eVotions

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 Psalm 138 (NRSV) I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; I bow down toward your holy temple and give […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Esther 2:19-3:6 (NRSV) When the virgins were being gathered together, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. Now Esther had not revealed her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had charged her; […]

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 119:17-32 (NRSV) Deal bountifully with your servant, so that I may live and observe your word. Open my eyes, so that I may […]

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 1 John 2:1-6 (NRSV) My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not […]

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 Colossians 1:27–2:7 (NRSV) To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, […]

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 10:38-42 (NRSV) Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Luke 8:4-10 (NRSV) When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as […]

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 Amos 5:18-27 (NRSV) Alas for you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you want the day of the LORD? It is darkness, not light; as if […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 15 (NRSV) O LORD, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill? Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right, and speak the truth from […]

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 Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 (NRSV) I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me. There was a little […]