My Best Bible Journaling Advice After 4 Yrs Taking Bible Notes 

Hey friends! What are you studying today in the Bible right now? Also, do you consider yourself a beginner Bible journaler? I am superrrr curious! Let me know!

And pleeaaaaase, publishers, print journaling Bibles that are not just for artists, but for studiers. Please include footnotes and cross references. Please include a concordance. And, for older people such as myself, please make them a larger more readable font. I realize this makes a bigger Bible, I don't care. I will carry around a phone book size Bible if it has what I want in it. Just my two cents...

I'm 50 years old and have been a Christian most of my life. I was always afraid of highlighting and taking notes in case I made a mistake. I have a note taking bible that I bought two years ago. But I didn't take too many notes in case I ran out of room. Your videos have helped me give myself permission to write more in my bible. I have added paper, added more tabs, even added flaps and I am loving it!❤❤❤❤❤❤ Getting so much more out of my bible studies and the pastors sermons. Thank you for these videos.

YES!!! A Bible journaling study Bible with your notes. I'd buy it. I'd USE it!

I marked the beginning of the books of the Bible with washi tape down the edge, with different patterns for the different sections of Scripture (i.e. History, Law, Prophets, etc.) and I love it!

Hey Faith, sorry for the long comment but what can I say!! You started me off loving my bible again….I’m a homeschooling mum of 6 little blessings and we were saved from darkness 6 years ago ~ (thank you Jesus 🙌🏼♥️) anyways I just found it hard reading my Bible through and not doing much else. I’m very creative and a visual person & I truly believe the Lord Himself led me to watch you! I hadn’t even thought about much more than highlighting a few verses before 😂 but now I have an interleaved bible (almost impossible to get here in Australia and expensive 🥴 but so worth it) as not only am I constantly in my bible now ~ and honestly getting annoyed at daily cleaning tasks etc cause all I want to do is bible study 😆 but the best part ~ my children are watching and copying!!! My little 8yo is “mum are you bible studying “” (she begs me to study throughout the day) she wrote (and she can’t write yet properly) Isaiah 59 😂 she puts washi tape around it and stickers to decorate it and she’s that obsessed I even just bought her her own proper bible and journal. My 11yo girl wants an interleaved bible for her 12th bday in a few weeks ~ and some items to study with. So I got her few pens etc she can’t wait to study Gods word a bit more creatively. I mean it’s changed everything for us! All glory to God but I want you to know the impact you’re having one people around the world. HOW GOOD IS GOD! Wish I could chat with you, I watch you and so think we’d be BFFs 😂 if I lived near you, lol Feel like I’m having a cuppa with you everytime I watch a video. We’re making our own candles this weekend to create a lovely atmosphere when we study 🕯️ thank you Faith for your faithfulness in making these videos. I hope and pray this encourages you Praying for you and your precious family ♥️🙏🏼📖

If frixion pens fade, put the bible in the freezer for a bit...it will come back just fine. I was first introduced to Frixion pens as a quilter....and ironing gets rid of the markings....then quilters found out the marks come back if the quilt gets cold ( in shipping, usually) . ALSO fun. Write the boys little notes and hit the note with a blow dryer, so they don't see the writing....then, have them put their notes in the freezer to read the secret message.

If you round the corners of the Bible tabs it helps not only with sharp corner wear and destructive abuse but also don’t bend them as easily

I am a very beginner Bible studier❤ I just now starting to read the gospel of John I'm super excited 😊 while I'm also trying to figure out how to prayer journal and incorporate scriptures within it❤.... I'm blessed to have came across ur channel you have amazing content and it's super informative ❤❤❤

I test my pens in the back of my Bible, too, but I don’t say “test”. I write the name of the pen brand that way I can refer back later to see which ones don’t bleed through. A couple more pens that don’t bleed through are the Pilot G2 and the ES Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen.

I’m studying through my Bible now and it’s already huge. I’m one year in, I think I’ll finish in another year or two but my plan then is to get it rebound and I’m going to give it to my children.

