What nagging and persistent habits or patterns do you need to confess?

Morning and afternoon
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. [Hebrews 4:12-13]

7 p.m.
If I am walking along the street with a very disfiguring hole in the back of my dress, of which I am in ignorance, it is certainly a very great comfort to me to have a kind friend who will tell me of it. And similarly it is indeed a comfort to know that there is always abiding with me a divine, all-seeing Comforter, who will reprove me for all my faults, and will not let me go on in a fatal unconsciousness of them. [Hannah Whitall Smith]

[By Sarah Godby}

What is the next step of commitment and action for you to join what God is doing in the world?

Morning and afternoon
God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. [Hebrews 6:10-12]

7 p.m.
Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now. [A.B. Simpson]

{by Sarah Godby}

What reminds you of all the reasons you have to be grateful?

Morning and afternoon
Your promises are sweet to me, sweeter than honey in my mouth! [Psalm 119:103, New Century Version]

7 p.m.
When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace. [Charles Spurgeon]

What would help you today be more aware of God’s presence?

Morning and afternoon
Now this I know: The LORD gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand. [Psalm 20:6, Today's New International Version]

7 p.m.
In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that “underneath are the everlasting arms,” (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength. [Oswald Chambers]

{by Sarah Godby}

Morning and afternoon
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked are silenced in darkness, for a man does not prevail by [his own] strength.  [1 Samuel 2:9, Holman Christian Standard]

7 p.m.
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you! [Amy Carmichael]

{by Sarah Godby}

What would help you to find rest and value in the LORD?
Morning and afternoon

Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you. [1 Peter 5:7, The Message]

7 p.m.
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety. [A.W. Tozer]

{by Sarah Godby}

What areas of need are difficult for you to admit?

Morning and afternoon
Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. [Hebrews 12:1]

7 p.m.
Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with music in them, if we only knew how. Those men that ponder, and meditate, and weight the affairs of life, and study the mysterious developments of God’s providence, and wonder why they should be burdened and thwarted and hampered — how different and how much more joyful would be their lives, if, instead of forever indulging the self-revolving and inward thinking, they would take their experiences, day by day, and lift them up, and praise God for them. [Streams in the Desert]

{by Sarah Godby}

What nagging and persistent habits or patterns do you need to confess?

Morning and afternoon
As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut! Don’t be a fool who doesn’t realize that mindless offerings to God are evil. And don’t make rash promises to God, for he is in heaven, and you are only here on earth. So let your words be few. Just as being too busy gives you nightmares, being a fool makes you a blabbermouth. So when you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him. It is better to say nothing than to promise something that you don’t follow through on. [Ecclesiastes 5: 1-5, New Living Translation]

7 p.m.
Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn’t it? We can’t be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion. [Elisabeth Elliot]

What is the next step of commitment and action for you to join what God is doing in the world?

Morning and afternoon
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. [1 Corinthians 9:24-25]

7 p.m.
The race is not always to the swift but to him who keeps on running. [Author unknown]

{by Sarah Godby}

What reminds you of all the reasons you have to be grateful?

Morning and afternoon
A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. [Proverbs 17:17, New Living Translation]

7 p.m.
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other. [John Bunyan]

{by Sarah Godby}