I was recently encouraged to start keeping a prayer journal. Not so much a journal of my prayers, which I’ve done before, but more a list or a collection of things I want and need to pray about. I’ve known about people making prayer lists before, but it was finally laid out to me in a way that made a lot of sense. It basically consists of several different list of things to pray for: one for daily prayer requests, one list for each day of the week, several different topical or name lists of churches, pasters, missionaries, etc. I want to pray for, and then a list of answered prayers and praises. While this isn’t exactly how it was explained to me, this is what I took away from it.

I finally implemented this plan this morning. While I knew this would be very helpful in praying more purposefully (as opposed to praying off the cuff), I was not quite prepared for the magnitude of things I needed to pray for. Each list I had just kept growing and growing. While it’s a little intimidating to look at everything at first, I’m excited about how this will shape the way I pray and spend time with God. Please be praying for me that I will be able to continue this and grow through it as well. If you haven’t tried this before, I encourage you to do so. If you want more details of how I’m doing it, I’d be happy to share.

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