Reading through the last nine years of entries in my Answers to Prayer journal boosted my faith greatly. This is not a typical prayer journal. I only record answers to prayer and not the requests themselves.
I have friends who keep extensive prayer notebooks with detailed prayer requests, dates, and answers. But I am so compulsive that I used a lot of my quiet time trying to keep the notebook organized, looking back at the details. By simply keeping an Answers to Prayer journal, I can more quickly look back and see how God has responded to my prayers and directed my life.
My recent reading through this journal lifted my faith as I recalled how God gave me a word on what to speak at a women’s conference in Africa when I had no idea what I should share. Other entries recorded times I sought God for direction, and He clearly spoke to me in His quiet voice.
I received comfort as I read about many people who were healed after I prayed fervently for them. On the other hand, after many prayers and declarations of healing for my husband, he entered heaven at the age of 86. And I recorded Job 14:5 as God’s comforting answer to me: “A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.” I also noted an answer for one of my children that was 15 years in coming as well as an instant answer while praying with my prayer partner on the phone. Reading the accounts of answered prayer was like an overview of my spiritual life for nine years. I was so thankful I had written down all the answers in such a simple way.
You may enjoy a more detailed journal. But if keeping up with all the details and dates is challenging, you might start an Answers to Prayer journal to encourage your prayer life.
PEGGY PARKS is an author and speaker. Her website is parkpraisepublications.com.
