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I was on the couch with Josh the other night when it happened. Out of nowhere, a memory began to play untriggered, like the movie reel we were sitting there watching. And the words started spilling out of me. So much so that I was suddenly bored with the movie and went upstairs to scribble...

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TuRhondaJanuary 13, 2020 - 3:58 am
Glory to God! As I read your words this morning, I’m grateful that the promises of God are yes and amen! So, I say “Lord, let it be to me according to Your Word.” And I stand patiently waiting to see His glory poured out again and again. Thank you Jane for your words of faith!! ReplyCancel
Angie DuncanJanuary 13, 2020 - 5:04 am
Thank you for sharing a very raw time of your life. I think we all face and hold our breath over some personal fears. Thank God that He sees past all that and into our troubled yet beautiful hearts.ReplyCancel
ElizabethJanuary 13, 2020 - 5:12 am
The words “…after the trials…He gives us rest.” This gives me encouragement today. Thank you for your beautiful words and for sharing them. ~e~ReplyCancel
JanieJanuary 13, 2020 - 5:14 am
Thank you for your BEAUTIFUL message this morning. My family is in the waiting and hoping season for a different sort of miracle. Our son had a VNS implant for seizures on 12/30. It will be activated on 1/22/20. Praying for a journey of healing from seizures. ReplyCancel
Michelle LinquistJanuary 13, 2020 - 5:52 am
God spoke to me through your words, thank you so so much for obeying Him and writing them. I am in a season of waiting for miracles and He has spoke to me to trust and believe Him. It seems so simple but it can be the hardest. ReplyCancel
DebbieJanuary 13, 2020 - 6:52 am
Needed this this morning , Jane. Thank you! Waiting on my miracle because it is in Him I move, and live and breathe.ReplyCancel
Jacqueline RaffaJanuary 13, 2020 - 6:59 am
I was just wandering around the mall, askinging God for help. Telling Him how much I need Him and how hard it is to continue to believe for our baby after so much heartache – so many bad test results. I sat down in one of those massage chairs (it’s early/empty enough to make it less weird) and opened up my email, which is special because emails aren’t my go-to in my down time and there was this one from you, Jane. I’m most likely not the only person who needed to read these words but I’m definitely one of them. Being guided to this post is a sweet reminder of all how our sweet Lord is truly in all the details. Thank you so much for so beautifully sharing your testimony of God’s promises… it was exactly the help that I needed today.ReplyCancel
MorganJanuary 13, 2020 - 7:29 am
Wow! As always Jane, you provide the words my Spirit didn’t even know it needed. Thank you!ReplyCancel
Dianna HansenJanuary 13, 2020 - 7:49 am
Loved the post! I will display what I cite below in my office as a constant reminder, especially on days when I am a bit empty:
Take heart. God not only hears you, He sees right through to the raw and maybe afraid-to-hope core of you. And into that core that feels a little empty? He’s speaking words of hope. ReplyCancel
LindseyJanuary 13, 2020 - 2:16 pm
I absolutely love your writing and I feel God’s peace and presence just by reading your blog. He is so faithful. Thank you for sharing your journey with usReplyCancel
AubreyJanuary 13, 2020 - 2:48 pm
Thank you for sharing your heart. It brings tears of pain but also of hope and joy all at once – Knowing God is in the waiting of all things. ReplyCancel
HannahMay 11, 2020 - 10:19 am
your blog posts are healing…healing for the soul. thank youReplyCancel

A funny thing happened on New Year’s Eve. I’m usually not one to be given over to jealousy as I do the social media scroll. But the flood of “look at what God has done with my business in the last ten years” posts started to get to me. Hard and fast. In that sucker-punch...

