Daily Devotions
2010
A few months ago I shared about making time for quiet time with the Lord. While I think it is the single most important part of my day, I still struggle with making the time to do this. I am so thankful that God loves me and is faithful and continually draws my heart to Him.
In May when I attended the Women of Joy conference in Charleston one of the speakers was Becki Tirabassi. I so enjoyed her practical, down to earth message and her emphasis on how as Christian women we should be spending time in prayer.
She has published her own Change Your Life Daily Bible and Daily Journal – both available on her website.
I purchased both and have been using them ever since and I love both of these items so much!
Becki has no idea who I am and I am not receiving any compensation for writing about these books. They have become invaluable tools in my daily quiet time and I want to share these with you.
The Daily journal has 4 categories for you to write in each day – Physical, Emotional, Spiritual and Mental.
Do you know how much more one can accomplish when defining your goals?
And how challenging it is to define your goals on a daily basis?
And how convicting it is to work on planning out your day at the same time as spending time reading God’s word and praying?
And how exciting it is to look back on past prayers written and see them answered?
I think the journal is genius. And yet so practical and down to earth.
Each day you journal:
-Your eating plan
-Your workout plan
-Any obstacle you foresee keeping you from those goals
-Anyone you need to forgive
-Anyone you need to ask forgiveness from
-Your plan of action to mend the broken relationships
-A way that you can give of yourself to someone
-Your prayer to God
-A verse that stood out to you from your Bible reading
-Your appointments for the day
-Your to-do list
-Define your dreams
Paul can pretty much nail the days I don’t spend the time journaling these things. I am much more focused and get so much more done when I have intentionally purposed what it is I want to do each day.
While I love this journal it is a tad bit pricey at $12 for 3 months, so when I finish this one I will be making my own. I would highly recommend the price of this journal to get you in the habit of journaling these things daily and then making your own once you have acquired the habit.
The Change Your Life Daily Bible has an Old Testament, New Testament, Psalm and Proverb passage to be read each day, organized all together by date. By the end of the year you will have read through the entire Bible. I love that all I need to do is turn to the days date and read – no looking up many different passages, referring to a chart or remembering what verse I last ended on. This Bible is the New Living Translation which, to be perfectly honest, makes some of the lengthier Old Testament passages more exciting and interesting to read. It is a fascinating translation and I am enjoying using it for my challenge to read through the Bible in a year.
I know there are quite a few Daily Bibles available, but has anyone ever heard of a journal like this one? I have looked and can’t find one. Let me know if you know of one!
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That journal looks great! Of course, I love things like that and usually have multiple lists/journals/etc going on at once! haha
This post brings to my mind a great question for you! It might make a good blog topic for ya.
How do you efficiently organize an average day in your household? How do you find a good balance between doing the necessary chores (laundry, cleaning etc), playing/spending time with your boys, and still doing "fun" things for yourself. (reading blogs, crafts or whatever hobbies you may have)? I seem to really struggle with finding a good balance, and often find myself feeling guilty because I went with one extreme or another. (too much housework, not enough play, or too much play and not enough housework)
I struggle too!
But I will work on a post sharing what I do in case it gives some ideas.
jessica! this looks awesome! i'm always looking for something that will help me … thank you for sharing!
It really is so practical and useful!
Hope you're able to get a copy for yourself
The longer I am a Mum the more and more I appreciate your blog!
I never thought of my quiet time in terms of "goal-oriented" time. I have my goals (for the day, month, year) and I have my quiet time, but I never thought to make my my quiet time tie in with those goals. And I definitly see how much more productive one would be with the conviction of being stewards of ones time wrapped into daily quiet time. I think I need to ask for this journal for my anniversary or birthday-I would benefit from the structure of it.
And I LIVE for the NLT version, I feel like I draw so much more application from language I use everyday.
Thanks for another good post J.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Love you! Wish we lived closer for some time together!