OPEN HEART Scripture: Micah 6:6-8 “With what gift shall I come into the Lord's presence and bow down before God on high? Shall I come with holocausts, with calves one year old? Will He be pleased with rams by the thousand, with libations of oil in torrents? This is what Yahweh asks of you: only…
TENDER HEART Scripture: Luke 7:11-14 "Now soon afterwards, He went to a town called Nain, accompanied by His disciples and a great number of people. When He was near the gate of the town, it happened that a dead man was being carried out for burial, the only son of his mother, and she was…
LISTENING HEART Scripture: 1 Kings 19:11-13 Then Elijah was told, 'Go out and stand on the mountain before The Lord'. Then the Lord Himself went by. There came a mighty wind, so strong it tore the mountains and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind…
GENEROUS HEART Scripture: John 6:5-9 Jesus saw the crowds approaching and asked Philip, 'Where can we buy some bread for these people to eat?' He only said this to test Philip; He Himself knew exactly what He was going to do. Philip answered, 'Two hundred denarii would only buy enough to give them a small…
SADDENED HEART Scripture: Matthew 9:35-37 Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness. And when He saw the crowds, He felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a…
ATTENTIVE HEART Scripture: Luke 1:59-63 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother spoke up. 'No,' she said, 'he is to be called John. 'They said to her, 'But no one in your family has that name', and made signs…
TRANSFORMED HEART Scripture: Ezekiel 36:26-27 "I shall give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of flesh instead. I shall put My Spirit in you". Meditation: The hardness of the heart is a real danger for…
OPEN HEART Scripture: Matthew 1:19-24 Her husband Joseph, being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, 'Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid…
UNITED HEART Scripture: Luke 24:31-32 And their eyes were opened, and they recognised Him, but He had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, 'Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?' Meditation: We recognise these lines from that…