Prayer Journal

When we were on the road for over a decade we would constantly get prayer requests and committed to pray for people but it became overwhelming. So we developed a way to pray using our fingers and record in a Journal specific things for each day of the week.

Now after researching how we go the names of our Days of our week, I didn't want to mark up my prayer journal with pagan days of the week. So I renamed them. Hey someday when King JESUS is here I'll wager HE'll rename them!

So I made simple tabs in my journal using a blank sticky label folding it upon itself on the page to stick out about ¼ of an inch. I then labeled it with new days of the week that sound like our pagan ones. I used abbreviation on the tiny tab.

• Sonday

• Oneday

• Useday

• Whenday

• Yourday

• Iday

• Sabbath Day

I spaced each tab 10 pages apart as you'll see why later.

I broke each day into 9 hand gestures to keep me focused and to eventually memorize and help know where I was in each day of praying.

• 3 hand gestures

  • Praise - Hands raised in praise using different names of GOD and their meaning

    • I split into each day 3-5 Names of GOD so each day I cover new ones

  • Hands Cupped together - For mercy, blessings, gifts

    • I know JESUS said we have not because we ask not so I split into each day asking for GOD to give me the various gifts I desire like one day I'll ask for the gift of discernment, etc.

  • Fist To Fight - raised high – To come against enemy

    • I took Ephesians 6 and broke the Pieces of the Full Armor up to 7 parts and take one for each day. I pray power verses that promise our victory over the enemy

• 5 fingers (I hold up one finger representing a type of prayer)

  • Index finger - 1st thing, lost, harvest praying different names for each day

  • Tall finger - Those with authority over the church, civic, corporate, currency, citizens

    • I pray specifically for presidents, military, judicial, governmental, health, education, arts, media

  • Ring finger - Spouse, loved ones, family members, marriages

  • Pinky finger - least, orphans, widows, fosters, subcultures, those caught in human trafficking.

  • Thumb – lastly I pray for me,

    • One day I pray for the gifts of the spirit (all ten <grin>)

• Final Hand gesture of palms pressed together to form praying hands.

  • I pray for specific prayer needs that I have put a date next to it when I started praying for it and when the prayer is answered I record that date to remind GOD answers prayer!

    • One example is I along with many others prayed for years that Roe V Wade be reversed!