Discipleship

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 104:24-34 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Galatians 6:7-10 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.  If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption […]

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 Galatians 5:13-26 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an […]

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 29 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe […]

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 2 Chronicles 5:2-14 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Exodus 40:16-38 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.  In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, […]

Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read Acts 16:16-34 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.  While she followed […]

Focus Breathe in clear thoughts of peace and reflection as you prepare to hear God speak to you through the scripture and the writer. Put aside all the things the world says you have to accomplish today and use this time to rest in God’s presence. Read John 1:14-18 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) And […]

Focus Let your soul take a moment of rest as you hear God’s word. Put your busy schedule, wandering mind, stressful thoughts, and burdened heart at the feet of the cross and open up to God’s voice as the Giver of Life tends your soul. Read Exodus 33:12-17 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Moses said […]

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 Acts 1:1-11 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he […]