Coaching for Christian women and families

Do you keep a prayer journal?

A few months ago, I was in a coaching session with Chuck Whitley. Some of you know him. He was coaching me through a series of questions related to what God was inviting me to do for work.  

I love speaking, writing and coaching- all three are soooooo perfect for me. I’ve been coaching since Fall of 2019 when our family ministry ended and speaking and writing have always been in my life only now I’m ready to do that full time! #graduatedhomeschooledkids lol

In that time with Chuck, God impressed it on my heart to speak hope to those who have been sexually abused, to share that restoration, redemption, and honoring God with our sexuality is all possible in Christ!

Maybe you are hurting in this area- from sexual abuse or trauma. Let me be a voice of hope for you. God can and will be the healing you need.

The most significant part of my healing came from knowledge of the Word of God and time alone with God in prayer and journaling those prayers.

During Covid, I was prompted to reread the oldest prayer journal I could find. This idea terrified me! What would I see? Surely my sin would be so obnoxious that I wouldn’t be able to read the words I wrote as a seventh-grader.

Instead, what I saw was God’s love and mercy all over those pages! It was so obvious that he was drawing my heart to him. Every page was reading a miracle that God had done in my heart.

From bitterness to kindness.

From selfishness to selflessness.

From temptation to self-control.

From anxiousness and anger to fun and joy.

So I published my journal.

It even became an Amazon Best Seller in the category of Christian Children’s Prayer books TWICE!!!

I’ve taken it to Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the girls there love it!

Today we start reading through the journal to encourage a prayer journaling habit! On my YouTube channel at “Katie Speaking.”

After each entry in the book is a space for the reader to write their own prayers.

There are five truths we’ll be visiting again and again this summer and also there are 19+ topics indexed in the back of the book for parents, mentors and youth leaders to be aware and prep for conversations about hard topics like mental illness, sexual temptation, drug & alcohol use/abuse.

I’ve been informed that my book is really tame. 

If there’s one thing that is good about 2023 it’s that topics that were once to be shamed for, like addiction and mental illness are now culturally acceptable to discuss. 

Hallelujah for that!

I spent my 20s & 30s trying to figure out how to merge the Christianity I understood with very serious and destructive issues and I’m grateful to say I get it now.

For those who receive, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in them.

For those who receive, there is victory over sin and death!

Not everyone wants it.

We are called to pray for workers to be sent out to bring in the harvest!

I believe that’s my job!

Praying and bringing in the harvest!

As I share this journal this summer, would you join me in praying and sharing that the roots of truth and grace in Christ Jesus would do a mighty work in the lives of those who join me?

Would you pray that God would raise up men and women who will live from Christian character and not from compromise? 

Would you pray for the Holy Spirit to move through the words of no one special to bring hope in 2023 and beyond?

Thank you so much for you love and prayers!

If I can help you process hurt and bring it to healing, I’d be honored to do so. Please reach out to me.

And if you hear of anyone who wants a needs a coach & mentor to come alongside them in their healing journey, or to speak at gatherings or podcasts, please let me know. 

I’m on a mission to encourage 1 million guys and gals to trust Jesus more through the simple act of prayer journaling!! 

Thank you and God bless you!!!

katie