Day 19: Tending to Burdens and Demands Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to …
Day 18: Tending to Others “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” …
Day 17: Tending to the Physical You realize, don’t you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16 (The Message) Gardening is a physical activity. Planting, pulling weeds, pruning, hoeing and mowing all call for physical effort on the part of the gardener, and the only …
Day 16: Tending Finances For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6.21 We have a powerful relationship with money, whether we realize it or not. We each have a “money story,” and our handling of finances is a wonderful mirror that reflects our core values and unspoken assumptions. What does …
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ. Philemon 1:6 (NIV) Wow, what a weekend. Had a great Friday night at Celebrate Recovery’s 8-year birthday bash at Crossroads—amazing worship, amazing stories, amazing people, amazing God. The …
Day 15: Tending Time There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build; a …
Day 14: Planting Seeds While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. Some fell on rock, …
Day 13: Seeds of Work and Service As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my …
Day 12: Seeds of the Unknown The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. Genesis 12:1 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. …
Day 11: Seeds of Prayer For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek …