Daylight Meditations

The Psalmist reminds us once again, that no matter the situation, our God reigns. He is the one who brings joy to us. He is the one who defends and protects us. The earth might shake, the ocean waves might overwhelm us, but we are secure and safe with Him. As you listen today, remember He is the Lord of the Angel Armies. Put your trust 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, Nancy Holland and Adam Maddock

The Psalmist speaks from an honest and broken heart – addressing the brevity of life. It is a painful and sobering thought. Yet this prayer is to know how limited our time is. It is a cry for truth, even though it isn't something we like to think about or confront. As we listen today, will this cause us to live with purpose, knowing every moment is a divine appointment IF we choose to live in God's guidance? Might we truly guard our hearts and live in the light of God's directives rather than the shadows of fear and loss? Even in the darkness, God is with us. It is light to Him, therefore, it is also light to us. Let it be so. 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, consider what God tells us continually throughout the scriptures –He says, “Recognize that I am God, and I care about you. Be quiet and let Me be Your salvation. Let me fix the broken parts of your life. Understand that I, God, can do anything and all that I do, is breathtaking! Surrender your anxiety and trust Me to take care of 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

Hope is an expectancy for change, for relief, for better results. Life is truly short and often we cling to the things we acquire instead of our God who always supplies what we need. It is the gladness, joy and hope that makes life worth living. God, would you open our eyes to Your hope for us, Your joy in us and Your path which gives us purpose and meaning to our lives? As you listen today, ask God to open your heart to hear His kind words of encouragement for today.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

Rise up. Wake up. Be alert. Think carefully about the call on your life to live with intention, to made wise decisions, to accept the challenges of living in a fallen world. We must be sober about life while at the same time we love well and in joy. We are instructed to bless those who curse us, give to those who want even more from us. Living in God's kingdom is an adventure with extraordinary purpose – to reveal the power of love in the midst of sorrow and the poverty of shame. Be awake for 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, Adam Maddock, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser

In this topsy-turvy world, it's sometimes hard to make sense of the things that happen around us and to us. Making God the Lord of our lives gives us a perspective on reality that is sourced in God – and we gain His perspective. Doing life with God makes perfect sense. Don't you think?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 MaddockAnd please check out our other podcast, Lamplight, featuring insightful messages and conversations from real people pursuing hope and change. Lamplight is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, or you can find it here: https://anchor.fm/pod/show/cfo-north-america

Jesus, the blameless One, could have judged fairly, instead He chose not to judge, but to love each person He met. When we understand the full impact of who Love is and what Love does, only then will we trust God with the outcome. Judging means we're afraid “they will get away with it”. Jesus says, “leave it to Me, let Love make the ruling.”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

God knows we wonder who He is, who we are, and how this all fits together. The scriptures reference ‘the created order' of living things, the questions are asked about ranks and priorities to rulings and purpose. Engage God with your questions. He's waiting 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, Nancy Holland and Adam Maddock

May our prayers today be for true justice - where there is no color line, no judgement of another's value based on their beliefs or religion, no disrespect of another's position in life. May we embrace God's values and see through His eyes, that we may love others as we love ourselves.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 today, let these words focus your attention on God, maker of the universe who also comforts and heals our broken hearts. May these moments of reflection bring you to a place of peace, knowing you are heard and noticed.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

God's concern for how we treat each other is clear: look after orphans and widows, defend the rights of the poor and needy. He invites us to join Him in caring for and about others in ways that can change lives and bring justice. Father, would you open our eyes to the injustice in our towns, in our neighborhoods? Would you give us the courage to speak up and speak out that people would be 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

There are days when we pour out our heart to God, when our pain is great and we need to know, really know that there is someone greater who listens and cares, who can do something for us. Let today's meditation remind you of your personal, most loving God, who cares about every details of your life. He is with you in it – every moment.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

Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! (Amos 5:24). What a contrast to the image we tend to attribute to justice – a scale with weights hanging in balance. God's words ring clear throughout the Scriptures – do right, defend the oppressed, give to the poor. Justice and right-living go hand-in-hand.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 want God to hear us. He wants us to hear Him as well. Great conversations come from respecting and listening to each other. Loving God and being loved by Him is our experience, developed in trust and honesty. The Psalmist opens his heart, and is open to hearing God's heart for him as well. May we also spend time with God this way today.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 MaddockAnd please check out our other podcast, Lamplight, featuring insightful messages and conversations from real people pursuing hope and change. Lamplight is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, or you can find it here: https://anchor.fm/pod/show/cfo-north-america

Psalms 89:14 (NIV) says, “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.” God's justice is based on truth. Our hearts envy and stubbornly hold onto ‘our rights'. This divides our hearts and prevents us from grasping the truth that God's love for all of us is the same and is deeper than we know. Should we not also let His love deepen ours for another person?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

Faith is hoping for what we can't see. It is knowing God hears us. It is taking ahold of HIs hand, listening to His whispers of encouragement and letting Him know of our fears, loves and hopes. Let faith in Him, guide your prayers today as you listen.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

Scripture tells us: Don't repay evil for evil. Share in others' sorrows. Do what is just and right. Might living with and in humility help us form the attitude of not seeking our own good, but another's? To be like Jesus, is to take these words seriously, choose to love, choose to forgive, choose to do the right thing – every time.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

Talking with God is our privilege, an honor that we often overlook. To be with Him, to have His attention is a priceless gift He pours into us life and love as we take time to be in His presence. Let today's scriptures remind you of these truths.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 truth of being free in Christ is explained in today's meditation. It is sometimes hard for us to comprehend the reality of this as we tend to interpret freedom with movement and choices. The Scriptures speak of us being rescued from ‘the tyrannical rule of darkness', and this rescue releases us from the chains of sin. Might we consider that this too, has freed us to move – to stretch high and wide into new places of spiritual growth in Christ.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

Paul reminds the Philippians (and us!) to not fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray; encouraging us to let Jesus be the center of our life. He will also displace our worry, our fears and our doubts. When we choose to rejoice, and trust Him, He gives us a sense of belonging, of wholeness. 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

Every word God speaks is truth, life and holy. To speak truth is to speak life into another. To contemplate the truth is to integrate life into our being, letting it become us, that all that we speak is what the Holy Spirit has given us to speak – life and healing into the world that the world through Jesus' life might know our Father's love for each person. 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 series, Conversations with God, consider the greatest value of your best conversations. Were they not a time of getting to know someone? Did your heart find comfort in realizing someone wanted to you about you? that you in turn, were delighted to share in another's life? This is how God sees it too. Yes, He know us. But, do we realize He wants us to know Him in the same 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, Nancy Holland and Adam Maddock

Kindness and goodness, grace and love – they're all related and they all weave a wonderful tapestry of unending blessing for all who live with these virtues at the forefront of their lives. Kindness changes the atmosphere. It turns back anger and it transforms every heart it touches. Wrap kindness around your heart today. 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

What is important to you today? What do you value? Does it consume your attention, is it the center of your life? Today's meditation reminds us what a life with Christ is and should be. We are instructed to use our faith so Christ's life can be released within us, so that His love rests in us and on us, becoming our center and source for living.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

Such amazing truths about death! Without God's love and gift of dying for us, we would never see life as He intended for us to see nor experience the life He died to give to us. The author of Hebrews says it clearly, "By embracing death Jesus sets free those who live their entire lives in bondage to the tormenting dread of death."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

Grace is favor. It is a blessing the moment it is bestowed on another person. God sees our hearts and knows our intent. To withhold judgement is to build a fence of protection around someone struggling to be accepted. Grace and mercy kiss and the Lord's favor flows over the wounds those needing a kind word. Be a moment of grace for someone today.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

There are many definitions of love in the Scriptures. All are facets of the same precious essence of God Himself. Whether we define it as selflessness, compassion or the joyful honesty between friends, it is the cord that binds us to each other and to God - all at the same time.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 ReaserAnd please check out our other podcast, Lamplight, featuring insightful messages and conversations from real people pursuing hope and change. Lamplight is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, or you can find it here: https://anchor.fm/pod/show/cfo-north-america

