God is requesting an EARLY morning audience with me!

Good morning God. It's 3:50 am and I have not been able to go back to sleep.  You probably want to talk with me, so here I am.

God I thank you for this EARLY morning session.   God I thank you because you desire an "audience of one" with me.  God I thank you because I'm your child and you KNOW me and my desires. God I thank you because despite all my mistakes and shortcomings, you still love me and want me to prosper and be in good health.  I am simply grateful for this time with you.

Lord, I ask that you would remove every anxiety.
Remove every fear.
Remove any judgment.
Remove any doubt.
Remove any thing that is blocking me from activating my faith.

And even as I pray those words, I am reminded that you are a gentleman and you're not going to take anything away from me that I don't GIVE to you.  So pardon me God and allow me to rephrase.

Lord I GIVE you my anxieties.
I GIVE you my fears.
I GIVE you my judgments.
I GIVE you my doubt.
I GIVE you everything that is blocking me from activating my faith.

As I seek your face and not your hand, I will rest in the assurance that I am the beloved of God.  And because I know that I am your beloved, I will walk a little differently.  I walk with my head up, knowing that my confidence is NOT in me but rather in YOU.  Shoulders back, arms swinging at my sides, toes pointed forward, eyes set on my future, abdominal muscles engaged and mind made up.  I am a child of the King!

Just like my children, when we walk into a store, know that I have money.......they walk with a confidence that they can ask me for anything they want. ( Although they might not always get what they want at that time, for various reasons....they still have the gumption to ask.) Sometimes I have a firm NO, but if it's the correct time, I break down and give them exactly what they ask for.  This morning I walk in that confidence and I make my petitions to you God.  Instead of just asking though, I am going to "call things that I do not see right now, as if I already have them" . (Romans 4:17 paraphrased)

God I thank you for favor for the job.  God I thank you for touching the heart of the interviewer right now.  God I thank you that although others may have applied, when he comes across my name something is going to catch his attention.  Even if I am NOT the most qualified, his heart will be pointed toward me.  I thank you for full benefits.  I thank you that will allow me to use my gifts and talents to bring you glory.  You created me to worship you, so I will worship you in everything that I will do.  I don't have to preach my beliefs, I just have to walk in them.  Thank you for bringing light to every situation that you place me in.

Maybe your prayer goes a little something like this...

God I thank you for healing.  Thank you for touching the hands of the doctors, nurses, technicians, specialists and even janitors that will come before me in the doctors office, the hospital or dialysis center.

God I thank you being a lawyer in the court room.  Thank you for hearing my petition and for pleading my case. Thank you for touching the judge, lawyers, bailiff and jurors that will hear my case.  I walk in the confidence that truth will win.

God I thank you for my children.  Thank you because they are the head and not the tail.  Thank you because they are leaders and not followers (even if their shyness doesn't allow me to see it right now.) Thank you for keeping them safe as they go to school.  Thank you that no evil will come near them.  Thank you for removing any distraction that would keep them from doing and giving their best.  Thank you for the patience that will allow me to watch them grow and develop as they begin to walk into their own knowledge of you.  Thank you this prayer of covering and protection.

God I simply thank you for this morning time with you.  Thank you for giving me the words to pray, even for my brothers and sisters.  Thank you for giving me the language to help them articulate to you what has been weighing on their hearts.  Thank you that you love me (them) enough to use me (them) for your glory!

God I thank you because my anxiety is GONE!
God I thank you because my fears are GONE!
God I thank you because my judgments are GONE!
God I thank you because my doubt is GONE!
God I thank you because the things that were blocking me from activating my faith are now GONE!

It's amazing what prayer can do!!!!

So God as I close, thank you for the peace and reassurance that I can rest in you.  I don't have to try to figure it out.....you have already worked it out!

Now walk it out....... 
(I'm walking it back to the bed right now... I technically have 2 more hours before the alarm clock goes off)