EP 57: Spiritual Journaling (Spiritual Disciplines Series)

Thankful Homemaker: A Christian Homemaking Podcast

Marci Ferrell: Christian Homemaker, Wife, Mother and Grandmother

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Spiritual journaling is a way to slow our lives down and ponder deeply over the events of the day. In my life journaling has helped me to grow spiritually by discerning my thoughts and motives. It has shown me areas where I need to give thanks and praise to the Lord. My journaling time has reminded me of situations or people I need to be in prayer for. Journaling is an excellent time for me to see areas of weakness and set spiritual goals and not always just spiritual but other areas of my life that need some help too. Maybe I need to be better disciplined in my internet habits, or my homekeeping or some of my relationships may need time and attention. This is a good time to evaluate all areas of my life. God’s Word doesn’t specifically talk about journaling it is a spiritual discipline that many saints over the years have benefitted from and I think of how we have profited by the journals of the saints of the past. I think of the journals like the diary of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards, or George Mueller’s autobiography or Jim Elliot’s journal put together by Elisabeth Elliot. These are treasures we have of how the Lord worked in and through their lives. You can find all podcasts on the Spiritual Disciplines in this series here. The two books I'm utilizing the most for the series are Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life and Habits of Grace. Head to ThankfulHomemaker.com for Full Show Notes Subscribe to ThankfulHomemaker Follow ThankfulHomemaker on Facebook, Pinterest & Instagram Subscribe to the Podcast on Your Favorite App

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and
0:11.3	blessing to each other and the role God has called us to as women.
0:15.0	I'm so thankful you stop by.
0:17.0	So grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit
0:20.0	as we talk about how God's word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.
0:25.3	Hello friends I'm Marcy Farrell from thankful homemaker.com and I am so glad to be with you today.
0:34.0	Thank you for continuing to listen in and we are still working on a series
0:39.0	on the spiritual disciplines
0:41.0	and again always these are standalone so if you're just joining us today
0:44.9	You will be fine to listen to this one and as always I'd love you to go back and listen to the other ones
0:50.7	They started the series started in episode 52 with the introduction and from there we can
0:56.8	continued on and we talked about Bible reading and then we talked about biblical meditation
1:02.1	and scripture memory.
1:03.4	We did Bible study and the last episode was on prayer.
1:08.0	So today we are on episode 57
1:11.5	and we're going to talk about journaling.
1:14.7	And while God's word doesn't specifically talk about journaling,
1:18.2	it is a spiritual discipline that many saints over the years have benefited from.
1:23.4	And then I think of how we now as current believers have benefited from the journals of the
1:29.0	Saints of the Past.
1:30.4	I think of journals like The Diary of David Brainerd written by Jonathan Edwards or
1:35.2	George Miller's autobiography or Jim Elliot's journal put together by his wife Elizabeth
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