DayLight Scripture – Either consider the tree good and its fruit good, or consider the tree rotten and its fruit rotten. A tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 12:33

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Today I pray for everyone who is trying to be the good fruit to which you intended. Those who struggle with addiction, anger, hatefulness and greed, help each one to live moment to moment if need be…each moment in the light of the good. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 7: 7

DayLight Prayer – Dear Lord, Many days I find myself contemplating the many tasks I have to do. At times it is overwhelming, and I forget that your strength is as near as my prayer. Help me to rely on you, to ask, search and knock on your door for help. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel will come out for the refiner.

Proverbs 25:4

DayLight Prayer – Lord, today I pray for all people who want to be a perfect vessel for you. Help us to seek you in the dim situations, the overwhelming delimmas, and the foreign actions that we come in contact with. Lord remove the dross of our hearts and fill us with your living Spirit. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – The potters take great pains to mold the clay. They make each piece for our use. They make some containers to be used for holy purposes. Others will be used for ordinary purposes. Both pieces are made from the same clay, and both are made in the same way. But the use to which each is put is left up to the judgment of the potter.

Wisdom 15:7

DayLight Prayer – Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Make me, mold me, use me, fill me. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Amen.

DayLight Scripture  -Some Pharisees asked Jesus, “Why are you breaking the Sabbath law?”

Luke 6:4

DayLight Prayer – Gracious God. Today I pray for those of us who are hungry, and who long to be fed by both food and by your spirit. Let the Lord of the Sabbath nourish us with his grace and his gentle sustenance. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Therefore, God named the tower Babel, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord dispersed the humans over all the earth.

Genesis 11:9

DayLight Prayer – Gracious Father, I praise you today for helping me understand more than I did yesterday. I know in many situations I have such a long way to go in deciphering what people mean. Help me I pray. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Pharisees asked Jesus when God’s kingdom was coming. He replied, “God’s kingdom isn’t coming with signs that are easily noticed.

Luke 17:20

DayLight Prayer – Lord, It is easy to be discouraged when I cannot clearly see the signs of your kingdom coming. Help me today to trust even when I cannot see, and by your grace strengthen my faith.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture – Truth springs up from the ground; righteousness gazes down from heaven.

Psalm 85: 11

DayLight Prayer – Lord, today it is easy to see your truth springing up from the ground, and the righteousness of your creation as it blows softly through my hair. Thank you Lord for these kinds of days, when it seems like you are as close as the warmth of spring. Amen.

DayLight Scripture – The Word became flesh and made his home among us. We have seen his glory, glory like that of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

John 1: 14

DayLight Prayer – Lord, Today my prayers are for all those who aren’t even sure that there is grace, much less that it is meant for them. For all those who are facing a dark day, a day of loss, a day of sadness, a day of grief, I pray that  you pour out the grace of our Lord upon them and give them peace. Amen.