love the new people you bring to me every day.  Why am I having trouble truly opening up and connecting with them?  I thought I was over that lack of trust.  Is it still related to being hurt a couple of weeks ago?  What do I need to do to let go of that God?  I thought I had but maybe not. 

Ok, I am done whining.  Thank you for putting up with me God.  Thank you for always being there for me.  Thank you for always having the answers.  I love you and I want to be a better person for you.  I want to be the person you created me to be so I can accomplish all that you have for me to do.  I don't want to go backwards God.  I want to go forward into the future you have described.  Please help God.  Thank you.

What God Said Tonight:
Wow, it took you a long time to get to the only words that truly mattered, "please help."  I am your ever present help.  I will always help you daughter, you just have to ask. 

You are struggling with something that seems familiar but that does not mean you are going backward.  Just because you deal with an issue once, doesn't mean that you will not have different layers of it to deal with in the future.  What you are experiencing as isolation right now would have seemed like being very social and connected in the past.  It is just that you have a new level of expectation for yourself.  I have a new level of expectation for you. 

The ministry we are moving into will require that you care more for others than you do for yourself.  It will require that you are more outwardly focused than you have ever been in the past.  This time is uncomfortable but it is preparation.  I need you to be uncomfortable in isolation.  I need you to crave that true connection with others. 

You feel like you are not in my will right now but you are.  I am teaching you a new level of love for my people.  A new level of connection with the children of God.  I need your heart to be so tied to the people in your life that that you cannot be isolated or disconnected.  I need you to have that same loyalty and faithfulness to them that you do to me. 

I love you daughter and I know that you can love.  Your love for me is beautiful and I love it.  It is time to love my people with that same love.  It is time for you to be as dedicated to them as you are to me.  You will always keep me first.  That priority must stay in place always but second needs to be the love for my people.  The love for the people in the kingdom of God. 

You will never again be satisfied with just you and me.  You will always need to have people in your life to love and connect with. 

Don't hate this season, learn from it and trust me.  You will love the other side of it. Trust me as always and I will show you new levels of joy.  I love you daughter now and forever.  Now let's spread that love around a bit more.

More of God...

My prayer:
My God, my Lord, my everything.  God of my heart and my soul.  My God how I love you.  I am lost in my love for you tonight God.  I am lost in my awe of you.  I am lost in my worship of you.  You are everything God.  What if I could spend every minute for the rest of eternity worshipping you.  What bliss God!  I am at my most satisfied and most filled with joy when I am in deep worship of you.  Overshadow me tonight God.  Overshadow me.  God I pray that I slide into the background so everyone can see you and only  you tonight.  Your intense and amazing beauty and strength.  Your love and your amazing youness.  There are no words to describe you adequately God so I will stop and let you shine through.

What God Said Tonight:
I am all yours.  I am here for you and only for you.  I am here tonight that you can see a new aspect of me that you have not known before.  I want to reveal parts of me that you have not known in the past. I want to unveil sides of me that you have not known.  You know much of me but there is much more to know.  I am vast and have many facets and I want you to know me more than you have in the past.  I want you to see me as I am not as religion or tradition has made me out to be.  I want you to know me, not the rumors of me.  I want you to feel me, not the echoes of me in the past. 

I am alive and real for you today.  I have power to share with you today.  I have salvation, redemption and healing for you today.  The miracles in the past are but a type and shadow of what I will do today if you are willing.  I know you have heard of many remarkable things and you have seen many already.  There is so much more.  I want you to truly begin to understand that there is no limit with  me. There is no boundary.  I can go beyond everything that you can even imagine.  I am bigger and greater than any circumstances.  I can do things that you have not even thought of yet.

I want to wow you this year.  I want to do things that so blow your mind, you will not have words to explain it.  I want to show you the parts of me that I have held back for years.  Those parts of me that are ready to come out in preparation for the next season.

There is a plan in all of this.  The increase in strife and pain.  The issues with the weather, the natural disasters, the wars and rumors of wars.  All of it is part of the plan part of what must happen.  I promise that we win in the end.  Part of this plan is the increase in miracle power that I will show you.  I will increase my presence, my visible presence in reaction or response to the increase in evil in this world. 

My power will be a fire that will run throughout the world purifying and leaving the pure and unspoiled  children.  The fire is hot, bright and all encompassing but it will result in you and your brothers and sisters being purified and ready to spend eternity with me.  I love you. Do not be afraid of the fire storm to come.  It is there for your cleansing and your bright future. It will not harm you, I promise. 

I love you so much.  We have much to do, much to battle but there is also so much joy.  Thank you for resting in this season of preparation.  You will need the rest and the memory of rest to accomplish all that we have.  My daughter, never forget my intense love for you.  Never forget the plan I have for your life.  It is truly great.