The 10 best devotional journals for 2026
Looking to spend dedicated time with God? One of the trends I’m loving is combining two perennial tools for drawing closer to God in prayer, study, and reflection. A devotional journal combines a devotional and journal together, creating a one-stop resource. Instead of having to juggle both books and your Bible and try to juggle it all with your coffee, you can relax with these combined gems.
We’ve curated the 10 best devotional journals for 2026. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or a friend or family member for an anniversary, birthday, or Easter gift, we believe you’ll enjoy these two-in-one combos!
You’ll see familiar names — classic devotions with designs updated specifically for journaling and notes — as well as more modern approaches. We’ve included a range of journal and devotional options, including some that create structured habits and others that embrace a more fluid and creative approach.
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Discover the top devotional journals for 2026 with this curated guide. We love the devotion and journal combo, and hope you do, too!
Top 10 devotional journals for 2026
1. ‘Prayer Journal for Women: 52 Week Scripture, Devotional & Guided Prayer Journal’ by Shannon Roberts
“Prayer Journal for Women: 52 Week Scripture, Devotional & Guided Prayer Journal” by Shannon Roberts and Paige Tate & Co will help you build a deeper and more consistent prayer life with its Scripture verses, meditations, reflections, and gratitude notes. It even has space for tracking answered prayers — allowing you to remember (and hopefully tell the story!) of how God has worked in your life in big and small ways.
For Christian women seeking a structured approach and a devotional and journal combo, this bestseller’s 52-week format includes four dedicated pages per week for reflection, including two full journaling pages. It’s beautiful, with original illustrations by Roberts, the author and artist.
Roberts is a wife, mother, and chalk artist — she founded The White Lime, with designs you may have seen in stores like Home Goods and Hobby Lobby. She created this devotional journal to grow deeper in conversation with God.
“Prayer Journal for Women: An Inspirational Christian Bible Journal, Prayer Notebook & Devotional” will help you focus on what you’re most thankful for each day. By emphasizing daily gratitude and prayer, this devotional journal will foster a closer relationship with God with flexible tools for prayer, study, taking sermon notes, or writing faith-based affirmations.
The spiral-bound design allows this devotional journal to lie flat, making it easy to write in. It also includes a section to track answered prayers. More journal than devotional, this still makes our list of a great edition due to its less structured and more free-flowing design — perfect for the artist or creative in your life who feels restricted when too much structure is applied to their morning devotions. Readers say they often buy two at a time: One to gift and one to use themselves.
With this devotional and journal combination, you’ll enjoy this timeless devotional with room for writing prayers, notes, and reflections. “Jesus Calling Note Taking Edition” by Sarah Young. Known around the world for a writing style that seems like Jesus is speaking directly to you, this devotional journal has dedicated space for notes and prayers on the outside of each page.
Readers appreciate how this edition has Bible verses on each page, which saves time as you don’t need to look them up (which was the case with the original devotional edition). Others appreciated that the pages don’t bleed or ghost when they write. A perennial favorite, consider buying one for yourself and one to give away!
“52-Week Devotional Journal for Women: Prompts and Prayers to Reflect and Connect with God” by Deb Wolf is rooted in real life and will help you reflect on God’s love and care while helping you let go of insecurities, guilt, or worry.
This is a true devotional and journal combo with questions that follow each of the 52 weekly devotions. With relatable stories and insights, it’s an ideal option for a busy Christian woman who wants to connect with God but doesn’t have much time.
Wolf is a speaker, writer, and teacher who blogs at Counting My Blessings. She wrote this devotional as an extension of her ministry to help busy women draw closer to Jesus by reflecting on Scripture with journal prompts and guided prayers.
“Experiencing God Day by Day: Devotional and Journal” by Richard Blackaby and Henry T. Blackaby is an updated version of the classic “Experiencing God” book, which personally transformed my prayer life as it taught me to pray with a listening ear for what God may be whispering. With daily insights and “Experiencing God” teachings, it includes space to journal and track your spiritual journey.
The journal or note-taking sections are on the outside of each page, meaning you can write prayers or journal spiritual experiences as you go. A daily devotional with 365 entries, it’s designed to create a daily habit of prayer and spiritual discipline, encouraging you to seek God’s presence and wisdom daily. Blackaby founded the Blackaby Ministries, and his son, Richard, is now president.
“100 Days of Grace & Gratitude: A Devotional Journal” by Shanna Noel and Lisa Stilwell will help you reflect on God’s promises, goodness, and grace. Designed for prayers and gratitude reflection, it’s written for busy women who tend toward the creative and aren’t looking for what might feel like a constraining or structured devotional or writing lines. Instead, there’s blank space or dotted grids to use as the Spirit moves.
This devotional journal includes space for personal reflection and journaling, and includes short devotional messages and guided prayers. Noel is the founder of Illustrated Faith, a Bible-journaling community, and Stilwell is a veteran Christian publishing editor and freelancer. Together, they create a space to pause, reflect, and creatively express gratitude at God’s goodness and grace.
“My Utmost for His Highest Devotional Journal” by Oswald Chambers adds space for journaling, note-taking, and prayer to this classic devotional that continues to be one I frequently recommend. With timeless truths that always make me pause and ponder their application, it’s ideal for mature Christians who want to go deeper into daily meditation and spiritual growth.
Updated with modern English, this devotional journal includes space on the outside of each page to write prayers or take notes. Chambers (1874–1917) was a Scottish evangelist and teacher whose wife compiled his sermon notes to create this bestselling devotion. The journal sections have been added for a modern audience seeking space for reflection and application.
“100 Days of Believing Bigger: A Devotional Journal” by Marshawn Evans Daniels is written for women who want encouragement in taking a step toward a dream, to make a transition, or who want to boldly seek God’s bigger plans for their lives. With journaling prompts and reflections, this devotional journal is designed to be both motivating and activating.
Daniels is a life coach, entrepreneur, television personality, and founder of the SHE Profits / Godfidence movement. She wrote this devotional journal as a direct tie to her book, “Believing Bigger,” which guides women on identifying barriers and obstacles, helps them bring those challenges to God, and step into their God-given identity and purpose with confidence.
“Daily Blessings: A Mindfulness Journal on the Goodness of God” by Marshawn Evans Daniels is written to help Christians cultivate an intentional awareness of God’s presence and guidance. Ideal for women who want to focus on God’s peace and goodness, it will help you reflect on what you’re grateful for.
Blending mindfulness practices with Christian beliefs, Daniels combines daily prayers and reflections on God’s goodness in an effort to bring positivity and intentionality to the lives of women. Daniels, mentioned above in the “100 Days of Believing Bigger: A Devotional Journal,” draws on her experience coaching women to live bolder lives in faith. If you’re feeling inspired to pass on God’s goodness, she’s also created “Prayers to Share,” which are notes designed to be left where others might find them.
The ESV Devotional Box Set gives you themed devotionals for each of the Fruits of the Spirit, providing a Scripture-rich collection of devotions and reflections. It includes nine journals, one for each fruit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control).
This devotional journal set has journaling prompts and space for notes, allowing you to continually grow spiritually while diving deeper into prayer and a conversation with God. Created by Crossway, an ESV Bible publisher, this curated devotional and journal combo will help you or a loved one take a deeper dive into Scripture. With gorgeous cover designs by artist Lulie Wallace, this set makes a great Christian gift for the women in your life — whether for Mother’s Day, an Anniversary or Birthday, or to give during Christmas or Easter.
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