About Journal

Habakkuk 2:2b ISV Write out the revelation, engraving it clearly on the tablets, so that a courier may run with it.

  1. "Your high tech treasure house - the electronic journal"
  2. "God's word, the insights and wisdom you had learned should be easily retrievable."
  3. Additional tips
  4. What MySword Journals can do for you
  5. Download the highly recommended Sample Journal for MySword 2.0

"Your high tech treasure house - the electronic journal"

Prov 2:1-5 NET My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you, by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding, indeed, if you call out for discernment - raise your voice for understanding - if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure, then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.

A. Imagine physical treasures. These are the things that you will probably do:

  1. You will build a secure treasure house for them so that the enemy cannot steal them.
  2. You will employ security guards, high tech surveillance and security system.
  3. You will organize, catalog and compartmentalize them so that it will be easy for you to retrieve or locate them when they are needed.
  4. You will share your museum to your friends.

B. In the same way, the precious treasures you find in God's word should be stored up or treasured properly:

  1. Your journal is the secure treasure house. The enemy can only steal your treasures if you forget them so journalizing them is properly storing and guarding them.
  2. You will also guard your journal - put it in a secure place and back it up (that is the advantage of an electronic journal).
  3. You will also organize your journal, catalog the entries by giving each a title and an ID, and compartmentalize the entries by assigning categories or tags so that it will be easy for you to retrieve or locate any insight when needed.
  4. You will also share your insights and discoveries to your friends.

C. If you treasure the insights God has given you this way, treating them as very precious, then God will give you more because you are being a good steward.

"God's word, the insights and wisdom you had learned should be easily retrievable."

Prov 4:20-21

KJV Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

NET Do not let them depart from your sight,guard them within your heart

If something is always in front of you, you will not lose sight of it unless you close your eyes. Now if you place many things in front of you, the situation changes a bit.

If you have many little things you can spread them in such a way as none is obscured by another. But finding an item is hard if they are not organized. If they are all organized into sections, and a section is organized into subsections and so on, you can easily retrieve a certain item.

If you have several big things, it is hard to arrange them in such a way as not to obscure some items. Organization is still very important but this time it is like a supermarket that you have to walk to the desired aisle to get your item.

So how do we not lose sight of God's word, the insights and wisdom we had learned? Make it easily retrievable just like organized things. In previous insights, I had already talked about journalizing, meditating, memorizing, applying, etc.

The following are additional tips:

1. Paper-based Bible and journal

2. Electronic Bible

3. Electronic Journal

4. iPod, audio players, cellphones

5. Internet-based journals, diaries, blogs

What MySword Journals can do for you

When you first run MySword v.2.0, there are 6 default journals that will be automatically created for you. You can access them by going to the Journal/Book View. Here are those journals:

  1. MyBibleJournal
  2. MySermonNotes
  3. MyDiary
  4. MyScripturePromises
  5. WhatsInYourMind
  6. MyNotes

Download the highly recommended Sample Journal for MySword 2.0

The "Sample Journal" is a handbook compiled and arranged to share with you all the things that the developers of MySword have learned why we need to journalize the insights we have learned from the word of God. It also demonstrates what you can do with MySword. You can download this handbook to your Android device from the Devotional section of the Download Modules screen.