Daylight Meditations

Being honest with ourselves is the first step to being vulnerable with God. It is knowing we need Him that frees us to begin to trust Him with examining our souls. We are fragile, made of earth, easily broken, and not easily fixed. We ask Him to take a look, wondering if this particular break is beyond His care, His abilities. He knows we are small and unsure. Yet our trust opens our hearts to the true nature of God - revealed in every word He speaks. When He breathes on us, the fog of doubt is lifted, and we see ourselves as He sees 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, Adam Maddock, and Phil Reaser

We're invited to join God in His work. Each of us has a role, we've been given many gifts and we're called to use what we have and who we're made to be. Yet, even in this, it is the Lord who completes the work in us and through us. We need only to be open and available.

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 Christine Mauriello

The truth about our Father God is that He has freed us from the lies that say we are not worthy of love, that we are not good enough, that we are failures, so don’t try anymore. Regardless of your physical condition, your emotional state of mind, or what you have been told -  the absolute truth is - in Jesus, you are free. Choose to believe the truth. God so loved you that He gave His only Son for your freedom. No longer are you a slave to this world. You are free indeed.

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

As you listen to this meditation, let God take your burdens for a while. It's easy for us to feel our concerns, our schedules, our problems are for us to solve, to fix, to make right. We look at the scriptures that tell us we are conquerors and mighty and wonder why we're tired and feeling weak. We miss the single truth that it is in Christ, through Christ and with Christ that we are strong. It is not our strength. Never are we to believe we are alone or doing it alone. It is when we rest in Him that we can do all God has given us to do.

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 Christine Mauriello

Every child learns what is right, how to live well through the careful and kind guidance from a parent or parent model in their life. The truth about our Father God is that He has the same purpose, models the perfect role as parent with us as well. As His children we are subject to His guidance, His leading, His discipline - "for God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him." God guides us, directing our steps so we will pattern our decisions by what He knows is best for our development and maturity.

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

Take a moment to consider what it means to have the Spirit of God dwell with us, in us! It is an immense concept and truth. Our belief in Jesus as God's Son, God's deposit of His Spirit in us to protect and seal us as His own, creates a bond, a preservation of holiness within us and with Him. May we honor our relationship with God's grace and love toward 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, Adam Maddock and Christine Mauriello

It is God who gives us strength to face each day, who lifts our head and who personally goes before us. Consider all He is doing even now as you listen to this episode. As the Psalmist wrote, Why am I discouraged? I will put my hope in God.

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

We are accepted as we are. We are not ignored or cast aside as 'not good enough'. We only need to believe it. We belong and our Father is delighted to see us - all of the time. Run to Him and see for yourself!

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: Elizabeth Ames, Michelle DeChant, and Adam Maddock

Our God is a personal God. He wants us to understand that as our Father, He is near, and is personally interested in our concerns and well-being. The scriptures tell us to pour out our hearts to Him, to share with Him the details of our lives, because in doing so, we will sense His nearness and realize He hears us -  and He cares.

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

Consider these words describing the love our Heavenly Father has for us in this Scriptural meditation. We are deeply loved and cherished, children of the Most High God. What an honor it is to be thought of this way. Rest in these truths.

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Contributors: Elizabeth Ames, Michelle DeChant, and Adam Maddock