Cultivate Connection Meditation

What is Your Word? Recover All Welcome to week nine of our What is Your Word? series. We have this week and next, then we wrap things up, introducing our next series; we think you’ll like it! This week’s word is more of a phrase than a word. Recover All was sent in by Susi. Thanks for sharing Susi! For this one, we’ll be reading of King David’s Conflict with the Amalekites, as recorded in 1 Samuel...

What is Your Word? Enough Welcome to week eight into our series called What is Your Word? This week's word was sent in by Julie. Thanks so much Julie for blessing all of us with your word! What comes to mind when you hear the word Enough? Do you believe that God is more than enough for you? When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; Walk [habituall...

What is Your Word? Truth Welcome to week seven of our series called What is Your Word? This week’s word, Truth, was sent in by Nikko. Thanks so much for sharing Nikko! There is truth, and there is the Truth. As you gaze upon the one who calls himself the way, the truth, and the life, what do you see? So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are...

What is Your Word? Father Welcome to week six into our series called What is Your Word? Of all the words sent in so far, there has only been one duplicate, Father. It was first sent in by Amy (not me) and then by Anna. Thanks ladies for sharing your word with us! What does the idea of God the father mean to you? What kind of father do you see Him as? No one has seen God at any time; God the only S...

What is Your Word? Persevere Welcome to week five of What is Your Word? Such a great series where listeners like you send in your words for the year. This week’s word has been sent in by Travis. Thanks so much for sharing with us Travis! And not only this, but we also celebrate in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and pro...

What is Your Word? Promise Welcome to week four of What is Your Word? This week’s word was sent in by Jennifer. Thanks Jennifer! The word Promise, as a verb, means to assure someone that one will definitely do, give, or arrange something. How many times has the bible recorded the promises of God coming to pass? Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His coven...

What is Your Word? Expectant This week’s word is Expectant; submitted by Amy. Thanks Amy for sending in your word for 2023! What are you expectant for this year? What tugs at your heart, stirring hope? My soul, wait in silence for God alone, For my hope is from Him. - Psalm 62:5 NASB Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. - Psalm 62:5 NLT For God alone my soul waits in s...

What is Your Word? Celebrate Happy New Year! This week’s word is Celebrate; submitted by DJ. Thanks DJ for sending in your word for 2023! Be cheerful with joyous celebration in every season of life. Let your joy overflow! And let gentleness be seen in every relationship, for our Lord is ever near. Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout e...

What is Your Word? 2023 Series Welcome to our newest series, What is Your Word? 2023 Over the next several weeks we will be focusing on words sent in by you. This is one of our favourite series throughout the year and we hope it blesses you as much as it does us. There is something very powerful about words, especially when meditated on with the Lord. What is He saying to you in this new season? T...

Love Advent 2022 God remains loyal to you because He loves you. Just as he promised long ago by the words of his holy prophets. They prophesied he would come one day and save us from every one of our enemies and from the power of those who hate us. Now he has shown us the mercy promised to our ancestors, for he has remembered his holy covenant. He has rescued us from the power of our enemies, fulf...

Joy Advent 2022 And Mary sang this song: “My soul is ecstatic, overflowing with praises to God! My spirit bursts with joy over my life-giving God! For he set his tender gaze upon me, his lowly servant girl. And from here on, everyone will know that I have been favored and blessed. The Mighty One has worked a mighty miracle for me; holy is his name! Mercy kisses all who fear him, from one generatio...

Peace Advent 2022 His birth will bring you much joy and gladness. Many will rejoice because of him, and he will be one of the great ones in the sight of God. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even while still in his mother’s womb. And he will persuade many in Israel to convert and turn back to the Lord their God. He will go before the Lord as a forer...

Hope Advent 2022 God-Enthroned, be revealed in splendor as you ride upon the cherubim! How perfectly you lead us, a people set free. Loving shepherd of Israel—listen to our hearts’ cry! Shine forth from your throne of dazzling light. In the sight of Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, stir up your mighty power in full display before our eyes. Break through and reveal yourself by coming to our rescue....

Fall at the Feet of Jesus The Miracles of Jesus Is there an area in your life where Jesus is saying “arise!” Have you ever had a need so great, that you can’t help but throw yourself at Jesus’ feet? To realize you cannot do this on your own. While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she wil...

It is the Lord The Miracles of Jesus The following account would not be in the Bible if Simon [Peter] had not trusted in the Lord, following His command to lower his net one more time. Is there somewhere God is asking you to "lower your net" just one more time this season? When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon [Peter], “Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch [of fish...

They Served the People The Miracles of Jesus Where will anyone be able to find enough to satisfy? Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the crowd, because they have been with Me now three days and have nothing [left] to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, because they might faint [from exhaustion] on the way [home].” The disciples said to Him, “Where...

What is in this Man's Words? The Miracles of Jesus Jesus’ words ushered in something new, something the people weren’t used to. What made Jesus different from all the other scribes and teachers? They went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and began to teach. They were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scri...

Who is this Man? The Miracles of Jesus And then Jesus got into a boat, and His disciples followed Him. Out of nowhere, a vicious storm blew over the sea. Waves were lapping up over the boat, threatening to overtake it! Yet Jesus was asleep. Frightened (not to mention confused—how could anyone sleep through this?), the disciples woke Him up. Disciples : Lord, save us! We’re going to drown! Jesus :...

Take Courage I am Here The Miracles of Jesus You have nothing to fear when you are with the King of Glory. Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, and after getting into a boat, they started to cross the sea to Capernaum. It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. Then, when they had rowed abo...

You Feed Them The Miracles of Jesus What is currently in your hands? When it seems like there is not enough, ask God how He would like to multiply it? Though Jesus wanted solitude, when He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them, and He healed the sick and the lame. At evening-time, Jesus’ disciples came to Him. Disciples: We’re in a fairly remote place, and it is getting late; the crowds will g...

What Do You Want? The Miracles of Jesus When Jesus touched Bartimaeus, his response was to follow Him. Are there areas in your life where you are blind, and cannot see? How has God touched your life, and how has it caused you to follow Him? So finally Jesus and His disciples left Jericho and headed for Jerusalem; and, of course, a large crowd followed them. Two blind men, sitting on the roadside,...

Believe The Miracles of Jesus At the bottom of the mountain, they were met by a crowd of waiting people. As they approached, a man came out of the crowd and fell to his knees begging, “Master, have mercy on my son. He goes out of his mind and suffers terribly, falling into seizures. Frequently he is pitched into the fire, other times into the river. I brought him to your disciples, but they could...

Jesus Was Impressed The Miracles of Jesus Even in the face of comments such as “get out of here,” “you don’t belong here,” “this isn’t for you,” the gentile woman’s faith was strong enough to keep her focused on Jesus. From there Jesus set out for the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house there where he didn’t think he would be found, but he couldn’t escape notice. He was barely inside when a woman...

As Good As New The Miracles of Jesus As Lord of the sabbath, Jesus demonstrates His restorative power to make broken things good as new. A man was there whose hand was withered. And they asked Jesus, “Is it lawful and permissible to heal on the Sabbath?”—they asked this so that they might accuse Him and bring charges into court. But He said to them, “What man is there among you who, if he has only...

Your Faith Has Made You Well The Miracles of Jesus As we read this week’s scripture, meditate on how Jesus is showing you the character of who He is through this story. And Jesus went with him; and a large crowd followed Him and pressed in around Him [from all sides]. A woman [in the crowd] had [suffered from] a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much [suffering] at the hands of many phy...