One of the things I gave to Gene for our anniversary today was a Prayer Journal. I bought one for each of us. To carry on the conversation I started earlier this week on prayer, here's Elizabeth Elliot again telling us the importance of keeping such a journal:
"I use a little spiral notepad in which I record some of my bigger prayers with a date and a blank space after the prayer. Every now and then I go back and reread the last few pages. It is amazing and humbling to discover how many of those prayers I have forgotten--but God has answered. Of course I write His answer in the blank space, and I thank Him. (If I didn't write down the prayers, I wouldn't remember to thank Him.) It's wonderfully faith-strengthening to go back over a whole year or so to review the prayers, which at the time might have been desperate ones. The answers are always so simple. God is not worried about my life, and I can trust Him with the whole business. My notebook reminds me that my wrestling can yield to peace and refreshment, even when I remain unable to predict the answers to my prayers." (p. 119 in Be Still My Soul)
After I read this except to Gene this morning, we both began our first entry in our journal. May this be the first of many prayers that we see God answer!
"I use a little spiral notepad in which I record some of my bigger prayers with a date and a blank space after the prayer. Every now and then I go back and reread the last few pages. It is amazing and humbling to discover how many of those prayers I have forgotten--but God has answered. Of course I write His answer in the blank space, and I thank Him. (If I didn't write down the prayers, I wouldn't remember to thank Him.) It's wonderfully faith-strengthening to go back over a whole year or so to review the prayers, which at the time might have been desperate ones. The answers are always so simple. God is not worried about my life, and I can trust Him with the whole business. My notebook reminds me that my wrestling can yield to peace and refreshment, even when I remain unable to predict the answers to my prayers." (p. 119 in Be Still My Soul)
After I read this except to Gene this morning, we both began our first entry in our journal. May this be the first of many prayers that we see God answer!
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