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In 2 Timothy 4:1-8, Paul speaks to Timothy about faith—firm belief or complete trust. He speaks about giving careful instruction against the time when people gather those about them to say what they want to hear. Paul seems to need his friends and his things about him. He speaks of those who deserted him and […]

Focus Turn off your cell phone, TV, or radio. Listen to the silence that is around you. Listen for God to speak to you. Read 2 Chronicles 5:2-14 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Exodus 40:16-38 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.  In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, […]

Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read Acts 16:16-34 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.  While she followed […]

Focus Breathe in clear thoughts of peace and reflection as you prepare to hear God speak to you through the scripture and the writer. Put aside all the things the world says you have to accomplish today and use this time to rest in God’s presence. Read John 1:14-18 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) And […]

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 Exodus 33:12-17 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Moses said […]

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 As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Job 16:1-21 (NRSV) Then Job answered: “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking? […]

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 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 […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Mark 11:27-33 (NRSV) Again they came to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him and said, “By what authority are […]