Begin Your Daily Devotional: A Guide to Bible Journaling

Dear friends,

My prayer is that through reading the Word of God these 4 months, your walk with the Lord will grow closer, sweeter, and deeper than ever before. May the Word of God transform your life to know God more, to love Him more, and to live out His Word more.

I highly recommend Bible Journaling or doing devotionals each day as you read. Here’s how Bible Journaling works.

How to Bible Journal

1) Choose a verse or two from your Bible reading to meditate on and apply to your life that day. Write the verse.

For example:

I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live (Deuteronomy 30:19)

In Deuteronomy 17:18, the kings of Israel were commanded to write out the whole Torah so that they would learn to fear God and be blessed. Writing a verse out that helps you to remember and internalize it.

I write out the verse in my journal. Others write it on a sticky note and put it somewhere they will see it often. For those who love art, you can also hand letter or draw out the verse in your journal, on a poster, or on a card.

2) Praise & Prayer

For example:

Praise: Thank You, God, for Your Word, which gives life and shows us what is right and what pleases You. Thank You for blessing those who obey You and walk in Your ways. You are faithful and good.

Pray: Please help me to choose life, to choose to obey You in every thought, decision, word, and action today. Please give me strength and the desire to live out Your Word.

Praise to God for who He is and what He has done, and pray for applying these verses to your life.

You can also follow the A.C.T.S. or P.R.A.Y. acronyms:

A.C.T.S.	P.R.A.Y.
Adoration – Praise God for who He is Confession – Ask for forgiveness for sins Thanksgiving – Thank God for His blessings and what He has done in your life Supplication – Lay your requests before the Father	Praise – Praise God for who He is, what He has done, and all the blessings in your life Repent – Repent of sins and ask for forgiveness Ask – Lay your requests before the Father Yield – Surrender to the Lord

I write out my praise and prayer requests in my journal. It is a good record for me to look back and see what God was doing in my life.

You can also pray out loud and record it on your phone. Feel free to adapt it to whatever style works best for you.

Examples:

Here are some Bible Journal examples. May you be blessed!

• Psalm 5 Bible Journal Example

• P.R.A.Y. Devotional Worksheet by Anabel Chen (with suggested verses from Psalm 40)

• My Bible Journal at age 5 🙂

Do any of you Bible Journal or do devotionals with your Bible reading? Or are thinking about starting to do so? Feel free to comment below with any thoughts, questions, or tips!