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Cindy BrowningJanuary 2, 2020 - 1:42 pm
All I could think while reading this post is..”to everything there is a season, a time for everything under the sun” …and God always says no for a better yes! I agree wholeheartedly with your friends comments about motherhood…there is no greater thing in my life I would ever wish to do besides the 33 years I’ve spent mothering…NO REGRETS! I have moments I wish I had been better at mothering..but I DO NOT regret 1 single second I spent being a full time mother! You are precious, all you sweet mothers…and God is not done with you when you leave anything to be a mom…as a matter of fact, I believe that’s just when He gets started!! ReplyCancel
- Jane JohnsonJanuary 2, 2020 - 1:51 pm
  I love this. Thank you so much for your words. ❤️ReplyCancel
Sara WilsonJanuary 2, 2020 - 5:27 pm
I love this SO much! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Because we feel it too. The comparison trap is out there on social media and it is very, very tough. When people try so hard to paint a perfect, “I have it all” image online, it honestly makes me feel very nervous. And I also think to myself, “That would be absolutely exhausting and stressful to keep up.” I worry about my kids in this “more, more, more” society where it feels like we should always be striving for bigger and better things or accomplishments. I would rather appreciate the small things that make me happy and I don’t want to take part in the competition. My family lives in one of the wealthiest counties in the country. Yet we live in one of the smallest homes and we haven’t been to Disney yet (while it seems everyone else goes yearly). We have two boys (one is our rainbow baby) and constantly are told that we “need” to have a girl. I suddenly realized that it’s “never” enough for the outside world. But what matters is what I see in my family and home. I often think to myself, “What would really count if no one really had a look into my life except for the people in it?”ReplyCancel
AlyciaJanuary 2, 2020 - 5:50 pm
Yes girl. Ever word. Love you! XoxoReplyCancel
SimiJanuary 4, 2020 - 3:51 am
Thank you for the vulnerability of this post Jane. You are such a blessing and have again blessed me by sharing the real situation and thoughts you were experiencing. Reading this has caused me to now think back to what i was asking the Lord for at the beginning of the decade… i guess it is time to go dig up my journals and look. Blessings for the new year and decade… so excited for all your miracle babes… such a testimony to God’s faithfulness!!!!!ReplyCancel

These words are part of a collection of writings from the final months of our ten-year-long journey of delayed fertility. In them, I’m pulling back the privacy-curtain and taking you inside the pages of my prayer journals to give insight to those who have not experienced infertility, and hope to those neck-deep in the lonely-midst of it....

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Cindy BrowningNovember 8, 2019 - 4:24 am
So rich! I’m not happy you had to suffer for 10 years..but what I am happy about is that you used that time so wisely, depended on God hardcore, dug treasures from His word, and now you share with anyone who will listen, the richness of God’s mercy and glory while we wait for whatever it is we are called to wait for! ReplyCancel
- Jane JohnsonNovember 8, 2019 - 12:25 pm
  I love that you are able to drink from this well of mine. Thank you so much for being a part of our story!ReplyCancel
LNovember 9, 2019 - 4:27 am
Dear Jane,
I found your blog I think about 3 months ago. I was STUNNED by your story. How faithful is our GOD!! I cannot tell you in mere words how much HOPE you spoke into my life. My sweet hubby and I have been married for 11 years. We didn’t intentionally try to get pregnant for most of those years because we were both in Medical school and also because of health issues I was dealing with. Fast forward to 2017 – felt like several storms in our life were settling down and we started to try. Only to be facing the devastating diagnosis of low AMH and after several tries of infertility treatment, the RE we were working with said “There is nothing I can do for you. You are not a candidate for anything other than donor eggs.” Needless to say, I felt like I was punched in the guts. I’ve never felt a sorrow quite like that. I think since I was like 5 years old.. all I’ve ever wanted to be was a mom of like 10 children!! haha! 🙂 The irony!! After that tiring, long cycle of treatment and that shattering diagnosis, I quit treatment. Even before I started treatment, the Lord was speaking to me profusely. He was prodigal with his Words and promises. So much so that at times I couldn’t handle it..I would think and tell him, “Father.. I have dealt with so much in my life where you’ve been silent. But over this.. you won’t stop reassuring me with your Promises!!! I am SO grateful.. and I believe! Of course I believe!!” I wrote everything down. Only did I realize that after that diagnosis, how much I NEEDED to go over those over-abundant promises from my God to strengthen my heart. Fast forward to 2019.. I’m still waiting. He is still speaking. I am still writing them all down. And they all seem like this gorgeous network of interwoven Promises.. all linked to a GENEROUS Father who sees me and knows me and loves me and has the VERY best for me. I read your post today on this crisp, cold Saturday morning. For about 2 weeks now, God has been pointing me to 2 Kings 3. ‘I will fill this valley with pools of water..” I was puzzled that digging wells/trenches was omitted out of the newly revised NIV version. Of course it’s still there in other versions. And I thought to myself, “I’m tired, Lord…maybe I’m tired of digging. I feel so sapped of strength.” And then I read your post and read the comments about “dug treasures from His Word’ and “I love that you are able to drink from this well of mine.” I dont know what all this means.. BUT GOD does. ‘This is an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord..” 2 Kings 3:18. Jesus, your promises are ALWAYS yes and Amen!! Thank you dear Jane for your encouragement and your life poured out for us to drink from and be strengthened.ReplyCancel
- Jane JohnsonNovember 9, 2019 - 9:15 am
  Oh my goodness, I love that! God is so faithful to plant those little ribbon-like trailmarkers along the way in that “you’re on the right path, keep going” kind of way that He has about Him. So, so special. xo!ReplyCancel
SimiNovember 11, 2019 - 5:46 pm
Jane, your words and the path you have walked have literally been a huge source of encouragement in my life…i got the notification that this post went up and i was “busy” so it sat in my inbox. Today, just now i read the post when i needed it the most. The blessing and encouragement i received is to ask the Lord to make me strong enough for the story that He wants to tell. He met me in your words just at the perfect time.
I speak His promises over myself everyday and one of them is: “The LORD commands His blessing on my storehouses and in all that I set
my hand to do, and He blesses me in the land that He is giving me
(Deuteronomy 28:8).” … okay Lord I hear you !
Thank you for all you share, your sharing has me writing out all the thoughts in my own season of waiting and i am even thinking about carrying a journal with me to write all the word that i can down.ReplyCancel
LJanuary 28, 2020 - 6:47 am
Congratulations Jane on the arrival of your precious baby girl!!!!!!!
I am THRILLED for you and your family – all the while praising our GOD for his sweet, fulfilled promises!!
I am the same person, ‘L’ who wrote below on November 9th.
Last week I got a stunning message from my OB Gyn saying I’m “menopausal.”
I’m in DISBELIEF to say the least..
This seems like the worst of all the blows we’ve been dealing with!!
What about all the 3 year long promises I’ve been writing down? Did I imagine all of them? Did I make them all up? It surely can’t be!!! And suppose it’s true.. I don’t know what to think other than “Let God’s words always be TRUE AND YES AND AMEN and every other word that is not from him be a lie!!” I don’t care about “the words I wrote down” coming true. I deeply CARE about GOD’s infallible words ALWAYS being true and coming true and happening in our lives on this earth as his will determines.
I am the most fallible of people. I am not worthy for any of God’s promises to come true in my life…
BUT GOD..
I have seen him come through FOR ME my ENTIRE LIFE. He surely is not going to quit now. He surely is not going to stop now..
Please keep us in your prayers as my sweet Husband and I are going through a whole new whirlwind of sorts.. ReplyCancel

