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(DON’T GO AWAY, GUYS… BELIEVE ME, THIS IS FOR YOU, TOO!) He is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
IT IS A PICTURE OF PRACTICAL FELLOWSHIP AND DIALOG (NOT MONOLOG) WITH THE LIVING GOD.
DAILY PRAYER JOURNALING CAN BE A LIFE-TRANSFORMING ADVENTURE. WHEN THE MOST MEANINGFUL MATTERS OF YOUR HEART ARE RECORDED, WRAPPED AND SENT, AND IT’S DONE IN WRITING, YOU CAN LOOK BACK AND SEE AND TRACK WHAT HAS ACTUALLY TRANSPIRED. THE PIT WON’T TALK YOU OUT OF IT. YOU WILL KNOW IF YOU ‘PRAYED THROUGH’ OR ONLY ‘WISHED IT’.
HAVE YOU LEARNED TO WAIT UPON THE LORD, AND LISTEN IN THE SPIRIT? DO YOU KNOW THE VOICE OF GOD? HAVE YOU LEARNED TO RECOGNIZE THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD? DO YOU KNOW THE VALUE OF FINDING A FEW GOLD THREADS TO HANDLE? HAVE YOU LEARNED PULL ON THE THREADS AND TO PERSEVERE TO UNRAVEL THE WHOLE SPOOL? ARE YOU RELENTLESS TO COME AFTER GOD AND NOT LET GO? ARE YOU ABLE TO SHIFT OUT OF TALKING AND INTO HEARING? ARE YOU ‘IN THE WORD’ ENOUGH TO KNOW HIM BY HIS WORD? WILL YOU TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD? IS HIS WORD PERSONAL TO YOU? ARE YOU PERCIEVING, BY IDENTITY, THE CHRIST IN YOU? DO YOU LET THIS MIND, THE MIND OF CHRIST, BE IN YOU AS YOUR ONLY RIGHT MIND? (WE CANNOT LOOK AT THE VESSEL. MAN LOOKS ON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT GOD LOOKS UPON THE HEART. WOULD YOU KNOW HIS VOICE IF HE SPOKE TO YOU THROUGH A DONKEY, AS HE DID? (NUMBERS 22:28) DO YOU KNOW HIM? DO YOU KNOW HIM BY HIS NATURE? DO YOU KNOW HIM BY HIS IN DEPTH WORK IN YOUR OWN HEART? WILL HE SAY ‘YES’ TO YOU, WHEN YOU SAY, “LORD, LORD”, THAT HE INDEED, KNOWS YOU? DO YOU HAVE AN INTIMATE AND COMMUNICATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD? DO YOU LOVE HIS LAWS THAT DEFINE WHAT IS AND WHAT IS NOT GOD? CAN YOUR COMMUNION AND COMMUNICATION WITH THE LORD BE IMPROVED?
If you are a mocker, a scorner or a doubter, you are on the wrong page. Don’t waste your time here being condescending and fault-finding. Move on. If you are a know-it- all, (real or imagined), or terribly seasoned, (for real); or very mature and clearly perfected, you also, with all due respect, better move on to that which has more meat. This instruction is not for you. However, these words may encourage and support the humble, the desperate; those who still cry out for help and growth and change, and more of God. This stuff is for some of those who are still teachable, but this is not for everyone. You make your decision now and move on one way or the other. THE HISTORY AND THE BEGINNING OF ‘JUDY’S JOURNALS’ In 1976, I , known as Judy (then ‘McGeehan’) was, for the last time, in the psyche ward and for the last time, in a treatment center for addiction and alcoholism; where, then and there, I believe I became born again. Although it was a brand new spirit, (the Spirit of The Son of God), that lived within me, like any true ‘born-again’, it was unfortunately, the same old soul and body that had been with me from my natural birth. These parts desperately needed to be healed, delivered and transformed. This ‘Judy McGeehan’ soul and body were in rough condition; totally dysfunctional, and/or non-functioning. I was sick, crazy, addicted and depressed; not to mention broken-hearted. It actually was A TWELVE STEP PROGRAM that pointed The Way in those early days, for me to turn my will and life over to The Lord. However, (this relates to the origin of The Journals) because of all the affects of years of drugs, drunkenness and depression, my ability to focus and concentrate were almost non-existent. Writing everything down became the only sure way that complete thoughts and sentences were formed, EVEN IN THE PRAYERS, that now needed to become an ongoing part of my new life. In order to ‘work my program’, I needed to learn to communicate with