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 2 Kings 20:12-19 (NRSV) At that time King Merodach-baladan son of Baladan of Babylon sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 (NRSV) The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 19:7-14 (NRSV) The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the decrees of the LORD are sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing […]

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 Psalm 124 (NRSV) If it had not been the LORD who was on our side —let Israel now say— if it had not been 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 Hebrews 4:14–5:4 (NRSV) Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 107:1-16 (NRSV) O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, those he redeemed from trouble […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Hebrews 2:10-18 (NRSV) It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. […]

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 2 Chronicles 20:5-12 (NRSV) Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for a peace at this time. Read Luke 6:12-19 (NRSV) Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his […]

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 Genesis 1:1-31a (NRSV) In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the […]