God’s provision

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 Psalm 107:1-9, 43 (NRSV) O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of […]

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 1 Kings 17:1-16 (NRSV) Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD the […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Deuteronomy 8:1-10 (NRSV) This entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD […]

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 Matthew 14:13-21 (NRSV) Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed […]

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 Exodus 16:1-8 (NRSV) The whole congregation of the Israelites set out from Elim; and Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the […]

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 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 Psalm 127 (NRSV) Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD […]

Focus Relax and clear your head. Listen for the voice of God. What is God saying to you today? Read Luke 12:13-21 (NRSV) Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or […]

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 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 (NRSV) For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved […]

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 Luke 12:29-32 (NRSV) And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep […]