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My Prayer Journal

On February 4, 2024

What Writing in a Prayer Journal Taught me about Myself

Have you ever written in a prayer journal? If so, you’ll know that it’s healing because of how you changed after writing out each prayer. I remember when I was broken and a friend gave me a prayer journal. I found it easier to write out my thoughts, feelings, and prayers than I thought it would be. After spending months writing these things out, I learned that my focus changed. In this post I will show you what you need to know about writing in a prayer journal.

Beginning with an Inspirational Thought

Have you ever sat down to write and you find yourself looking down at an empty sheet of paper as you struggle to find something to say? I found that with guided inspirational thoughts, I could write statements or prayers about that part of my life in a positive, more rounded way. I found that as I was inspired, I began writing inspirational kinds of things.

Working It Out

In Philippians 2:12,13; Paul tells the Philippians to work out their salvation. This is what a prayer journal is in many ways. It is the working out of everything in quietude in the presence of the Lord. I found that it is His desire to work in me and on behalf of His good purpose for me. Invite Him to be present with you as you work out these thoughts, prayers, inspirations on paper.

Resolving in Myself

I have this one journal prompt that is an invitation to a thought-provoking song. I remember listening to this song with great conviction. It begged the very question in me so strongly that I was resolved to not only be inspired by it, but to let it be the impetus in me to get up and do those things that I had desired to do for a very long time. It brought me to a place of resolution in which I could no longer stay in what I call the sleep-walking mode of life.

Wake Up

If you haven’t read my articles about Nehemiah and how he grieved over the broken ruins of Jerusalem, take a look at those articles. Be inspired by the process of waking up out of brokenness. Be inspired by more than that. Wake yourself up and make that first move toward personal growth and spiritual growth. In your resolve, wake yourself up out of slumber and reach for healing and growth, being an inspiration to yourself and those around you.

Inspire Others

You won’t readily know this, but as you are quietly working out your salvation before the Lord, making resolutions within yourself, and working them out, the people around you are noticing the difference in you as you begin to grow. Some of them will be inspired by what they see in you.

Now that you know more about writing in a prayer journal, you’re ready to begin without worrying about being too self-conscious.

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Why I Started Inspired Daughters Blog

By Donna

On February 2, 2024

In Uncategorized

Are you inspired? Are you looking for inspiration? Are you looking for encouragement or answers? I’m sure you’re not looking for stories that have been repeated in the same exact language from generation to generation without a deeper look or a different perspective. Today I want to share with you my story about why I decided to begin this blog and what my purpose is in writing.

Inspire

I’m always looking for something inspiring and fresh ways to observe what I already know. I’m always looking for ideas and there’s no better place to share that than in a blog. My story begins when I was experiencing a lot of trials in which I was working to come closer to God and I kept feeling like I was getting the wind knocked out of me every time I would make a new observation and commit myself to keeping it.

I’m His daughter

I have always read about God being my Father in Heaven and I have always recognized that. However, one day, an acquaintance of mine said something that totally blew my mind! It should not have. I mean, I had thought about this thing, but I just didn’t know completely what I thought about it. She called me a Daughter of God. I think I just kind of went numb with shock because just hearing that statement at the time I heard it . . . well, it kind of knocked me in my core.

Reality Check

I knew it was true what she was saying and I knew that I had been searching for statements about that very thing. I had just never heard anyone say it out loud. In all my life, I had not heard anyone state beliefs out loud that I held dear in myself like that. Because of this conversation, I was super inspired and all I could think to do was to write about it any chance I got.

Same Old Thing?

I have often felt that we studied and discussed the same things in group studies that we had always discussed and that there seemed to be no variation. It seemed that I was having difficulty finding inspiration in it. I felt that because I have been the youngest person in most of the groups I have studied with that I didn’t have a place for my voice.

A Peach?

If we were ripe apples on the tree, I would be a peach. I have not seemed to have the same vision and mission that the people around me have. I realize that everyone is given gifts by God. I also realize that some gifts seem to be extremely different than the norm. There are people who view these differences as a threat or a danger. God gives different gifts so that His people can complement each other in ministry. Paul mentions this in his different letters to the Romans, Corinthians, and Ephesians.

Belonging

When I was a young girl, I experienced a lot of bullying because I didn’t do the same things the other girls did. I didn’t think the way they thought. I didn’t observe the same way they observed. It was tough because I had a different perspective. We are always going to meet people who think and act differently than ourselves. Just because it is different, it does not mean it is wrong or broken.

It IS broke! Fix it!

An example of this is found in the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it!” To me that’s like repeating the same verse in a song or the same statement of belief every day without making a conscious thought about it. Conscious thought is life-changing. Conscious thought is inspiring. Conscious thought and vision is motivating. It’s what builds great leaders. It’s what builds this Daughter of God. So maybe the thing that we think isn’t broken is because it has been a habit for so many months or years. Maybe it’s broken into a monotonous rhetoric of habit like a wheel turning on an exercise bike. It just turns and turns and turns and it doesn’t go anywhere. There’s no inspiration or motivation behind it except what was in the past is still in the present. Maybe if we put a wheel on the front of that exercise bike and search for places to go, we get an observation of the present and a vision for the near future and that bike is not just for exercise anymore. That bike is taking us on the mission where our vision is leading.

