eVotions

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 45:10-17 (NRSV) Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Isaiah 51:1-3 (NRSV) Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness, you that seek the LORD. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were […]

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 1 John 4:1-6 (NRSV) Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 (NRSV) Now concerning love of the brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love […]

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 Genesis 22:9-14 (NRSV) When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in […]

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 Psalm 89:15-16 (NRSV) Happy are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light […]

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 2 Chronicles 20:5-12 (NRSV) Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Matthew 10:5-23 (NRSV) These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep […]

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 Galatians 5:2-6 (NRSV) Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. Once again I testify […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Psalm 6 (NRSV) O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger, or discipline me in your wrath. Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; O LORD, heal me, […]