SOAP Daily Bible Journaling

 

SOAP scripture list

Thanks to Wayne Cordeiro and the people of New Hope Christian Fellowship Oahu for sharing this. 

How to Journal page from New Hope.

The Life Journal page from New Hope.

Join the Fairlawn West online journaling group soapfw@yahoogroups.com

 

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1. Start with your Bible, journal (any kind of notebook will do), pen and your daily calendar/to do list.
2. Go to the Daily Bible Reading list to find today's readings.
3. Before you start to read, pray to God how to apply the reading to your life today.
4. Read today's readings. As you are reading, underline or write down anything that impresses you as a personal word to be applied. When you read with an open heart, God will give you words of encouragement, direction and correction. When ideas about other things "to do" crop up, write them down in your planner/calendar and go back to reading.
5. When you are through reading, go to your journal, write down at the top on one side the date and on the other side a page number. Then begin SOAP on about the 4th line down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. On the second line at the center top of your first page, write down a topic that describes what you journaled for today. Then above it, write a title like a title for a newspaper article. Have a page where you keep a Table of Contents and write in the date, the name of the book, chapter and verse, the topic, the title and the page number so that you can find this writing in the future.
7. Conclude your daily devotional time by using a sheet for a Prayer List. On this page write down all the people and situations you wish to pray for this day. Write down the date which you listed them.  In the future write down the date you believe the prayer has been answered. Pray a prayer of intercession for what you've written.
 

Choose the best time of day that works for you.  If you aren't able at first to get to it regularly, just keep working at the discipline and it will come.