Discipleship

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 Job 38:22-30 (NRSV) “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the […]

Focus Are you tired? Take this time to rest. Relax every part of yourself. Breathe slower. Don’t be prideful or stubborn. Be ready for what God has before you today. Read 2 Timothy 1: 12b-14 (NRSV) But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I […]

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 2 Timothy 1: 8-12a (NRSV) Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with […]

Focus Relax and clear your head. Listen for the voice of God. What is God saying to you today? Read Psalm 104:24-34; 35b (NRSV) O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Romans 8:26-27 (NRSV) Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind 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 Romans 8:18-24 (NRSV) I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing […]

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 John 7:37-39 (NRSV) On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God, however that may take place. Read Psalm 33:12-22 (NRSV) Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all humankind. From where […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Exodus 19:16-25 (NRSV) On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain, and a blast of a trumpet so loud […]

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 Exodus 19:1-9a (NRSV) On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day, they came into the wilderness of […]