Discipleship

Focus There are times when expected promises are threatened with interruption. If those promises are the ones you have made to another, it impacts your honor. Think of a time that a promise you made became threatened, and then read below when David’s promise became threatened. Read 1 Kings 1:1-11 (selected verses) 1 King David […]

Focus What are your plans today? Think on the many ways those plans have been changed by the events of the day. Now, put frustration, anger, and disappointment away for a few moments and read the words about King David in his days. Read 1 Kings 1:1-11 (selected verses) 1 King David was old and […]

Focus Pause for a moment and think about something you own. Contemplate on the concept, the principles involved that makes something you possess. Then think about yourself as the object of another’s possession. Read John 6:35-40 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and […]

Focus Be at peace, and take a moment to reflect on ways God has turned the tables of your misfortune to good. Let God be exalted. Read Psalm 57: 5-11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. They set a net for my steps; my soul was […]

Focus Take a deep breath; reflect calmly to discover what we might hold tight within us that needs to be given over to God, who has wisdom beyond our understanding. Read Psalm 57:1-3 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge;in the shadow of your wings […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God, however that may take place. Read 1 Kings 19:4-8 New Revised Standard Version 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: […]

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 2 Samuel 15:1-13 New Revised Standard Version 15 After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run ahead of him. 2 Absalom used to rise early and […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Galatians 6:1-10 New Revised Standard Version 6 My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Psalm 130 New Revised Standard Version A Song of Ascents. 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.2     Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentive    to the voice of my supplications! 3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,    Lord, who could stand?4 But there is forgiveness with you,    so that […]

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 Mark 8:1-10 New Revised Standard Version 8 In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, 2 “I have compassion […]