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FUMCFW Prayer Ministries offers many ways to get connected with our praying community. Recognizing that every person has unique gifts and callings, many of which emerge out of times of struggle and pain, we are here to encourage individual spiritual formation and disciplines that can become powerful influences on all aspects of the life-long faith journey.
Looking to spend more time with God? Our Daily Bread Devotionals are written by people of faith and include messages of instruction and inspiration. We invite you to take a few moments to read and reflect upon today’s scripture selection and to carry these thoughts with you into your day. Join us on this daily journey of faith!
There are different kinds of tired, aren’t there? You’ve experienced being tired when you have finished a project that you feel good about. You’re tired — maybe even exhausted — but you can say, “I’m tired, but it’s a good tired.”
Our reading for today lays out very simply what is truly good and what God requires: to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. I invite you to think about those requirements for a few minutes:
Many of the Psalms are prayers. Our reading for today from Psalm 25 is a prayer appropriate in any season, but even more so this time of year, around the season of Lent.
These six verses from Proverbs are perhaps more relevant today than they were two and half millennia ago. Read them over carefully and think about the state of our society at present.
Revelation is and has been for centuries a troubling and difficult book for people to understand.
Jesus gave a number of imperatives or commands, but none more prominent that the command to love:
We live in a world in which changes occur so rapidly that we can’t begin to keep up with all of them.
The prophet Jeremiah’s words are for the people to give them hope in a dark time. He wants to assure the people that God will give them “a future with hope.”
It goes without saying that there are many reasons to feel anxious in our world today — for yourself, your loved ones, for our community, our nation, and our world. It’s easy to wonder in our times of anxiety how we are going to get through these times.
In Exodus 17, The Israelites have been in the wilderness for several weeks, and the people don’t have enough water. They begin to be afraid that they and their cattle will all die of thirst in the wilderness.
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Though I will watch many things dissolve in life, Jesus will be with me always.
When I feel a void in my life, I will seek God’s abundant love to fill it.
Because God loves me, I will never miss an opportunity to tell others I love them.
These six verses from Proverbs are perhaps more relevant today than they were two and half millennia ago. Read them over carefully and think about the state of our society at present.
Revelation is and has been for centuries a troubling and difficult book for people to understand.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)