Perspective...

My prayer:

Hi most wonderful God and Savior! How are you doing tonight?

I am grateful for the perspective you gave me today. I am grateful for the reminder that I get to choose my perspective and choose what I focus on. I choose to focus on the kind driver who let me into his lane when I suddenly realized I was in an exit only lane and I did not want to exit. I choose not to focus on the driver who was going 80 mph down the highway and drifted into another lane almost side swiping another car. That is one example but you know there are so many more.

Life is a lot more fun when I choose to focus on all of the things that are going well instead of wallowing in all of the things that are going wrong and which I have no control over. Thank you.

What God Said Tonight:

Wait until you are living here with me! That will give you some real perspective.

So much of what you think right now is important, isn't. And so much of what you think is not important, actually really is. It is very easy to stay late at work to finish a project. It is easy to believe that your family, your friends can wait. But, the truth is, family, friends, people, that is what really matters.

Your job is important right now because it is what you do and how you earn money to live. But, in the greater scheme of things. n the long term vision, none of that work will matter. People will matter. The love you show people will matter. Souls that get to live with you forever in heaven, those things will matter.

In the meantime, it is time for you to find a better balance. You have become out of balance and you need to balance out to receive my next assignment for you. You never know when everything, EVERYTHING, could change.

I love you daughter. Rest well so we can go at this thing called life again tomorrow.

Choices...

My prayer:

Dear Lord. I am pretty wiped out from today but still in awe and amazement of your power and love.

 I am very grateful to be yours. It could have gone a different way. I could have been born somewhere else and never heard or learned about you and your love for me. I could have gotten so lost in my teenage rebellion that I never found my way back to you. I could have stayed in my safe self imposed solitary confinement and never got to experience your love through our God family. There are so many ways, moments and choices that could have taken me away from.

Thank you God that they didn't. Thank you for always bringing me back. Thank you for never giving up on me. Thank you for always loving me.

What God Said Tonight:

I chose you and then I gave you the choice. This relationship is a two way street.

I will never leave you. I am always with you. Your choice is whether you are with me.

I love you so dearly. Like a parent loves their most favored child. I will never turn you away. I will never run out of second chances for you.

I love you. Rest in my arms tonight.

Jesus our healer...

My prayer:
Thank you Jesus for your miraculous healing power! Thank you that your healing is as much for us today as it was when you walked on the earth! Thank you for healing my friend's mom! The doctors had given up. "Come say good bye to your mom" they said. Then you fooled them all and healed her anyway. LOVE YOU AND LOVE WHAT YOU DO!

What God Said Tonight:

I am your healer. Your faith makes you well. Be well, be healed in me. I love you. 

Always...

My prayer:

Thank you for taking care of me today God. I cannot remember the last time I was in that kind of prolonged physical danger but I called on you, you got me through and I am here to tell about it. I learned an important lesson in the process and I meant my promise to you.

I love you God. Thank you for giving me another day.

What God Said Tonight:

I was with you today, guiding and directing your path but I let you choose the path you want to go down. I always know what is on the path and I have already prepared a way to get you through it, but you choose the path.

I love you. I will never let you down. I am with you always. You can rely on me to bring you through every situation, no matter how treacherous. And, when it is all done, I am here to heal you. To redeem you like new. Sometimes that healing is quick, sometimes it takes awhile. But, I will always heal you. I will always redeem you. I will always bring you through. I promise.

Tenacity...

My prayer:

Thank you for today God and for changing my perspective. It is amazing to me how much 45 minutes on a trail with you can change everything.

I know I don’t always get things right in this life but the one thing I know how to do is to come to you for help. Thank you for ALWAYS being there when I come to you.

I am yours and you are mine, now and forever.

What God Said Tonight:

I love your tenacity. You cannot be shaken loose. You can be shaken. You can be tested. But you cannot be shaken loose. 

You are my child. I will never let you go. 

I have surprises for you that you cannot imagine yet. Your life has much excitement left to live. I am not done with you. You will see such great things yet in your lifetime. 

I love you, forever.

 

Sometimes...

My prayer:

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, like tonight, I start to really wonder if I have gotten it all wrong. Everything. What if I am so completely off of your path for me that I can't even find you again. What if I have gotten so distracted that I have completely lost track of what you want for me? 

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, like tonight, I think that maybe I am completely lost. 

God, if I ever needed to hear your voice, I need to hear it tonight.

What God Said Tonight:

I think you have forgotten who I am. I think you have forgotten what I can do. I think you have forgotten whose you are. 

You are my precious child, my bride, my soul mate. You are my perfect creation, perfected in Christ. You are mine and I am yours, now and forever my love. 

I think you have forgotten that I am in charge. That you gave your life to me and from that moment on, I am in charge and I get to decide where we end up. I am not an absentee Father. I don't get too busy to help you, to teach you, to guide you. I am here, whether you realize it or not, all the time. 

I am your guide. I will not let you down. I will not let you dash your foot upon a stone. 

You are not off track. You are just on a track you have not been on before and that makes it unfamiliar and uncomfortable. It does not make it wrong. I love you so very much and I am right here.

The Wedding...

My prayer:

All knowing God. Not much about today happened the way I thought I wanted it to happen but everything turned out pretty wonderful anyway. You have a tendency to do that. To take circumstances that should be rotten and turn them around into to something pretty wonderful. Thank you for turning my lemons into lemonade God!

I pray and hope that I am always open to your plan, your path. It always works out best, even when it looks like it is not going to.

Love you!

What God Said Tonight:

I am waiting with such eager anticipation for my bride. She is almost ready. I can see her in the wings, dressed and beautiful. She looks a little nervous but that will pass. 

Our time is almost here. I want to run to her, to help her get to me faster. But the waiting is sweet torture. I have waited a eternity for her and she is worth the wait. 

White as snow, covered by my sacrifice. We are already bonded but we are about to be joined as one in a new level of intimacy that we have not experienced before. All up to now was the courting. The time for commitment and deep intimacy is here. 

I love you my bride. I am here for you, waiting. Don't make me wait too long, please.