What are you looking at...

 

My prayer:

Awesome God. It was another hard day for a lot of people today. I pray for the people who lost their homes to fire today God. Thank you for protecting their lives. I pray that you help them, comfort them, find them new homes, and keep them under your protection. 

There were many other tragedies today God. It seems like this world has no shortage of tragedies these days. WE NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER. Guide us, protect us, take care of us, sweet Father.

What God Said Tonight:

Don't get caught looking at the circumstances of this world. It is not where your eyes belong. This world, this temporary home, is just that. 

Keep your eyes on me, keep leaning on me, keep trusting me, and I will give you beauty for ashes. I will show you joy in the midst of pain. I will walk you through this season and spend an eternity finding ways to bless you. 

I love you sweet child. I will never leave you.

Her time is near...

 

My prayer:

Awesome Father. Thank you for the restoration. Thank you for your favor. Thank you for bringing us through! 

My prayer tonight, my ask, is really for my friend who is struggling with all of the senseless violence and death that is around her right now. She doesn't know you God. She doesn't have you to lean on, to trust, and to find peace with. She knows about you and she surrounds her life with people who know you but she hasn't made that choice and it makes everything so much harder.

I don't know what to say or to do that can help so I am doing the one thing I know can help. I am bringing it to you God. I pray for your help. I pray for your wisdom. I ask, if there is anything I can do that will help her heal, or even better, help her to know you, let me know what it is. She needs you so much and doesn't even realize it.

I love you Father.

What God Said Tonight:

I know your friend. her heart is near to me. I have been calling her for years and there is not much less to break away before she can see her way to a life with me. Her time is near. 

No, don't get me wrong, I don't mean her time to die. I mean her time to live. 

She has lived half a life in her misguided attempt to protect herself from what she is afraid a life with me means. When she can finally let go of that protection, she opens herself to my love, my healing, my peace, my joy, and all of the very good things that I have been waiting to pour out on her. 

Her time is near.

Lessons from the struggle...

 

My prayer: 

Awesome Father. For the first time tonight, I feel well. Not just less sick but actually feeling well. This has been a long struggle but I am very grateful that you have brought us through it. So many have not survived. So many had much worse complications. 

Thank you for your protection, your healing, and your guidance throughout. I love you and I am looking forward to enjoying the simple things in life again like swallowing and breathing.

What God Said Tonight:

Not every struggle is about teaching you something but there is something to be learned from every struggle. 

Your faith has made you well. You renewed appreciation for the basics will carry you forward. 

I love you sweet daughter and we have many more journeys  to take. Most of them much more enjoyable than this one.

Commitment...

 

My prayer:

Sweet Jesus. The night before we celebrate your birth. This is usually one of my favorite nights of the year. This year is a little different but there is still so much to be thankful for. 

Thank you for your life and your sacrifice that makes my life possible. Thank you for your healing power that has brought us through so much. Thank you for a beautiful home, amazing family and friends. 

I celebrate you tonight Jesus.

What God Said Tonight:

Come, sit beside me. Let's look out on the horizon at the future together. Let's imagine all that we will do together in the years and eternity to come. 

This commitment we have to each other is stronger than the years and will withstand any storm. 

I love you now and forever my child. I will be by your side in every situation and every challenge. I will never stop dreaming with you.

Changing season...

 

My prayer:

Awesome God. This is the hard part. This is the part where I know you will bring me through the situation but I am still in the middle of it and I don't know if it will get worse before it gets better. I am REALLY ready for it to get better.

Trusting you God. Your will be done in this and all things. I love you.

What God Said Tonight:

A season isn't over until the new season arrives. Tonight is the end of one season and the beginning of another, but most people do not even realize it. 

Your season can change and you not even be aware that it has changed. 

I love you and I will see you through, this and every season. Go, rest, trust, and know that I am God.

Who controls my future...

 

My prayer:

Awesome Father. The news from today was not encouraging but I continue to hear your voice and your assurance that you have everything covered and you are taking care of it all. I choose to listen to your voice. I choose to believe that you will work this for our good and that you will be glorified in it. I choose that because you have shown me time after time that you will and that you do. I love you Lord.

What God Said Tonight:

It is not chance or the enemy that controls your future. You have given you life to me and with that, my will is accomplished in your life. 

I will see you through this, as I always have. Your choices, made many hears ago, make it possible for me to do the miraculous for you. 

I love you now and forever my child. Rest knowing that I am not surprised and I am in charge still. I love you.

Latest crisis...

 

My prayer:

Things have taken a bit of a scary turn God. Despite how things look, I am reminded of your love and how you always work things out for our good. I state here tonight, I trust you. I believe you will bring us through this season. 

Thank you Lord.

What God Said Tonight:

I love you. I won't leave you, in this or any other time. I will not let you down. I am yours and you are mine and this is not all that it seems. 

This latest crisis is nothing more than one more opportunity for me to shine my glory in your life. Rest and know that I am God.