Jesus Calling: A 365-Day Journaling Devotional (2024)

Jesus Calling, a 365-day Journaling Devotional, by Sarah Young, Thomas Nelson, 2010, Hardcover, 400 Pages, ISBN-13: 978-1404187856, $16.99

Sarah found truth and a greater intimacy with God while she studied with L’Abri, a Christian community in a “tiny” French village in the Alps. There, surrounded by God’s magnificent creation, Sarah opened “…her heart…” to her Lord and Creator in the “…panorama of unbroken beauty…” around her.

It was there she first uttered the words, “sweet Jesus,” an involuntary, personal response to the experience of what she came to call the “Presence of God.” In the coming years she learned the “…secret of the abiding presence…” and the blessings of …Full Review: http://tinyurl.com/6o47v6a

This is a daily devotional book. I read it daily and find great comfort in the words written and the bible references that back up the reading. The daily devotion helps me get off to a great start in recognizing the day and the good things to come from that day only, never fretting about yesterday, just learning and moving on. As for tomorrow? I may have dreams, biut they can only be realized if I do what is best today without worries, and work on tomorrow tomorrow.
The morning prayers are a great help to me and others may find comfort in them as well. I believe sample readings are available before purchase on Amazon.

This was the second time I read "Jesus Calling" as my daily devotional for a calendar year. The first time was in 2016, when I experienced the unexpected and tragic death of a loved one. I am unsure how I would have survived with my faith intact without this spiritually uplifting book.
As I prepared to reread it in 2020, I decided to use the Journaling format. Going into the unprecedented year of the pandemic, I had no idea what a blessing this devotional would be to me for a second time.
Journaling about my thoughts, fears, spiritual insights, and prayer requests during the days of sheltering-in-place became a daily encouragement. This discipline gave me a semblance of normalcy and routine at time when life was very unpredictable and abnormal. While losing my own father to this hideous virus in November of 2020, the "Jesus Calling" devotionals and accompanying Scriptures ministered to me in an almost prophetic way during that painful season.
If you have never read this incredible devotional, I highly recommend the Journaling format. In many ways, I feel it helped me to "keep the faith" once again in a year of tremendous uncertainty, grief, and spiritual challenge.

4,5 stars- English Ebook

An excellent way to start your day. The daily devotional feels like God is speaking directly to me. One of the best I've every read.

i love it!Jesus is awesoeme and powerful!I ove how you can write in it!I use it!

Love, love, love this devotion given to me as a gift from a dear friend! Highly recommend in fact have given it as a gift numerous times.

This is the first time I've read a daily devotional from January 1 to December 31. Jesus Calling was a relatively easy, encouraging read, and it positively impacted my daily walk with Jesus.

This book literally changed my life. I can't recommend it highly enough. It took me quite a while to get used to the format, but the insights kept drawing me back and the beauty. Oh, the beauty.

I have been reading this devotional for about a year now. I've missed a few days here and there, but I've really enjoyed what I have read. I haven't really taken advantage of the journaling aspect of the book, but I don't typically write in books and this one was on loan to me from a friend. (I've since learned that she gave it to me, so YAY!) I think the first person pov is unique. It's as if God is speaking to you directly, and the short devotionals feel personal every time. I like this devotional for a quick read in the morning with whatever I'm currently reading in my Bible. It's short enough that I can still take time to read it when I'm in a hurry, but still packs a powerful enough punch that it sets my mornings right. I would recommend it to others. I'll probably keep it around for another year to get the days I missed and then come back to it again in a few years. Well-worth having on my shelf.

This is a very dangerous book that portrays Jesus as a needy, whiny God just waiting for us in a romantic and vapid mode. It prey's on women's emotion of need and self worth.

And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer." (Acts 2:42) This is how you get a close relationship to God, prayer and reading God's Word, the Bible!

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12

This is a daily devotional journal which I will add to every year's reading challenge. The ability to journal our spiritual journey is the key to learning how God works in our lives. These daily bits of scripture-based wisdom & encouragement are timely and accurate every time I read them! The scriptures are a living body of works that are rooted in the Holy Spirit. They are always relevant.

This daily devotional book was given to me as a Door Prize at a ladies group meeting in March. I'm ministered to every time I read a day's reading. Love it and definitely recommend it to everyone, no exception....

This is a daily devotional written as God speaking with you daily. As I kept my daily private time with my Father, I found each day's topic encouraging and timely. God inspired is how I label Sarah Young's work. This book is definitely a lifetime treasure. Those I've gifted it to have agreed.

I LOVE THIS Book.. I use it daily i am on my 2nd year. There is scripture as well and Like always each time you read Gods word it speaks different to your spirit. I use it as a journal, I write the year and what it means to me.

A wonderful way to start my day for a year, in fact, I like it so much, I'm going to do it again. Making the morning commitment using a combination of devotion, Bible passage and journaling changes the way I approach my day.

Very helpful and accurate in it's spiritual guidance and it's accuracy in depicting daily events and situations. It advises well on how to handle these things by allowing God, through your personal relationship with Him, deal with them in own His Own Way, Time and Strength...

Great Devotional - short and provides scriptures for reflecting.

Daily Devotionals written with Bible scripture as the base.

wonderful devotional!!!

I read and then read it again. loved it.

Fabulous journaling Devotional... Love starting my day with this devotional.

Very inspirational to me. I will continue to read it everyday, every year.

Used these with my teaching staff and loved it.

An amazing book. I'm going back to the beginning and start it again. It really feels like Jesus is talking to you.

I have read through this several timess and read it everymorning along with my Bible for inspiration for the day. LOVE it!

Very repetitive, also I don't think it's appropriate to put words in God's mouth that aren't written in the Bible

Really enjoyed this devotion this year! Highly recommend!

Beautiful story packaged and presented in a worrisome way. My orginal hope was it is that way because a publisher or someone ran away from the author's idea, but since more came out I guess not.

The best way to explain it is in it's own description, "Sarah Young decided to 'listen' to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever she believed He was saying to her."

If this was continually presented as just that, an opportunity to see her experience in interpreting and filtering God for her own life, I would be a bit more comfortable with it. It is presented as God talking to the reader though. Then it has scripture references at the bottom of the page that give another false sense of security. She takes her own words and presents them in the voice of God and then references it with His Word even though it isn't.

To me it ended up reading more like a horoscope rather than anything from God. I am thankful for the bit of insight it gave me into her relationship with God, but also that I saw it plainly as that. I truly wish she explained more each day as to why she wrote what she did, maybe why a verse made her feel like writing what she did, what she was going though, or just simply started each day with something like, "today I felt..." to introduce it. Any of those would make for a great or readable book/devotional. It scares me that something other than His Word is being presented as His words and how that could mess with the minds of many...daily.

I appreciated the journal prompts and passages, but some of the devotionals could be a tad dogmatic for my taste. But then again, nothing replaces the Bible for devotions time.