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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 […]

Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read Psalm 50:16-23 New Revised Standard Version 16 But to the wicked God says:    “What right have you to recite my statutes,    or take my covenant on your lips?17 For you hate discipline,    and you cast my words behind you.18 You make friends with a thief when you see […]

Focus Relax and clear your head. Listen for the voice of God. What is God saying to you today? Read Ephesians 4:17-24 New Revised Standard Version 17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their […]

Focus Relax and clear your head. Listen for the voice of God. What is God saying to you today? Read Ephesians 4:1-16 New Revised Standard Version 4 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, […]

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 Matthew 16:5-12 New Revised Standard Version 5 When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. 6 Jesus said to them, “Watch […]

Focus Close your eyes and open yourself as you relax into a peaceful state. Be willing to expose yourself for who you are as God created you to be. Breathe deeply as you prepare to hear God’s Word. Read Joshua 23 New Revised Standard Version 23 A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel […]

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 1 Corinthians 11:17-22 New Revised Standard Version 17 Now […]

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 Mark 6:35-44 New Revised Standard Version 35 When it grew […]