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The History: A couple of years ago, I started journaling my prayers and God's responses to them. I told my friends about this, they were really interested. I told my Pastor about it and he said, how about sharing those on line. When I asked God, He said, my words are for you, but not just for you. And, here we are...I hope He speaks to you in these words.
My prayer:
Awesome God. I am having one of those nights where I have so many thoughts running through my head that I don't know what to talk with you about. Or, I guess more accurately, I don't know how to talk to you about it all. It is all jumbled up.
The Bible studying today was good and clarified some things but also created more questions. Funny how that happens. I often come with one question and I may get an answer, but I leave with five new questions. I guess that is part of what keeps it exciting.
God, I find myself worrying about a lot of little things tonight. None of which really matter on their own but it has my mind racing. I give every worry to you right now God and I pray that your will is done on earth as it is in heaven. I declare that you have not given me a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind. I am making a decision right now to think about you and what you have done and to stop thinking about the little worries that are pecking at me. Help me God to stick to that and not wander back into worry land.
I love you God and I am so grateful for you and your favor in my life. This life of mine would be worthless without you. I am so grateful that I never have to live a moment without you. I will never be alone and I will never be without hope because I will always have you. That is a gift I cannot repay.
What God Said Tonight:
Tonight I want you to rest in my arms and in my peace. You are right that none of your worries are worth the time you have spent on them.
I have everything under control. I will give you each new step and each direction. I will not leave you confused. I will guide you always.
Rest in my arms. Rest in my peace. Rest in the absolute knowledge that I love you and I will take care of you forever.
You do not have to be the strong one all the time. You do not have to be the one with the answers all the time. You can rest knowing that I am always strong and I always have all of the answers. I have everything you need for every season and I will not let you be uncovered or unprepared.
I love you, trust me now, tonight. Trust me and be comforted by my presence... There, that is better. Rest in me daughter and I will take care of everything.
My prayer:
Mighty God. I am falling asleep sitting up again tonight but I can't go to bed before I hear from you. I love to hear your voice and your presence is worth more to me than anything else in the world. What is on your mind tonight God?
What God Said Tonight:
I am teaching you a lot of things right now. This season you will learn a lot. I need you to record the things you are learning. I need you to make a record of it. One day you will have need of it.
When I teach you that my model is to go to where the people are and teach them where they are, remember that. When I teach you that I am the reason for your blessing, not your own "goodness", remember that. When I teach you these things, record them so you don't lose them.
This is a new type and time for study for you. I need you to study on a personal level in a more intense manner than ever before. I need you to learn the principles behind the directions. I need you to understand the "why" not just the "what" and the "how." I need you to dive into my word like never before. Study in earnest and I will show you even greater levels of wisdom to help you navigate this season and the next.
I love you daughter. Get your rest and be ready to study hard tomorrow.
My prayer:
God you are amazing, awesome, incredible, and so much more! Thank you for healing "K"! Thank you that your healing in her will give her the faith to believe for the healing of her son.
God, your promises, your miracles, your word is for today. I was reading a book today that was saying that the Bible was meant to be personal to the people at the time it was written but not meant to be personal to us today. I nearly screamed out loud "NOOO!"
God, I believe that you want us to have so many blessings. I believe that you intend for every promise in the Bible to be personal to us. I believe that because you have shown it to me. Time and time again, you show me how you open the windows of heaven on our lives, how by your stripes we are healed, how you have a future and plan for our lives and it is a good plan and so much more.
God, it breaks my heart when I think about how much less we are living with. So much less than what you want for us. God, I pray that you clear my vision. I pray God that if there are promises that you have for me that I am not realizing in my life, that you show them to me and show me how to receive them.
I pray God that you show all of your children the lives that you mean for us to live. The joy you mean for us to have. The blessings you mean to pour out on us. Somehow we got it confused along the way and started thinking that living without was somehow more holy than living with your promises. God, help me get my thinking right and living with every promise of yours active in my life.
What God Said Tonight:
The promises of God are yea and amen. They are present, available, and active for you, right now. I made those promises to you so that you could have them. If I made you promises and then hid them from you, that would make me a pretty bad Father. I didn't make promises to you with the intention of withholding them. Every promise is yous and meant for you. Seriously,every promise.
There is nothing that I will keep from my children. You have to ask for it though. You have to know what the promise is and you have to ask for it. You have to be active and present to receive the promise. If you didn't have a role in it, you would likely not recognize where the gift came from and you would likely not appreciate it.
You are going to start seeing promises fulfilled at and entirely new rate. I am cranking everything up a notch and you are going to witness the explosion of blessings and promises. I am gearing up for the end of time as you know it. There will be things you do not understand but know that I am with you and I will never leave you.
Now is the time to recognize every promise I have for you. You will need them all in the coming days. I love you daughter and always will. That is a promise.
My prayer:
Amazing and all knowing God. Thank you for putting up with all of my doubts over the last several weeks and not giving up on me!
As I watch you bring this whole plan together, with all of the people and the pieces coming together so perfectly, I am in awe. Like "G" says, it is like a beautiful patchwork quilt or like "K" says, it is like a diagram of an organic chemistry molecule, beautiful, perfect, and made up of things that are different in many ways but similar in others. It is so beautiful to watch you work God!
I gladly submit to your will because I know it is better than mine. I humbly ask that I get to continue to be a part of what you are doing. There is nothing I love more than being with you and seeing you work in people's lives. God I love that I get to spend every second of eternity with you! There is no place I would rather be.
What God Said Tonight:
This is a time to follow your instincts because they are true and right. I am in them. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are hungry, eat. If you lack knowledge, study. If you want to help someone, help them. If you want to do anything for me and in my name, you are free to do it. I release you to follow your dreams. Your dreams are my dreams.
Everything seems to be coming together so effortlessly because you are in the flow of my will. Follow the flow and it will be smooth sailing. My will is like a river that can change course when needed but always reaches its destination. There may be boulders and odd currents that seem to take you off course, but none of them matter as long as you are still in my flow. We will get to where we need to go if you stay in the flow.
I will continue to leave markers here and there to confirm for you that you are still on my path. It is a marked route although it is a path that no one has taken yet. To get from where you are to where we are going, we have a a ways to travel. But the traveling will be easy if you stay in my flow.
I love you sweet daughter. Thank you for sticking with it. We have great things in your future and I don't want you to miss them.
My prayer:
Amazing and wonderful God. I love you so much! I missed meeting with you like this last night. It has become a treasured habit God.
Thank you for the relaxation of the last couple of days. Thank you for the time off. And thank you even more for the opportunities to serve your people all day today!
I appreciate the downtime but what I really love is to serve you and your people. What I really love is to be there for someone and watch you step in and help them. What I really love is when you take charge in a way that no one can doubt who you are or your power. What I really love is YOU and getting to see YOU be YOU!
I love you so much and it is good to be back here with you. What is on your mind?
What God Said Tonight:
I love you my sweet daughter of grace. I hope you realize that the hundreds of fields of wild flowers that you saw the last couple of days were my gift to you. A husband may bring home a bouquet of flowers but I have a few more resources at hand and wanted you to see my love. Every color, every shape, I fashioned for you. Every leaf, every stem, was made with you in mind. I love you and this was one display of my love for you.
My children are so very precious to me. I am showing my love all of the time but you don't always recognize it. When you forget who created the earth, who created you, you may miss all that I have done for you. When you forget who I am, you may miss all that I have done because of my love for you.
I am constantly looking for new ways to show my love for you. It is important that you understand and never forget. I want you to do the same. Constantly be looking for ways to express your love for me and for other people. Be creative. Find new ways to show your love. There is no right or wrong way but keep doing it.
You know from personal experience that it is easy to doubt people's love for you unless it is constantly reinforced. Make every interaction with the people around you an expression of your love, if you can. Be creative. Watch what other people do and get new ideas. Do things, give things, say things, show your love. I will help.