God, and man. The simple 12 Step Program led me to do just that, and was exactly what I needed at that time. I found out that there was also a realm that was ‘beyond’ The Twelve Steps. It was what the twelve steps led and pointed to. It was the fulfillment of ‘The Promises’ in The Big Book. Not everyone finds Jesus Christ The Lord in Twelve Step Programs, but He is there and available. I saw everything pointing to Him. I experienced Him getting in my face and being persistent with me. Thank God! Thank God! He used that program to bring me to Him and I am forever grateful. Some of the words of those steps said, ‘SOUGHT TO IMPROVE MY CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH GOD AS I UNDERSTAND HIM, PRAYING FOR KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL FOR ME AND THE POWER TO CARRY IT OUT.’ That step morphed into the words of Jesus, The Firstborn, and His Many Brethern, as He says, “Not my will, but Thy will be done”; as He prayed to The Father that if it were possible, that cup would be passed from Him (Mark 14:36). This was not about ‘will power’, but it was about the death of one’s natural will and the Life of Another that is Divine. That cup did not pass Him without Him drinking from it first. Then He asks in Matthew 20:22-23, if we are able to drink this same cup. “But, Jesus replied, You do not realize what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized? They answered, 'We are able." He said to them," You will drink My cup, but seats at My right hand and at My left are not Mine to give, but they are for those for whom they have been ordained and prepared by My Father". AMP "Not my will, but Thy will be done in my life." (Matthew 26:42)
What if there were only this one way, and no other way? What would it be like if we allowed there to be no other options, no other thoughts to be entertained in our mind? What would our lives be like if we lived above the realm of choices and beyond the decision making process; rather to obey God or not? What if there was nothing else we would consider, because we are not carnal and adamic, but we know who we are and we know that we are born of God and we have the mind of Christ?(1 Cor. 2:16). What if there were nothing in our choice list that does not fit into and flow with His commandments, which are the will of God for us; the instruction and direction of God and the Mind of Christ? THAT WOULD THEN BE OUR ONLY ‘RIGHT MIND’! WE HAVE THE POTENTIAL AND THE POWER TO HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST, TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD AND TO BE PARTAKERS IN THE DIVINE NATURE. (John 1:12, Matt. 5:9, Rom 8:14, Gal. 3:26, Rom. 8:14, 2 Pet. 1:4) WE NEED TO QUIT BEING DOUBLE-MINDED. (James 1:8, 4:8)
The journals became the proof, when fear and doubt would come, that indeed, I had put it all into words and as an act of my will and my faith, packaged up all the matters into these specifically fitting words, and with the words that were full of my life and my heart; I turned it all over to God. My life was all His now. ‘Now, I understand that although I have found myself ‘powerless’ over my life, and I know that I am in terrible condition and trouble, I also know that now, it is also was all His big fat problem’. And yet, not just the problems and the weaknesses, but also the victories and the strengths. “My life is not my own”. The word of God tells me that He bought it with a dear price. It is bought and paid for and it belongs to Him, and I need to give it to Him. All my sins are bought and paid for, and they belong to The One who paid for them. Actually, I believe that the sins of all the world are bought and paid for, but all the world is not benefiting from that reality, because either they have not heard, and do not know it; or if they have heard, they do not accept and believe it as the truth about them.
