Hey it's Lindsey with Ryan and Rose and today we're talking about my prayer
journals this is a question I get all the time I get asked how do you pray how
do you implement a prayer journal in your life and we kind of kid because
these are like my golden books like if you it's like it's kind of crazy is
I keep them in the safe like that's how important they are and how valuable they
are to me and my family just because they've been with me through the years
and they've gotten me through those hard times because of the Lord and me being a
kinesthetic learner like I love to write things down and be able to see like oh
my gosh look what God's done so I thought I would kind of show you some
tips because I get asked about it all the time um I have a bunch of different
types of journals that I've had in the like I have journals basically from when
I was in college as well I don't really have a favorite people asked me which
ones are your favorite and I basically just like one with lines talking
about not picky at all yeah so you can see this is the one the last one I had
and then this one I got from Anthropologie and I loved it because I'm
able to put a pen in it but also it has lines as well so yeah so today I thought
I would share a few tips about starting a prayer journal and what I recommend
that you should kind of put in your prayer journal the cool thing is there's
not a right or wrong way there's no rules the only thing I would say is make
sure you date it because you want to be able to go back and see okay when was I
going through this in my life how did I get through that okay that was that two
years ago is that four years ago and it's like wow you can look back and see
gosh God did so much even maybe in that short amount of time or maybe it took a
few years but it's so cool to be able to go back so make sure you date it that's
rule number one secondly would talk about just talk
about your life a lot of times people ask me like well how do you pray and me
it's just talking to the Lord have a relationship just like he's my BFF you
know I talk about everything I talk about my worries I talked about what I'm
thankful for I talk about my family I pray for every aspect of my life and you'll
kind of see I'm going to show you some examples of how I pray about everything
it's the little things the medium things and the big things and he wants you to
talk about it all so there's nothing off limits with God like he wants to have
those conversations with you which is what makes this so beautiful so yeah write
down what's going on in your life um write down what you're thankful for I
think sometimes in prayer we get stuck about only praying for our needs Lord I
need this Lord I want this Lord help me to do this but remember to thank Him
like thank Him for all He's done for you thank Him for how He's blessed your life
maybe He's blessed your families life and it's important to have those
positives as well as those worries and those those other desires so yeah don't
forget to thank Him also this is where all my worries all my
fears once I learned how to give it all to God and it's like "yeah Lindsey that's
easy to say" but once you do it it's like oh my gosh I can breathe like this is a
legit true thing once and me sometimes it's not just saying it for me it's
writing it Lord I give this to you you are in full control you know there's a
lot of stuff I think which is really cool with social media I'm able to show
my life I'm able to show my struggles I'm able to show the ups and downs but
it's important that you write them down so you go through your life you can see
how you've gotten through it but I write down all my worries usually if there's
something bothering me or something stressing me out or you can like Bret's
like what's wrong with you or I'm really obsessing about something it's like oh wait
time out you need to write in the prayer journal like you need to to to get it
put your heart on the line put it all out there and write it down and so
that's me that's my way of giving it to Lord writing it down this is I'm giving
it to you so this is something I highly recommend for you also my prayers and
it's not just about me and my family it's about my friends it's when I was a
teacher I prayed for my kids I prayed for their families and now you'll see
all in my prayer journal I'm praying for you I'm praying
for our products the safety I'm praying for the families the babies that use it
also for the babies families like that they are able to you
know be abundant and multiply and be blessed so I think sometimes we get so
worried about praying for ourself and it's so such a beautiful thing when we
can pray for others and maybe people you don't even know or so maybe somebody
that's getting under your skin pray for them I've had when I was a teacher I had
some experiences where it's like this person is really getting to me and it's
like nope I need to stop and I need to pray for them and I need to help me
figure this out because in this this is just my time to to write it down and get
get it off my heart and get it in here it's so crazy because me and Bret today
we're going through this this is starts let's see 2016 February 20 2016 and
there's like really in the beginning I skip a whole year I was like I didn't
write my prayer journal and he was like I think when I wrote I was like Lord a
lot has happened and I think that's what it's important for me to tell you I
don't write in this every night I don't I wish I could I wish I could say I write
it in every week but I don't but I do try to write in it as much as possible but
