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Have you never written your needs to be prayed for by your pastor or elders of your church? You must have been in situations where you were instructed to send in your prayer points via letters, email, or short notes. These prayer points are to be prayed over by your pastor or supporting ministers.

Would you say writing out prayers does not work? Is writing prayers even biblical? Does it produce results?

In the Bible, when God gives instructions to people to “write it down”, it was in relation to:

1. Commands, Deuteronomy 4:13; Exodus 17:14; Numbers 33:2,
2. 2. Visions, Revelation 1:19; Habakkuk 2:2.
3. 3. Prophecies, Jeremiah 30:2.

No place was “write down the prayer” spoken of. Does that make saying “write down your prayers” unbiblical? Can there be benefits to writing down prayers if it is not in the Bible to do so?

Imagine that the Lord’s Prayer was never written. Would we know that Jesus opened that awesome prayer with Our Father in Heaven? Millions of people all over the world have uttered that prayer word for word, daily. Would the benefits of the Lord’s Prayer have been enjoyed if it was never written?

What if the writer of the Psalms never wrote those powerful prayers in the Psalms? How would believers have found such declarations like Psalm 23 useful? What about those warfare and protection portions of the Psalms such as in the 35th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 59th, and 91st, to mention a few? The Psalms have brought many benefits to the Body of Christ. Prayer warriors have built prayers from it. Ministers of songs have composed songs from it. Preachers have designed sermons from it. Those benefits are still being enjoyed because those words were written!

God values human words as much as He values His own words! Matthew 15:35-37, Isaiah 55:11.

Human words have as much power as when it is spoken and written. Written words are more timeless than spoken words. The former can be referenced, the latter can only be uttered, remembered or forgotten.

What gives written prayers as much power as spoken prayers is the amount of soul poured into what is written.

When we pray with our mouths, we connect our souls to our brains to form the words that express our feelings and concerns to God. However, sometimes, the cares and burdens of life can overwhelm our prayers and limit the extent to which we pour out our hearts to God. At other times, we just do not know what we ought to pray for as we ought.

Written Prayer Helps Strengthen Relationship with God

Writing down your prayers as you would have said them can be the best way to pray at a time. There are benefits of praying together with a journal of prayers you have written. The goal is not to write down “prayer points” but to write down your prayers, all of the words with all of the feelings, emotions, thoughts, and images that you can pour into them. There is so much benefit in writing your prayers. Let us consider seven of these benefits:

7 Benefits of Prayer Written Down and Uttered

1. Focused Thoughts

Written prayers will help you focus on the things you want to tell God. Writing prayers is slower than speaking them and this allows the mind to connect one dot to another and present your prayers coherently and in a structure.

2. Referencing

Written prayers provide you reference for two purposes: first, to pray the words as much as you want to; second, to see what prayers God has answered.

3. Serve as Encouragement

Written prayers can serve as an encouragement to you to pray more. When you see words you have poured out to God, your faith can be stirred to keep on hoping that God would answer your prayers. You will want to pray more.

4. Reveals Deep Needs

Writing down your prayers can help you see some needs that you may have not acknowledged within you. Scribbling words can draw out things from us when the heart is connected to the pen or the keyboard.

5. Creates More Time in Prayer

Writing your prayers helps you spend more time in prayer. You will not care how long you have spent because what you want to write out to God is all that matters at the time.

6. Creates a Prayer Journal

Writing down your prayers over time creates a prayer journal for you. This will serve as proof to yourself and those who care to know that there was a time you had downtimes and concerns and presented them to God. How beautiful it is to show someone that you once prayed for something you now have.

7. Supports Prayer Tithing

Having a prayer journal can help you write out prayers you want to use to fill up your daily prayer tithing sessions. You have to pray daily, at least spend a tenth of your 24 hours time. Written prayers can serve as prompts for other prayer points that you can fill your prayer sessions for the day with.

8. Benefits for Someone Else

Your written prayers can benefit the life of someone else just as the Psalmic prayers do as well as those powerful prayers made by the Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles that have come to form parts of our own prayers.

What is The Most Practical Way to Begin Writing Prayers?

1. Be intentional.

Decide that you will begin to write much of your prayers down. This does not take away the importance of allowing the Holy Spirit to lead you in prayer.

2. Get A Journal

This journey should be titled My Book of Prayers and you can have as many as you can.

3. Dedicate Special Hours to Write

Whatever time is best for you as long as you agree with it. But the early hours of the day or the late hours of the night can support letting out your heart in writing to your God.

4. Protect Your Prayer Journal

Protect your journal as much as you can. If possible keep it from people until when your prayers have been answered or when God’s will concerning them has been revealed to you. The time you let someone else see your prayer journal should be a long time after they have been written.

5. Pray the Written Prayers As Much As Possible

Pray those words as often as you can and when they inspire you to write more words to expand them, do it. Be free to insert other prayers from the Bible as long as they help express your concern to God.

As you begin to write down your prayers and offer them up to God, you will see changes in your life and know for yourself the benefits of journaling prayers. My prayer to you is that the Holy Spirit help you to be honest and sincere as you write the words and pray them and grant you the spirit of righteousness to stand right before God in prayer.

The Book of Guided Prayers will offer you insight into the structure of written prayers so that they align with God’s will and bring results. The edification of the Body of Christ is the reason why I wrote this book was written and I am delighted and grateful to God for making this work a blessing to those using it.