Tag: Guidance

  • Lent: A time for Returning

    Lent: A time for Returning

    That is why the Lord says,    “Turn to me now, while there is time.Give me your hearts.    Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.13 Don’t tear your clothing in your grief,    but tear your hearts instead.”Return to the Lord your God,    for he is merciful and compassionate,slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.    He is eager to relent and not punish. Joel 2:12-13 NLT Read more

  • Day 45: Prayer Prompts on Wisdom

    Day 45: Prayer Prompts on Wisdom

    Exodus 37-38; Matthew 28; Psalms 34:11-22; Proverbs 9:9-10 “Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”(Proverbs 9:9-10 NIV) Father God, what does wisdom look like to you? Father Read more

  • Day 33: The Israelites Forgetfulness

    Day 33: The Israelites Forgetfulness

    Exodus 15:19-27, 16, 17:1-7; Matthew 22:1-33; Psalms 27:1-6; Proverbs 6:20-26 Reading through Exodus, these are the chapters where I start to get a little flabbergasted with the Israelities. Imagine watching the plagues afflict the Egyptians, being release from servitude, fleeing to the dessert, being followed by Pharoah’s army, crossing the red sea down the middle Read more

  • Day 30: Angst in the Psalms

    Day 30: Angst in the Psalms

    Exodus 12:14-51, 13:1-16; Matthew 20:29-34, 21:1-22; Psalms 25:16-22; Proverbs 6:12-15 “Turn to me and be gracious to me,for I am lonely and afflicted.Relieve the troubles of my heartand free me from my anguish.Look on my affliction and my distressand take away all my sins.”Psalms 25:16-18 I absolutely love the Psalms because they are so angsty! Read more

  • Day 29: The Lord’s Promise

    Day 29: The Lord’s Promise

    Exodus 8-9; Matthew 19:13-30; Psalms 24:1-10; Proverbs 6:1-5 “So Pharoah’s heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.” (Exodus 9:33 NIV) Exodus 8-9 focuses on the continued plagues brought on by God against the Egyptians as punishment for Pharoah not allowing the Israelities to Read more

  • Day 21: The Greatest Supporter

    Day 21: The Greatest Supporter

    Genesis 42:18-38, 43; Matthew 13:47-58, 14:1-12; Psalms 18:16-36; Proverbs 4:7-10 “Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. ‘Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?’ they asked. Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?…Where then did this man get all these things? And they took Read more

  • Day 20: Joseph the Faithful

    Day 20: Joseph the Faithful

    Genesis 41:17-57, 42:1-17; Matthew 13:24-46; Psalms 18:1-15; Proverbs 4:1-6 Today we pick back up with Joseph standing in front of Pharoah, about to interpret his two dreams. Joseph tells him that the dreams are one and the same from God, given twice because “the matter has been firmly decided by God” (41:32)–seven years of plenty, Read more

  • Day 17: Letting Go of Fear

    Day 17: Letting Go of Fear

    Genesis 35-36; Matthew 12:1-21; Psalms 15: 1-5; Proverbs 3:21-26 “Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,for the Lord will be at your side and will keep your foot from being snared.” (Proverbs 3:25-26 NIV) I’m going to be incredibly honest for a minute, this one felt like a Read more

  • Day 9: Good Fruit & Spiritual Health

    Day 9: Good Fruit & Spiritual Health

    Genesis 20-22; Matthew 7:15-29; Psalms 9:1-12; Proverbs 2:16-22 “Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by Read more