1221Apr 25, 2019
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 Acts 5:12-16 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all […]
1222Apr 24, 2019
Focus Relax and clear your head. Listen for the voice of God. What is God saying to you today? Read 2 Samuel 6:1-15 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. David and all the people with him set out and went from Baale-judah, to bring up […]
1223Apr 23, 2019
Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read Revelation 12:1-12 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in […]
1224Apr 22, 2019
Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are […]
1225Apr 21, 2019
Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read John 20:1-18 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had […]
1226Apr 20, 2019
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 Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24 I am one who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; against me […]
1227Apr 19, 2019
Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God, however that may take place. Read Hebrews 10:16-25 (NRSV) “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on […]
1228Apr 18, 2019
Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read John 13:1-17, 31b-35 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. […]
1229Apr 17, 2019
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 Isaiah 50:4-9 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a […]
1230Apr 16, 2019
Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power […]