Mirrors...

My prayer:

Amazing God of truth. throughout my life, I have begun to realize that the people who I have the hardest time dealing with are often A LOT like me. 

God, I really struggled with someone today, not for the first time, and I know that the things that make me crazy in her are present in me too. And that makes me more angry! It should give me grace and mercy when dealing with her. Instead it makes me want to "fix" her. You know how you say we should remove the plank from our own eye before we try to remove the speck from someone else? Well call me Ms. Plank.

God I pray for your help in removing the plank from my eye. Help me to be less controlling, less overbearing, less of a know it all. These are not attractive qualities and they are not things that show people your love. Help me God to be more accepting, more supportive and more open to others ideas of how to do things. 

Through this all God, please give me the grace and mercy to relate to people who share this struggle with me.

Thank you Jesus!

What God Said Tonight:

Sometimes I give you people in your life to be mirrors to you. They are there to help you see what you need to change. How can you know what needs to change if you can't see it? 

You are right to recognize that your irritation and anger is merely a symptom of recognizing your faults in the mirror. I have heard your prayer for help and of course I will help you. 

You are to focus on the replacement virtues. I will concentrate on removing the old. The old ways are death and the new ways are life. You have chosen life and I have come to give it to you. I will flood you with the grace and mercy you desire because you want it for others and because it is yours as a result of being mine. 

Don't ever miss an opportunity to get closer to me.Every step is worth it.

God's voice...

My prayer:

Wonderful Father. I can't thing of a single thing to talk about tonight. I know, that is shocking and completely unlike me! Maybe it is a good cue that tonight I should just listen?

Love you Daddy!

What God Said Tonight:

Seek to hear me and I will speak every time. I am continually speaking. You are not always listening. 

You have to concentrate to hear my voice over the noise of life. I don't shout and I don't beat you over the head. My voice is quiet but mighty.

My voice creates reality. My voice changes your circumstances. My voice created the world. My voice is mighty and powerful and will bring you into your future. 

Listening to my voice, hearing my voice, is one of the most important things you can do. The more you listen, the easier it is to hear. When you become truly sensitive to my voice, you can hear me at anytime. It let's me help you all day, not just in our quiet times together. 

Keep an ear out for me. You will be surprised by what you hear. 

The next level of you...

My prayer:

Thank you for today God. Thank you for restoring me. Thank you for helping me. Thank you for the amazing people you put in my life that love me even when I am not so lovable. 

Thank you for having better plans and a better future for me than what I had thought of on my own. Thank you for helping me to see the closed door and thank you for the new open door that you have waiting for me. I trust you in this and in everything.

What God Said Tonight:

I am your hope when you can't see the future. I am your light in the darkness. Stay in my presence here tonight and I will show you great things for your future. I will show you the next steps. I will show you the glory to come. 

You are becoming the next level, the next version of you right now. You are growing and changing even as we speak. I have prepared you, you have stepped out in faith, now is the time to watch what I will do with it all. 

I love you daughter. Stay here with me and I will show you great things, now and forever.

Big but...

My prayer:

I made a decision tonight God. I am going to believe you for everything, even the things where I don't even understand what the problem is, let alone the solution. I am going to believe that you know the answer and that means I don't have to. I am going to believe that you have a plan, or many plans and that those plans are good. 

I will do whatever you tell me to do, no matter how crazy. I will seek you in everything. I will remember to thank you every day. I commit to you these things.

Trusting in your love for me. 

What God Said Tonight:

I love that you trust me and want to follow my will. And, as you know, I will from time to time ask you to do some things, some of which will seem crazy at the time. But, and this is a big but, I don't need robots. I don't need slaves.

I don't need you to only do what I tell you.

I want you to develop your passions. I want you to follow your interests. I want you to build relationships and create things that make you happy. I will bless those things too.

I will bless them because I love you and you have my heart. You don't always have to wait for me to say "go." If you want to "go", go and I will come with you.

I love you now and forever my sweet child.

Open heaven...

My prayer:

God all mighty. I want to concentrate on you tonight. The world, life, the troubles and storms around me are fighting for attention. The thing is, there is not a single thing I can do about them except give them to you and love the people going through.

I give it all up to you God. The troubles, the worries, the needs, the sorrow, the pain, the sickness, and the fear. I give it all to you knowing that you have answers for each and every situation because, you are God all mighty. You are El Shaddai. You are our provider, protector, teacher, Father, healer, and our peace. You are everything we need with  nothing missing and nothing lacking.

I lay it at your feet and wait to hear your voice...

What God Said Tonight:

I am lifting the roof off of the church, off of my people. I am exposing you to the open heaven we have talked about.

Not everyone will be ready and not everyone will be willing but for those who are, a new life, a new existence and a new reality is about to spring forth.

These troubles are nothing more than birth pangs. Some things have to change. Some things have to end in order for this new beginning to come.

I will comfort those who are hurt and I will heal those who are sick. I will provide for those in lack and I will give peace to those who have worry. I will calm their fears in the midst of their battle. And, it will all work for their good.

Let the sun shine in on you as the open heaven comes to earth.

Larger vision...

My prayer:

Mighty God. I have a lot on my mind that I want to talk about tonight but I am not sure how to even begin to organize my thoughts enough to express them. I don't begin to understand what is happening right now. Doors are opening and closing faster than I can even follow. 

God, bottom line, anything and everything that you want, I want too. Anything and everything that you don't want, I don't want either. If there is anything in the middle, that you don't have an opinion about...well that is where it gets confusing. 

God, please give me wisdom and help me to make the choices for your best in my life and that will result in the greatest blessing for those you have put in my life.

What God Said Tonight;

I have a place for you but it is not a static place. It is a place of growth and expansion. What you have seen, what you have done is the very early stages of what we will do. 

Expand your vision as wide as it will go and then expand it further. 

Don't worry about or get distracted by the day to day opportunities right now. There will be plenty and take those you want and ignore those you don't It will not matter in the larger scheme of things. 

In the larger vision, I have everything on track and it will not be derailed. 

Shine the light and love...

My prayer:

Hopes and dreams and broken promises. Amazing God above all Gods. Life is hard sometimes. I know, no one ever said that life was supposed to be easy; but sometimes, it is so hard. 

I look around and see so many people that I love who are faced with crazy tough situations right now. They are fighting for their lives and it doesn't always look like they are going to win. I keep telling them that you will make a way for them, and I believe it. But waiting for you to move is so very hard. 

God, I trust you and I know you will work it all out. How do I help until that time comes? What can I do?

What God Said Tonight:

You heard the answer before you finished asking the question. Love them. The best thing to give them as they wait is love. The best thing to give any one at any time is love. 

I would have you love them, wait with them, and assure them that I have not left them. I will work it for their good. Remind them of the times that I have worked out the impossible in their lives before. 

They are in holes of darkness created by their situations and it is so hard to see the light from the bottom of the hole. Shine the light for them and love them. It will help more than you can know.