Flexible to your specific needs. Minimal writing for maximum time praying. Easy organization. Keep detailed track of prayer without required daily entries.
There are many perspectives, thoughts and feelings about keeping a prayer journal, or not. My Prayer Journey Journal was designed to be a prompt to keep one's prayer life balanced, a way to avoid forgetting what was promised to be prayed for and a way to journal as inspired or as needed, not in a forced daily ritual. It was not designed with a calendar format, or as a daily list and definitely not with the implication that it is a daily requirement.
In other words, this journal is to be freeing, not constraining. It is to enable a better prayer journey, shoring up areas of weakness, such as forgetfulness or inconsistency, but offering the ability to pray without the burdensome and distracting obligations of having to journal.
My Prayer Journey Journal was designed to allow its user to journal as needed, to keep track of the "statistics and details," but also to allow reflection in a way that won't require a redundant daily recording of everything prayed, but in a way that will keep from losing track, in the hope that more time will be spent in actual prayer and less in writing what is to be prayed for.
In other words, this is to record a history of your prayer journey, not just lists of what was prayed for. It is a history of what God was doing in, through and with you and how He answered your prayers.
My Prayer Journey Journal offers topics of prayer where needs can be recorded, tracked and reflected on. Each prayer topic starts with a few Scripture passages and a short encouragement as to why prayer is needed in the particular topic, as well as suggestions for ways to pray in that topic.
My Prayer Journey Journal is flexible enough to be tailored to your specific needs and unique relationship with God. Each entry can be picked up and added to as needed, without having to record it over and over every day. If an entry changes, it can be closed out and rewritten in another spot, updated to meet the current prayer need. The journal is designed to be prayed through daily, without necessarily needing to be written daily. It is designed as a prayer journey, not an event ledger.
About the Author: Raised an atheist, Clay MacTarnaghan became a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of fifteen and has been active in multiple denominations and para-church ministries for thirty-eight years, including fourteen years full-time ministry as an ordained minister involved in youth, children's and music ministry, as well as senior pastor. He has served in three denominations, including two at state levels in New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. He has been involved in small and large, rural and city church ministries, community outreaches and interdenominational events. Clay has taught part-time in both private and public schools and has been an employer, as well as an employee. He remains a full-time husband and father. From atheist to servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, in local and state level denominational leadership and as a husband and father, an intimate prayer life has been both a necessity and a delight. It is from this experience he writes this uniquely designed prayer journal.