really it's like when something's on my heart and I'm struggling with something
is when I come and I write it down so pray for your families pray for yourself
pray for your friends pray for the big things the little things and then a lot
another thing that I recommend a lot of people to do is if there's something I'm
struggling with I'll find some prayers in the Bible that relate to this
situation and I'll write them down Mark 9:23 all things are possible for those
who believe I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me so if I'm
struggling for something I write and I try to find those verses that supports
and tells me all the blessings that he's going to give him me all the help he's
gonna give me and you put them in here and you stand on it and you pray about
it and you stand on that faith and it's just pretty amazing to see what he's
done so overall write the date right write
the month date year write down your worries write down what you're thankful
for write down all your prayers remember no prayer is big too big too small for
God he wants to hear it all and yeah I try to tell people in my stories
@ryanandrose on Instagram that you know prayer is just it's just a
conversation with the Lord it doesn't have to be a certain time of day I'll be
honest I'm not a right when I wake up pray kind of person and that's not it's
okay like there's not right or wrong way to pray I pray the best in the shower I
pray the best when I'm driving or when I'm getting ready even last night I did
a story I was like we're riding that is a huge prayer time for me on that time
quiet time that I'm able just to kind of enjoy the moment and just pray about all
the different things that's happened that day or what's coming in the future
so yeah just pray all the time that's what God wants he wants that continuous
prayer all day and this is just one way that I pray so yeah let's get kind of
into the deep stuff it's really cool to see how God's worked so I kind of I kind
of marked a lot of spots so this is February 24 2016
one thing that I wrote that really stuck out it said one God idea is worth more
than a thousand good ideas and I tried to really really write everything
because you never know what he's gonna give you so this is kind of a funny one
so Bret used to dip and it drove me crazy I'm talking about tobacco in the
lip spitting yeah forever he dipped and so this is one thing to show you that I
pray about everything and it was one thing that like when he dipped I never
liked harked on him I never like told him how much it bothered me I prayed
about it instead of you know nagging or anything like that I brought it to
prayer and I brought it to God so it says um so this what was the date
February 2016 I prayed that Bret stops dipping and that even though it's the
thought of dipping makes him sick I know that was so nice right um so I asked him
today so that was February 2016 he stopped dipping I know it was Super Bowl
so February 2017 so that prayer that one prayer is in this book
multiple times so it took him a year it also shows you that not all prayers are
instant sometimes they take months sometimes they take years sometimes they
may take ten years but he's listening and he's he's always there and
he wants you to put your faith and put your heart
all in these books alright another one this is one I remember reading a while
back and because one thing as you'll know we had a miscarriage before Ryan
and when I was a child I was told I could never have kids we ended up having
Ryan Rose which is a blessing and so like I was like Lord like do you want us
to have another kid you know I'm super grateful for the one we have she is a
blessing like but do you what is your will so this is one thing that I
highlighted that I saw Lord whatever you want us to have another child or not
I give it all to you I want your will lead us give us peace and then I kind of
go in to pray for my family friends so that's one instance so it's just really
cool to now look back and see like I didn't know what I wanted I didn't know
what God's will was but I was praying about it and I was putting it in his hands
so let's let's see you another one this one oh I like this one okay so this is
February 2016 February 27th 2016 this is your business and your success I pray
for big things just like you gave George Washington Carver the idea of the
different ways to use the peanuts I pray that I do everything you want I want me
to do all you want me to do with Cutie Clips I'm praying big prayers and having
big faith I truly want your will for my life I know I've said this multiple
times like if you asked me years ago what I would be doing in 30 years I
would say oh I'd be interpreting but God had different plans He wanted me to be a
teacher and then He wanted me to be an
entrepreneur all right so here's another one I had saved January 30th 2017 all
right this is kind of funny right now we have ninety six point five thousand
followers it is a good goal to get to a hundred thousand next month that's one
of my goals so I'm telling you I wrote about everything I wrote about Instagram
I wrote about followers I wrote about posts right so that was January 2017
right now is August 2019 and we have over 700,000 followers so we grew six
hundred thousand followers in two years like mind-blowing but just
to look back in 2017 that I had under 100,000 it's just given those little
things to God all right let's find another one I'm just tell you this is so
much fun it is so much fun to go back all right
so I've told many stories about the struggle it's really easy for people to
