Your 100 Day Prayer by John I. Snyder

Your 100 Day Prayer is like a paperback prayer journal/devotional with 100 days instead of 365 days like a normal devotional. The book has one page with a Start Date and a main Prayer Request - the one thing you will be praying for 100 days straight. Each day starts with one bible verse, a 1-2 page life application, a 1-2 sentence suggested prayer, and 1/2 or 1/4 page of blank lines for notes. The lines have large gaps between them (about the same size as a journal) to allow your large handwriting font to fit on each line. Remember, with most pages only giving you 1/4 -1/2 of a page for journaling, you don't barely get to write one short paragraph (1-3 sentences long) for yourself.

I found the paperback format to be very counter to the prayer journal - the paperback book hardly opens enough to write your notes in the pages. And if you open it enough, of course, the binding gets all messed up. This should have had spiral binding. Also of note, the paper of the book is the normal cheap paperback recycled-like paper. It's not nice to write on, like prayer journals. Again, I wish this book was printed like a journaling book.

I was surprised to find that the devotional bible verses and life application descriptions DID NOT focus on prayer and promises of God. On one hand, usually books that focus on God's promises pull verses out of context, so maybe it's preferable this way, but it would have been nice to have bible verses that ACTUALLY applied to your one main prayer request. Instead, this book starts like most 365 day devotionals - with creation. Although the author attempted to tie the verses in to prayers, I didn't feel they related strongly to someone praying for a GREAT NEED. The verses were quite general and sometimes the author had to stretch things a bit to make the prayer suggestions work.

In the end, I would not recommend this book. I am certain you would be MUCH better off with a 365 day devotional and a real prayer journal. Or combine a book on prayer with your prayer journal. Why buy a book that 1/4 of it is blank underlined "fill in your thoughts" pages? Then you run out of pages just after 3 months.

Disclaimer: I gave my honest review. I received this book from the publisher but a positive review was not required.