God

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 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 As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Psalm 93 (NRSV) The LORD is king, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength. He has established the world; it shall never be moved; […]

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 1 Peter 2:1-3 (NRSV) Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Psalm 146 (NRSV) Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 (NRSV) The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, “You […]

Focus Lord, let us not just hear your words, but recognize your presence. Read Exodus 20:1-21 (NRSV) Then God spoke all these words: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Isaiah 54:11-17 (NRSV) O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, I am about to set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of rubies, […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything, but God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Isaiah 2:12-17 (NRSV) For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and […]

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 55:16-23 (NRSV) But I call upon God, and the LORD will save me. Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will […]