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09/08/2026

Daily Devotionals
A Prayer to Recharge - Your Daily Prayer - September 8
Tammy Darling

A Prayer to Recharge
By Tammy Darling

Bible Reading
“Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.’” Mark 6:31, NIV

Because I use my camera so often, I have not one but three batteries for it; I am still continuously recharging them. As created beings, we don’t have three “batteries”—we have only one; therefore, it’s imperative that we recharge ourselves on a regular basis.

I’ve learned the hard way that if I let my camera battery run completely down, it takes a whole lot longer to recharge than if I just consistently recharge it after a couple of uses. I’m no different. But too often I’ve nearly drained myself physically, spiritually, and emotionally… and then had a much harder (and longer) time trying to refresh and recharge.

Even a battery left unused will lose its electrical current, and over time, its charge will drain. To avoid a “dead” battery when we need strength and energy most, we must keep it charged at a level higher than the battery's energy drain.

Experientially, I’ve learned the importance of recharging before I need the “power” to get through my day. Keeping batteries charged isn’t something you do once and then forget about. Our physical and spiritual lives are no different.

Most people would say they don’t have time to refresh and recharge—there’s just too much to do. I’ve said it myself at times. But working nonstop will only leave us drained and even less productive than if we had taken a bit of time to recharge.

If we plug a single light into a battery pack, it will last a decent amount of time. But if we plug in 100 lights, the battery will drain quickly. We tend to have so many lights plugged in that our battery is always on “low”, indicating that we don’t have much of ourselves left to give to others or to what we’re trying to do.

Recharging must be a priority in our lives; there will always be something else that takes its place. It wasn’t until I deliberately scheduled daily “recharge” time into my day that it happened consistently. My goal is to spend at least 30 minutes per day.

Here are four ways we can recharge:

Solitude
It’s not just the busyness of our current society that creates a need to recharge—even Jesus and His disciples needed time to refresh themselves, as we can see in today’s Bible reading.

Find a secluded place where you can pull away from others and spend quiet time alone with the Father. If I am unable to do anything else, I will go outside and take a walk, even if it’s only around our 1.5-acre property.

Have fun
Jesus came to give life abundantly (see John 10:10), so it stands to reason that He also lived life abundantly. In John 2:1-2, Jesus is at a wedding party celebrating a marriage.

Many activities recharge us and foster enthusiasm for life, but we engage in them so little. Give yourself permission to have fun.

Laugh
Countless studies have proven the many benefits of laughter, but thousands of years ago, the Bible already had it figured out. “A cheerful heart is good medicine” (Proverbs 17:22, NIV).

Our family regularly watches Christian comedians and light-hearted Christian movies. We love to laugh and always feel great afterwards. But we don’t stop there—we choose to laugh at our limitations, quirks, and uniqueness too! Laughter is a great way to recharge.

Nap
Jesus didn’t just sleep, He napped. “And Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion” (Mark 4:38a, NIV). This was no nighttime slumber; Jesus was taking an evening nap.

In a society that views napping as laziness or, at the very least, a luxury they can’t afford, it may surprise many to realise that Jesus napped—which means we can too. Naps are needed. (Didn’t we tell our toddlers just that? I know I did.) A short afternoon nap refreshes and recharges us, making us more productive, not less. Jesus knew what He was doing; we want to be like Jesus.

There’s no magic formula for recharging. Just find what works for you. I like to use a variety of methods and often combine two or three in a single day. The key is that we do it. God’s Word models ways we can recharge, but it’s up to us to be doers of the Word, not just hearers (James 1:22). Decide today to recharge daily.

Let's Pray
Father God, we are grateful that in Your great wisdom, You call us to come away from the world and rest. Without proper care for ourselves, we become drained and susceptible to the enemy’s attacks. Just as Jesus took time to recharge, we can too, without guilt or shame.

May we choose to do those things that recharge us spiritually, physically, and mentally. Thank You for reminding us to come away with You.

With grateful hearts, Amen.

Tammy Darling is the author of 1,600 published articles and three books. She writes from her home in rural Pennsylvania.

09/08/2026

Daily Devotionals
When You Ask "Why, God?" (Matthew 27:46) - Your Daily Bible Verse - September 8
Dr. Jeff Schreve

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY: "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?' that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?'" - Matthew 27:46

When You Ask “Why, God?”
By Dr. Jeff Schreve

We all grieved and mourned the brutal, unimaginable horror that took place November 5, 2017, at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. A deranged and demonized (if not demon-possessed) gunman shot and killed 26 people and wounded 20 others in the worst church shooting America has ever witnessed. The loss of life and utter decimation to individual families and the church family at large are simply heartbreaking to contemplate.

