In 2 Corinthians 1:3-14, Paul has recounted for the Corinthians how he has been miraculously delivered and he credits this delivery to prayer. He urges the Corinthians to go on praying: ”You also must help me by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Luke 18:31-34 (NRSV) Then he took the twelve aside and said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by 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 1 John 2:18-28 (NRSV) Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. […]

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 1 John 2:18-28 (NRSV) Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. […]

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 20 (NRSV) The LORD answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob […]

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 John 12:1-8 (NRSV) 12 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read John 11:45-57  (NRSV) Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.  But some of them went to the Pharisees and […]

Focus Are you tired? Take this time to rest. Relax every part of yourself. Breathe slower. Be ready for what God has before you today. Read Daniel 3:19-30 (NRSV) Then Nebuchadnezzar was so filled with rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face was distorted. He ordered the furnace heated up seven times more […]

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 Psalm 105:1-5 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) O give […]

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 Numbers 14:10-24 (NRSV) But the whole congregation threatened […]