Prayer Journal
I'm digging my new prayer journal.
I've never kept one before but I feel like it is taking my prayer life to another level. Here is the realization I had today. Writing down my prayers doesn't allow me to pray generic prayers. It forces me to pray specific prayers.
A few years ago I read something Yonggi Cho wrote: "Don't pray vague prayers." That challenged me beyond words. Vague prayers are a cop out. You don't require any faith. And you never know if God answers them because they're so vague.
Here's my challenge: don't pray generic prayers.
Get specific. I'm praying for fospecific things for specific people. It's often a single word that I'll write next to their name. For example, I'm praying for different fruits of the spirit for different people.
Oswald Chambers said, "Let God be as original with others as he was with you." I live by that motto. God works in different ways at different times in different people. That's why I tend to be descriptive instead of prescriptive in my blogging and preaching. But if you want to take your prayer life to the next level I have a prescription: a prayer journal.
I've never kept one before but I feel like it is taking my prayer life to another level. Here is the realization I had today. Writing down my prayers doesn't allow me to pray generic prayers. It forces me to pray specific prayers.
A few years ago I read something Yonggi Cho wrote: "Don't pray vague prayers." That challenged me beyond words. Vague prayers are a cop out. You don't require any faith. And you never know if God answers them because they're so vague.
Here's my challenge: don't pray generic prayers.
Get specific. I'm praying for fospecific things for specific people. It's often a single word that I'll write next to their name. For example, I'm praying for different fruits of the spirit for different people.
Oswald Chambers said, "Let God be as original with others as he was with you." I live by that motto. God works in different ways at different times in different people. That's why I tend to be descriptive instead of prescriptive in my blogging and preaching. But if you want to take your prayer life to the next level I have a prescription: a prayer journal.
1 Comments:
That's great about your prayer journal! I wish I was more consistent with mine. Here's something I've learned from keeping one:
God forgets, but we need to remember.
In other words, when Christ died for us our sins were forgiven. In essence, God wipes the slate clean and he has forgotten about our sin. That great news!
In contrast, we need to remember how God has worked in our life, even when we didn't even know it. Keeping a prayer journal has helped me do that. I can look back on trials in my life and how I journaled about them. I can also see how God moved me through that trial to where I am today.
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