Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

• Explore your fears and what’s behind them.
• Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.
• List out all that you are grateful for.
• Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

Bible Text

Psalm 34 (ESV)

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech,

so that he drove him out, and he went away.

¹ I will bless the Lord at all times;

    his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

² My soul makes its boast in the Lord;

    let the humble hear and be glad.

³ Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

    and let us exalt his name together!

⁴ I sought the Lord, and he answered me

    and delivered me from all my fears.

⁵ Those who look to him are radiant,

    and their faces shall never be ashamed.

⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

    and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷ The angel of the Lord encamps

    around those who fear him, and delivers them.

⁸ Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

    Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

⁹ Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,

    for those who fear him have no lack!

¹⁰ The young lions suffer want and hunger;

    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

¹¹ Come, O children, listen to me;

    I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

¹² What man is there who desires life

    and loves many days, that he may see good?

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil

    and your lips from speaking deceit.

¹⁴ Turn away from evil and do good;

    seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous

    and his ears toward their cry.

¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,

    to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷ When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears

    and delivers them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸ The Lord is near to the brokenhearted

    and saves the crushed in spirit.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

    but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

²⁰ He keeps all his bones;

    not one of them is broken.

²¹ Affliction will slay the wicked,

    and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

²² The Lord redeems the life of his servants;

none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

How is God addressing me today?

•       What is the theme of this passage in one sentence?

•       Write out some key verses from this passage.

•       How is God speaking to me through this passage? What are some lessons or applications for my life?

Prayer