Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 17:38-40, 45Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them."I cannot go in these," he said to Saul, "because I am not used to them." So he took them off. Then he took hi...  Read More

Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)Scripture Reading: Luke 9:49-55"Master," said John, "we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we tried to stop him, because he is not one of us.""Do not stop him," Jesus said, "for whoever is not against you is for you."As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahe...  Read More

Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)Scripture Reading: Isaiah 40:28-31Do you not know? Have you not heard?The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;but those w...  Read More

Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)Scripture Reading: Romans 8:35-39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:"For your sake we face death all day long;we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am ...  Read More

Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 19:1-5Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them."Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When h...  Read More

Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)Scripture Reading: Matthew 4:1-3, 8-11Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of t...  Read More