CLAREMORE, OKLAHOMA (ANS) -- How easily do you remember God’s blessings in your life?

Carol Round

It can be easy to forget God’s faithfulness, so inspirational speaker and ANS columnist Carol Round suggests prayer journaling. This discipline helps people more effectively record and remember what God has done in their lives.

In her new book “Journaling with Jesus: How to Draw Closer to God,” Ms. Round explains this technique as a way to enhance quiet time with God. The book is “designed to teach, encourage and inspire its readers to pursue a more intimate relationship with God through keeping a daily prayer journal.”

According to a news release, Ms. Round has seen God’s faithfulness firsthand. Even when she was facing five surgeries in seven years on top of the break-up of her 28-year marriage, the author has recognized the presence of God in her life. Her relationship with God and the strength of her prayer life have helped her survive and, in the process, be a blessing in the lives of many who read her weekly column and have heard her speak.

“My book… is filled with balanced scriptural support, practical guidance, shared stories, encouragement and inspiration for readers,” she says. “I hope that this leads to a lifetime spiritual habit of wanting to spend time with our Heavenly Father.”

Book cover

In our busy world, it is easy to neglect making time for God a priority. Through the habit of prayer journaling, people are able to access God’s presence in their lives and more easily make a commitment to their spiritual life. Ms. Round’s book also includes a covenant with God for readers to sign and commit to 40 days of journaling and quiet time with God.

For a limited time, until September 6, readers can access a free copy of the companion workbook, “The 40-Day Challenge,” at www.carolaround.com.

“In our fast-paced society, I think people, including Christians, need the encouragement and inspiration my book provides. …it gently provides the guidance needed to start those who are seeking more of God in their lives to a new level of intimacy with Him,” she says.

For more information about “Journaling with Jesus,” readers can go directly to her website at www.journalingwithjesus.com. To purchase a copy of the book, please go to: http://bookstore.westbowpress.com/Products/SKU-000522048/Journaling-with-Jesus.aspx and to contact her by e-mail, please send your message to: carolaround@yahoo.com 

Dan Wooding, 71, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 49 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and he hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on the KWVE Radio Network in Southern California and which is also carried throughout the United States and around the world. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 192 countries. Dan recently received two top media awards -- the “Passion for the Persecuted” award from Open Doors US, and as one of the top “Newsmakers of 2011” from Plain Truth magazine. He is the author of some 45 books, the latest of which is “Caped Crusader: Rick Wakeman in the 1970s.” To order a copy, go to: http://www.amazon.com/CAPED-CRUSADER-Rick-Wakeman-1970s/dp/1908728302/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335474883&sr=1-1 .