look at my business now and see like wow she's so successful but this is year six
and it took us years and years and years to get where we are at right now it took us
four years four years to pay myself I was paying my employees but I wasn't
paying myself I mean I think it's important for us for others to realize
that so this is one of my prayers this is Saturday February 25th 2017 I'm fully
trusting in you regarding my finances where everything everything I need I
need three thousand dollars by the end of the month to pay payroll and be able
to pay myself a little bit I believe and receive that you will provide He did
provide there are so many times I remember being upstairs in front of that
Cutie Clip wall and being on my knees and praying see God's talking I don't
know if you can hear the thunder it's raining He's talking to us but praying
and being like Lord I know you're gonna provide I know that you're gonna do this
and He always did I'm talking about since sometimes like I barely had just
enough money to do payroll might not have paid myself but I paid all that I
was praying for and it's just there's so many instances in this tiny little book
that shows how He was faithful how He blessed us and how He provided then
February 2017 Lord I put my personal finances in your hands then I'm making
money at Ryan and Rose and then I'm able to pay myself and able to give back so
I'm just telling you there are so many times that we were talking about
finances we were talking about family all right I thought you would like this
one this is there I did not put a date on this one
I'm 27 weeks pregnant all right Lord I've struggled with Instagram lately
knowing what to post what to say Lord I truly give this to you it's in your
hands put me at peace help me find and select the right pictures know
what to post and know what to say so I'm telling you I even prayed about
Instagram and you're probably like Lindsey that's so silly but no it's not He cares
what you post He cares what you say and He's gonna help you and He's gonna guide
you through all of that all right let's find another one all right so here's the
Pat Pat I think this is right when I said I like went a year yeah so I went
from let me find this I went from February 2017 to February 2018 a whole year
with not writing a word and I said my goodness a lot has happened since I
wrote for one Charley was born on June 2nd and it kind of goes into her birth
but let me go to the next one so that was all right February 2018 I went to a
parenting class I talked about that okay here it is in October 2017 you gave me
the idea for the Pat Pat y'all have been around y'all know we originally called
it the Pat Pat and later had to change our name due to copyright trademark
stuff lesson learned glad I went through that definitely
another God thing prayed about that a lot in here and pacifier and teether
we should have done it for sale in March and we couldn't be more excited so Lord
we give you our business and place it in your hands from everything to the Pat
Pat testing the colors the packaging it's all in your hands we pray that the
Pat Pat passes all testing that we picked the perfect beautiful colors even
the tan color because I've been stressing about it telling you to the
packaging what words to put on the outside this is your project and I will
give you all the glory and I have tried I often say this is God's Cutie Pat this
is His project this is His business and I'm just doing His will but it shows you
how I've prayed about everything all the aspects March 2013 as I write this I'm
on my knees asking for your help and guidance
on days I feel stressed and overwhelmed I remained I'm reminded to get on my
knees pray and slow down struggles we all go through them we've all been there
and I think just I think that's why the prayer journal means so much to
me because I've been through those hard times I've had those hard days I've had
those hard moments thing when it's like having to have that that big faith
putting it all in his hands it's just a beautiful thing so I I just
hope you've been able to get something from this if you've watched our
warehouse video we also went through and told you many instances where I wrote in
my prayer journals when I was believing for Target I talked about when we had
the Walmart situation in here BuyBuy Baby situation it's just really cool to see
all that God's done and and that I've learned to give it all to Him like He
knows what's best like people are like what do you want to do in 10 years I'm
like I don't know I want to do what God wants me to do but putting it all I mean
right now I even pray for Ryan their future Ryan and Charley their future
husband I pray for their soul and their spirit that they love Jesus even more
than I do I pray for their intelligence for their
health I pray a hedge of protection over our
family I pray for all of our family our friends I pray against every sickness
every disease and it's all in this it's all in these books these on these pages
written so that's why I say my pages of gold people always say Lindsey you
should write a book and I'm like I ain't writing a book but somebody could take
these and could sure write an amazing book from these pages to see all that
God has done in my life and my family's life so I just hope you feel encouraged
maybe to start a prayer journal remember it's not something you have to do every
day start small just just start writing down your heart writing down those
verses and just giving it to God so don't forget to subscribe subscribe I
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