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If God were speaking enlivening words today and you were listening, would there be any dull minutes?
Father, please give me ears to hear, so that today will be a listening, water-into-wine sort of day. From Luke 8:8
“Pay careful attention to the way you listen. . . .” Luke 8:18
Chances are you’ll travel through this day speaking many words. What kind will they be?
“[Paul] traveled through . . . speaking many words of encouragement and comfort. . . .” Acts 20:2
Father, most of the people I meet today will be a little weary. Please give me refreshing words to give to them. From Isaiah 50:4
When someone you love is in the dark, you’ll feel scared and muddled and pressured, too, until you remember God’s healing hands.
“They brought a blind man to Him and begged Him to touch him. . . . He put His hands on the man’s eyes, and his eyes were opened . . . and he saw everything clearly.” Mark 8:22, 25
Lord, please touch _____’s eyes. Then he will see everything clearly.
If autonomy and self-reliance were good for us, God probably would’ve told us to ask for monthly (or yearly) bread instead.
“When you pray, say, 'Father, . . . [g]ive us each day our daily bread . . . and lead us. . . .’” Luke 11:2-4
“Dear Father, take this day’s life into Thine own keeping. . . . Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my will.” John Baillie
We usually see tough circumstances and joy as either-or. God says they’re both-and. It’s one of His best surprises.
“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice and be glad in the LORD. . . .” Habakkuk 3:17-18
Father, in all the ups and downs of this day, be my constant joy.
If you see people as interruptions, it’s impossible to really love them. If you see them as incarnations, it’s impossible not to.
“[W]hatever you d[o] for my brothers and sisters, even the least of them, you d[o] for Me.” Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 25:40
Lord, give me Your eyes today, that I might see the mystery of You in others.
