A guided 30-day prayer journal
God Is There.
Between the Promise and the Breakthrough
This journal offers songs, prayers, and prompts to help you recognize God’s presence, power, peace, and purpose in the wilderness. Because hope is not lost. God is at work.
The Wilderness
“You in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.”
Nehemiah 9:19, ESV
For women walking through uncertain seasons
when answers feel delayed,strength feels low,and your faith is tested.
Through heartfelt prayers, Scripture-based reflections, worship songs, and gentle prompts, Dr. Kasey Whitney invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and meet God in the middle of life’s hardest seasons.
The Journal
A sacred space, without pressure, performance, people pleasing, or quick fixes.
For those who feel overwhelmed, discouraged, spiritually dry, or simply tired of pretending they are fine.
Inside, you will discover support to help yoU:
- Reflect with honesty and grace
- Reevaluate disappointment and delay
- Reconnect with God’s presence
- Rediscover strength, clarity, and hope
Each day includes a meaningful prayer and a guided writing prompt to help you express your own prayer, making room for healing, renewal, and deeper trust in God.
One day in the journal
Day 1 · Tension
Every day begins with a song, shares a prayer, and leaves room for yours.
The song
Your prayer
Prayer Prompt: It is hard to live with tension but that is exactly what you must learn to do in your moments in the wilderness. It is hard when your expectations of God do not match with what you are currently experiencing. It is hard when what you thought and believed would have happened by now, has not. Write a prayer about the tension you are experiencing and ask God for help, strength, clarity and courage to release your expectations, and the courage to let go of your desires in exchange for His.
The prayer
As I rise, there is tension between belief and what I see—tension between what You have done in the past and what I need You to do now. I am being hit again and again with inner words and whispers saying, “You are going to have to hit the dirt… go further than you want to go… hit rock bottom… and fail with no rope to save you. You are going to live in the wilderness longer.”
But that’s not true, because the work You have started in me, You are faithful to complete. You will work things out for my good. I will not throw away my confidence, which has great reward. Right now, I need to endure. Right now, I ANSWER BACK to the whispers, lies, tricks, and deceptions, because in a little while, You, God, are coming for me! You will come and will not delay. Right now, in the middle of my fears, doubts, and wandering—looking, hoping, and waiting—I run to You, LORD, and I will fight back … Your character, Your promises, and what You have already done for me are proof that You hear me.
Amen and amen.
The full prayer is in the journal.
A way through
Thirty days, thirty prayers, thirty songs
Not a formula to get out, but a way through. A companion for each step, from the first “Tension” to the question that ends the journey: “LORD, How may I serve You today?”
- DAY 01TensionJireh
- DAY 02Separate My ThoughtsThe Story I’ll Tell
- DAY 03Can’t Sleep3 AM
- DAY 04AngryPromises
- DAY 05Praying Myself CalmTrust In God
- DAY 06UnravelingWhere Do I Fit In
- DAY 07Preferences, Perspective, and PrideWhat I Needed
- DAY 08It’s ColdGod’s Not Done With You
- DAY 09Help, Help, HelpEven When It Hurts
- DAY 10The Invisible Is Becoming VisibleHave My Heart
- DAY 11RepurposedHere Again
- DAY 12Oxygen NeededNever Lost
- DAY 13Still Here …
Yet, There’s Still Progress …You Remain - DAY 14Fear AgainFear Is Not My Future
- DAY 15WeightsCry
- DAY 16DamageThe Great Shepherd
- DAY 17Out of OrderWhat A God
- DAY 18Help Me Get Back to UsFirst Love
- DAY 19Ouch …
The Invisible Work Continues …Another Surrender - DAY 20Peace NeededAlways Peace
- DAY 21Growth PainsGrowing Pains
- DAY 22Tired SoulYeshua
- DAY 23PivotingSlow Me Down
- DAY 24Falling BackLet Them Fall in Love
- DAY 25Long-Suffering GodBrighter
- DAY 26NecessaryI Looked Up
- DAY 27The Only One Truly CommittedPut Your Name on Me
- DAY 28A Harvest in a Dry PlaceEverything (Bless the Lord)
- DAY 29I Never Would Have ThoughtWhy
- DAY 30LORD, How May I Serve You TodayMy Response
Day 28 · A Harvest in a Dry Place
I am grateful—for the harvest, for the benefits, and for our relationship. I am grateful that the wilderness was purposeful, empowering, and divinely productive.
If Rahab, Esther, Sarah, Joseph, and David walked through wilderness seasons and emerged with Your help—I will too.
Dr. Kasey Whitney · Day 28
Wilderness seasons are not permanent, and the waiting is never wasted. God is present, purposeful, and faithful.
The author
Dr. Kasey Whitney
Pastor · Discipleship Coach · Discipleship Consultant · Spiritual Formation Leader · Teacher
Helping women deepen their relationship with God, care for their souls, and grow with intention.
Dr. Kasey Whitney is a pastor, discipleship coach, speaker, teacher, spiritual formation leader, and discipleship consultant with decades of ministry experience. Her work has spanned discipleship, women’s ministry, prayer, recovery, spiritual formation, leadership development, and ministry across generations.
Throughout her career, she has developed discipleship systems and programs serving thousands, equipped leaders and volunteers, taught biblical and spiritual formation practices, provided pastoral and soul care, and helped people translate faith into everyday life.
Today, she brings that experience into more personal and relational settings—helping women deepen their relationship with God, care for their souls, take intentional next steps in their own discipleship, and, in turn, become equipped to disciple others.
Follow along
The playlist
“Sometimes when words couldn’t reach me … worship could.”
Dr. Kasey Whitney, from the Introduction
Every song featured in the journal, gathered in one place, on the Moments in the Wilderness YouTube playlist.
Available now
Begin the journey. Let the wilderness become the place where your faith finds its voice again.
Moments in the Wilderness is available now in paperback from WestBow Press.
- Publisher
- WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan
- Paperback
- 138 pages · ISBN 979-8-3850-7975-9
- E-book
- ISBN 979-8-3850-7974-2
- Inside
- 30 days · 30 songs · prayers and prompts
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