I want a Faith Womack Bible! Thank you Faith for your inspiration! Sending love. God bless you!

Faith, that Bible is your treasure trove: I could not bear having it taken away from you. You have poured your heart and soul onto those pages and, thus, it is a living testimony of your faith, a memorial. I am so proud of your Bible and what it represents and I am not even exaggerating. ❤️🤗🙌 It is your creation, the fruit of your labours: only you can own it.

I would 100% buy a bible with your notes in it. Hopefully cutesy and colorful already and have room for more notes of my own. It would be massive but I want it now 😂 I'd love that!

You NAILED this video!!!! 🎉 Great Job @howtofaithalife! Each suggestion is so spot on and I know it will super encourage beginner Bible journalers. I've been taking notes for 20+ and even I've learned soooo much from your channel! Keep the videos coming! ✝💜

Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been Bible journey for over a year now or a year little over a year. I love it. Thanks always listen to your tips.

What an awesome video! You've encouraged me to make more notes in my Bible. And my sister too. We love your channel and get excited to watch your videos. So thankful God led us to it. Blessings!

Great tips! I've always journaled while studying the Scripture, but just started getting into putting those notes IN my Bible (which is SO incredibly convenient to have them RIGHT THERE to read again and again!). Great tips, I feel way more confident in starting now!!

As always, amazing video! And YES! I will sooooo hope you get a publisher! Already waiting anxiously to buy your comentary Bible! 🤩😘

I😂 Hi Faith, I just want to say I love your videos. I have been following you and all your great bible studies and journaling ideas for about 3 years now. You inspired me to dig deeper into the word and gave me some great ideas for journaling in my bibles Im on my 2nd indepth note taking now and even created some short videos on a social media site to share with others. Thank you so much!

love this! great tips and advice- thank you for sharing.

Oh Faith, you truly are the biggest Bible nerd, and I love it so much!!!!!

Thank you for the tips and saving us newer Bible journalers time and heartache!

Thanks Faith! I always love seeing your Bible videos and I always agree with most of the tips you share hehe. I wholeheartedly agree to write small in your Bibles. The writing space is so valuable and you’ll regret wasting it..but you’ll never regret writing small and leaving space for future notes. I personally enjoy using book tabs because it’s just easy for me to flip through to specific passages, especially when a preacher is going to many different verses. I tab them on top so I can still easily thumb through my pages on the side. Blessings to everyone who is starting out. These are wonderful tips ❤

Always enjoy your content. Thank you!

Thank you for all your videos. I started taking pictures of my notes, labeling them with a page number and keeping them in my cloud. So if anything happens to my Bible I have my notes. It's worth the extra time.

YES!!! I'm a beginner Bible journaler! I have always taken notes in a notebook and I have always highlighted things IN my Bible, but never taken notes and glued them in. I LOVE this concept. I am a crafter at heart, so this combines 2 loves! Thanks for the beginner tips!!! P.S. I am doing your 270 Day Bible Reading Plan!!!

Oh it would be a delight and a blessing to page through your Bible. I 100% agree about it’s got to be a journaling format Bible. Book tabs are optional and the Crayola Twistables are great for marking and highlighting.

Ive always written/printed so big, the fine tip bothered me at first but im used to it now and i most definitely keep them on hand for my bible journaling! I even use them in my daily diary/journal. Our christian book store has some great bible journaling supplies!! I also use colored pencils. I have the NIV coloring bible! It has lines to journal and beautiful pics to color its so beautiful! ❤

These are awesome tips! I’m sharing with my daughter who would love these tips too! ❤

This gives me hope mine will last a long time!! I’ve just started but I often worry I’ll run out of room!! Ps…thank you for what you do, I’ve learned so much about how to study the Bible on my own!

Your journey is awesome. I too have a Bible that is about 10th as full as yours. I have been working slow, but steady and the beauty she is filling up. When I first started doing so I was frowned upon, writing in the “BIBLE”. Well it did not deter me. In have always , written in may books, I had to use pencils so I could erase things in H.S. University well my books were not worth much on return so I kept them. GOD is so good to us why would we not write what he says to use through his word so we can understand what we have in our hands! Treasure Beyond our minds! Thank you for sharing this. I have plenty of ripping pages. Document tape is on my get list.

