Category: Christian

Unique Journals Mom Will Love

Looking for a gift for mom that mom will enjoy for years to come? These beautiful journals encourage mom to be creative, have fun and inspire her to grow in her faith.

For the Game Playing Mom

Keeping Score – The Game Player’s Scoresheet and Journal

Does your mom love to play games? This journal and scorekeeping book, combines playing games with remembering the fun times together with friends and family. Each scoresheet has room for tallying the points while playing your favorite game. There is also room to record what game you’re playing, what day it is, where you are, who is playing with you and whatever else you would like to include. Once the pages begin to fill, you will be able to look back and see the memories created while playing games! Everyone will be competing for the chance to sign their name in the winner’s circle! In the back, there are rules to a few games and space to write in rules to some of your favorite games.

For the Praying Mom

Prayer Journal – A Weekly Guide to Growing Your Prayer Life

Is mom always praying for others or want to grow her prayer life? This journal provides 52 weeks of journaling pages guide you in ways to pray and inspire you to grow your faith through recording your requests and seeing how God answers. The beautifully designed pages are flexible enough to use them in the way that works best for you while giving you prompts and encouragment to bring new perspectives to the way you talk with God. A spacious structure gives you places for lists, journaling, and a weekly focus. You will also find inspiration to trust God with your needs and your worries by praising Him for who He is and being thankful for what He has done. Find deeper trust in our all powerful God as you build an intentional prayer life that will make a difference in the way you live every day.

For the Creative Mom

The Zentangle Sketchbook – Empty Grids and Designs to Practice Doodling

Is mom always on Pinterest? Does she like to make things or always doodling? Give her a way to exercise her creativity! The Zentangle Sketchbook is full of geometric grids and patterns that are empty and ready to be filled with your doodles or zentangle designs. There are abstract and realistic designs that have plenty of open space for you to make them your own creation. Doodling allows you to exercise your creativity and helps you to focus and relax. The Zentangle Sketchbook gets the drawing started for you by providing the framework, so you can get straight to the fun part! Whether this is your first time trying zentangle or you are an expert, you will find these designs inspire you to new patterns and techniques.

For the Bible Studying Mom

Sermon Note Journals

Does mom spend her time learning more about God? These beautiful Sermon Note Journals provide 52 weeks of pages to keep a years worth of notes from church in one place. When you write or draw as you listen, you are more likely to understand more and remember it longer. You can look through your notes to the important points you want to find out more about or work to apply to your life. These journals are a great size to carry along with your Bible to church and come in 5 design styles.

Wisdom is Better Than Jewels: Sermon Note Journal

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: Sermon Note Journal

Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly: Sermon Note Journal

Your Word Is A Lamp For My Feet: Sermon Note Journal

Whenever you turn to the right or to the left your ears will hear this command behind you: this is the way walk in it.: Sermon Note Journal 

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How to Pray Scripture

Although it seems like it should be easy, prayer can feel confusing. Sometimes we don’t know what to say or feel like we’re not saying the “right” words. When you find yourself looking for direction when talking to God, try using the Bible to guide your prayers.

Why should you use scripture to guide your prayer?

1. We know God’s Word is true and is God’s will. When we pray scripture, we can know that what we are asking for is pursing the right direction. Scripture teaches us more about God. As we pray scripture, we learn His ways and become more like Him.

This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked of him.

1 John 5:14-15

2. Praying scripture helps us be more thorough in our prayers. We tend to pray the same things over and over and go back to the ideas that are familiar to us. When we pray using scripture, it expands our thinking to include new concepts that might not come naturally to us. This grows our faith and teaches us to learn God’s ways and what is important to Him.

How do you pray scripture?

While You Read

Reading your Bible and praying don’t have to be separate experiences. In fact, they shouldn’t be! While you are reading God’s word, talk to Him about it. If you’re confused about what a verse means, ask Him to help you understand it. You have 24/7 access to the author! Think about the concepts or the stories you are reading and pray that God would show you how they can be used in your life.

The Holy Spirit

1 John 2:27 tells us that the Holy Spirit will teach us. Even if we never had access to preachers, teachers or Bible study resources, the Holy Spirit helps us understand scripture, AND there’s more… If you believe in God, the Holy Spirit lives in you and knows you. He can help you to use that scripture and apply it to your specific situation. This is one way God’s word is described as “alive and active”. It means something different to us depending on what is happening in our life. The words of the Bible written 2000 years ago are still relevant to us today.

Prayer activates this understanding, so before you begin reading God’s word, ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand the words you are reading and know what they mean to you today.

Use Prayers from the Bible

The Bible is full of prayers already written for you. The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) gives us a structure of how to pray. Paul often wrote prayers for the people in the churches when he wrote his letters. The Psalms of David are full of prayers. Jesus even prayed for those who believe in Him. We can also use these prayers to talk to God. Here are a few prayers from the Bible to get you started.

David – A Prayer of Thanksgiving – Psalm 30

Paul – Prayers of Power and Strength – Ephesians 1:15-20; Ephesians 3:14-21

Paul – Prayer to Know God’s Will – Colossians 1:9-14

Hannah’s Prayer – 1 Samuel 2:1-10

Jesus’ Prayer for Believers – John 17:20-23

Choose a Verse to Pray

If you are looking for direction in a specific situation, if there is an area that you need to grow spiritually or if there is something that God is teaching you, you can choose a verse to focus on. Spend a day, a week, a month or more using that verse to dwell on and pray about as you go through your day.

The Bible is also full of verses that tell us the promises God has for us. Praying the promises of God gives you confidence in who you are in Christ, what he has planned for your life and His power to complete it. Here are a few verses of promises from God.

The Lord is the one who will go before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

Deuteronomy 31:8

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him.

James 1:5

Using a Journal Can Lead to Deeper Prayer

It doesn’t have be fancy, a simple spiral notebook will do. It doesn’t have to be long or eloquent. Write down the verse you’re praying. If you would like, journal or list a few things you learn while praying or answers God has given. Using more of your senses by writing helps you to understand more deeply, to remember what you’ve prayed and to see patterns God is working to teach you. Looking back through your prayers, reminds you of God’s faithfulness. Praising God and thanking Him for what He’s done changes your perspective and transforms your life!

Remember that methods of praying and ideas are meant to be helpful, but don’t get caught up the logistics. Above all, JUST PRAY! Hopefully you often find quality quiet time to talk to God, but if you’re waiting for that to happen to pray, it won’t! Pray where you are, when you think about it, when you feel worried, challenged, confused, thankful or in awe. Just talk to God about everything that is going on. Bring Him into your every day and every moment.