Make It Plain Devotional Journal: Write The Things You've Learned, Seen, Heard, and Received During Your Quiet Times

By Randrick Chance

Your Meditation and Quiet Times Will Never Be the Same!

This hardcover Make It Plain Devotional Journal is the ultimate tool you need to maximize your daily communion with God. It is packed with insights and strategies to help you enjoy the word during your morning or evening worship. Inside, you’ll find:

- Why you need to write as part of your devotional time.
- Principles of biblical meditation.
- How to study, understand, and interpret Scriptures.
- Benefits of memorization and how to do it quickly and easily.
- Promises for diligently seeking God.
- A list of the recommended resources necessary to be effective.
- And lots of pages to journal your thoughts and discoveries.

“Write down what you have seen—both the things that are now happening and the things that will happen. Whatever you have learned and received and heard and seen — practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you." — (Revelation 1:19; Philippians 4:9)

Get Yours Now and Start Journaling! Also available in hardcover and softcover with lots of pages to journal (www.StrategicSecrets.com).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Strategic Secrets
• Release date: Dec 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463087107

Randrick Chance

Randrick Chance (or simply, Chance) is a US Navy veteran, #1 bestselling author, speaker, minister, and implementation strategist. After enjoying a successful naval career, he pursued a rewarding career in humanitarian relief and has traveled to over 26 countries on 6 continents.He uses his military experience and training to help others discover their passions and pursue meaningful service and career endeavors.He holds advanced degrees in multiple disciplines and is a graduate of Central Texas College, Andrew Jackson University, Columbia College, and American Graduate University.Chance and his B.M.W (Beautiful Marvelous Wife), Rhonitta, also enjoy bringing physical and spiritual relief to thousands of suffering and under-served people ― in the U.S. and around the world.They have conducted outreach campaigns in some of the most neglected and at-risk cities in America and in Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Liberia, Suriname, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ghana ― transforming the lives of thousands of families as a result.On the home front, he enjoys soccer, tennis, writing, and spending both quality and quantity time with family. Together, they make their home in Texas and travel frequently.Find more about how Chance can help you make a lasting impact and sustain your mission, message, or cause, go to www.Strategicsecrets.com and www.Monetizeyourskills.com.

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INTRODUCTION

Why You Need to Write (Journal) as Part of Your Devotional and Meditation Time

The Prophet Habakkuk, while waiting by faith for an answer from God, the LORD answered him, and said, "Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end, it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry" (Habakkuk 2:1-3). From this, we can see there is some importance in writing things down. Every study should involve writing because this can serve as a memorial, provide future sermon materials, and content for published books. We have numerous examples of men writing in the Bible, including: Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, John, Paul and God Himself. The words write, written, wrote, and writing, combined, appear 430 times in the Bible.¹

This is why your tools need to include pen, pencil, paper, notebook or laptop for your study. It doesn’t matter which one, or combination of the above tools, you are accustomed to—use what you can afford and make certain you have them ready at each session. If you faithfully establish this habit, it will prove quite rewarding in the process of time.

You can do a combination of things: write prayers of meditation, journal your thoughts and petitions, make notes and application to passages studied, outline your study and findings, write exactly what the Holy Spirit revealed to you from your time with Him. Don’t make it complicated; just get busy and things will take their proper shape soon enough. "Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name (Malachi 3:16). Where would Christianity be if John was not obedient in writing his visions on the island of Patmos? Much about the blessed hope would still be clouded in mystery but he was faithful to Jesus’ instructions: Write down what you have seen—both the things that are now happening and the things that will happen" (Revelation 1:19).

Other Admonitions to Write (Journal)

•This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord (Psalm 102:18).

•"And the L ORD said unto Moses, ‘Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven’" (Exodus 17:14).

•And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord (Joshua 24:26).

•Moreover, the Lord said unto me, ‘Take a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz’ (Isaiah 8:1).

•Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, ‘Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book’ (Jeremiah 30:2).

•I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons, I warn you (1 Corinthians 4:14).

•For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things (2 Corinthians 2:9).

•And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full (1 John 1:4).

PROMISES FOR SEEKING GOD

•The LORD is with you, while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake him, He will forsake you (2 Chronicles 15:2).

•Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and rain righteousness upon you (Hosea 10:12).

•But without faith it is impossible to please him: for whoever comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).

•"The LORD is