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.

   Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals:

  • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
  • A Guide to Self-Reflection
  • A Chart to help articulate feelings

Bible Passage: Psalm 116

¹ I love the Lord, because he has heard

    my voice and my pleas for mercy.

² Because he inclined his ear to me,

    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

³ The snares of death encompassed me;

    the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;

    I suffered distress and anguish.

⁴ Then I called on the name of the Lord:

    “O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”

⁵ Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;

    our God is merciful.

⁶ The Lord preserves the simple;

    when I was brought low, he saved me.

⁷ Return, O my soul, to your rest;

    for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

⁸ For you have delivered my soul from death,

    my eyes from tears,

    my feet from stumbling;

⁹ I will walk before the Lord

    in the land of the living.

¹⁰ I believed, even when I spoke:

    “I am greatly afflicted”;

¹¹ I said in my alarm,

    “All mankind are liars.”

¹² What shall I render to the Lord

    for all his benefits to me?

¹³ I will lift up the cup of salvation

    and call on the name of the Lord,

¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the Lord

    in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord

    is the death of his saints.

¹⁶ O Lord, I am your servant;

    I am your servant, the son of your maidservant.

    You have loosed my bonds.

¹⁷ I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving

    and call on the name of the Lord.

¹⁸ I will pay my vows to the Lord

    in the presence of all his people,

¹⁹ in the courts of the house of the Lord,

    in your midst, O Jerusalem.

   Praise the Lord!

Questions to help us go deeper

Reflect on the portrait of God depicted in these passages.

• What is He like?
• Reflect on the ways you have experienced this aspect of God.
• Are there ways that your current view of God needs to be corrected or refined through today’s passage?
• Praise God for who He is.

Prayer