Bible Journaling

Hi Everyone!

As I mentioned in my first post here after 3 years ( wow!), it has been a long tome since I haven't blogged, and I also mentioned that I was being kept busy :) Well, apart from being a mom, wife, working and my craft markets with my little business, the best thing that has kept me a bit away from blogging and crafts in general,  has been digging into God's word. The Holy Spirit has been working in me  for a while now, and has giving me a never ending love for God's word and for knowing Him more and more. Despite being a Christian for more than 40 years now , I have never had such a thirst for His wordl ike these last couple of years! And knowing God means to dive in HIS word, that reveals his character, his plans , his will and his love.  

Recently,  I added  a creative way to spend even more time in God's word, together with to reading, doing devotionals, praying  and studying. 

Bible Journalling! 

I use an ESV leather journaling Bible and the more I use it , the more I love it. 

I basically read, write, draw and paint, whichever I feel appropriate .

Things I do:

- When listening to my favorite pastors online ( I LOVE listening to styles and sermons online) I take note of the most important points and write them on my Bible. ( My main sources are John MacArthur, John Piper, Steve Lawson, David Platt, Paul Washer, RC Sproul, Augusts Nicodemus Lopes, Alistair Begg and their ministries)

- I write my Pastor's sermons main points on my Bible

- I highlight :

--------- My favourite verses

----------The most significant verses

----------Verses with an important systematic theology connecting them

----------Because I LOVE the Handel's Messiah I marked all the Libreto verses

---------- Most Important passages 

- I draw and colour in the margins  ( sometimes pages ) with leads, acrylic paint, watercolour you name it

- I do calligraphy lettering ( very very basic, as I don't know how to do it perfectly)

- I write verses of old hymns I love and more contemporary worship songs I also love

- When the amount of things  I need to write let's say a study I watched with so much " solid food" that I want to see in my Bible, I do "tip ins" - pages that I add with glue and voila! space to write - these can be fine letter paper, vellum paper, scrapbook paper , whatever!

Here some pages. Some drawing are mine, some are inspired by Pinterest pages. 

 This highlight method is from Coffee and Bible Time channel, I have it glued in my front page, but actually don't use it :(

 I use scrapbook tabs to tab important doctrines and  theologic landmarks 

 Acrylic Paint ( but I still can read, I never cover the words )

 Mod Podge

 Tip ins

Highlighting my favourite Psalms and verses

 Lettering verses on the side

 Marking Dates when the books were written

I hope this blesses you and inspires you to spend more and more time digging into God's word and its never ending riches !

💕Andr​éa