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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 and mighty God. It seems like there are a lot of powerful and significant things happening right now. Life is exciting and a little frightening. I am trying to remember what you have said, that you have it all under control and I should trust you even when it looks like things are not working out. I would say that I can do that about 95% of the time. The other 5% I am freaking out a little. I guess it is in the 5% that faith comes into play.
God I love you and I trust you. I believe that you have my best interest in mind and that you will guide me always as you have promised.
God I cannot be more grateful for you hearing our prayers today and keeping my friends and family safe from the Broken Tree fire. It is not often that we see a fire that is blown back in on itself and then snowed on! You are amazing. THANK YOU for keeping and continuing to keep everyone safe.
I love you God, now and forever.
What God Said Tonight:
Fear not, do not fear, you have not been given spirit of fear. You do not need to fear any thing. No weapon formed against you will prosper. I say these things and I promise these things because I understand how frightening life can be. I remember the feeling of being swept along by circumstances and the need and wondering, is there another way? Part of why it was so important for me to come live with you for awhile, to live as a man, was to help me better understand these very feelings.
Bring those feelings to me. Bring me your fear. Bring me your self doubt. Give me your worry. I will take it on and return to you peace. I will return to you confidence in a future that is assured. I will replace your worry with a confidence and a hope that you are where I have placed you. You are on a path ordained by me. You cannot be driven off of that path. I made it just for you. I made a future just for you. I made a dream just for you.
Everything is coming together perfectly. You don't need to gloss over you fear. You don't need to pretend it isn't there. Just give it to me. You have heard the saying that courage is taking action even when you are scared. Well, the action I need you to take is faith in me to work it all out. The action I need you to take is to bring me your fear and worry. Let me replace it with strength hope and peace. You are mine and I will not let you down.
I love you, now and forever.
My prayer:
I am beyond amazed with you God! Today was pretty phenomenal with the opportunities to serve you. Thank you for alerting me to a friend who was having a rough day. Thank you for the opportunity to help create another training program. Thank you for an amazing small group experience and for all that you are doing in our small group. God I am so very honored to be your hands and your feet. You are the BEST BOSS EVER!!!
I don't really have much more to say tonight God. I see you working everything out and I just pray that your will is done God. I am smart enough to know that your will is best and that if I just stay out of your way, you will accomplish amazing things and provide incredible experiences for me.
There are still a lot of needs God, both in my life and in the lives around me. But I am so completely confident tonight that you are taking care of each and every one of them, I can't do anything but thank you and praise you. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
What God Said Tonight:
I am showing you new depths. I am taking you to new places. Don't be afraid. It is the unknown, but I am with you and I promise you will love it.
Be wise, be discerning, listen to my voice and let me guide you. There will be some distractions along the way but stay focused on me and I will take you to places you can't even imagine. I will take to heights that you have only dreamed of.
I want to dream with you my daughter. I want to build with you. I want to walk and be with you forever. There are areas of the Kingdom that have fallen into disrepair. The buildings that once stood so tall and regal have fallen into ruble. I want to rebuild them, better and bigger than before. I want to build them with a new plan that is stronger and will withstand the test of time. Will you help to build them with me?
I want to show you my restorative power. You have been experiencing my creative power and now I want you to experience my restorative power. I want to build it all back up with you.
I love you daughter and I am so glad we get to share this stuff! Be blessed and rest. Tomorrow is a GOOD day!
My prayer:
You God are so amazing.
I am sitting here tonight imagining what it would be like to try to describe you to someone who had never heard anything about you. How do I describe someone who created everything that ever was or ever will be? How do I explain that they may likely never see you in this life but that your presence is more real and more powerful than anything else, ever? How do I explain a God who knows everything but wants to hear from us anyway?
How do I explain that you are all of these things and more and somehow, you still love each of us. Somehow, with everything you are responsible for, you are concerned about whether my meeting was successful, if I enjoyed my time with my friend and what I had for supper. You have numbered the hairs on my head. That is how much detail you care about when it comes to us.
