Pour Out Your Heart Journal: A Planner for a life of Prayer by Lois Krogh

 The Pour Out Your Heart Prayer Journal by Lois Krogh is a lovely book from Crossway publishers--a Christian publishing company. I make that point because this is a book aimed at those who follow the Christian faith. There are Bible verses and places to study the Bible as well as places to journal your prayers in this book.

The hardcover is truly lovely and has a quality classic book feel. The book is divided into sections beginning with one called How to Use this Prayer Journal that explains how they intended the book to be used--although it is your book and you could do things a bit differently.

The next section is Daily Gospel Truth which is where you can jot down your favorite verses or hymns as "the place to begin your time in prayer with a reminder of God's grace and mercy" from the book. They have a list of suggested verses at the back of the book. This may work for some Christians as many prayer through the Bible verses and hymns. I also think writing things down helps you remember them.

The next section is called Promises--a place to write more verses that are promises for today from the Bible.

The largest section is for prayers, which is what you would expect in a prayer journal. There is an expectation that you will use post it notes to write your changing prayers on and stick them in the book to pray though. This may or may not work for you.

Following the prayer section, the next section is entitled, Provisions, for you to write out God's provisions for you by date. The author encourages you to look back on your life and see how God has provided for you through the years too.

The last section of the book is Resources where the author explains how and why she wrote the book, verses to use, what prayer means and more.

All in all this is a nice prayer journaling tool and I would agree The Pour Out Your Heart Prayer Journal is different than other prayer journals. I think this author hopes that you will focus on the whole Christian life to see how prayer works within you to meet God each day. I do like it but I also think it is one that is an investment in time and useage to get the most out of it.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through the Amazon Vine program. All opinions within this review are my own.

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