For some of you it may seem obvious, while for others it may be a struggle or something that you just merely take for granted, whatever the case it is important that you spend some time in prayer each day.  The following are a few more reasons why it is important.

God wants to spend time with you.  You spend time with God through prayer.  Prayer is open communication with God.  It should be like talking to a trusted friend.  Prayer is not meant to be complicated. We as humans are the ones who complicate the process. We want to think we have to pray a certain way, sit a certain way or be in a certain place - not so. We can say anything to God, and we can pray with our eyes wide open, or our eyes closed, on our knees, or standing, in our room, or even outside under a tree. The possibilities of our communicating with God are endless. He tells us that we are to pray under any and every circumstance. The Bible tells us that we should pray daily. One of the ways we can pray is through journaling.

Prayer journaling helps to strengthen your daily prayer time with God. There is something very powerful about writing down your thoughts and feelings. The entire book of Psalms is actually a collection of David’s and other writer’s prayers; it’s their feelings in written form, one of which says,

“In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice, in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.”

Psalm 5:3 (NIV)

God wants us to come before Him in prayer. He then honors us, and begins to reveal His plans for our lives. Prayer is the lifeline to God and to those plans.

God will prepare you.  Keeping you from temptation and showing you the proper path.  All you have to do is ask.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks received he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” 

Matthew 7:7

God wants to bless you. 

Because I gave him those few minutes each day I was able to hear him speak, when he told me that my husband was “the one.” I had spent just a few minutes praying before our first date.  I remember saying, “Lord, if this guy isn’t worth spending time on, please tell me, I don’t want to go through another heartbreak. I don’t want to waste my time on someone who I wouldn’t consider marrying.”  I had just come out of a long relationship that had been an emotional roller coaster to say the very least.  Because I spent time asking God his opinion, He soon revealed to me just how worthwhile spending time with that night’s date would prove to be.

Then, another time, I prayed for months over a decision I had to make about college.  I had for many years wanted to attend a Christian college, however when I got there I was desperately homesick.  The Christian school I had dreamed of going to, though I enjoyed very much, was three hours from home and my anxiety levels were high as I sat all alone in my dorm room on Sunday nights after returning to school. With my mom, dad, younger brother and fiancée miles away, I sat there alone and ached to be with them.  After many prayers and written chats with God in my prayer journal, I soon realized it would be okay to return home after just one semester at the Christian school to attend a secular community college closer to home.

Because I took the time to write down my prayers, I was able to see what God was leading me to do, and how He was guiding the answers to my concerns and requests as I poured them out to Him time and time again.  I am therefore grateful for the blank, white pages of each journal that my mom bought me - each of them empty but filled with amazing potential. They were an open canvas to be filled with my words - words that described my hopes, my fears, my dreams, and my aspirations, all of which I can now see God’s hand in, making my faith in Him today, greater than ever before. All because I took the time to spend some time writing notes to my Savior on the pages of a prayer journal.
Put your trust in Him & He will slowly put the pieces of the puzzle of yoru life together.  He will reveal to you His glorious plan.

“Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.  Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.“

Psalm 37:3-7

God is on your side.  You just have to trust Him and spend time with Him.  He wants to spend time with you, He will prepare you, and He will bless you.  Try Him!

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