Tears and feelings can also package up both negative and positive emotional energy which can become a nest for evil and issues in the tissues if it is not ex-pressed, or delivered from the inside of us to the outside of us, somehow. Words, tears and feelings that are felt. They are not necessarily all reality, but they will move even the unreality from the inside to the outside. Using words, I confess to God that I do know the difference between right and wrong. I confess to God and to my fellow man that I do know the difference if what I have said and done is sin or is godly. Words are power-filled packages, which can be used for good or for evil. If I will find the right words, that are fitting, and use them according to scripture; by faith, filling them with the matters they are designed to hold, all that stuff can be transferred out from me and unto Him. I cast my cares on Him, for He careth for me (1 Peter 5:7).. The reality that I could use words in this way were sanity to me. The knowledge that I can choose my thoughts and I don’t have to accept any old thought that manifests in my mind, as my own, is a powerful truth. It has changed my life! Words are so powerful. We need to choose them wisely as the thoughts we entertain. This is still a powerful and important reality for me. We have the power to choose to let and allow The Mind of Christ to be in us. We can ask for it. We can study The Word of God; the scriptures and we can ‘hide them in our heart so that we will not sin’ (Ps.119:11). Isn’t that marvelous and wonderful! There is a way after all. The Word of God is available to all of us and it holds the power of deliverance and transformation. This was the truth about me way back then; the words in my journal were proof to me, when I couldn’t remember if I had prayed, or if I had prayed all the way through, or not. Although at that time I had some chemical imbalance and even brain damage from all the drugs, I could still track with the journals. I could see the faithfulness of God and how the answer to my prayers and questions came in an ongoing stream of fellowship. The words became The Great Exchange, a gift, intimacy, an ability and a vehicle to give the life to God that He has first given to me… and then it became a two way street. It became a dialog. It became a workshop. It became a counseling session. The Spirits of Counsel and Wisdom and Understanding would visit. I began to know things I had not been taught and to receive insight and enlightenment that couldn’t be found, except in the presence of God. I daily came to the journal as a meeting place and time, with the need and discipline of communion with God. These times became most precious and valuable to free me from the anxieties and issues and questions and problems that would come up daily. I could keep a pulse on all the areas of my own life and stay conscious of what God was dealing with in my heart and the small steps of direction and understanding in what to do next and how to handle responsibility that was being laid in my lap as the call on my life was recognized. I came to The Journal to turn my life over to God in words; that’s called prayer, and to wait upon Him in the meditation, contemplation, dialoging; it is the hearing part and time. The expectation came that He would meet me. If I draw near to Him, He will draw near to me.(James 4:8) I could begin to trust that it was The One True God that was hearing me. He would also respond. Not necessarily on demand, but sooner or later; in one way or another. I would come away with something, if only the knowledge that I had opened my heart to Him and turned my life and all of its matters over to Him. Because I know His word, I know that He said, “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.’( Luke 11:9). With that confidence, and the proof in writing that I had, indeed, asked and knocked, and in my heart I know that I am here seeking; only then I could be sure that it was all in His able hands. With the words of my journal, I had pushed it all across the table (or the altar) to Him.
Journaling is a way that I can see and track and touch and even discern to check out my own sincerity and authenticity to monitor my self. Is my life really His? In my journal, I will examine my own faith also to see what I really do believe about my identity. Is His life mine? Is Christ my life? I have the opportunity to ask the right questions, not only to God, but from God. Ask the right questions and get the right answers. My journals have developed another powerful and valuable function for me.. They have become a means of extreme ‘interpersonal’ communication. This is very 'Inter-personal’. The journals are a format and platform for me to inquire and examine and investigate and know my own self. As a son of God; spirit-man, after Jesus The Firstborn of Many Brethern, The Journals are a means for me to communicate with, understand, know, win, woo and convert my own soul. Sound strange? Listen on… David spoke to His soul, “Bless The Lord, Oh my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name.”( Ps. 103:2) He said, tenderly, “Why are you downcast, oh my soul?” (Ps. 42) Isn’t that sweet? David was a man after God’s own heart. The Christ in you is The Lover of your soul. Lovers talk, don’t they? Lovers know one another. Lovers communicate more than anyone. Lovers are conscious of each other; very conscious of one another. Yet when the soul is conscious of herself, something is wrong. But when the spirit is conscious of the soul and body, it is for self-control, expression of The Christ and manifestation of The Presence of God. Is this soul expressing love? Examine your selves… it is scriptural: 1 Cor 11:28 Let a man [thoroughly] examine himself, and [only when he has done] so should he eat of the bread and drink of the cup. AMP 2 Cor 13:5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected? AMP Gal 6:4 But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor. AMP 1 Cor 11:28 Let a man [thoroughly] examine himself, and [only when he has done] so should he eat of the bread and drink of the cup. AMP 2 Cor 13:5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected? AMP Gal 6:4 But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor. AMP Most Christians have no awareness about what part of them is spirit and what is soul and how any part of all that works in relationship to the body. See the volumes of teachings that will soon be published on this website about the relationship between spirit, soul and body. Sometimes the soul has questions. She then should discover The Hope of Glory, Christ in you, always present, alive inside, wanting to be acknowledged and inquired of. Will that faithful and commited Christ always only be ‘a lover’? Or would He as a Lover, plan with His commitment and faithfulness to also become a Husband? In Revelations, The Lamb has a Wife, not just a Bride. What is the difference? Is it experience? Is it union? Is it that the two become one? Ask the right questions and you might get the right answers! Our soul has questions. The soul is feminine. Our spirit-man, of course, is masculine, in role and function; (in the spirit there is no male or female, yet there are masculine and feminine roles and functions.) Our mind needs understanding, our emotions get upset, and it is possible for our will to be found in opposition to The Will of God. It can be found stubbornly stuck, and as Paul said, ‘doing the thing that I would not do.’ (Gal 5:17) David spoke from the spirit-man sense, from the role and function of head of the household,; he was inquiring of his soul (wife and mother function), or instructing her. Isn’t it amazing, the degree to which communication has been modeled in scripture and yet remains in our unused potential? I find, in prayer, even in my journals, that if I asked The Lord for bread, He does not give me a stone (Matt7:9), and characteristically, if I ask Him to speak to me somehow, He does not leave me forever without a response. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt 4:4). Do you believe that God is still communicating, or do you think He has said it all? He doesn’t like repetitious prayers from men, would you suppose that He can only keep saying the same things? Of course all that He says will line up with His character and nature and word. Do you believe that The Lord can and will still speak in that still small voice? Have you asked Him to speak to you? Do you believe He can and will? Will you allow that response to be released from your expectations as to how and where and when it will be answered? .Luke 11:9-13 So I say to you Ask. and keep on asking and it shall be given you; Seek. “…seek and keep on seeking and you shall find; Knock… “…knock and keep on knocking and the door shall be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone; or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts [gifts that are to their advantage] to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him! AMP
I believed that after I had some experience with God and became more than just acquainted with Him through His written word, that indeed, He began to speak to me and He began to speak with me. I learned His voice. I even learned when He would want to take over in my journal. No one was around to tell me He couldn’t. It wasn’t a hostile takeover. As I asked, not always immediately, but eventually, the answers would bubble up. When I left The Journal, after asking and expressing my heart, somehow; somewhere in my life the answers and solutions would come. Things happened. Things changed. Things got done. I knew I was really praying. I didn’t spend a lot of time re-reading my prayers, but somehow, knowing that my part of our communication was recorded and tangible, the pit couldn’t shake my confidence. Some people may never understand what that means, and others will truly relate. I know that The Lord heard me. I know that eventually, He honored my whole-heartedness, and my faithfulness; how could He not? He responded to me. He drew near to me. How could He not? He says in His own word that He will. How could He not? He began to take His turn with my words. My life was His, my Journal was His; so His Spirit would also use the words of The Journal. I would talk and He would talk. It was a meeting place. Sometimes there would be no clear line. The Journal was a place for me to come before God to work things out and to meet Him and know Him and love Him. I made my mistakes with Him. As a child with a Parent; it was okay. I knew it. I know it. It was our meeting place, and our time, not just mine. It would have been selfish and controlling to not allow Him to use The Journal to speak to me also. I knew I was no longer alone.
But I anticipate my time with my Father God. I have a different kind of time with The Holy Spirit. Jesus was conceived of The Holy Spirit and that is a feminine function. I allow whatever I would need to work out with a ‘mother function’ to be worked out with THE HOLY SPIRIT. The Father God, of course, I relate to as my only real and true Father. The Lord, Jesus Christ, I relate to as my Head; my Most Honorable and Respeced Big Brother, my Hero, my Savior and Deliverer, my bridegroom. I am One with Him. I am in Him. His Father is my Father. His mother is my Mother. He is The Head, I am a tiny part of His Body; yet that makes me a PARTAKER OF THE DIVINE NATURE!!! YAY! When I go before God, I find myself GOING BEFORE THE PERFECT FAMILY UNIT.
NO LONGER IS MY LIFE MY OWN TO DO WITH IT WHAT I WANT AND CHOOSE. IT IS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR AND THE DEAL IS DONE; THE COVENANT IS CUT. I AM A PARTAKER OF THE DIVINE NATURE. I HAVE PRAYED THE PRAYER AND YIELDED MY LIFE. I AM INVOLVED, AND UNABLE, BY COMMITMENT, TO STOP AND DO WHATEVER I WANT TO WHEN I WANT.
