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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:
Amazing God. I have a lot of stuff on my mind tonight God but I don't know if any of it is worth talking about.
Life is complicated but living life for you is pretty simple. I think, because you are so awesome and so big that sometimes I start to think that living right, living for you has to be complicated; but when I really think about it, it isn't. You really summed it up in two instructions: Love you with all my heart and love my neighbor like myself. Nothing complicated in that. No denomination mentioned in that. No church politics in that. No judgement in that. No dress code in that.
God, help me to get back to basics and not get distracted by the details, rules, and ideas that are not from you. Help me to remember the simplicity of you and your gospel. Help me to do those two things, love you with all my heart and love my neighbor as myself, every moment of the rest of my life. Help me God to love better. Help me to express that love better.
I do love you with all of my heart. Now and forever God, you and me and our family!
What God Said Tonight:
Simple principles, simple instructions. I have tried to make it all so plain. I even wrote it down to make it plain and yet there is still so much confusion in the world.
I don't want you to struggle to know my will and to know what I want you to do. That would be like a boss at work never telling you the expectations of you in your job and then slamming you in an evaluation. I am not unfair. I am a loving God that wants you to know everything. I want you to be fully equipped to live this life with all of the very best. I want you to know.
I am not mysterious. I am literally an open book. I just need you to read it.
It is all very simple. When in doubt love. When you are afraid, love. When you are worried about your future, love. When you are happy, love. When you are sad, love. Love is always the right response.
I love you sweet daughter and I love our time together. I love being with you and I love talking to you. Be specific in your expression of your love. Show people you really mean it. "I love your willingness to serve me" is much more meaningful to you than "I love you," right? Get specific about your love. Rest and get up tomorrow with renewed hope born out of our love.
My prayer:
You continue to bless me God! I love it so much and I feel so unworthy of it. Every time I turn around you are blessing me again. Whether it is success at work, or answering a prayer request for someone else, or the people you bless me with, every time I turn around there is new blessing.
It is getting so I am not surprised anymore. I am still unbelievably grateful. I am still in awe. But, it doesn't surprise me anymore. Like today with the call with the potential client. They had already decided they were going to contract us before we ever got on the phone. We really didn't have to say a thing. We talk details on Wednesday and they want to get started right away. At the end of the call, all I could think was, "Yep, that's how my God rolls!"
I love you God. Being spoiled by your blessings is amazing. Help me to keep it all in perspective. Help me God to never lose the understanding that the blessings may be great, but you are my focus. Help me to remember the principles of your Kingdom and what I sow is what I reap. Thank you God for every opportunity to be generous. Thank you God for multiplying that generosity back to me that I can give even more. The cycle of blessing is a pretty good way to live! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!
What God Said Tonight:
I am glad that in looking back on today, you are reflecting on the blessings and not the challenges. There were both. There were a few pretty tough moments but your mind is focused on the good.
That is a key to living life in my will. Think on the good things. If your focus is on me and on the good things, you will see clearly and live free of so many other entanglements. Worry is an entanglement. Fear is and entanglement. Pain is an entanglement. If you keep your focus on me, you will live free of these entanglements.
You are so very precious to me and I love to bless you so much. Sometimes I get carried away but I know it is going to good ground and will produce more fruit. It is easy to give when I know it will be given in return. The same as it is for you. Once you realized that you would never miss any money you gave to me and my kingdom, it was a lot easier to give.
I wash you clean tonight my daughter. Sleep well for another day of surprises and laughter tomorrow.
My prayer:
Awesome and mighty God. I can't believe the weekend is over already. Back to work tomorrow. I am excited that I get to teach again tomorrow. It has been awhile. I pray God for your favor and help to make the information understandable and to engage the students.
Thank you God for all of the opportunities you have given me to use the gifts you have given me. To think, it wasn't that long ago that I wasn't even sure if I had any gifts from you, let alone how to use them for you. I remember so clearly that series at church about finding and following your passion and thinking, "I have no idea what my passion is!" You definitely took care of that!
Thank you God for showing me my passion and my gifts. Thank you for positioning me in so many opportunities to use them. My God this life is so much more fulfilling because of that.
I love God that when I die (or the rapture comes) that I get to live forever with you in heaven or on the new earth. That is a gift that can never be repaid. But, beyond that, I am so grateful that you love me enough to make this life so full and wonderful.