In times like this, we naturally ask, “Why, God? What gives here? These people were worshiping You, and they were senselessly and viciously gunned down in cold blood. I cannot understand why, on earth or in heaven, You would have allowed this to happen.”

You know, it is normal and natural to ask God why. Jesus asked why when He was on the cross, dying for the sins of the world. We just need to know that God does not often answer our question of why. He is not in the business of explaining. He is in the business of sustaining. We will probably never know the answer to our whys this side of heaven. But, what we can know and cling to are these truths:

God is good.
God is love.
God is perfect.

God is in control.
God never makes a mistake.
God cares for us.

God allows things to happen in life that don’t make sense to us… but they do make sense to Him. His understanding compared to our understanding is like the Pacific Ocean compared to a tea cup. When we ask God our why questions, His response is typically something akin to this, “My child, you would not understand even if I explained it to you. (Our teacup minds cannot begin to contain the enormity of the Pacific Ocean.) So how about this: just trust Me.”

TRUST AND PRAY

In the midst of this tragedy, may we trust God and pray that He would use this somehow and some way to further His Kingdom. May He use this as an opportunity for people like you and me to have spiritual conversations with those who do not know Christ. May we be faithful to pray for the families of those killed … and for the church, the pastor and the entire community. May we remember that this fallen world is not our home. We are citizens of heaven who are to hold all things loosely while on this earth. Nothing really belongs to us, not even our own children. Everything belongs to God — “Behold, all souls are Mine” (Ezekiel 18:4). We are simply the managers of His stuff. May we manage well, trusting Him to do “all things well” and “work all things together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from "Why, God?" by From His Heart Ministries by Pastor Jeff Schreve.

09/07/2026

Daily Devotionals
A Prayer to Appreciate Labor Day - Your Daily Prayer - September 7
Lynette Kittle

A Prayer to Appreciate Labor Day
By Lynette Kittle

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters”- Colossians 3:23

W-O-R-K. A word some consider a bad word, but long before it became something some individuals try to avoid, it was a gift from God, although many may disagree.

Before the world fell to sin, God created work for us from the very beginning of the earth, establishing it before the Fall of man. A gift designed for our good.

We know work is good, because God worked first, describing it in Genesis 2:2: “By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all his work.”

As well, Genesis 2:15 describes where humankind's work began: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.”

Still, to be fair, we aren’t working in a sinless world, as Adam and Eve did for a while, so, like everything else affected by sin, work has been affected.

God’s Call to Work
Yet God calls us to work with all our hearts, seeing it as working for Him rather than for human bosses, and despite sin’s effect on work, we can still find a sense of satisfaction in doing it for Him. As Philippians 2:14 encourages, we are to “Do everything without grumbling or arguing.”

Also, because God initiated work and everything He creates is beneficial for us in multiple ways, even in our sleep, as Ecclesiastes 5:12 reminds us, how the sleep of a laborer is sweet.

Rest Is Essential to Appreciating Our Labor
To appreciate Labor Day, we need to appreciate work, which, overall, most of us really don’t. Of course, work for us takes many forms nowadays, with some seeming more laborious than others.

Physical work may seem to take a greater toll on our bodies, whereas more mind-centered work may take a greater toll on our mental and spiritual selves, which ultimately affects our bodies as well.

Hebrews 4:4 reveals that, “On the seventh day God rested from all His works.”

If God rested, how much more do we need rest after work, especially as sin affects how we often see and feel about work? Hebrews 4:10 explains how, “For anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from His.”

So, rest is essential after work, as God has modeled for us. If we think we can skip rest, we are being deceived, believing we are stronger than God, who rested from work. If He needed to rest, how much more do we need and benefit from resting?

Our Work Is Meant to Glorify God
Even Jesus worked, as He tells His Heavenly Father in John 17:4: “I have brought You glory on earth by finishing the work You gave Me to do.”

As Jesus modeled, God has designed work to glorify Him. He didn’t assign us work without the purpose of bringing glory to Him, along with accomplishing His will on earth, and benefiting us in ways we may not comprehend.

As 2 Timothy 2:15 reminds us, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”

Whenever we need encouragement in our labor, we can turn to 1 Peter 4:11, which reminds us, “If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.”

Let’s Pray

Dear Father,

Soften my heart, Lord, I pray, to truly appreciate Labor Day and the work You gave me to do on earth. Daily remind me that work is Your idea. Help me to work unto You, to fulfill Your will and purposes on earth, and bring glory to You. Strengthen my hands and open my eyes to appreciate labor and to see the many benefits that come to me through working. Lead me to be a diligent and faithful worker who honors You through my labor. Convince my heart to believe that my work is not in vain, but is working together in my life and in this world for good. Above all, let Your name be praised through my labor.

