I try to set aside some time each morning to read my bible and talk with God. One of the tools I use to help me focus is to write in my journal. Usually I write down verses that have struck me as I have read them and then I turn them into a short prayer that I write out.
What I write in my journal can be very private (so I have had to do a little editing!) and it is always personal, but I had a sense that I should share some of my recent "jottings" which I hope may help others in their walk with God. I am currently using the bible reading plan we encouraged members of m2o to use in 2011 to read the bible in a year to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James translation of the bible into English. So these jottings are based on my readings from this plan in late August.
Proverbs 21: 2 – Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. But the LORD weighs the hearts. (NKJV)
Father protect me from myself, from dependence on my own thoughts and plans. Keep me mindful always of your heart, your purposes, your plans, that I may walk in them and not in my own way.
2 Chronicles 23:16 – Jehoida made a covenant between himself and the people and the king, that they should be the LORD's people. (NKJV)
Father I covenant with you to be a faithful servant, diligent in seeking your face and doing your will. In my own strength I cannot do this but I ask that you fill me afresh with your Holy Spirit that I may have your power within me to fulfil this promise. Father keep me resolute to keep this covenant.
1 Cor. 15:58 – Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (NKJV)
Paul's promise here is for what I have covenanted above - thank you for the promise that as I am faithful to this, nothing I do is in vain.
Martin Saxby
Read the Bible in a Year: Ps. 107:1-9; Isa 29:1-30:18; 2 Cor 12:11-21
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