O, my Father, early in the mornings there are times when my thoughts get stuck on old and often bad behaviors—kind of like a shoe gets stuck in the mud. The problem is, my thoughts usually get stuck on things which are already forgiven past sins or insignificant issues of the present. Please help me […]

LORD, Jesus, remind me all day today to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. Give me a pause button to take time—not only to think through what I want to say but to listen to the other person. I so want to listen carefully and pause before responding, please guard me from

O, God, You’ve been teaching me to thank You for hard times and difficult journeys—trusting that, through them, You accomplish Your best work. And I’m learning that needing You is the key to knowing You intimately, which is the gift above all gifts! When the hurts seem overwhelming, please increase my trust in Your grace

LORD, Jesus we have dear friends who carry a burden of grief on their backs. Please give them extra grace today so they do not stumble and fall. My plea to you today is to remove the heavy load from them and bury it at the foot of the cross. Please help them shorten the

Father, God, as one of Your followers, I often fail to see the many blessings You shower on me. I get so busy looking for other things that I’m afraid I miss what is right before me—or what s on the way. Forgive me when I forget You are sovereign God and the timing of events

LORD Jesus, today I will trust my Hope in You to always hold me up—and to give me Joy now and evermore. Amen and Amen. Verse for Today: “If I [respect the LORD], I will have hope for the future. My wishes will come true.” (Proverbs 23:18) FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Among all Your creatures, I am the only one You put Your hands on to create, and am the only one like me who can think about the future. This is a special blessing, but it can also be a curse—so, whenever I start to worry about future things, cause my wonderful mind to think

O God, I am still a work in progress, I long for You to sanctify me—to make me holy. . . . But, as long as I live in this world, I live in the not yet of brokenness—in me and all around me. There is an emptiness in me I often feel as I long for both

LORD Jesus, I know James tells me to be joyful in trials, but it is not an easy task. Please, help me be steadfast and patient in suffering. . . When painful circumstances weigh me down, help me to rejoice and exult in hope: to leap joyously upward. I want to do this better, in Jesus’