In Jesus’ name, Amen

Lynette Kittle is married with four daughters. She enjoys writing about faith, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been published by Focus on the Family, Decision, Today’s Christian Woman, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and more. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent University and serves as associate producer for Soul Check TV.

09/07/2026

Daily Devotionals
When Bitterness Creeps In - Your Daily Bible Verse - September 7
Dena Johnson Martin

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY: “When King David heard all this, he was furious. And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar.” ( 2 Samuel 13: 21)

When Bitterness Creeps In
By Dena Johnson Martin

The bitterness welled up inside me, almost crushing me. I wanted to lash out, to forget whose I am and act like one from the world. I wanted to shout out in my own defense, telling of all the wrongs done against me. I wanted to let the bitterness and anger have its way with me.

Even as I battled the bitterness, I had my daily Bible reading playing on my phone. I’m reading through the Bible chronologically, and I’m at the kingship of David. I’ve read the dysfunction in his family, from r**e to murder. Here’s an excerpt from a couple of David’s children:

Amnon [David’s son] said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar [David’s daughter], my brother Absalom’s [David’s oldest son] sister.”

“Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.’”

So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand.”

David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare some food for him.” So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made the bread in his sight and baked it. Then she took the pan and served him the bread, but he refused to eat.

“Send everyone out of here,” Amnon said. So everyone left him. Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food here into my bedroom so I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother Amnon in his bedroom. But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister.”

“No, my brother!” she said to him. “Don’t force me! Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don’t do this wicked thing. What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.” But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he r**ed her.

Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Get up and get out!” 2 Samuel 13:4-15

Here was the king’s son ra**ng his half-sister. He lured her in, overtook her, and then threw her out. She was forever disgraced, humiliated. And her brother Absalom? I don’t know if you have brothers, but they can be fiercely protective.

Absalom took his sister in, cared for her needs. His love for her was fierce… but his anger toward Amnon was even more fierce. We see this anger, this bitterness, mixed throughout the rest of David’s story.

Absalom ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking w**e and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.” So Absalom’s men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all the king’s sons got up, mounted their mules and fled. 2 Samuel 13:28-29

Absalom’s life is a portrait of the danger of bitterness. He chose not to deal with the hurt and pain of his past, and instead chose to allow the bitterness to destroy his life.

That’s exactly why God tells us to forgive. That’s why God tells us to rip out of the root of bitterness so it doesn’t get a hold on our lives. That’s why God tells us to obey His word…because His way is so much better than our own.

I made a decision years ago not to let bitterness consume me. Some days, it’s hard…really hard. Some days, it’s a minute-by-minute decision to focus on my Savior, to focus on His love for me. Some days, it’s a challenge to remember the forgiveness He pours out on me, the forgiveness I’m expected to give others. But it’s the right way, the best way, the only way.

Editor’s Note: Part of this devotional was taken from When Bitterness Creeps in by Dena Johnson Martin

09/06/2026

Daily Devotionals
A Prayer When Your Mind Feels Pulled in Every Direction - Your Daily Prayer - September 6
Whitney Hopler

A Prayer When Your Mind Feels Pulled in Every Direction
By Whitney Hopler

Bible Reading
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” - Psalm 46:10, NIV

Life gets so busy that it can often feel like a race against the clock. So many messages compete for your attention that you can become overwhelmed. Tasks can pile up until it seems like the only way to accomplish everything you have to do is to juggle several tasks at once. Multitasking can seem productive on the surface. You may feel a sense of accomplishment from working on several tasks simultaneously, and others may appreciate how you seem to be doing so much at work and at home.

But the truth is that the more you divide your attention, the more scattered your thoughts become. Your mind jumps from one thing to another when you work on more than one task at a time. As a result, your concentration weakens, so you’re actually less productive when you multitask than you are when you focus on just one task at a time. Even worse, multitasking brings unnecessary stress into your life and steals the peace God wants you to enjoy.

Multitasking often comes from the feeling that everything depends on you. You rush from one responsibility to another because you’re trying to keep every part of life moving forward at the same time. The more pressure you feel, the more tempted you may be to multitask to try to get everything done.

God’s words in Psalm 46:10 can redirect your attention from yourself to God. You can release the pressure you’ve put on yourself because of the mistaken idea that everything depends on your own effort. When you follow God’s command to be still, your mind can settle into a more focused and peaceful state. Then you can remember that God is still God and become aware of God’s presence with you.

