faith

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 Hebrews 11:1-12 (NRSV) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received […]

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 3:6-14 (NRSV) Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” so, you see, those who believe are the […]

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 Malachi 4:1-2a (NRSV) See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day […]

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 Jude 5-21 (NRSV) Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, that the Lord, who once for all saved a people out of the land of […]

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 102 (NRSV) Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you. Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your […]

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 Luke 5:12-16 (NRSV) Once, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read 1 John 5:1-5,13-21 (NRSV) Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we […]

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 Psalm 37:1-9 (NRSV) Do not fret because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers, for they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green […]

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 Isaiah 58:9b-12 (NRSV) If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, if you offer your food to the hungry and […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Acts 17:1-9 (NRSV) After Paul and Silas had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his […]