Daylight Meditations

For many of us, we know 'home' is a place of safety and shelter. God wants us to remember we have a 'home' in Him, where we are hidden from the chaos and trouble, where there is ease and comfort and we can be ourselves. Our Father's place is our place, even now.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our...

It is 'in' Jesus that we are empowered by His Spirit, and find out who we are and why we are here. To remain in Him, to be known by Him, to find purpose, and life - that is our destiny. Consider what being 'in Jesus' really means as you listen today.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats. Co...

It's pretty simple, really. God says, your work is to do good. God has asked us to join Him in loving others, being gentle and kind, forgiving as we have been forgiven, sharing what we have and blessing with the gentle rains of peace. For this, we will be called His people. What an honor. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to...

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you. Listen intently. Seek and find the wisdom that comes from the Father of Lights, who casts no shadow but is the source of our resurrection life. Let's run to Him. His arms are open. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthameric...

In Part 2, of this meditation on God's kingdom, we are reminded that His kingdom is not visible or subject to this world's dynamics of power. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  So, where are we experiencing and living in God’s kingdom? How can we experience and live in God’s Kingdom more? Perhaps, our percept...

As we consider the familiar phrases of prayer for God's kingdom to come, let's consider as well, what it means to serve a King. What should our posture toward Him be, and are we truly aligned with His purposes for His kingdom?  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats. Contributors: Michelle DeC...

Today is the second part of Living in God's Plans for Us. Each sentence of this meditation is advice for staying the course, for realizing we can trust Him to lead us, to reveal His plans for us, and to live in what He has purposed - proving His will is indeed good, acceptable and perfect for each of us.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.c...

This meditation has two parts. The first one, today, postions us. We are to listen as sheep listen and obey their shepherd. We are to trust, that we will be fed, and protected. We are to believe that goodness and mercy are with us every day of our lives. This establishes our thoughts and keeps us from wandering away from God's best for us.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO Nor...

In Deuteronomy 6:4, 5 we read: Hear, O Israel: The LORD your God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. The Oneness found here is more that just one being; it has to do with a unity of thought, of purpose, of desire, an agreement, if you will, a total agreement of thought and action. The Lord invites us to come into agreement...

When we love, we act and react differently than when we do not love. Just look at the love of God. Love prompted Jesus to go all the way to the cross. Living in God and living in His love is always taking the high road. Loving takes work. There is a labor of love. But when we do, LOVE NEVER FAILS. That doesn't mean that things always turn out the way we would like for them to, but if we stay in lo...

What would you have others to do to you? Treat you with respect and honor and love and kindness. Be honest always. Be faithful and true. And, pray. Jesus calls on us to be the first to offer these to others. He talks about it all the time. Overcome evil with good. Sometimes it's hard to do. So what's the key? Maybe just remembering our God and how He treats us. We have already been given every ble...

Father, give us the courage we need to speak, to articulate hope and a future to those who doubt, who despair of help. Would you  let us see what You see - those hearts that cry for hope, who wonder if there's any chance for change in their lives? Would you soften our hearts toward others and accept Your love that even we spurn when we're rebellious of Your direction and guidance? Grant us th...

This meditation gathers together several statements that confirm and remind us of the truths of being 'in Christ'. If we are made by God for doing good, given everything we need to accomplish what God has prepared already for us to do, might we then conclude that there is nothing that can keep us from doing it - except our own choices? It is our choice to trust and live in the belief that what God...

This meditation once again focuses our attention on God, His mercy, and kindness. He doesn't miss a thing. All of creation is in His care. Might we look for it? Do we recognize His care for the wild animals for the forests and fields? Have we seen Him lift the head of the one who felt hopeless? Have we entered into this daily love by praying for those who cross our paths, who struggle silently to...

Once in a while we need reminding that there's more! More life. More that exists beyond our ability to see it. There's more to us than our bodies. There's more for us to experience after time ends. Father, open our eyes to this More, that we will know more about who we are and why You desire we see how life today is only the beginning of our experience with You. Open our hearts to see we are alrea...

This meditation is simple and short, yet packed with the eternal Truth about God's character - He is Good. Love does what is right and good for those it loves. We are the object of His affections, people for whom He wants to be with and to whom He desires to give gifts. Rich in mercy, He see us worth dying for, worth caring for, worth loving deeply.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast fr...

Father, You are the source of knowledge and understanding and wisdom. You have demonstrated how to be gentle and merciful. You love to help. You want us to live wisely. Would You give us courage to trust You, to come to You for advice? Remind us that Your ways are better, Your thoughts are higher, Your love is so much deeper than we realize.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO N...

In thanking God for life, we acknowledge Him as One who is greater than us, whose compassion and forgiveness produces a song that we can't help but sing. We are pulled from the brink of death into a field of light, walking with God.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats. Contributors: Carol...

Perhaps peace is one of the greatest desires of our hearts. What we see and hear everyday often threatens our stability and trust which is in the system that suppose to protect us. Jesus knew only His Father had the power to protect him, and he trusting that even though His physical body might not survive, He would. Where is our trust? Who will keep us? In whom can we rest and be at peace? Dayligh...

It is for freedom we have been freed! No longer bound to slavery, God has fought for us. May we walk through the doors now open into freedom, and proclaim the good news, to those who are poor in spirit. May the Spirit of God give us the words they need to hear to believe they too can walk out of their prisons and live in God's healing light.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO N...

We may not always understand the totality of Jesus power, a divine and perfect source for all that produces effective living: faith, goodness, self-control and love. To forget these qualities are ours is to forget we are now clean from our past sins and made fit for kingdom living now.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org...

Our challenge in this life is to let our spirit in Jesus, be the lens through which we view life and other people. Life and light extend way beyond the physical realm of our senses. Paul wisely advises,  to fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Enter this time of quiet with confidence there's more than we see a...

God finds us beautiful, becuase He sees all there that makes us who we are. Our inward person, aligned with Him becomes more like Him. May we remember there's more to each of us than what we physically see. So much more... Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats. Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nanc...

Are we not His disciples? So Christ, by His Spirit, is continually teaching us and bringing revelation to us concerning that for which we seek. Let us continue on our journey for truth. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. May these words renew our understanding of who we are in Jesus.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.o...

God’s anger is always directed toward that which robs us of living in the life and blessing of God. Jesus’ anger when driving out the money-changers from the Temple was directed at those who were desecrating the Temple. What makes us angry is very telling. Anger can come from a frustration in our lives when we are not dealing with something that needs to be taken care of. What makes you angry? Why...