It all comes down to love. I am love and love is the beginning and ending of every story in this life. I love you. Keep your eyes open and receive love so you can give it away. Giving you a kiss on the forehead before bed. Sleep tight my sweet daughter.
My prayer:
Amazing, incredible and protective Father! I am consistently amazed at what good care you take of me! How many times, this week alone could I have been killed? Between crazy drivers and killer storms...I am losing count.
Thank you God for your love. Thank you for taking better care of me than I deserve. Thank you for always loving me more than I deserve. Thank you God for always giving me more than I deserve!!!
I love you so much! What is on your mind?
What God Said Tonight:
Taking care of you is pretty easy. It is a natural reaction of my love for you. I will always watch over you. Lest you dash a foot against a stone. I am in continuous watch care over you.
You are carved in the palm of my hand. You can count on my protection and my watch care over you.
You are who I designed you to be. You are where I intended you to be, doing what I intended you to do. I have planned all of this since before you were born and I am in complete control.
As long as you leave me in control, you can trust the outcome will be good. Don't take the reins. Don't try to steer. That is when we run into trouble. Leave that part up from me. You move, I will steer, and we will end up exactly where I intend.
I love you sweetheart and today is for you. Tonight is for you. Tomorrow is for you. They are my gifts to you and I always give good gifts.
My prayer:
God of peace. God, you have the peace that passes all understanding. I need that peace tonight. I am suppose to be relaxing, taking some down time, but my mind continues to race. I continue to feel on edge. I am wound up so tight, I am not sure how to get unwound.
God, it would be so much easier to just continue to help make other people's dreams come true instead of trying to step out and realize the dream you gave me. It is so much easier for me to believe in other people's dreams, to believe their dreams will come true. When it is my dream, or more importantly, your dream that you put in me...I start to think, "Who am I to think I can..." I am nobody God. Funny, I can hear you even now saying, "Great! I can work with nobodies! There my favorites!"
God I want to help see your dream, your vision that you put in me, come to life. Help me God to have the strength, the courage, and the peace to do what you need me to do. Help me to listen to you first and people second. Help me God to do this right.
I love you and I love your dream for me. Just keep reminding me that it really is possible. Keep reminding me that with you all things are possible. Don't give up me God, I can do it, I just need you to keep reminding me right now.
What God Said Tonight:
You don't really need me to remind you, you are reminding yourself. You don't really need me to encourage you, you are encouraging yourself. Just like King David who you love so, you have learned the ability to encourage yourself in my word and that is a skill that will serve you well throughout eternity.
You know what I have to say on the matter, you said it yourself, all things are possible through Christ. You know that I have a plan for your life and you know it is a good plan. You know that I would not have brought you this far to leave you. You know that I will lead and guide you always. You know that I will never leave you.
Yes, this next step, this next season is a big one. I am asking you to do things that you have not done before. I am asking you to trust me to put together the plan. I am asking you to get started before the full plan is evident to you. You were ok with that yesterday and now, you worry. Now that you are looking at it against man's plans, you think you should know more than you do. You think you should have it all laid out. If you had it all laid out already then it really would be your plan and not mine.
I have been leading you and guiding you for long enough now, don't doubt the pattern that we have developed. I show you the big picture in general terms and then I give you next steps. Wait for each step. Trust me to provide each one. We will do this the same way we have done so much together. It is a pattern that works for us. Don't let others influence how you think we should work together. You know me, you know how I work. Trust that.
I have not given you a spirit of fear or timidity. Especially you. I have given you the courage of a mother lion. There is nothing that you will back down from, especially if it is something that is threatening what you care about. That is part of why you are feeling unease. I am asking you to do some things that go against your nature. Your natural instinct is loyalty and faithfulness no matter what. I need you to recognize in this case, I need your loyalty to me and your faithfulness to me to supersede the loyalty and faithfulness you feel toward others.
It is hard I know, but I will give you peace. Peace I give to you and peace I leave with you. I will shower you with the peace of my love and the assurance that I am with you every step of the way. Don't neglect our time together. It is more important now than ever. I love you daughter sleep in peace tonight.