We are challenged throughout the Scriptures to be generous. We are encouraged to live from a heart that is not afraid of loss but is willing to love with an extravagance that cannot be quenched. Only in that way, will we experience the extravagant love that God has already given to us. Let us not be timid but bold in giving to others.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

One of the definitions for 'glory' is: magnificence or great beauty. Such is the description of God, and yet it falls short. We don't have words to describe the majesty, the immense beauty of God Almighty. Perhaps the Passion Translation of the Bible offers us a fresh glimpse of how we might view our "Beloved Father" ..."may the glory of your name be the center on which our lives turn." 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

James writes that peace is a seed from the fruit called spiritual maturity. It is 'sown in peace by those who make peace by actively encouraging goodwill between individuals.' We must have the seed to sow it. It is a release of our desires for the deeper healing of Jesus' presence. His peace is ours, giving us the seeds that can be sown in others' hearts. 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

Throughout history, God has entered the physical realm of earth and time to speak to us, to walk with us, and to guide us. When God entered our world as Jesus, He opened the door for us to enter eternity. From the moment we believe the truth of who Jesus is and trust Him, we are given a new role. Now we have access to God in eternity because His Spirit is with us in Time. Here we live, but there we reign.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

Patience involves understanding timing, an element in this world that is beyond our control. Yet, being patient is within our control. It is a force of our will to restrain from selfish desires, from pushing ahead when we need to stand still and let God be God. The measure of our maturity can be seen in how we handle ourselves with patience. 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

Once again, the realm of God's kingdom turns our world upside down. Real freedom is being free from self-indulgence. When we control our desires, and seek another's well-being, we are loving deeply and restoring life and freedom in this world. We are equipped by love to move beyond, to see beyond ourselves into another's need and love them in 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, Adam Maddock, and Phil Reaser

Although different attributes of our behavior and attitudes, kindness and gentleness are closely related. Both convey a sweet attitude toward others. Kindness is an act as well as an attitude. It reaches out, is sympathetic and soothes the rough edges of life that another person is wrestling with. As you listen today, let kindness become a tangible action in your thoughts and actions by taking in the reality of these living words and letting them be who you are when you are with others.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

It is an interesting concept - to clothe ourselves with gentleness. Might that be one of the qualities people see first when they meet us? Might that be what we wear in our homes and in the marketplace? What would change in our world if we walked through our day with the heart of gentleness toward every creature, every person? Father, would you place this quality of character across our shoulders, that we might carry your compassion everywhere we go?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

Joy is an attitude, not an emotion. It comes from our heart and results from our trusting in God. Even in the most sorrowful experiences, God's joy is our strength as we choose it. Take in these words of encouragement and ask the Holy Spirit to show you God's joy for you and His gift of joy that is already growing in 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, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

As a father in a family is a living example of how to respond to life's challenges, so our Father God, demonstrates a life of faithfulness by keeping His promises to us. In turn, we are to mimic, to learn how to be faithful to Him and to those in our life. It is a bond, God's promise of standing with us that expresses the depth of love and honor that we in turn can do the same to those around 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

Of all the expressions of emotions we have, love seems to be the easiest and the hardest to share. The well-known chapter, 1 Corinthians 13 is used to describe the way to live yet we find it unattainable, because we try to do it rather than letting Jesus do it through us. The branch doesn't produce fruit- the the branch bears the fruit produced by the Vine. 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 with all aspects that define our Lord and God, goodness is a quality of His character. Paul write to the Ephesians, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth. Our life in Jesus develops such fruit. The goodness of God, is something He share with us- that we might share this sweet tasting fruit with others.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

When we are at a low point, feeling overwhelmed and needing help, God reminds us, "Be brave and courageous, and never lose hope. Yes, keep on waiting—for he will never disappoint you!" This is our comfort - that He hears us and that even our hope is from Him. 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, Joy Peyton and Adam Maddock

