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We Made a Prayer Journal!
And we'd love to share it with you
Have you ever wished you could hear God’s voice more clearly? Or, have you desired to be more certain that it is God speaking, and not your own thoughts or emotions?
We are so excited to announce the official release of The Prayer Journal Volume 1 — an interactive, wildly creative journal to help you engage with God every single day for 30 straight days around the theme of Hearing God’s Voice! 🙌 🎉
You were made to hear God’s voice. Yet, for many of us, God feels the opposite of clear – he feels complex, distant, and hard to comprehend. Even so, learning how to hear God’s voice is essential to following Jesus. I love what Dallas Willard says – “[s]piritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God” (Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God, p. 288).
If you think about it – if we only follow Jesus in the abstract, we are merely adopting a set of beliefs, a set of practices, or imitating our ideas about who God is devoid of actually knowing him. But to confess Jesus as “Lord” and to really follow him in the day-to-day requires noticing, naming, and responding to how God the Holy Spirit is speaking to us. It requires a living, dynamic following of him which is only possible if we know where he is going in our lives.
The crazy invitation we have when we say “yes” to following Jesus is that we get to enter into a dynamic, ongoing conversation with the Living God. We were made for this! And, I would argue, we will never feel fully alive until we learn how to engage in this relationship. Like Adam and Eve, we were made to walk with God in the cool of the Garden and our hearts will be restless until we can learn how to rest in the presence of the Holy Spirit with us in the “garden” of our own hearts, jobs, families, friendships, marriages or singleness, challenges, and opportunities.
Our prayer is that as we focus this journal on the concept of Hearing God’s Voice – through scripture, in silence, in making decisions, and through prophetic dreams – you will grow both in your confidence in your ability to hear God’s voice and the simple joy it is to say “yes” and walk continually in God’s presence (Psalm 16:11). Jesus died for this – it’s time to live in it!
Our team has worked so hard on this, and we would love to share it with you in the hopes that it can spark daily times of engagement with God! It includes a Bible reading plan (30 passages on the voice of God), journal prompts, questions to help you interpret prophetic dreams, and more! We are really excited about this, and we’d love to invite you to purchase one (or two or three!) to celebrate with us and to continue to come alive and live in love with Jesus.
Best,
Ryan, Morgan, and the Restless Hearts, Resting Places team
P.S. Thank you for subscribing to our email list! We are first and foremost a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring spiritual awakening through prayer. We are so grateful to our partnership team for helping make this resource (and more to come) possible. If you want to become a monthly partner at any financial amount, we will send you this journal completely free, as well as every resource we make this year!