Father,Remind us that in the huge displays of victory (Jericho, Joshua 6) and in the humbling defeats of careless self-confidence (Ai, Joshua 7) that You are God alone and that obedience to Your voice is our hope, our deliverance, our strength. Help us march through this day with the confident assurance that You go before us and behind us, all around us and within us. May we trumpet Your praises a...  Read More

Father God,Who can know what a day will hold but You alone? There are moments we get ambushed by what we see, where we have been, what we have done, or what has been done to us. Even when we have done all in surrendered service to You, our enemy wants to draw our focus away from You...to our past, our failures, or to the seeming ease and careless excess of a world that lives in antagonism to You a...  Read More

Today, the word repeated, reinforced, is 'be strong and courageous' (11 times in Scripture...more with variation)! So, today LORD, we embrace the call and the challenge with the reminder that You Yourself go with us having prepared the way, You Who are mightier than any warrior, any general, any foe...You Who fight our battles. Yes, we can also have such confidence when we are 'walking in Your Way...  Read More

See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me.I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand. (Deuteronomy 32:39, NIV)Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, you who have done great things.    Who is like you, God?Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again;from the depths of the...  Read More

Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life... (Deuteronomy 30:19b-20a, NIV)Father,Today I choose Life! Yes, by Your grace and in Your Living Word, I choose life. Because You loved me first, I can also love. I love You! May my deepening love for You be reflected in my growing l...  Read More

In this midday meeting, My Father, I am grateful to You for the sense of Your presence through the day. There is something in me that wants to think that Jesus may have confronted the 'money changers' in the temple at the time of midday prayer (John 2:13-21). I thought of that in our daily Scripture reading as I read in Psalm 69:9 that 'zeal for Your house consumed him' (John 2:17). In the other G...  Read More