Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

Blogging is the way I download what God is doing in my heart. But I also think it's the way I document His faithfulness. Too many times we fail to thank God for answered prayer because we forget what we prayed for :) I blogged the seven miracles I'm believing God for last May because I want to give Him credit when He performs those miracles. I think blogging is a way of documenting what God is up to.

I think downloading and documenting are two good reasons to blog. Of course, you can keep a prayer journal and do it that way. Or write your prayer requests on a napkin for that matter. I just think we need to be careful to give God credit. And one way we do it is by downloading God ideas and documenting the way God answers them.

By the way, sometimes I do that in symbolic form. I didn't write out all of my seven miracles because some of them are too personal. I'm not ready to verbalize them yet. But I symbolized them, CO7, for example. Blogging is one way I step out in faith. There is something powerful about verbalizing faith. God "spoke" the world into existence. I think speaking or verbalizing is an important part of faith. I know that some preachers take that too far, but most of us don't take it far enough :)