Updated Sep. 29, 2019.  Originally published Jun. 24, 2011.

If you have been following the Prayer Binder series, you probably have your prayer notebook pretty much put together!  In this last post, we’re just going to wrap up some loose ends and talk about a few “extras.”

So far, you should have:

• gathered up your supplies & compiled the “every day” section, and put together sections for…
• church,
• government,
• missions,
• family (split out into immediate & extended if your family is large enough to make this useful),
• friends, and
• yourself.

So altogether eight primary sections: one for each day of the week, plus one for every day. 

If you’ve been gathering items but haven’t actually put everything together, now is the time to do that.

Other Stuff

The thing is, even though I call this my “prayer notebook,” it’s really a “quiet time notebook.”  When I’m sitting down to pray is also when I’m sitting down to read my Bible (and to get focused for the day, as I mentioned in the first post in the series).  So it’s also a great place to store certain Bible study-related things.

Here are some other things I’ve been known to keep in my “quiet time” notebook besides my prayer reminders…

• (as mentioned previously)  my list of yearly goals (and 101 in 1001 list, when I was doing that) — This way I can pray over them during my quiet time.  Also, my “quiet time” is also when I exercise and plan my day, so it makes sense to keep everything in one place.
• exercise plans/notes
• printouts (for long passages) or index cards (for shorter passages) of verses I want to memorize
• Bible reading plan(s)
• a section for study notes
• my personal concordance
• a “resources” section

That “resources” section holds a hodge podge of Bible study-related resources.  It contains, or has contained a printout about how to meditate on Scripture (saved from my youth group years!), a list of how Jesus is represented in each book of the Bible, notes on different types of study methods, a chronological list of Biblical books, and even an overview of the grammatical markup system we use for school, as analyzing sentences can be useful for study!

Basically, if something is likely to be needed regularly during my quiet time or as I look toward my coming day (and it’s not a whole book), I go ahead and tuck it in here so everything is in one place.

Has this been helpful for you?  Do you have any tips of your own to add?  Let us know in the comments!