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Quite often I have heard people say that they enjoy keeping a prayer journal and I do too.

There are many reasons for keeping a prayer journal. For me, the first one is that when I write my prayers, it keeps me more focused and my mind doesn’t wonder.

Another reason is that I can look back through my prayer journal and see that my prayers have been answered. Some are not as I might have wanted, but still God did answer. We forget that sometimes God says no and that is an answer.

A prayer journal can also be a diary, or a record of a very specific prayer request that included names, places and dates. This information can be helpful at times should we like to know the date of the passing of a friend, birth records of grandchildren, marriages of friends and family and changing of jobs or children off to college.

All these things we are praying about have been to ask God to put His loving, protective, merciful, comforting, and healing hands upon20each one prayed for.

It amazes me some times when I go back and read part of my prayer journal and I can see God’s hand in it and too it sounds much more mature than I think I am, when I wrote it. The Holy Spirit is our teacher and in these instances it shows.

Start your prayer journal today; however I don’t write in it every day. But there are times when I write in it for weeks at a time. Some days are a quick prayer before I get up, praying while I am driving my car and a quick prayer before I go to sleep at night. However, our whole day should be an attitude of prayer. Talking to God off and on all day when we hear or think of a prayer need.

Celia Milam