Recently, I shared with you why it is so important to keep a prayer journal. Today I want to share with you three specific things you can write down after you read the Word each day.
1. What did I learn from this passage?
2. What should I share with others?
Over the years, I’ve learned that a beneficial habit to get into is taking a journal or notebook with you into your prayer closet. Here are a few reasons why:
If you go into your prayer closet and date your prayer book, you will want to have something to write down by the time you finish. Record what God said during your time of prayer. It will tremendously help you expect Him to do more in your life.Continue reading
If you lay all these instructions before the brethren, you will be a worthy steward and a good minister of Christ Jesus, ever nourishing your own self on the truths of the faith and of the good [Christian] instruction which you have closely followed. But refuse and avoid irreverent legends (profane and impure and godless fictions, mere grandmothers’ tales) and silly myths, and express your disapproval of them. Train yourself toward godliness (piety), [keeping yourself spiritually fit]. For physical training is of some value (useful for a little), but godliness (spiritual training) is useful and of value in everything and in every way, for it holds promise for the present life and also for the life which is to come. (1 Timothy 4:6–8)
How do you keep yourself spiritually fit? You do so in the same way you would physically speaking: you nourish yourself. What does that nourishment look like?Continue reading
Mac and Lynne Hammond are senior pastors of Living Word Christian Center, a non-denominational church located in Brooklyn Park, MN.