In this verse, God doesn’t tell you to be still so you can accomplish more. The purpose of being still is to know God more. God is directing your attention away from your performance and back to his character. He wants you to know that you can trust him to be in ultimate control over the nations, the earth, and every detail of your life here.

Multitasking tends to narrow your perspective until you see only the demands immediately in front of you. Being still expands your perspective so you can see that your life is part of a much larger story God is writing.

When you know that God is in control, you no longer have to carry the weight of controlling everything yourself. You can give your full attention to whatever is in front of you because you know you can trust God to handle the outcome of it. You can focus well on one task at a time. That gives you valuable freedom!

You can gradually break a multitasking habit. Maybe you start your day with a few quiet minutes in the morning after you wake up, thanking God for the gift of the day and just enjoying his presence before you start working through your to-do list. You may choose one task at work or at home to start doing on its own, instead of doing it along with other tasks as you used to, and enjoy how much better you can do it now and how much less stressful the experience is. Maybe in the evening, you give yourself permission to enjoy a wonder walk outside, where you’re paying full attention to what’s around you instead of looking at your phone.

As you multitask less and focus more, your days will become less stressful and more peaceful. Your priorities will start to change. Instead of trying to be as productive as possible, you’ll find yourself inspired to know God more. Nothing is more important than that!

Let’s Pray

Dear God, my life often feels rushed and stressful, and I admit I try to handle too much at once. Multitasking sometimes makes me feel like I’m accomplishing a lot. But I can see the truth now that it just scatters my thoughts and divides my attention, so I can’t focus well. Even though it seems like I’m productive, multitasking actually makes it harder to get things done because I’m constantly stopping and starting. Not only that, but I can’t experience the peace you want me to enjoy when I multitask. Please help me break the habit of multitasking and learn to focus on just one task at a time. Teach me how to slow down and be still before you. Help me release the pressure of trying to control everything and remember that you are God and I am not. When I’m busy and distracted, draw my attention back to your presence. Please show me how to focus on what truly matters and give me the courage to let go of what doesn’t. Give me the confidence that comes from trusting you. As I learn to be still, help me to grow closer to you each day. Thank you, God. Amen.

Whitney Hopler helps people discover God's wonder and experience awe. She is the author of several books, including the nonfiction books Wake Up to Wonder and Wonder Through the Year: A Daily Devotional for Every Year, and the young adult novel Dream Factory. Whitney has served as an editor at leading media organizations, including Crosswalk.com, The Salvation Army USA’s national publications, and Dotdash.com (where she produced a popular channel on angels and miracles). She currently leads the communications work at George Mason University’s Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. Connect with Whitney on her website at www.whitneyhopler.com

09/06/2026

Daily Devotionals
Jesus’ Word to the Wrongly Accused (Psalm 141:3) - Your Daily Bible Verse - September 6
Lynette Kittle

Jesus’ Word to the Wrongly Accused
By Lynette Kittle

Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips - Psalm 141:3

Have you ever been wrongly accused? Or had lies spoken or written about you, ones causing you to feel angry, ready to respond by verbally exploding and tearing apart the untrue words?

Social media is all about speaking our minds. It encourages us to “tell it like it is,” to “speak our minds,” to defend ourselves by “setting the record straight.”

However, Scripture gives us a better way of addressing insults and lies, urging us to, “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone” (Colossians 4:6).

God's Word tells us Jesus' reaction to being wrongly accused: “When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats. Instead, He entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly” - 1 Peter 2:23

When we are wrongly accused, we’re encouraged to ask God to, “Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips” (Psalm 141:3).

Psalm 141:3

Whereas the world tells us to “let it all out,” Scripture directs us to use self-control before speaking. Unlike quick, snappy comebacks, Proverbs 10:11 explains how the mouths of the righteous are to be a fountain of life, meaning: rather than putting people in place, our words are to speak life to those around us.

Practicing self-control doesn’t mean we won’t ever confront or address what was said about us. But implementing self-control gives us an opportunity to calm down, weigh possible long-term outcomes from our words, and decide on the most effective way to address a situation.

Self-control also offers us the option of saying nothing in response. Even though today’s culture pushes us to respond quickly, Jesus modeled another way to react. He chose to say nothing in response, and leave the situation in God’s hands. As Matthew 27:12 describes, “When He was accused by the chief priests and the elders, He gave no answer.”

Jesus said in Matthew 15:11, “What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

So, where do we find self-control for our words? Galatians 5:22,23 tells us, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law” (Galatians 5:22, 23).

