renewal

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 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:1 (NRSV) But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read John 7:37-39 (NRSV) On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the […]

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 Matthew 11:28-30 (NRSV) “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke […]

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 Genesis 35:1-4 (NRSV) God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Ephesians 3:1-12 (NRSV) This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles— for surely you have already heard of the commission […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Ezekiel 47:1-12 (NRSV) Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there, water was flowing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple […]

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 Psalm 84:1-7 (NRSV) How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of 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 Luke 10:13-16 (NRSV) “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in […]