Daylight Meditations

This Psalm speaks powerfully about the relationship between our trust in God and His response to our trust. When we look to Him for relief, for protection and safety, we exercise a hope and belief that He hears us and will respond and defend us. We wait in silence. Our heart is quiet because we know He is near and sees what we need. God is compassionate and kind. He desires to enter our lives – with us – to be a part of our every day, in every moment. Trust Him – He cares for you.

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

Today’s meditation is based on selected verses from Psalm 19. As you listen to today’s meditation let the words be written in dashes of light on your being. Creation says not a word, yet we hear and see the craftmanship of God everywhere. From the sun, moon and stars, to the mountains and the oceans it all displays greatness beyond our abilities. We cannot make or recreate what God has done or is doing. We can only participate. Might we join Creation in praise today to the one true God of the Universe?

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

This prayer echoes our heart. Be there for me; direct me; reveal the way… it’s a common cry from human beings to God. We are wise when we call to God before we face our crossroads – should we take the path to the left or to the right? What does God know that we don’t? Everything! Real wisdom is acknowledging our inability to see the future and choosing to ask the One who does. His love for us is deep and unfailing. He won’t send us where He won’t go with 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

Today’s meditation is Psalm 20. This Psalm is a blessing for you. May our great God hear and answer you, keeping you safe and strengthening you in times of trouble. May He grant your heart’s desires and answer all your prayers. With these blessings, may all of us cheer when we hear of it all. Ours are stories of rescue, of redemption and of great victory. May we always boast in the name of our God who always hears and always answers.

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 theme for today’s meditation is Always Safe, based on selections from Psalm chapter 91 and John chapter 14. We are God's children. As we finish our time considering our home with Him and what that looks like, He reminds us of the safety we have in His presence. We are not to fear the darkness, the beasts or disease. We are to cling to Him, to call to Him, to trust Him. He is our protector, our father, our keeper. In Him our identity is confirmed.

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, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser

Today’s meditation is Psalm 16. Listen closely to the ways the writer of this Psalm identifies God’s involvement in their life. From our inheritance to our destiny, from the privileges to the wisdom given from following God’s way we are not alone, always guided on life’s path and can live in peace and joy no matter the circumstances. God is with us, always close and always talking.

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 theme for Today’s meditation is Confession based selections from Jeremiah chapter 14; Psalms chapters 32 and 66; 1 John chapter 1; Proverbs chapter 28; Matthew chapter 12; Hosea chapter 14; and Romans chapter 6. Guilt and confession. There’s a line between them. Pull on one, and you affect the other. In God’s economy of the heart, this is the key: admit the wrong and receive forgiveness. It is a healing of the soul. Burdens are lifted and hope is renewed. Trust God with your heart and your health. Freedom reigns in the lives of those who live honestly with 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

Today’s meditation is Psalm 25:12-22. Over and over we read – you are my shelter, you are my only hope, you only can save me. Our lives are full of these stories – where our feet were freed from traps and the sorrows of our hearts overwhelmed us. Yet, God… yet, God… was there in it all, with us. Our circumstances don’t always change – but our hearts do. Come closer to us now, Lord. We need your mercy and we need these burdens lifted. We trust You, 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, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

The theme for Today’s meditation is Running the Race based selections from Galatians chapter 5; Amos chapter 5; 2 Timothy chapters 2 and 4; Hebrews chapter 12; Romans chapter 5; Proverbs chapter 18; 1 Corinthians chapter 9; Philippians chapters 2 and 3; and Isaiah chapter 40. Throughout Scriptures we are encouraged to run with endurance. Endurance comes from practice, from training and from a commitment to finish what we’ve started. In this case, it is to see our faith to its end. To finish our life here having done all we could do to be faithful to the one who loves us most. We are cheered by those whom God has chosen to walk with us - no, to run with us – along side as we depend on each other for encouragement and support.

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

Today’s meditation is based on selected verses from Proverbs 8. Much of the book of Proverbs is focused on the purpose of wisdom, and is told to us as if Wisdom could talk. Perhaps we discredit Wisdom in thinking otherwise? If the power of life and death is in the tongue, in the words spoken, might Wisdom’s words be speaking into life into us, if we are willing to listen, to accept and to apply what we hear?

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