Spring is coming...

My prayer:

My mind is scattered tonight God. I think it is one of those nights that it is better for me to listen than to talk. What is on your mind?

What God Said Tonight:

This winter has been difficult for you I know. You feel dried out and cracked up and you think you are not producing fruit. You think that you are cold and frozen. But that is just the environment, the season, that you have been in. You are not defined by your environment. 

Spring is coming. I promise. You will feel the joy of growth again soon. You will see the fruit, the flowers that have been lying dormant. They are about to spring up. Your fruit is there and is waiting for the right conditions to rise up. 

You have been planting and tending. you have been following my lead. You will soon see the harvest. You will soon see the produce. Do not be discouraged. Lift up your eyes and see the spring coming. I love you.

New generation...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I think I realized tonight that we are a bunch of messed up kids just trying to figure it all out. And, that is OK. It is that second part that is new for me. It is ok that we are messed up and that we mess up. You expect it. You provided salvation through your son because you knew we would mess up. 

The goal really isn't to stop messing up. The goal is to have you with me wherever I am. The goal is to be present with you no matter where I am and what I am doing. How many times have you told me that all you want from me is to love you and love the people around me? Enough so I have lost count.

I think I am finally starting to get it God or at least get the next level of this understanding. I will never be good enough and that is ok. I can stop trying to be good enough. 

Living in your presence is easy. I love you and I love having you in my life. 

I feel like a big weight that I didn't even know was there, has been lifted tonight God. You have been trying to teach me this for awhile now I think. Thank you for sticking with it until I got it!

What God Said Tonight:

I am raising up a new generation unlike those that have been before. This generation is going to be free in me and free to see and do all that I have been planning since the beginning of time. 

It is a great time to be alive and a great time to be in the world. There are great challenges, great tragedies right now for certain but there are also immense opportunities to see the miraculous. 

Every thing you learn,m everything you do and everything you see is a part of a plan that has been in place since the beginning of time. I love you and I have truly prepared you for such a time as this. 

Glory of God...

My prayer:

God, you are an AWESOME GOD!!!! Thank you for the miracles tonight! Thank you for answering prayer in such an immediate and specific way!!! You are INCREDIBLE!!! My God is an awesome God you reign from heaven above in wisdom, power and love my God you're an awesome God!!!!! LOVE YOU LIKE CRAZY!!!

What God Said Tonight:

You have only just begun to see what I can and will do in your life and in the lives around you. I have been waiting for this time and this season and the time has come. The time to see me do the things you have only heard about is here. 

I have a purpose and a plan in this time. I needed you to get to the place where you had no doubt that it was me and nothing or no one else who will effect these changes. You needed to get to the place where you know that I am God and I will not fail. I need you to be in the place where you know that you are here for a reason but that it is my power alone that makes the change happen. 

You are there and I am ready and we will see great miracles on this earth, in this time, and with these people. Get ready to CELEBRATE! THE GLORY OF GOD IS AT HAND!!!

At peace...

My prayer:

Awesome God of peace. I am so relaxed tonight. It was wonderful to feel strong enough to really get a good run and work out in tonight. I have missed that endorphin rush and the peace that comes afterward. Without it, I get all out of balance. 

Anyway, life looks awfully good tonight. Thank you for all that you did today. You are wonderful. Thank you healing D, making me prosper, and all of the many other things you did today that I may not have even realized. 

What God Said Tonight:

I like it here with you right now. I can abide in a soul that is at peace. When you are at peace, you can hear me more easily, you can make better decisions, you can keep things like anger in check. When you are at peace, you can do more for me. 

Peace is a wonderful and beautiful condition. It is an environment that allows all good things to flow. Evil cannot stand in the face of true peace. 

Live in the midst of peace and you will find your life becomes richer and more satisfying. I am the Prince of peace for this reason. 

1000 posts...

My prayer:

Wow God, tonight is the 1000 prayer we have posted on this blog!! Who (other than you) could have known what you had planned for this when it started 3.5 years ago? That is how you are though. You start with just planting an idea, a seed. Then, if I/we say yes, you take that seed and grow it into the biggest tree we have ever seen!

Thank you for the honor of getting to listen to you each night and for the honor of sharing you with the world each night. Please don't ever stop talking to me. A day without you is unthinkable. I am not sure I could survive even one day.

I love you God!!

What God Said Tonight:

Round numbers are fun milestones to chart where you have been but the real marker of success is the lives that are changed. One life, one person who chooses me because of anything you do is worth the world. One person who is saved sends the heavens into high praise and celebration. I don't count success by numbers but I do count success my soul impact. 

I love you daughter and each of the last 1000 nights has been precious to me. But then, every night that I get to talk to and listen to my kids is precious to me. I love spending time with my children who love me. 

See you for 1001.

LOVE...

My prayer:

Not sure what to pray about tonight God. I am simply grateful to be feeling better and stronger. That is the only good thing about when I do get sick, it makes me appreciate being well at a whole new level! Thank you God for always taking care of me, healing me, providing for me, teaching me, loving me, and being my Lord. I love you SO MUCH!!

What God Said Tonight:

Your dreams, your hopes, your fears are all so precious to me. I don't take any of them lightly. I want you to know that you are my child, my creation, my love. 

I want you to understand tonight, like you never have before, that I love you, period. Not I love you if... Not I love you when... Not  I love you unless... Just, I love you. I will always love you. I will never not love you. 

Think of any moment in time for the rest of eternity...do you have that time period in mind? Good, I will love you then. 

I don't need you to perform for me to love you. I don't need you to be good for me to love you. I don't need you to do or be anything other than you for me to love you. 

I know that kind of love is hard to understand. I will spend the rest of eternity teaching you about it. But tonight is one of the lessons. No matter when, no matter where, no matter what, I love you. Remember that.

When evil dies...

My prayer:

Awesome God. I am trying to imagine what life will be like after your second coming to earth, when there is a new earth, a new heaven, satan is cast into the lake of fire with all of his demons, and evil is no longer roaming around causing havoc. What will it be like? Having never experienced a place or a time when evil did not exist, I am having a hard time imagining it. 

I am certain it will be wonderful. I would imagine that we will have a lot more joy and peace. We should be able to relax a bit maybe? See, I have a hard time truly imagining it. If you are willing and if I can understand, can you tell me what it will be like? 

Thanks for today. My strength is returned and it was a very good day. Thank you God.

What God Said Tonight:

I am not sure if I can explain so you understand but I will try. It is hard to describe the absence of something. What will the world be like in the absence of evil? 

It is like looking at a big tree and asking what it will be like when thee tree is gone. Obviously, you won't see the tree anymore. However, you will see the effects of the tree. You will see new growth out of the tree. You will see new plants out of the tree. You will see sunshine and light where there was shade and darkness. You will see the things that were on the other side of the tree the whole time but you did not know they were there. You  may see things that you don't recognize. 

In the new kingdom, when evil is gone, you will see like you have never seen before. You will not longer be blinded by sin and by bondage. You will experience my light like you never have before with no interference. You will have room to grow and to dance and to love. New life will spring up in the place of where evil lived. 

I celbrate in anticipation of that day. It will be so very good. Sleep well in peace.