I love you God. Thank you for passion, for gifts, and for opportunities to use them. Make me a blessing to everyone around me this week God that they see you in everything I do.
What God Said Tonight:
I have a purpose and a plan. I always have. I planned this night from the beginning of time. I planned this time with you. You are so important to me, so vital to me. I love you so much and blessing you is all that I want to do.
I will bless you with work all the days of your life, not because I need you to work but because I know the fulfillment that work, good work has for you. I will never stop bringing you the opportunities to use your gifts for me.
We are in this together. You can jump right in to pretty much any opportunity that comes your way at this point. I have a safety net around you. You can think of it as a fluffy cloud layer that will keep you from being hurt when you step out. I have a lot of opportunities that will require you to step out in faith. I need you to be ready and willing to step out quickly. So, I want you to know that I have a protection around you right now.
This is the time to stretch and experiment. This is the time to go beyond what you think is possible. This is the time to dream big. I will protect you. I will cushion you. I will not let you fall. Step out and trust me. You are going to love it, I promise. I love you daughter. Keep going on this wonderful path of life you are on and trust in me.
My prayer:
Today was simply a good day God and I am grateful for it. Nothing miraculous or super eventful; although I think you may have protected me from some stuff that could have been pretty bad. That car almost ran over me today when I was crossing the street and I don't know what was down that one trail but you pretty clearly told me not to take that one. God thank you for everything that didn't happen today as well as everything that did.
My mind is distracted tonight God. I love you and I want to be here with you completely; but, the truth is, my mind and heart are wandering. There are a lot of possibilities for tomorrow and several of them are not good possibilities. God, I put it firmly in your hands and I pray God that your will be done in every situation. I pray God that your perfect will is accomplished in my life. God I pray that you continue to show me what I should do but that you accomplish everything that you have planned tomorrow in your perfect timing
I pray God that you help me not to get in the way of what you want to do but to be a part of making it happen, if possible. Help me God to be a blessing. Help me to be the person you created me to be. Help me to see things through your eyes. I trust and believe that you have brought me to this exact time and place with these exact circumstances for a reason. You don't make mistakes. There is a reason and I will trust you until I understand the reason knowing that you love me and you want only the best in my life.
I love you God. Help me not to mess up your plans.
What God Said Tonight:
I am glad you don't want to mess up my plans but the truth is you couldn't if you wanted to. I have a plan and a purpose and I will see it accomplished. You are not big enough or powerful enough to mess up my plan.
Now, you can either choose to be a part of my plan and therefore be blessed or you can choose not to be a part of my plan and you will struggle miserably. Those are the only two choices. You are with me or you are against me. No middle ground.
I love you and I work very hard to keep you safe. You have a lot more to do and you will only accomplish it when you are focused on me.
My prayer:
Well awesome and amazing God, I made it to another Friday night! Thank you God for bringing me through this week. Thank you for amazing friends and family that remind me what this life is about when I get distracted or a little lost. Thank you God for all of the amazing blessings of this week! My God the favor you have shown me completely humbles me.
Mighty God you are so incredible! You are constantly making the impossible possible God and I don't understand it but I LOVE being a part of it!
I just had a thought God...you knew all of this was going to happen in my life. You knew the plan all along. During all of those nights when I was crying out, feeling like I was in a dead end job, stuck in a rut, not serving you like I knew you wanted me to and I knew you had gifted me to, during every prayer of "God help!", you knew about this season. You knew that there was a plan and a purpose that would lead me to this time where everything I touched would be blessed, when my job would feel not so much like work but something pretty cool that I get to do every day, when I would be able to flow in ministry and reach your people all over the world with your message. You knew this was coming. You tried to tell me. I wanted to believe you but it was so hard when I didn't see any evidence of it coming.
God help me to remember, next time I don't see the way out, help me to remember this time. Help me to remember that you know the outcome and if you are saying it will all be ok, it will be. Help me to remember that my life is ordained by you and you are guiding me. I love you so much God. Thank you for everything.
What God Said Tonight:
I am awfully glad you got that epiphany sweet daughter. I really do know the end from the beginning and I really do have a plan. I don't say those things just to hear myself or to give you false hope. I tell you those things because they are true and you can trust them.
