Mother's Niche has some free printable Prayer Journal pages that you can either print in colour or black. You can find them here.
Kara at Joy Because Grace has a great Valentine's Day Survival Guide for Single Girls - you can find it here. She reminds us that there is a guy that loves us - his name is Jesus. She has some great suggestions to not just surviving Valentine's Day, but really enjoying it. I love her idea to babysit for a married couple so that they can go out for dinner. You could organise to do it with a friend. It's much better than sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself and you would be doing someone a huge favour.
Two of my favourite times to pray are when I walk my dog in the morning and when I'm in the car. It's a great way to start the day. Mark 1:35 says, Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Perhaps you need to set your alarm ten minutes earlier to allow yourself time to pray. Fevr.net has an article on three things to pray before going to school. In summary they are:
I decided to upgrade my Prayer list by putting it on a pinup board in my study. I used some wrapping paper to cover a pinup board then pinned some string across it and pegged tags to it on which I will write my prayer points. You could also add quotes or Bible verses. I got the wrap from the Reject Shop, the tags and string from Big W, the lettering from Typo and the pegs from K-Mart.
Colossians 4:2 says devote yourselves to prayer. Paul prayed passionately for the churches he planted and visited. We should pray for the church globally. Sometimes it's hard to know what to pray for. Compassion has a prayer partners newsletter you can sign up for with prayer points from around the world. You can sign up here.
I'm reading through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. I'm up to Nehemiah at the moment. I wish I knew about this youtube channel when I started. The Bible Project provides a short video that gives an overview of every book in the Bible. They are animated and easy to watch. Here is there intro video. |
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