If you want to keep using Frixion pens, all you have to do is stick your paper (in this case your Bible) in the fridge/freezer for a few minutes and your writing will show back up ❤️

Thank you, Faith.❤😊

Thank you for an informative and much welcomed video.

I love your Bible and love how one can build notes upon notes. I don't use the interleaved Bible, but I have a wide-margin Bible. There still needs to be more space in the wide margins for all the notes, so I have resorted to using Obsidian. I use symbols and keywords in my physical Bible; the more extended notes go in Obsidian. I have a specific symbol for obsidian notes as well. Because obsidian syncs with my phone, I can access, update and add to my notes on the fly. I like to add maps and charts to my Bible and use Tomoe River paper as it is thin. Thank you for the inspiring work that you do!

I use midliners for my Bible ✍️📝🖊️🖋️

Thank you so much for sharing! ♥ God bless.

Love your passion

Faith Fridays are my favorite!!!!!!!

I absolutely have great fun with my Crayola twistable crayons and my colored pencils. I can write on them and use them to make notes pop. Thank you for the artificial tape idea. I use it often. May you know God's blessings and may you always seek to bless God more than expecting His blessings. From experience, I know when I seek more to bless Him, I find and see the blessings He bestows on me and my life. Thank you. 💚💚💚

So many good ideas!! Loved so much of what you bought! Also, when I saw your receipt, I know someone who lives in your town. He is the nephew of my dearest and best sister-friend. He’s in his 60’s, so I’m sure he is much older than you are. I just thought it was a small-world kind of thing. ❤

Thanks for clarifying journaling Bible vs Bible journaling.

I don't like to write in my Bible, only use my color code, I take notes in a notebook. Thank you for your video 😊

I’ve been watching your videos for a few days because I was looking for ways to bring my creative brain with me into my times with the Lord instead of it being a distraction from me being in the word. I didn’t knots this Bible journaling was a thing. I’ve had bibles with lines in it but this is a whole different level. Spent HOURS in my Word today Just because pairing it with my creative brain made it easier to visualize what was going on in the text which of course starts making more insight and revelation pop up. I’m in Luke 4 and maaaan never read it like that! Thank you!

Thank you for so many good tips .

I need an interleaved Bible in NASB with cross references, pleeeeeaaassse!!! 😬 Publishers really do need to get on it.

I am very new to bible journaling and have found I am learning more and more. I am old school and was taught to not write in books. However, I am slowing doing it, I know I am a rebel LOL For now I am writing in a notebook but plan on some how gluing it in my bible to have it on hand like you said in this video. I see the value of having it in the bible to continue building on. Thank you for the tips and tricks videos.

Good info. Thanks!

Love your Bible. Blessings.

Thanks so much so information

Hi Faith. Thank you for this video-- very helpful and inspiring. I have the Tyndale Inspire Bible, Catholic Edition, which has space for notes but is not interleaved. It is beautiful, but I agree that an interleaved bible can be advantageous for taking more notes. Like yourself, I hope that publishers will see the need for interleaved bibles and create more. God bless you!

Right now I'm going through Revelation. I love using colored pencils , I know that when a word is highlighted in orange- my notes reflect the greek-hebrew- latin some sort of dictionary type meaning. Since I started seeing your videos I started that. Red always is messianic and God.... etc etc. The difficulty is running out of space , the binding just isn't going to hold. It is a lovely issue to have😊

This was so helpful! I’m about to acquire a new set of scripture journals, I’ve never bible journalled and I’m a very ‘must do it right’ kind of gal 😅. Re: publishing, Trillia Newbell may be someone to reach out to if there’s nobody in your own networks.

Yes more interleaved please. I prefer the NASB or LSB. I have the ESV interleaved but I would soooo prefer my NASB.

Thank you!! I got an interleaved Bible today and I’m freaking out trying to figure out how to get as much out of it as possible!!

