How to keep a prayer journal

We (Creativity Encouraged small group) finished talking about spiritual disciplines a few weeks ago. One of the things we tossed around was the idea of keeping a prayer journal. I started journaling 3 months ago but wasn't really sure how exactly to go about it. I know how to write my prayers down but I wanted to know a little more so I talked to Steve Robbins. I remembered him saying that he has 15-20 years of college ruled journals piled up at his house and I was curious to hear what he did. Here's what he said:

"When I was younger I kept getting frustrated because I never felt I was hearing from God. I didn't feel I was growing spiritually. I decided that I was going to begin journaling 3 or 4 times a week and I followed this simple method. I would read a few chapters my bible and reflect what I felt the Holy Spirit illuminated from the text. What did the Lord want me to see in the text I read. I would turn that into a prayer for my own life and write that prayer in my journal. Often, when I was writing down my prayer the Spirit would bring something else to mind so I would begin meditating again which would often turn me back to the text for more meditation and journaling. This let me apply what I read to my own life instead of numbly reading.

To be honest, most Christians do not know how to pray. We go to God and pray for pretty much the same things over and over not growing spiritually in the disicpline of prayer. I never go into my quiet time with some sort of prayer agenda. I let the bible and the Spirit direct my prayer life which caused me to pray for things I never would have prayed for. It was then that I started hearing God speak to me."