God, fact is, you don't make a lot of sense. There is no one like you so there is nothing to compare you to. You are greater than anything else ever, so there is nothing, truly, to relate you to.
The only way to understand you, to know you, is to invite you into my life. Bottom line, that is the only way and then suddenly, everything that didn't make sense, begins to make sense. God, that is a big leap of faith though. I am so grateful that you got to me as a child when I didn't need everything to be so logical. I think I would have had a harder time making that leap of faith as an adult.
Obviously, God, despite you not making sense to people who don't know you yet, despite my inability to adequately describe you, somehow you still touch people's hearts so they can decide to invite you in. I guess that is the key. My attempts at explaining you and "convincing" people about you are completely inadequate, but that is ok. When it comes down to it, you are the one that convinces them. Maybe my feeble attempts open a door? I don't know.
What I do know is that you are more incredible and amazing than anything else ever and I love you more than I thought was possible.
What God Said Tonight:
Ah daughter, you know my heart. You know what is important to me. You know that what I want more than anything is for all of my children to know me.
I know that it is not easy. I know that I am outside of the "normal" and natural experience, but that is kind of the point isn't it? Who would want a God that is no more than they are.
I am what I am and people come to know me through many different avenues. Sometimes it is because someone tells them about me. They might be curious or they might just be ready. Sometimes it is because of a life that they witness, the life of a true believer that lives for me and reflects my love. That can convince more people than you know. Sometimes it is an event. You might think, and I know that you my daughter do think, that miracles convince a lot of people that I am real and that I am God. Funny though, they don't really. Sometimes they will, but only when the person was already close to believing anyway.
What is more convincing is seeing someone who loves me and lives according to my will in their life. When people see real faith, real trust and real love, that is what convinces them. When people feel that love from you, they begin to believe it might be possible that there is a God that loves them.
You were right to think that your talking to people opens a door for them to choose. It does. But so does your every day life. When someone cuts in front of you at the grocery store check out line, how you react effects people's opinions of me. When you give or don't give to others, effects people's opinion of me. You effect what people think of me. Remember to live a life that helps people to trust me and to want to know me.
I love you daughter. You are my billboard, my lighthouse. Shine for me.
My prayer:
My awesome Lord, God, Father. How are you? How was your day?
I had some things not turn out like I had expected but I am fully trusting you knowing that you have a purpose and plan that is better than any thoughts I may have had. I am waiting in anticipation for all that things you have talked about. I can't wait to see what you have planned. I am ready for Spring God. I am ready for the next season.
I need to ask your help with wildfires here tonight God. The smoke was so thick coming home. I pray and ask God that you put out the fires tonight. I pray God that you protect your people and their homes. I give this situation up to you God. I thank you God for hearing my prayers earlier today and keeping the fire from "M's" house.
I am kind of all over the place tonight God. I am having trouble focusing and my thoughts are just wandering all over. I love you and I trust you to take care of it all, including me.
What God Said Tonight:
The fires are not here to destroy but they are here to clear some things out. Much like your life, there are some things that need to be cleaned out, burned out, before we can move into this new season. The new season is all about new growth and I need the field to be cleared so the new growth has room to grow without being choked out by the weeds of the past.
I am not meaning to be cryptic, but sometimes the pictures of what is happening and going to happen are clearer than the straight words. I want you to understand what is happening. I don't want you to be afraid. I don't want you to worry that it is going all wrong. Everything is happening just as I have planned it. Everything.
Trust me and the process. We will get these things cleared out and the stage will be set and clear for the new Act to begin. You are right where I need you and everything is perfectly lined up. I love you daughter. Trust my love.
My prayer:
God my God. Today was awesome, amazing, incredible and every other word for great that I can't think of right now. Three miracle healings that I know about at our church today!! Other people who tithed for the first time. I can't wait to see what amazing blessings you pour out on them!!!