I wanted to install round Bible tabs in my Bible, so I found great Bible tabs that are hard and sturdy on Aliexpress. Downside is that they're not double sided so I had to put on the other side of the tab new tab aswell. They are great, not ripping apart because they are really sturdy and I was surprised how cheap it was. Looking foward to order Bible stickers from your page sooner or later, they're gorgeous♥

Thank you for the tips. I’ve wrote notes for years in my Bible but never had enough room. I need to look for a journaling Bible.

I only found one good extra large print Bible and it has no extra space but I’m glad from watching your videos that I can add my own with glue!

Last year I started using the Olive Tree app so I can keep all my Bible study notes in one place. Like Faith uses the same Bible so she can continue to build on what she’s learned, I’m using this app in a similar way. I will often write my notes in my Bible and then dictate them into the app so I have them in both places. I typically like using a new Bible each time I read through it and so this helps me gather my notes in one place. You can buy resources for the app and I have invested in dictionaries and commentaries, etc. So instead of having a physical library like Faith does, I have a digital library I take with me everywhere. For example, I was doing a Bible study on my phone on my walk the other day when something popped into my mind. I did a word study and saved it in Olive Tree while on my walk. 😂 👏

What a beautiful bible!

I just got another bible and I could not find a good journalling study bible so if you do publish one I would adore it! thanks so much for the info

Im glad youve found a system that works for you. I have a hard time using a physical bible anymore because I love doing most of my study with online tools that allow me to access the Greek, Hebrew, easily cross reference, and see all the other places in scripture where the same words are used. I rarely stay in one spot in the Bible. I try to get a whole bible view on whatever it is Im studying which makes it difficult to even know where I would write certain things if I were to journal in a physical bible. Years ago I would have all my tools in tons of books all over the table, but its just easier now to have everything at my fingertips on the computer.

So I did the books of the bible tabs BUT I found super little ones! And it works well

I am in Upper Michigan and yes the erasable pens disapear in heat but if that happens get them cold so you know what you wrote sometimes it comes back in cold. Then I wouldn't use them again. I learned this quilting

I love the micro-line pens I got them at Barnes and noble for cheap. They also have a lot of Bibles more so study Bibles

So a friend suggested the sharpie felt tip fine line pens 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Hands down my new favorite Bible journaling pens!

Great video Faith ,,,,thank you for all you do. I am soooo blessed with the Bible reading plan. I am excited each day to do my Bible reading schedule. Most of all Faith, it's your videos that accompany each lesson. With my chemo brain I will be able to watch over & over until I remember. Your videos truly are a blessing for me God bless you both Faith and your angels too 🙏❤️🙏❤️

Thank you 😊

Interleaved in the NLT translation would be amazing!!!

Mr. Pen has these awesome gel Highlighters!

I've been using Frixion pens for my notes because I was able to find them in .038 and because they're erasable. Yes, heat can cause the ink to disappear, but just the same, cooling it off can make any missing notes re-appear. All is not lost! Throw your Bible in the fridge for a bit and that pink ink will reemerge.

My husband uses Frixion pens in his planner. He left his planner out in his car. In Phoenix. In the summer. I told him to put it in the freezer. Most of it came back....But not all! He doesn't ever leave it in the car. Never!

I would love an Interleaved Bible with large print, particularly a single column format. In Portuguese, please. 😊 I agree with a fine tip pen and colored pencils. They are my default tools for Bible Journaling.

I have used colour pencils in my bible for years because they don’t bleed though the thin paper. My devotion books look like your bible. Just not as big. I agree with you. Please Put in a few blank pages at the end of each book or in the beginning. Add some at least. The dollar tree had these small boxes of coloured pencils and I put them in the front pocket of my Bible cover so I have them handy and they don’t take up a lot of room. I will try the crayons. Thanks for the tips and all the wonderful comments that have come in. Some fabulous idea’s.

That rebind has patinaed nicely.

Erasable pens/pencils if faded do the reverse to correct the ink. Once faded from heat put it in a cold area to bring the ink back. It works the same in reverse. Good luck!

