As we know, to practice is to rehearse a behavior repeatedly, for the purpose of learning and eventually mastering a skill. Learning to praise God is no different. In the practice we often uncover things about ourselves that we didn’t know – perhaps its our distain for discipline or maybe we don’t like expressing ourselves in an outward manner. Praising God is a posture of the heart. If we practice praising Him, we will be surprised at the ease in which we turn to Him this way, when things are difficult, and praise seems an unlikely response. Listen and then, yes, practice it.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

Listen today for key words like: joy, confidence, blessing, and life. Peace is our desired state for our hearts and these other emotions and actions are the outcome of being at peace – with God and ourselves Let’s be lovers of peace – God’s peace which is more complete, more encompassing and more rewarding than the peace of human endeavors and heart. Let God’s words heal the wounds of your heart and fill your soul with His peace.

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Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser

Surrendering is a tough concept. Only with God is it a safe bet because He is good and His intentions toward are always for our best. The flip side of surrender is trust. Giving God what we treasure is trusting God with the vulnerability of our hearts. His best for us is often seen in the tears of letting go of those things and people who mean the most to us. He knows you. He will never give you less than His best.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

Pursuing God is the only way to live a transformed life in Jesus. And practicing that determination of being the best version of ourselves comes only from allowing God to change us, step by step. It is in the quest to find Him that we open ourselves to His transforming ways – changing our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh – the blood of Christ carrying the oxygen of life to our very souls. Run after Him. He is near.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, and Phil Reaser

To live a life of sacrificial love is to allow God’s love to be ours. God’s love sacrifices, forgives, endures, isn’t offended, and prefers others over its self. This is all desirable, and admirable but unattainable on our own. Only by sacrificing our love, our ways, and our best intentions will we be clothed in a love that is willing give its own coat away for the sake of keeping another soul warm.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

The scriptures say love is supreme. We love to love others and to be loved. God’s love empowers us to give out more than we might get back. It replenishes us and gives us the confidence to know even when life is tough, love softens and smooths over the rough spots that disrupt our hearts and interactions. Love deeply, friends. It is God’s way.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, and Phil Reaser

So much of our character is worked out in living with others. It is in community that we learn to love others more than ourselves. We are challenged to love when we don’t feel like it, to be real when we’d rather hide. Community is where we find ourselves leading others and following as well. It is where life becomes real and rewarding. Hard and endearing. It’s where we grow up – with family.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

Most of us are reluctant to be vulnerable with others. We view our flaws and mistakes as faults, and weaknesses. We don’t want to be ignored, or dismissed. We fear rejection. Yet, perfect love – God’s love for us, in us and through us – removes fear. We are freed to be real, authentic people who pursue God and others. People need to know that are loved – right where they are. Right now. Only by being honest and real, will others feel safe and be willing to risk being loved, trusting love, accepting love.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, and Phil Reaser

Mercy is Grace’s twin sister, the expression of compassion in response to our cry for help, for forgiveness, for a friendship. It is the kindness of strangers, the extravagance of love undeserved and the willingness to stay in it for the long haul. Mercy is a posture of loving well, as Jesus loved us.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

As you listen today, open your heart to the transformation God births in you every time to hear His words. These words change us, and in turn we make choices and decisions that are God-breathed, and life changing. Live in the hope and calling of His perfect plan for you- a transformed life in Jesus.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. If you are encouraged by this podcast, please consider supporting us.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, and Phil Reaser