Galatians 5:25, assures us if we live by the Spirit, we’ll be able to keep in step with the Spirit. So like Christ displayed self-control with His words, we can apply it to our speech, too.

2 Peter 1:4 explains that we can become partakers of God’s divine nature by choosing self-control to be at work in our lives, helping to guide our responses (2 Peter 1:6)

Have you been wrongly accused? Do you feel the urge to offer a scathing comeback or set the record straight? Take time today to think through a godly response to your pain, and before you respond, pray for the one who hurt you.

Lynette Kittle is married with four daughters. She enjoys writing about faith, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been published by Focus on the Family, Decision, Today’s Christian Woman, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and more. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent University and serves as associate producer for Soul Check TV.

09/05/2026

Daily Devotionals
A Prayer for the “Basket” Season of an Adult Child - Your Daily Prayer - September 5
Rachel Wojo

A Prayer for the “Basket” Season of an Adult Child
By Rachel Wojo

Bible Reading
"But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile." – Exodus 2:3

Each time I’ve gone down to the basement in the last couple of months, there are more boxes. Some were half-packed, and others taped tightly. My daughter’s life is being sorted into cardboard as she prepares to marry the man of her dreams.

There’s kitchen stuff and wedding gifts. The piles keep growing, and each one seems to shout at me, “This is really happening.”

Although my teens and adult kids all do their own laundry, I sometimes choose to pull it from the dryer and fold it, just to have the luxury once more. I’ve always prayed over laundry, usually for the ones whose clothing I’m folding. It feels like sacred work.

But as I fold, a question rises up from deep places in my heart. Was it enough? All that her father and I tried to teach her. Did we prepare her for a life that we won’t be standing in the middle of anymore? I find myself rehearsing things I want to remember or lessons I hope she caught on to. There are ordinary days that we don’t get back to do over.

The boxes seem to mock these thoughts.

If you’ve raised a child to the point of leaving the nest, you know what I’m talking about. Whether it’s a wedding, a dorm room, or a first apartment, the pain is strange. Maybe the move is a child who is drifting from the faith you spent years cultivating. The grief you are grieving isn’t from a move across town or to another state, but a move much bigger. Miles away from God.

In Exodus 2, Jochebed, the mother of Moses, was forced to leave a baby she could not keep safe. She had built a boat basket, making sure that it would float. Can you imagine the care she took to waterproof this boat for the baby whose life had already been spared by the midwife? But after making the boat and carefully placing her little one in it, she had to do something that caused me to pause and think.

She had to let go of the basket.

I’m guessing that her hands just might have been shaking as she did this. Maybe she waded into the river as far as she could before letting go. We don’t know if she lost sleep the night before, but I’m guessing she did. She placed her son in the river where Pharaoh was placing all the baby boys. Only hers was on top of the water.

I imagine Jochabed tested her little basket boat. She probably threw some cabbage heads into it to test its weight in the water before entrusting it to hold her baby. My point is that she prepared and did her part, but she did have to let go. Some of us know the Bible story, and we know that it wasn’t the basket that truly held Moses. He was in the palm of God’s hand.

It’s easy to think that our children and their future are riding on whether or not we did enough or said enough. But God is the One holding and carrying the basket. If your child is in a river that scares you right now, know that the same God who watched over baby Moses is watching over your “baby.”

This season is not the last, but you did what you could, and now it’s time to take your hands off the basket. Your God never takes His eyes off His children. He is worthy of our trust.

Let's Pray

Heavenly Father,

I want to give you the boxes in the basement. While packing up a life to be in a place where I won’t be is the challenge, I need You to hush the questions. Did I do enough to help my child, the one You gave me, for all the days ahead? No, but I give it all to you.

Forgive me for living like my child’s future rests in my hands instead of Yours. I have a tendency to act like the basket is all mine. But You watch the river. You had my child before I did, and You hold them long after they leave my house.

Help me do what Jochebed did and take my hands off the basket. Please steady my heart when letting go feels like far too much. Lord, remind me that You never take Your eyes off the water. I trust You with what I cannot follow.

In Jesus' name,

Amen.

Rachel WojoRachel Wojo is an inspirational author, public speaker, and podcaster known for her popular blog, rachelwojo.com. Through her biblical approach and personal life experiences, Rachel empowers women to discover strength and hope in everyday situations. Despite enduring the loss of her mother, adult special needs daughter, and father, Rachel remains resilient. She has authored the uplifting book, Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life's Darkest Moments and a new beautiful, spiral-bound prayer journal, Praying the Promises of God, Rachel is crazy in love with her husband, Matt, and cherishes her motherhood with six children on earth and two in heaven.

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