
You're still praying. And tired of hearing only your own voice come back.
Prayer Journal for WomenWhen You're Still Praying and Only Your Own Voice Comes Back
A 140-day companion for prayers offered faithfully and not yet answered visibly.
A 140-Day Reflective Devotional Journal
Book 5 of a 70-journal series · 140 daily reflections · 9,800 guided prompts across the series
- 140 daily reflections
- Scripture + guided journaling space
- Written for women experiencing spiritual dryness
- Five honest minutes a day
- Instant eBook download
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Look inside
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Why this is different
Most devotionals
- Inspiration to read
- Reading only
- Generic encouragement
- Read once, then forgotten
This journal
- A daily practice you actually do
- Reflection + Scripture + writing space
- Written specifically for women experiencing spiritual dryness
- 140 steady days that build over time
Who it's for
This is for
- The woman whose prayer life is honest, patient, and still being offered.
- Anyone who wants structure without pressure
- Small groups, church families & gift-givers
This is not for
- Anyone wanting a quick, read-once motivational book
- Readers who don't want to write anything down
- Those after a study guide without daily reflection
An established series
Part of a growing library of guided devotional journals from Stilling Waves Press.
About this journal
The full story, in our own words
A 140-day prayer journal for the long waiting — a daily place to bring the unanswered prayer honestly, write it down, and keep showing up when heaven feels quiet.
For Women Experiencing Spiritual Dryness — Rekindling the Flame. Each day sits beside a quoted line from a Christian writer across the centuries — kept in their own voice, with a quiet word-gloss underneath so the older language opens rather than closes.
- A 140-day companion for the waiting — when heaven feels quiet and you are still showing up.
- Prompts that hold the unanswered prayer honestly, without rushing you past it.
- Built to steady your prayer life until the answer arrives — in whatever form it finally takes.
Seven stages across 140 days: Stage 1 — A First Step · Stage 2 — Softly Letting Go Before Him · Stage 3 — Choosing to Be Faithful · Stage 4 — The Turn · Stage 5 — Warm and Near to Him — Quietly · Stage 6 — The Ground Beneath · Stage 7 — The Shape of Deeply at Home in God.
Inside these pages you will also find:
- A consistent daily rhythm, learned once — every page repeats the same gentle structure — an Opening, a Reflect question, a Rest cue for the body, a Today's Focus, a Touch line tied to the breath, a quoted Christian writer, and a closing Meditation. Same shape, 140 days.
- Plain-English glosses under every older line — older Scripture and classic Christian prose come with their unfamiliar words quietly opened underneath — thee, thou, unto, communion — so the language never blocks the meaning.
- Quoted writers, always named — every devotional line in the journal carries an attribution — chosen from a curated corpus of trusted Christian voices across the centuries. The journal does not borrow anonymously from the tradition; it credits where every line came from.
- Section interludes that carry the rhythm forward — between each of the seven sections, a Commentary, a Poem, an A Prayer for This Season page, and a closing Reflection — the journal breathes between stages instead of just numbering them.
- Prayer pages — borrowed and your own — the saints' prayers carry you when you have no words; A Prayer for This Season pages give your own words a place to land.
- A poem inside each section — between days and decisions, a short unhurried passage holds the stage's feeling — small enough to remember, deep enough to return to.
Sample prompt: "What prayer are you most afraid has gone unheard? Bring it here anyway."
Most journals quote older Scripture and hope you understand it. This one opens every older line underneath, in plain English, every time.
You know the Bible you have opened so many times it falls open to the same passage, and the way nothing in you stirs when it does? Underneath is a quieter question — about whether the warmth has left you, or you have left the warmth, or whether something is happening that is neither of those. This journal sits with that quieter question. Five honest minutes a day. It does not try to make you feel something. It sits with you in the not-feeling, and slowly the dryness reveals itself as part of the deepening.
A 140-day companion for prayers offered faithfully and not yet answered visibly. Written for the woman whose prayer life is honest, patient, and still being offered. Open to day one.
What’s inside every day
Same daily rhythm, 140 days. One steady shape you learn once.
How it will feel
Let the feet be still. Sleep tonight. The desert will still be there. So will He. You are allowed to not pray long prayers. A single sentence counts. You are allowed to not pray long prayers. A single sentence counts. You can skip the small group discussion about what God is teaching you. Honest is better than performed.
You let yourself be seen without rearranging your face. You fall asleep without running through what might go wrong. You stop carrying it on your own shoulders. Your morning has a shape before your feet touch the floor. Your hands open while you are reading. You don't rush there. The structure walks you toward it.
Built to form you — not just inspire you
Not Inspiration — Formation
This is not a devotional to read when inspired — it is a daily practice to return to regardless. Real faith is built through structured daily formation, not occasional motivation. Finishing this journal produces something that starting ten others cannot.
What This Journal Returns You To
- Sit with this: He is doing something you cannot see yet
- Bow into the discipline of rekindling the flame of first love for God — it was placed before you understood what it would form
- You will look back at this and see it was the making of your adult faith
Sample prompt: "What part of your former spiritual life was performance?"
A thoughtful gift
Some gifts arrive loud. This one arrives steady. 140 days of quiet companionship, plain-English Scripture, and small honest pages — a present that keeps showing up after the wrapping is gone. You who keep showing up in the dry season are the woman God is most at work in. Close this knowing the silence was not absence — it was preparation.
More in the 140-Day series
Devotional Journal for Teen GirlsWhen the Phone Keeps Winning
Devotional Journal for WomenWhen the Habits Still Hold
Prayer Journal for WomenWhen Every Month Ends
Devotional Journal for University WomenWhen Campus Tests Everything
Devotional Journal for Teen GirlsWhen 'Just Be Thankful' Feels
Devotional Journal for New BelieversWhen You Believed but the BibleAbout this journal’s author
Hayley Louisa Mark is the pen name under which Stilling Waves Press writes its reflective journals. The voice is quiet on purpose: these pages draw on Scripture and the older contemplative writers — Andrew Murray, François Fénelon, Thomas à Kempis — slowly read and set into a 140-day daily practice. Sixty-six journals share the same method: five honest minutes a day, one season at a time.
Published by Stilling Waves Press, creator of the 140-Day Reflective Devotional Series. Our journals are designed to be completed, not merely read — combining Scripture, reflection, and guided writing into a daily spiritual practice.
Begin the 140-Day Journey
Five minutes a day. One page at a time. A slower way through the wait.



