Teach me your way, O Yahweh,    so that I may live in your truth.    Focus my heart on fearing you. [Give me an undivided heart - NIV]I will give thanks to you with all my heart, O Adonai my Elohim.    I will honor you foreverbecause your mercy toward me is great.    You have rescued me from the depths of hell. (Psalm 86:11-13, Names of God)Indeed, "But you, Lord [Adonai], are a compassionate and ...  Read More

Thank You, Father, that You do have a father's heart! There is something that brings great comfort from the testimony of Judges 10, where in confessing their sin and turning from their idols in repentance, we read, "And he [God] could bear Israel’s misery no longer" (v.16). Help us never to take that compassion for granted. To live by grace in faithfulness because of the joy of Your love and right...  Read More

O LORD my God,Thank You for making Your home in my heart, for daily being my source of life and my power to live in Your way. Thank You for the invitation to be a Jesus-follower and that I do not journey alone. I am blessed! May the overflow of that blessing be showered on those I encounter on my journey to Christlikeness. Where I go may life be the result because of Your presence in me and may ev...  Read More

LORD,Like Gideon, what You call us to may not always make sense to us. That he sent tens of thousands of warriors home and fought a battle with 300 (Judges 6-7) became an act of shear obedience and total surrender. You were true to Your promise. You always are! So, help us not to lean on our own understanding, to trust in our own resources, to depend on our own abilities. Help us to abandon oursel...  Read More

"...may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength." (Judges 5:31b, NIV)As the sun rises, I am reflecting on these words, and I am grateful that this is a reminder of Your faithfulness and steadfast love, of Your mercies that are new every morning. It is also a reminder that, as Your children, we are sunrise, Sonrise, people. With Easter fast approaching, I am grateful for this...  Read More

Father,Today help us not to forget the choice of yesterday (see Day 80) that we professed and confessed. For we know, that left to our own devices, we are as fickle as Israel. But, thanks be to God, You have given us the Holy Spirit, empowering us to keep living by the choice to love You and live for You. Thank You also, that You have given us sisters and brothers in the Faith, who in Christlike l...  Read More