Each of us has been given divine gifts to contribute to the growth of others. As we allow the Holy Spirit to use these gifts through us, they are effectively applied and we are all built up and made perfect in His love. For Love to flourish, we must trust God with ourselves.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

What does the power of God look like? As we see God revealed throughout His Word, we see a God who is all-powerful, One who can do all things, One for whom there is nothing too difficult. So, for what does He use His power? He has done and continues to do everything in His mighty power to save us, to redeem us, to set us free to be all He created us to be, to reconcile us to Himself, His children, who are created in His likeness and for His glory. The power of God does what we cannot do! In turn our greatest power and privilege is to surrender to what He is doing - loving us, so we learn how to love others. the love of God. God is love. Love is the greatest expression of power in all creation and in forever. Verse 8 in 1 Corinthians 13 remind us, Love never fails.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

These scriptures give us perspective of God's dominion and reach. They remind us that Creator God is also the only one with power and dominion over the universe. As God's children, we are in awe of all we see - powers and authorities in heaven and on earth acknowleding His rule. May we not forget, as we too, belong to Him.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

No longer are we enslaved to rebellion or rejected for our mistakes and sins. Our debt has been paid and we are free. God has declared justice has been served on our behalf. To live now, is to believe and accept we can go on and step into life and light. We are free to become all we were intended to be. In God's eyes we are now just and righteous people. How grateful we should be. How amazing it is to be handed keys to the kingdom, because God simply loves us so much!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

Our union with Jesus is a holy mystery. There may be moments when we experience being enveloped by perfect Love and times when we sense perfect Peace. Yet, whether or not we sense or feel Him, the truth is He is with us, we are with Him just as He said in John 17:22, "The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind—Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, So they might be one heart and mind with us." In this union, we give grace to others, speak of His love for them and live today as one who is God's child. 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

Let us stand in awe that the universe, that all of creation is waiting for us to be revealed as God's children! It's like waiting for the curtains to rise, for the show to begin. Is it not the unveiling of God's plan? Might we seek to look and be our best, to occupy our time here with growing up into maturity so that when the time comes, when we go home, we are indeed recognized as looking like Him, acting like Him, and belonging to Him? Indeed! Listen to what God says about who we are.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 time of meditation, please consider supporting us.Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

Our position as God's children is established in Jesus by trusting what He has said is true. His power of love frees us from spiritual darkness and opens our eyes to the reality of belonging to God, of being His children and of entering His kingdom now. It is the same power by which He raised Jesus from the dead. That power has raised us up also. Listen to what is God saying in this meditation about who He is to you, what He has done for you, and who you are to Him.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

Jesus held no distinction between people. His friends were not determined by their wealth or interests. He accepted people as they were, giving them dignity and hope. Most of us know 'who we are'. We're aware of our inability to live to expectations and find ourselves disappointed within and with others. Jesus understood the struggles and respected and loved in a way that made people feel worthy again. Might we be a friend that way to someone today?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

Our story begins with God. He has always been. There has never been a time when He didn't exist. Everything was made by Him and finds its purpose in Him, especially us. Before we were born, God has designs for us, a destiny that displays His kindness and grace, the power of life in love. Let these truths sink into your heart and mind as you listen today.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 never grow tired of belonging, of being someone's child. The greatest honor is to be God's child, one who 'looks like' his or her father, one who knows they can go home and enjoy the truth of belonging. Only when we know our Father is near by can we relax and enjoy our place of rest. Let this time of listening, remind you that you are home, no matter where you are.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

Jesus overcame the world, and He helps us overcome our by living in His peace, because we have the Holy Spirit of peace. Our troubles are not light nor do they seem momentary, but it is our perspective that must be adjusted. Only in light of eternity, with the view of God's presence and our hope for an eternal future will it all look different. If we will look beyond the physical world we live in and step into His kingdom which is also here, His peace is also in reach we will experience life instead of a dying moment. Our energy will be renewed and our hope restored in the midst of pain and trouble, 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, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser