Prayer Journal

[nebula]

Some people use prayer journals.

I was wondering, if any of you use a prayer journal.

How do you create and use it?

Thanks!

[Guest LadyC]

there is an absolutely fantastic little journaling program that is available at no charge that you can download. it's full of great features. you can create as many journals as you want, and password protect each one. it's great if everyone in the family wants to use it. here's a link to it.

Journal Software

[tsth]

Dear Nebula,

I have been journaling for about 7 years I think? But, it's not anything fancy or complicated. I just use a plain ole ruled spiral. I put the date at the top of the page and I section my journal. The top line is the date and titled Praise I then write words of praise and worship to my Lord. Either what I have on my mind and heart, or I use Scriptures that describe how the Spirit is moving me that morning. Psalms is the most common. It is also good to write these verses down, as they are more memorable to me, when I write them.

My next section is Confession or Repentance , whichever one you want to title it with. This section is NOT recorded on the paper, but only in my mind and heart. These things are between myself and the Lord, and as He has said they are as far away as the east from the west. I do not care for anyone to see this part.

After the Confession portion, then is the Requests This is pretty explanitory.

Then the Thank you Lord section. This one is really neat, because for any prayer that has been answered, it is posted under this part, with stars in the margin, to signify a specific answered prayer. The more stars I post in the margin the bigger the request and answer were!!! 6 stars!!!!! that's a BIG ONE!!!! Maybe someone got saved! Or a miracle happened! Just depends. I do want to say that EVERYTHING I am thankful for goes in this section, not just the answered prayers. Just any thankfulness for anything I want to write down.

(I also do hope that after I am gone, my children will have these journals, as a sort of spiritual faith journey diary of our lives. Every significant moving of the Lord in our family and around us, ends up being recorded in this journal. By the time it's all said and done, there would be a pretty complete picture of how the Lord shaped my and my families lives.)

Then once I am finished with my journaling, I get on my knees and pray the things I wrote about, with my open journal in front of me.

Anyway, that's what my journaling is like. I have to say that journaling totally changed my prayer life for the better. I really enjoy the meditation on the Psalms too, when things are tough.

Hope that helps.

In His Love,

Suzanne

[Ericka]

I just use a plain ole notebook and write. Whenever.. I carry it to school, and use it whenever I need to. I don't even set it up.. I just write in it whatever I need to, even if I am jumping all over the place. God knows what i need.. so I don't feel like I have to set it up any specific way.

[irishcowboy]

we have prayer journals here.....

I have been using one off and on for several years....

I like the PROJECT planner type, gold fiber AMPAD....

they are already set up the way i like them set up..... ( not the flip over type but more like the regular spiral. )

they have a place for a date, and also two lines that a person can list their old and new testiment reading they have done.... there is a column on the left we use for prayer concerns, and then the rest can be used for all notes, and prayers and thoughts and sunday schoo lessons and service subjects and dreams and and and ....

i used one prior to going to the persian gulf, and listed dreams, feelings, prayers, and also any and all complaints and such...

believe it or not, God can even leave you answers to concerns and such in your journal....

one day in peticular, i started venting, I was just spilling my guts into my pen....

complaining and complaining and griping and such...... and well, was not really paying attention to what I was writing other then I know i was totally down and fumming......

the next day i woke up and i pulled it out from under my matress to put it away in my locker, i glanced in it to see what i had writen the day before... and it had the answers to the problems I was having with my command..... the answers were written in my hand, but they were not my words at all..... I did not write them thru my mind what so ever......

during this time in the gulf, i had no one I could trust to talk to, no, not even the chaplain...... so i relyed on the only friend I knew would not betray what had been shared, and that friend is Jesus....... I wrote many letters to the Lord, I would spend many hours as far forward as I could go, would sit infront of the missle house, and sing, pray and study and watch the dolphins play in the wake.....

no one bothered me there, cause that was sea sick region..... any one suseptible to seasickness stayed as far aft and down as they could go.... smooother riding... lol

use a journal....

put anything you want in it... poems, dreams, thoughts ideas, you name it, it goes in.....

mike

[Bill]

My journal is just a plain ol' spiral bound notebook. The only formatting I do with it is the date of the record (i.e., if I were to record today it would be 3/21/04)

I guess there's as many ways to do it as there are believers...lol