restoration

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 80 (NRSV) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time.   Read Isaiah 1:24-31 (NRSV) Therefore says the Sovereign, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will pour out my wrath on my enemies, and avenge myself on my […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Psalm 23 (NRSV) The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Luke 15:1-7 (NRSV) Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for a peace at this time. Read Ezekiel 37:1-14 (NRSV) The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Hebrews 10:1-4 (NRSV) Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that […]

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 Isaiah 49:1-7 (NRSV) Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The LORD called me […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Jeremiah 31:1-6 (NRSV) At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus says the LORD: The people […]

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 146:7b-9 (NRSV) The LORD sets the prisoners free; the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. […]

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 Hosea 6:1-10 (NRSV) “Come, let us return to the […]