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The Amazing Benefits of Journal Writing

31 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Having been a journal writer for over 20 years, regularly writing three  pages a day, I have learnt a thing or two about the great benefits that can come from this practice. It is a great habit to integrate into your schedule.

My own practice has been to write early in the morning with a hot cup of coffee in hand. I write about whatever comes into my head. Everything from shopping lists to lists of things to do, life issues, hopes and dreams, and of course prayers. Whatever I am thinking or feeling flows out onto the page.

These are the benefits I have noticed that come from journaling.

  1. Journaling helps me to clarify my thoughts.
  2. Journaling helps me to get clear on what I want and need.
  3. Journaling is a great way to work through problems on paper. Often great solutions seem to ‘appear’ as I write.
  4. Journaling is great for my mental and emotional health. When I am feeling bad I can pick up my pen and start writing about how I am feeling. I am always in a more uplifted mood after doing this. Journaling helps me to articulate what is really at the core of the issues I am facing and gives me confidence about how to address them successfully.
  5. In going back over my journals from time to time, I notice that themes appear, ideas emerge that will not go away, and purpose and direction seem to unfold for my life.
  6. Journaling has helped me know myself more fully. Who I am and what I am called to do in the world.
  7. I use my journal to write down ideas as they come to me during the day. I also write great quotes from books that I am reading or whatever I am listening to throughout the day. The journal is a repository for everything I do not want to forget.
  8. Journaling has helped to become more creative and productive. Journaling helps me to overcome my own fears and conquer resistance to getting started.

 

I have been journaling so long it has become a necessary part of my morning routine. When I have finished journaling I feel equipped for the day, organised and  focused. I know exactly what I want to go forth and accomplish. What direction to take. I have my marching orders. I get dressed and ready and off I go to make my contribution to the world. I am empowered to live my truth one day at a time.

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Writing as a Daily Victory

23 Monday Jan 2017

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Dear Lord,

Thankyou for Your unconditional, unfailing love. I am Your child and You have great things for me to experience, learn and do in life. Wonder and grace. Love and light. You are with me and in me. I simply need to abide in You and follow when and where You lead. I am leading a guided life, Your Spirit guides me into all truth. You are helping me to own my calling and to be brave. I place my confidence in You. Nothing is impossible.

I am seeing the importance of being creatively brave and having faith to write. I must create a body of work. My process is to write every morning, in my journal and to share each weekday on my blog. There is something about writing with paper and pen that allows thoughts, feelings and ideas to flow out of me. Writing unlocks me. Writing first thing before the day really gets going means I can conquer internal resistance and procrastination, allowing my own creativity to flow without the distraction of other voices which will surely come at me during the day.

Words may trickle, or words may flow, but success is in the showing up and showing out every day. To make my contribution, no matter how small, or seemingly insignificant. Writing is a superpower I possess, given to me by God for the good of the world. To write is my ‘good part’ and it will not be taken from me because I have chosen it. It is my daily act of bravery which will mount up into a body of work in the future. Inspirational data which will keep on giving, building up God’s holy kingdom.

Thankyou Lord, for this great gift.

B

Questions to ponder: What is your superpower? How will you put it to use?

To all the Discouraged Parents

26 Monday May 2014

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Dear believers,

Do you have older children who are not serving the Lord? Is your heart discouraged as you watch them walking in the ways of the world, loving the pleasures of sin and denying the existence of God? You’ve loved them prayed for them, even begged and pleaded with them not to turn their back on God to no avail? Are you saying to yourself, “Where did I go wrong?”

If so, receive this this encouragement from the Word of God today from Psalm 89. God made some wonderful promises to David about his descendants. Promises we can claim for our own children today.

1. God promised David that if his sons did not follow Him that He would discipline them severely.

30 “If his sons forsake my law

and do not follow my statutes,

31 if they violate my decrees

and fail to keep my commands,

32 I will punish their sin with the rod,

their iniquity with flogging;

2. God promised to continue to love them and remain faithful to them. He will keep His covenant promise to David regarding his descendants.

33 but I will not take my love from him,

nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

34 I will not violate my covenant

or alter what my lips have uttered.

3. God promised David’s seed will endure and his line will continue forever .

35 Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—

and I will not lie to David—

36 that his line will continue forever

and his throne endure before me like the sun;

37 it will be established forever like the moon,

the faithful witness in the sky.”

Dearest believers, let these word bless your heart God and may God give you grace to trust Him for your children’s salvation.

When you see your adult children suffering consequences and judgments as a result of their sinful choices, be encouraged! You are witnessing the outworking of God promise to watch over our children and discipline them. He is working in their lives to get their attention and draw them back to Himself! Some of you well-meaning parents try to alleviate your child’s pain by rescuing them from sins consequences. Stop it! You may be hindering the work of God in their lives! No, let them go through the suffering, as hard as it is to watch as a parent, and pray that the pain and punishments that accompany sin will accomplish Gods purpose. Repentance and restoration of relationship with Himself! May God give us strength and wisdom to endure.

Trust God’s promise to continue to love and be faithful to our children and put your faith in God to establish your family line throughout all generations. Hallelujah!

Thanks be to the Lord for these wonderful promises and praise His Holy Name! Be encouraged.

 

Love and blessings,

Sister B