We have a lot left to do in your lifetime and there will be many times when you can't see the purpose and the plan. There will be many times when you will have to trust me beyond what you can see and believe.
I am ready to take you to a new level. I talked to you about the preparation, the fire. Now you have a new level of understanding. Now we are ready to move.
There is a opportunity coming that I have waited a long time for you to be ready for. The time is here and the time is now. Don't be frightened by the new level and the opportunity. It is time. Don't miss out because of fear. Trust me and it will be amazing.
As good as your life is now, I have more to give you. I have more blessings for you. This is only preparation for what I have planned for you. I love you and your obedience and study have made a way for you. Your prayer has molded you. Your service has guided you to this time and this place with me.
Get ready and we will walk into the new stage, the new thing together. Take my arm and I will escort you in. I will be your host and your guide in this next thing. You are royalty and you are well prepared for this next season. Walk into it with your head held high.
I love you sweet daughter. Don't forget what you have learned. You will need it all.
My prayer:
Lord of my life, I love you. That's it really. I love you. I don't want to ask for anything tonight. I don't want tonight to be about me. I just want to hear your voice. I just want to experience you. I just want you God. Please come, be with me, talk to me, show me.
What God Said Tonight:
I am here. I am always here with you. I know that sometimes you recognize me more clearly than at other times, but that doesn't mean that I am more or less with you. I am always with you completely and fully.
The only thing that can take me from you is you. You are the only one who can choose to separate from me. I love you too much to force you, so, if you tell me to back away, I will. But otherwise, I am always here. I am always loving you. I am always surrounding you with my love, my protection. I love you so much. I spend my time surrounding you, not just because I want to protect you but also I want to encompass you, to feel and be a part of all that you are. I love all of you and I want to be a part of everything that you are.
I surround you like a fog with substance. I want to be in complete contact with you. I want to seep into every nook and cranny of who you are. I want to know all of you so I can bless all of you. Don't hide from me. I know everything already anyway. Open up to me so I can heal the broken places, strengthen the strong places and love every part of you.
I love you and there is no part of you that is exempt from my love. That is what my sacrifice did for us. It allows me to wash away your sin and love and experience all of you. Those that came before did not have that benefit.
I am saving you daily. I am healing you daily. I am loving you daily. I am your God now and forever. I will love all you forever. I will love you at your most unlovable.
Sweet daughter, I receive your worship and it is a sweet fragrance to me tonight. I really love this time with you. I look forward to it all day, knowing we will spend this time together. To know that I get to end every day talking to my child that I love, that is good. Rest in me. I am all around you and I will keep you safe and loved forever.
My prayer:
Awesome healing GOD!!!! You are so amazing! I love how you heal us!!! Tonight was fantastic GOD! Watching you and feeling you heal my two friends tonight was so perfect and wonderful! I never get tired of seeing you heal people. It is one of my most favorite things in the entire world! At some point, I will stop using exclamation points but I can't help it! It has been a couple of weeks since I have gotten to see you do that immediate healing and I have missed it!
You are such a miracle working God! Help me to always remember God that your miracles are for today, your miracles are for us, your miracles are for me. I was so tired before small group tonight God but I made it and it was so great, I felt so energized and then you showed up and started healing everybody! Now that will wake a girl up! I feel more awake, alert and energized right now than I have in weeks.
LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOD!!! THANK YOU!!!!
What God Said Tonight:
This is what it is all about. You have been a little lost and forgot the purpose of your ministry for a little bit. You forgot why we do this. Tonight, you are remembering and your celebration is echoed in heaven. The angels are dancing with you. They are laughing and singing and praising me with you. You feel the celebration in your spirit and in your soul.
You are privy to and witness to the miracles of my presence and you appreciate and celebrate it. You recognize my power in this world and we will be able to do much because of that. You faith, your ability to recognize my power in this world, and your willingness to see it accomplished, open that window allowing me to step in and make it happen.
I could do it without you but I love doing it with you. I love when we get to do these things together and celebrate together. Celebration is always a lot more fun when you have someone to celebrate with. I will shout from the roof tops that I am God and I will reign forever. Come shout it with me and the two voices will be stronger than one.
I love you daughter and tonight was fun! I love to celebrate with you. I love to see you get excited about what I am doing. I told you today would be amazing!
