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Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Joel 2:23-32 New Revised Standard Version 23 O children of Zion, be glad    and rejoice in the Lord your God;for he has given the early rain for your vindication,    he […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Acts 2:1-21 New Revised Standard Version 2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one […]

Florence Irene Sharpe, 86, died unexpectedly Monday, May 17, 2021, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was mother to Cumberland Presbyterian General Assembly Stated Clerk and Ministry Counsel Advisory Member the Reverend Mike Sharpe (Red River Presbytery). She was born November 14, 1934, in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Stanley Frank and Mary Wanda Baranowski Zylka. She married Daniel […]

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read Exodus 15:6-11 New Revised Standard Version 6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power—    your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.7 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries;    you sent […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Psalm 34:1-14 New Revised Standard Version Of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. 1 I will bless the Lord at all times;    his praise […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Genesis 2:4-7 New Revised Standard Version 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and […]

“Don’t worry. Don’t worry.” Jesus might have told his followers. “Everything’s going to be fine for you when I am gone. I won’t leave you alone. I will send the Advocate, the Spirit of truth, to tell you everything you need to know in order to live as my people.” Such words must have been […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 115 New Revised Standard Version 1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,    for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.2 Why should the nations say,    “Where […]

Elizabeth Dora Seiler Kisling, 87, best known as Pat, died May 14, 2021. Pat was an elder from the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Cumberland Presbyterian Church and served the Cumberland Presbyterian Denomination as assistant to Kentucky Synod executives the Reverends James W. Knight and J.C. Womack at the Kentucky Synodic Center when it was located in […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Psalm 115 New Revised Standard Version 1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,    for the sake of your steadfast […]