DayLight Scripture –

The Lord your God is among you, a warrior who saves. God will rejoice over you  with gladness and bring you quietness in love. God will delight in you with shouts of joy.

Zephaniah 3:17

DayLight Prayer –

Lord, If the troublers come, I am certain your presence with me will turn them back. They will see how you quiet me in love and sing joyful songs over me. My God who saves, let me always be in your grace.    Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

We look for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:13

DayLight Prayer –

So may days I hope to see you Lord, and at days’ end I don’t think I have. Yet…I suspect you have shown yourself to me many times, but my feeble eyes have failed me. Today I hope for stronger eyes.   Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

Don’t lie to one another. You have let go of your old habits and you have taken up the new. These ways are daily renewed through the knowledge of the image of your creator.

Colossians 3: 9-10

DayLight Prayer –

Lord, I know honesty in all our relations carries us to the safe ground of your image. Help me this day to express loving candor in all my dealings, and don’t allow me any judgmental tendencies. May your righteousness be what I seek today and help me let go of all fear.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

If you lack wisdom, ask God for it. God gives to all who ask, a generous portion.

James 1:5

DayLight Prayer –

Lord, Wisdom is what I hope for today. In faith I ask you for it. I pray that your loving, generous Spirit will instruct and guide me to the thoughts, words, and deeds which will be both pleasing to you and fruitful to your kingdom.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

The goal of our words is love from a pure heart, a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1 Timothy 1:5

DayLight Prayer –

Lord, Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you. Let all that is in me hold countenance with your illuminating spirit, so that when I encounter others I think of them first and myself second.  Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

Love, by this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

John 13: 35

DayLight Prayer –

Jesus, The love you have shown me is overwhelming. It is hard to imagine that I could even grasp a drop of that kind of love for others. Only through your spirit and only if I am willing could I. Help me in my weakness to love others, even those who are mean, hateful, rash, stupid, bigoted and difficult to love…even just a little!  Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

You will indeed go out with joy, and be peacefully guided; the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you, and all the trees will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:12

DayLight Prayer –

Father, The peacefulness of the mountain morning is a reflection of Isaiah’s hymn of praise. The early mist blends the colors and shapes of the clapping trees. It becomes the prelude to the glory of the sunlit melody of joy that is found in your glorious creation. God, you are great. God, you are good. I praise you. I rejoice in you! Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

Take up my way, all of you, and learn from me. I am gentle and humble in heart and in me you will find rest.

Matthew 11:29

DayLight Prayer –

Lord, Many times I consider your way most difficult. The reason is simply that I try to take up your way in my own strength and through my own will, rather than yours. I know that your gentle and humble heart is where I find rest and peace, but it is also there that I find the strength I need to take up your way. Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

You are the light of the world like a city on a hill that isn’t hidden.

Matthew 5:14a

DayLight Prayer –

Gracious God, Help me this day to live into these words of Jesus. Help me to be a beacon of light and not a shadow-caster. Let me sit high upon a hill and let my life be one that reflects your likeness. This is my prayer for today. I want to be that city… Amen.

DayLight Scripture –

The One who perfects and those who are perfected all have the same Father. So he isn’t ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.

Hebrews 2:11

DayLight Prayer –

Lord, I know we have the same Father and you are my brother; we are family. I rejoice. Thank you for struggling daily in perfecting me to your likeness, for I know I’m a worse-case-scenario! That you love me and forgive me and walk with me each day are the greatest of blessings.  Amen.