Yea those frixion pens were awesome to start when I was in the planner world. You can place your Bible or whatever you wrote on in the freezer as the ink will reappear in cold. I also no longer use those pens,

Thank you so much Faith for this channel. You have inspired my journey to Bible Study. Yes, there's not enough Interleaved Bibles. I ordered one before the Holidays and didn't realize it's on backorder. It should arrive later this month. Meanwhile, I've been adding pages into my current bible (which I got off 1 of your videos) to mark and write notes. I plan on transferring those into my Bible when it comes. Have you ever used washi tap as a tab? Would that work?

My Bible pages are WAYYYY too thin to use anything but pencil/colored pencil, so eventually they'll need refreshing. 😭 It's the ESV study Bible journaling version and the content is stellar, but I really don't think it was designed by a Bible journaler because the page thickness was not well thought out. 😅 As for tabs, Avery has some tabs that I LOVE. They're like sticky notes, and they're super sturdy/repositional, but sticky enough that I've never lost one.

Hey Faith, I love how in depth this is! How do you stick your notes in? I have just started my journey and am struggling to tape or stick those in.

Great tips! Where did you find your purple Bible bag? I've been looking for one like that for a while. Love all your videos!

For what it is worth, I think your notes should be typed up now for the sake of redundancy. And it would make for a lot of thought and reflection going through page by page of your own bible notes. You can never have too many backups!

Thank you so very much for your inspiring videos and insights, which only God has revealed to you and which you have graciously shared with us. In one of your videos, you mentioned two pieces of paper that you have used to pray affirmations over you. Can you tell me where I might find these, please? Thank you again for all the videos. May God bless you.

I LOVE colored pencils. I use the erasable colored pencils in my Bible and they work like a dream! They erase COMPLETELY. I love not having to worry at all about making a boo-boo that I can't fix (you're right, that space is precious!). Thanks for giving me permission to color my Bible, Faith!!!! Also, I just discovered Elmers SCENTED GLUE STICKS. These have been a game changer for my Bible Journalling, especially for tip ins! 10x better than a traditional glue stick. 10/10 highly recommend!

Seriously, when uou run out of space, it will be a whole new adventure when you start over! 🥰

If the frixion pen fades, put it in the freezer. It will come back. But I mostly use those pens for quick notes or in my planner. I don't know if I would use them in the Bible. But they are still GREAT pens!

This is my fear about the frixion pens too! But I've heard that the color will come back in the cold! (I haven't tried it yet though!)

About future plans: my plan when my Bible is filled is to hand it down to my daughter. I started this Bible when I was 17 or 18 (a decade ago) and have gone through a lot of struggles and development with that Bible. I would hope that my daughter can be challenged and encouraged by all the questions and inquiries that are in my Bible. I do need to rebind it though. 😂

I highly recommend a loose leaf Bible. No more swollen spines and costly rebinding. There are even pre-made dividers and pockets for mini binders and standard binders. Just sayin' . . .😊

Omg pleaseeeee I would love to basically read your bible! Make this girl a bible prople

I've been bugging Hosanna Revival to make interleaved Bibles. I'd be one of the first to buy one!

I want an interleaved, NLT, study bible. That is the best combination for me. I use the study notes so much. I then add onto them and why I want more space.

Since your husband on another video said he is a big fan of Charles Spurgeon, I recommend the C. Spurgeon Study Bible. I am a rather new fan, and love this Bible.

Very impressive and you talk really fast in a very understandable and clear language. Wish I came across your channel much earlier.

I love fine tip pens for my Bible!🎉 I just have to be careful not to press down on my Bible pages.😊

I use prima color colored pencils they work well i have seen some transfer of color onto the next page but not much and not all colors. Also i can use a basic eraser gently if i make a mistake

Could you do an update for what all bible tabs you have again? I loved it last time!

I bible journal too. I go through them and then give them to my children and grandchildren.😊

Get a hold of Tyndale or Zondervan, ask them if they would help you get a Journaling study Bible with your notes, they might.