MORNING/MIDDAY OFFICE

• Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)

• Scripture Reading: Genesis 32:22 – 26, 30 (NIV)

That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

MIDDAY/EVENING OFFICE

• Silence, Stillness, and Centering before God (2 minutes)

• Scripture Reading: Matthew 16:21 – 23 (NIV)

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

From June 7th to August 1st our Daily Devotional is adapted from the book Emotionally Healthily Spirituality – Day by Day. We encourage getting a copy of the book for additional devotional readings and questions.

MORNING/MIDDAY OFFICE

• Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)

• Scripture Reading: Jonah 1:1 – 4 (NIV)

The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD. Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.

MIDDAY/EVENING OFFICE

• Silence, Stillness, and Centering before God (2 minutes)

• Scripture Reading: 1 John 2:15 – 17 (NIV)

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

From June 7th to August 1st our Daily Devotional is adapted from the book Emotionally Healthily Spirituality – Day by Day. We encourage getting a copy of the book for additional devotional readings and questions.

MORNING/MIDDAY OFFICE

• Silence and Stillness before God (2 minutes)

• Scripture Reading: Mark 11:15 – 17 (NIV)

On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

MIDDAY/EVENING OFFICE

• Silence, Stillness, and Centering before God (2 minutes)

• Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 15:22 – 23 (NIV)

But Samuel replied: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”

From June 7th to August 1st our Daily Devotional is adapted from the book Emotionally Healthily Spirituality – Day by Day. We encourage getting a copy of the book for additional devotional readings and questions.

Today as a church family, we are going to be starting a new series based on the book
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. Take some time to pray for folks in our church that come to
mind throughout your day today.

• Read Galatians 6

Consider the following questions:

• What stands out to you as interesting in today’s chapter?
• How is God speaking to you through this passage today?

• Read Galatians 5

There is a lot packed in this chapter today. Like yesterday, let’s do the Know-Be-Do questions again:

• KNOW – What does the text say about God?
• BE – What does the text say about us?
• DO – What is the text calling you to do?

Galatians 5:22-23 outlines the fruit of the spirit.

• In what ways do you see the spirit working in your life?
• Is their fruit missing in your life right now?

• Read Galatians 4

Let’s do the Know-Be-Do questions though this chapter today:

• KNOW – What does the text say about God?
• BE – What does the text say about us?
• DO – What is the text calling you to do?

Take time to think through these questions as you reflect on the passage today.