When that happens, I will jot a note to myself; maybe just a word or a phrase to remember. Maybe I get a few words of a scripture to look up and study. It will prick my heart, or burn, or ‘catch’ me in a way that I know that it is something meaningful or exciting that The Lord wanted to talk to me about. This is about something I need to take a look at. This is about something I need to know. I look forward to bringing all these notes, questions, and scriptures, along with the desires of my heart, to be dealt with and re-interpreted by Him. I know confidently they will be given back to me in a new and higher form. It was not always the matters I came with, that were dealt with in The Journal. Often the subject was changed to a matter of greater priority or importance than I brought to the table. Sometimes the answers that came were not the answers I wanted. But when The Lord speaks, rather it be conviction of The Holy Spirit, or exposing some ungodly attitude or motivation of the heart, when it is God, it is wonderful. When it is God, it is a great relief. When it is God, even though it may be chastisement, no correction is pleasant at the time, it brings the peaceable fruit of righteousness with it, and what can be better than that? The Journals were not just a ‘thing’, or an activity, but they were a time and a place to meet with God. I learned the discipline of daily prayer journaling by the reward system. At first I would ‘go in’ and ‘come out’. It was like a passage way I entered into by some strict rituals. First I do this, then I move into that, then I can do this and that and then this will happen. It was my early faith. I knew this: I went in one way and came out another. When I came out, I was in a different condition than when I went in. I came away with wisdom and counsel and answers and solutions and peace. Soon I came back with clear words of affection, correction, and direction. In the beginning, the format was necessary. The scriptures said so, I ‘enter His gates with Thanksgiving in my mouth and I enter His courts with Praise (Ps 100:4). I imagined in the supernatural realm, that I would begin thanking God for everything I could think of and then I had used that key to the Kingdom, and I had unlocked and entered into His gates. And then I would move into Praise. At first I thought that God must be kind of egotistical that He actually wanted and told people to praise Him. Now I know that Praise is merely telling The Truth about Who God Is, and the purpose of it is for my mind to be washed and renewed and conscious of Who It Is I Am Approaching and What He Is Known For. It prepared my soul for the awesome presence and power of God. He is no egomaniac. Praise is just The Truth about Him. It is really for my sake. It puts a kind of spiritual lense on the eyes of my understanding so that my eyes can be opened in the unseen realm and I can see. Thanksgiving and Praise are Two Keys. The things of God come three-in- one, and the third in this particular ‘three-fold cord, is Worship. The first two keys and passages bring us to this one. And these three-in-one keys is The Way to intimacy with God. It is The Way to enter into His personal chambers and more than that, into union with Him in His chambers. Worship is the third realm, state and condition, and act and attitude of heart that brings us through the doorway of all separation into true union. We become what we behold. We reflect that which we hold ourselves still before. As we thank Him, Praise Him, yield ourselves over to trust Him; confessing our sins, receiving forgiveness, separating our selves with words and faith from everything else to depend only on His righteousness and His worthiness and His love… we find ourselves in the center of His heart. We were created for intimacy and communion and union with God. Jesus came as The Reconciler to become and to make Himself The Way for us to come back into the very heart of God. Christ is my life. Gal 2:20-21 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. NKJV Now I seem to rush in, or suddenly appear, but I believe The Way I learned has become my lifestyle. It was different when I first learned this. I was very careful to be sure that I wasn’t going to miss a step and waste my time and not experience His presence. Now I know that rather I ‘feel’ anything or not, The Truth remains standing and He hears me and He is always there with me and nothing can separate me from His love. But I remember that early careful greeting etiquette. It laid the foundation for me. It was real. It worked while relationship and finally union was being established and built upon. In the beginning, everything was written out, as The Way of communion and fellowship with God was being learned. Now it is known. Now I am sure. Now thanksgiving and praise are an integral part of my sanity and peace. If they don’t remain in their right places all the time, something else will be. If the right thing is in the right place, there will be no room for the wrong