Posts by Chris Fleming

Focus Turn off your cell phone, TV, or radio. Listen to the silence that is around you. Listen for God to speak to you. Read Isaiah 2:1-5 New Revised Standard Version 2 The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 In days to come    the mountain of the Lord’s houseshall be established as the […]

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 Romans 8:1-8 New Revised Standard Version 8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of […]

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 James 1:19-27 New Revised Standard Version 19 You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to […]

Focus Relax and listen. Consciously prepare to hear God’s Word. Clear your mind of the worries and tasks that lie before you. Open your heart and allow it to refresh. Read Deuteronomy 34:1-7 New Revised Standard Version 34 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which […]

Focus Are you tired? Take this time to rest. Relax every part of yourself. Breathe slower. Be ready for what God has before you today. Read Revelation 1:9-18 New Revised Standard Version 9 I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island […]

Focus Turn off your cell phone, TV, or radio. Listen to the silence that is around you. Listen for God to speak to you. Read Acts 1:1-11 New Revised Standard Version 1 In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning 2 until the day when he was taken up […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Deuteronomy 11:18-21 New Revised Standard Version 18 You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem on your forehead. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Psalm 93 New Revised Standard Version 1 The Lord is king, he is robed in majesty;    the Lord is robed, he is girded with strength.He has established the world; it shall never be moved;2     your throne is established from […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Luke 24:33-53 New Revised Standard Version 33 That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together. 34 They were saying, “The Lord has […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Luke 24:13-32 New International Version 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had […]