Having a specific topic to pray over allows me the time to really dig deep into praying about it, and it also helps to hold me accountable to pray over things/people I may forget to pray for otherwise. I LOVE having the different topics because when I didn’t have the topics I found my prayers getting really monotonous and I wasn’t really praying hard or deep about anything. This is my original DIY prayer journal from 2017 So that if I do end up missing a day I can just pick up where I left off and won’t feel guilty or stressed. In my first prayer journal I actually marked each section as Mon-Sun, but this time I decided to leave that off. So each day, I flip to one of the sections and pray over the assigned topic. The idea is that each section represents a day of the week. Step two- Decide on seven topics to pray overĪlright, so next I decided on seven topics to assign to each section to pray over. So, when gluing or taping the dividers into the journal leave about 1/4″ of space between the spine and the divider. KEY THING TO NOTE ABOUT ADDING THE DIVIDERS: If you use watercolor paper or similar paper, because the pages are so thick, if you add them into the spine or close to the spine, the journal will not want to close and will keep popping back open. I added these pages into the bible by gluing them onto a page about every 36 pages (on the Leuchtturm journal I glued them on pages 1, 35, 71, 107, 143, 179, and 215) and taped the edge to make it more secure and look more finished. You could absolutely use scrapbook paper or cardstock instead of painting your own dividers! I cut the paintings in half and then to size with the journal- leaving a little extra to hang out the edge of the journal so that it created “tabs” of a sort. Next, I took some cheap cold press watercolor paper and painted some fun paintings on it. I use the lined version, but it does also come in dotted, grid, and blank pages. The journal also has a pocket in the back and an elastic band to keep it closed. I love that the pages are numbered, which made it easy to divide into the seven sections. It has a ton of pages and is really great quality. I bought the same Leuchtturm 1917 journal that I used originally because it is a lovely journal. Step one- Buy a journal and create dividers. So, here is a breakdown on how I set up this new prayer journal based on the original one I did in 2017. It’s such a simple concept, so it is easy to do every day. I divided the journal into seven sections- one for each day of the week, and each day has a different topic to pray over. I had created a prayer journal myself with a Leuchtturm 1917 notebook. The one time that I stuck with a prayer journal for multiple months was back in 2017 when my husband and I were stationed in Japan and he was on his third deployment. But then I saw the movie War Room a couple of weeks ago and it inspired me to try it out again. So, I hadn’t been using a prayer journal for quite a while. (I am the same way with Bible reading plans haha). I’ve bought so many, but don’t usually stick with them for more than a month. I have a very hard time keeping up with things like prayer journals. Supplies Used Why I decided to start a prayer journal
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