thing to slip in. This fellowship, rather now, written or whispered or exchanged in spirit only, remains in the form of lifestyle, and yet still has in it, the original solid foundation of thanksgiving and praise and worship, with words of communication and fellowship to God; called prayer. This fellowship does not need to be started and stopped, but it is a way of life. Prayer Journaling is daily for me. If I go a day or two without this very conscious and deliberate time, or without dealing with my heart before God, emptying out and receiving, I become very uncomfortable. I don’t feel right. I get ‘out-of-sorts’, off track; out of character. I don’t function out of the anointing which is the presence of God in me, if I don’t keep my soul saturated in His reality and in His will and word and heart for me personally. Actually, I am not myself without Him. Soon it will show up whatever I might be yielding my members over to instead. It won’t be pretty, but it will be obvious. I am not happy when I am not in my right mind; The Mind of Christ. Before I was so confident, or seasoned in these things… first relationship was built. There is a careful, deliberate building. Everyone is somewhere, and we cannot go on unless we go on from where we really are. We cannot build missing a few stories in the building. We must have every level and realm in place with all of its experiences and layering. Its best to be humble and spend time on the foundation than rush on to high-minded things with no solid foundation. It’s important to be who and where we are and not build on some vain imagination that allows one to think more highly of themselves than they ought. The conscious contact turned into intimate communion, and then developed into a lifestyle of union with God. These prayer journals are examples of the kind of intense personal work that can be done as and by one who is a willing scribe. It may not be everyone’s call, but if you are not a writer, consider getting a Dictaphone that is battery powered and compact, and do some prayer journaling onto audio tapes, for the same purpose… talk to God and be able to record the interaction and the path for the sake of history and geography in the spirit. Thank God for all those prayers that are recorded in scripture, from Genesis to Revelations, faithful scribes wrote, and God is still The Living God and He is still speaking today. There may or may not be a conscious awareness of when a journal changes from man to God and back again. We know only by the anointing that is on it. Sometimes a writing may have an anointing on it for another time or for another person. Words can contain and preserve the anointing, and keep it good as new. The writing style of these journals is as a stream. It may overflow the banks, or spill out into rabbit trails, but the main course of it will go where called. Your writing style may be different, and also, hopefully, will be subject to change and develop into your own God-given creative writing style. ‘Judy’s Journals’ are not formed with any rigid structure and may not know where they are going until they get there. That spontaneity may not be palatable to all, but if this kind of flow and adventure can minister to you, then benefit. If it does not and cannot, then move on. Don’t waste your time staying to criticize what is another’s help and blessing. The Journals are full of practical stuff. It is very human and also reflects The Divine. The Journals have been a practical tool that has worked and mined through many seemingly impossible times. Talking with God by faith is comforting and the pages contains elements of enlightenment and encouragement and wisdom. The journal becomes a teaching, a testimony, a counseling session, a friend, a path and a journey.” Pastor ‘Judy’s Journals’ have something for everyone who desires to develop a greater intimacy with God. They are an example of an inner life that bears fruit. TASTE AND SEE THAT GOD IS GOOD. FOR ME, WORDS ARE PACKAGES THAT CAN CONTAIN POWER. THE SPOKEN WORD AND THE WRITTEN WORD HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE THE VEHICLE FOR A HUGE EXCHANGE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. ‘INTIMACY WITH GOD’ COMES THROUGH UNDERSTANDING ONES IDENTITY. IF YOU HAVE NOT LEARNED BY ANOTHER WAY, LEARN BY EXAMPLE; IN THIS CASE, THE FORMAT IS PRAYER JOURNALING. THIS WILL BE A PRAYER JOURNEY FOR YOU. CONSIDER NOW, ALSO, THE BEGINNING OF WRITING YOUR OWN. MY JOURNALS ARE A MAP OF WHERE I HAVE BEEN IN GOD. THEY ARE MY HISTORY, MY GEOGRAPHY. THEY ARE MY TESTIMONY. COME INTO INTIMACY WITH GOD; LET THE CONNECTION BECOME A UNION. LET THE LINES BETWEEN BECOME A BOND AND A CONCEPTION. LET THE RELATIONSHIP BE FORMED. BIRTH THE FRUIT OF IT. WRITE THE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT MEANS; PERHAPS IT IS FOR SOMEONE ELSE WHO WILL COME ALONG LATER. WHEN YOUR JOURNALS ARE WRITTEN, READ THEM OVER AND THEN YOU CAN NAME THEM BY WHAT YOU SEE THEY ARE.
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