My Epiphany

This is where inspiration comes in! I don’t like repeating the same thing over and over again. I’m not a robot. I don’t like doing everything that everyone else around me is doing. I’m not them. God didn’t make us alike. He made us all to be different. All my life I have been “the different one.” I laugh sometimes when I think of that because I was not always okay with my differences because I was often told how annoying my differences are. One day, though, I had an epiphany of an experience. I was practicing singing with a group of other ladies. At one point, the choir director stopped abruptly and yelled at me in a defiantly annoyed manner. She yelled, “Why do you always have to be different than everyone else!” Wow! She was so angry and so pointed! I didn’t even realize I was doing anything different. I was just being who I am. It was the one time that I publicly stated out loud that “for the first time in my life, I like who I am and that I don’t have a problem with me.”

Aspiring to Inspire

So this is my story, my inspiration behind this blog. I want to write things that I’m inspired by so that I can inspire you, God’s Daughters.

Aspire to Inspire

By Donna

On December 26, 2023

In Uncategorized

First Time Creative Writing

All my life, as far back as I can remember; I have wanted to write. In fact, I remember when I was a young girl, I would write my name over and over again while trying to think of something interesting to write instead. Then one day, one of the girls in my class shared how she wrote a poem. I don’t remember studying poetry or writing poems as any kind of assignment before that time. I remember thinking how that was the neatest thing! So that day when I went home, I found a good sized box and set it up on the patio in the back yard. I set it up just so that I was sitting on some table with my feet hanging into the box as I pretended that I was sailing in boat out in the sea. That was how I wrote my first poem when I was nine years old.

Aspiring to Inspire

I love how my classmate inspired me to do something I had never done before. I also love how my third grade teacher inspired a wonderful story to come out of me. In this assignment, I had to close my eyes and play with a giant marshmallow in my fingers while the teacher told a story. I don’t know how long the story was or even what the details were. I just remember that my imagination grew every minute. I don’t even remember exactly what I wrote except that it was about heaven. My story must have been impressive because I overheard the teacher talking with my mom about it. I also remember hearing my mom telling other people about it and making positive and wonderful exclamations about it. It felt really good to know that I could write something so positive and so well that it inspired the adults around me.

Continuing to Inspire

My purpose in writing this blog is motivated by my desire to inspire. I love and appreciate how the people around me inspire me. I love how my classmate inspired me to write poetry and how my teacher inspired this great story to come out of me. What I love just as much, or even more, is that I can write something that inspires the people who read what I write.

What I’m passionate about

I’m passionate about writing on Bible topics in a relatable way. I love to connect the different themes in the different Bible stories and relate them to today. I spend time studying the Bible with people and I’m looking forward to writing themed Bible studies in the near future. This has been a dream of mine for some time now. In everything I do, I want to encourage and lift people out of the low places in life and lift them up to the better places.

Why am I passionate about these things?

It seems like the things I hope to find answers to don’t seem to be written down in books or on the internet. When I find them, they seem to be missing the very things that I am looking for. It makes me feel like if there were all apples on a tree, I would probably be the peach that’s grafted in.

I find inspiration when I’m studying the Bible with people. Sometimes it seems so inspiring to me that I just want to write about it and share it. A blog is the quickest way to express that. What I mean is that, sometimes I’m studying with someone who thinks that there is no grace in God’s heart for them. Sometimes they feel that they have messed up so much that God can’t possibly be looking for them anymore. That is not true. As soon as we start studying and praying together, God reveals to them and to me how much He loves each one of us.

One More Story About Faith

One more story I want to share about my passion for Inspiring God’s Daughters. I had been studying about the sons and daughters of God and reflecting on God’s promises that He gives in the last days of earth’s history. Those promises are for today. I recognized that as a female individual who has accepted Christ as Savior and Redeemer, I am adopted into the family of Christ. That makes me a Daughter of the Living God.

I was visiting with a friend and I had already pondered this in my heart when she pulled out a devotional and started talking about it with me. I was sitting there with her but my heart was almost in a state of shock and I was so excited to hear another person talk about this same thing that I was inspired by. It made my heart leap and skip in hope to realize that other people think about things that nobody really talks about.

Going Far With Inspiration

This is what I want to do for other Daughters of God and those who desire to be Daughters of God. I want my writings to go beyond inspiration. I want to express myself in a way that hope, faith, and grace and love grow along with the inspiration that I share.

What Inspires You?

Is there anything that I have written today that resonates with you? Have you been inspired by what I’m writing? Do you have a story about someone that has inspired you? Or have you found that you have done something that inspired someone else?

What do you hope to learn that I have not mentioned?

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