September is already half-gone, can you believe it?? We’re neck-deep in my series on falling back into a quiet time routine, and this morning I shared with my newsletter subscribers how, exactly, I fell into mine. It’s a topic I also talked about with Mary Marantz, a good friend of mine on Friday afternoon. (Lucky...

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Lauren BowermanSeptember 16, 2019 - 10:59 am
Jane! This is so wonderful! I too am a Blue letter Bible app nerd, haha. I am so thankful for the way you detailed our your quiet time routine in such a simple but thorough way. This is making me so excited to really buckle down into my study of 1 Peter! Thank you!!ReplyCancel
BeccaSeptember 16, 2019 - 1:51 pm
I found Mercy Like Morning by total accident almost a year ago— aka God’s perfect timing. I completed the sample studies in the book and then purchased Search the Scriptures. The system I have started follows your recommended steps above and in Mercy Like Morning. I purchased a binder, dividers, and notebook filler paper and write each question and my answer on paper from Search the Scriptures. I’ll look up words that stand out or words I’m unsure of the full definition being used in BLB app. And when I really struggle understanding a verse, I lookup commentaries. I have a separate prayer journal notebook that I keep handy. I usually end with the prayer journal but sometimes I feel the need to confess something or start my quiet time writing out a prayer.
I’m SO looking forward to the Dear Monday 2020 planner!!!ReplyCancel
Linda BarrySeptember 17, 2019 - 1:36 am
I LOVE this! Thank you for sharing! As someone who is new to reading Scripture and walking in Faith, the daily routines of what people do are always such mysteries and no one ever really elaborates on it. Thank you!! When you cross-reference – what does that mean? ReplyCancel
- Lauren BowermanSeptember 18, 2019 - 3:12 am
  Hey Linda! I know you weren’t asking me, haha. But a cross-reference is when one passage or verse of Scripture references another. So like when in 1 Peter 24, Peter references Isaiah 40:6-8. Jesus does this a lot in the Gospels, quoting the Old Testament. The cross-references are usually listed as footnotes or side notes in your Bible! They’re always worth digging into and can lead to so many connections and insights!ReplyCancel
  - Linda BarrySeptember 18, 2019 - 8:23 am
    Thank you so much! I appreciate that! 🙂 ReplyCancel
How to Keep a Prayer Journal Private (and other FAQs about prayer journaling) » Jane Johnson – Teacher and Author of Women's Bible StudiesNovember 1, 2019 - 12:50 pm
[…] observational notes on notebook paper. I do the same today with my Search the Scriptures notes (see this post). And then, when I feel the lines start to blur between straight observation and heart-prayer, I […]ReplyCancel

Last weekend, our closest friends filled our home to the gills for a good, old fashioned BBQ, and to be there with us the moment we found out the gender of our third miracle babe. All night, people asked me what I thought it was. I kept to the safe answer, too scared to say...

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