God you are awesome. You are so real and amazing and your power is for today, not just for "Bible Days" and I am so grateful that it is. Life would be so boring, dull, painful and worthless without your active power and love working in my life everyday. God you are so amazing. You should be the definition of amazing. When we look up amazing in the dictionary it should just say "God." Thank you so much for all that you did today and for letting me see and be a part of some of it!
I love watching you work God!
What God Said Tonight:
I am about to bring life out of darkness. There has been a dark hole that you thought was dead and lifeless. You thought it was a vacuum and that nothing could survive in it, but I am growing life from it right now and you are about to see the evidence of that growth. You are about to see the plants sprouting and growing from the darkness. The darkness was not dead and it was not a vacuum. It was an incubator for a precious new life that I have been working on.
There is new fruit, new growth that is going to come from the incubator, the dark place and it will be so good. It is fresh new life, spring green. There is a reason that I have waited for this time and this place to bring it about. You are about to experience a spring not only in the physical world but in your emotional and spiritual life as well. All is going to be fresh new and green.
I am bringing this about and it will be good. You have been prepared and you are ready for this. I can't wait to show it to you. It is not long now. Just a tiny but more of patience and you will see the new life that I have for you. You are going to love it. Rest well for the challenge of tomorrow. I love you.
My prayer:
My amazing God. I don't deserve you God. I don't deserve your blessings, your protection, your healing and your salvation. I don't deserve it. I am VERY GRATEFUL for it but I don't deserve it. I don't deserve any good thing really.
Where you say my righteousness is like filthy rags...I know what you mean. I am not deserving and yet you saw something worth saving. You saw something you could use. You saw something in me to love. I don't know how you saw through all of the garbage, the hurt, the yuck to see something worth saving but THANK YOU for seeing it!
Thank you for not giving up on me. Thank you for teaching me how to be better. Thank you for changing my heart and showing me how much better life is when I live it your way!! I love you God. Thank you for finding a way to love me.
What God Said Tonight:
Loving you is not so hard. At the root of you, the essence of who you are, there is me. I am the model that you were created from. I created you in my own image. Your core is in it's very essence, good. Your core is love. Love can't help but be drawn to love. Has life covered up that love with a lot of layers of garbage? You bet, but the core is still love. That is the root of who you are. I love the love that is in you.
When in doubt, love. When you want to please me, love. When you want to be in my will, love. When you want to feel better and more in touch with me and yourself, love. It is the core of everything really. Love, true love, is the core, the purpose and the meaning of it all.
Can you love for no reason at all? Try it. I promise you will like it. It is what you are made out of and what you were made to do.
I love you my sweet daughter and I find a lot of worth in you. I value who you are. I value your core and your experiences. I value the decision you make every day to live for me.
I love you daughter. Don't ever forget it and that love gives you your worth. You are loved by the Most High God and the Creator of the Universe. What more do you need? Your worth is more than rubies and more than gold. You are mine.
My prayer:
My Father and my healer, my protector and my Lord. How are you tonight God? What is on your mind. It has been all about me, my needs, the needs of my friends for awhile now. What do you want to talk about? I love you Father.
What God Said Tonight:
Yea, it has been about you but I asked you to share you stuff because the stuff you experience is the same that all of my children experience at one time or another. Your sharing is helping me to talk to them too. Until they are ready to hear me personally, this let's me talk to them and encourage them.
I am thinking and doing the things that I am always thinking and doing. I am loving you above all. I am thinking about your future and how amazing it will be. I love to think about my children and to see them grow and excel. It is one of my favorite things.
I am thinking about the children that are still lost. I am thinking of new ways to reach them. I am thinking about how I can speak to them so they will hear me. I am almost desperate for them to hear my voice and to make a decision to live for me. What happens if they don't is unthinkable in many ways.
I am thinking about the past the present and the future. They are really all kind of the same thing for me. I am thinking about the big picture and I am thinking about the smallest being. I am omnicscient and I can think of all things at once.
I am devoted to you, to my children and I am keeping you first. Can you keep me first? That is enough for tonight, you rest now and we will talk again tomorrow.
