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.
this is something i’ve been struggling with. i have somewhat of a list, but i have trouble finding time to pray for all of these things… like i dont want to right before bed because i’ll drift off to sleep or i’ll shorten it so that i can go to sleep. and then i have the issue of where i can go to have some alone time with God. usually my roommate is in the room when i am and i still dont know clemson’s campus quite that well.
i also struggle with praying about the same thing over and over. maybe its just my personality, but i feel like it gets repetitious and i cant help but think that God is tired of me saying the same things. for instance, when i have a certain friend I pray for all the time, i get all self conscious about pretty much saying the same prayer. so what do you do about that? find a different way to word what you are saying? find something slightly more specific to pray about today, and something different for tomorrow? or just pray… no matter how repetitious it gets?
wow, so i just slammed you with a billion different things, but this got me thinking about things that have been on my mind, and i needed an outlet haha. dont feel obligated to reply to everything i said, i was just speaking my mind. I’ll be praying for you!