{"query": "Devotional: Prayer: Daily Seeking God’s Guidance", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f5afcf5cece3", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Daily Seeking God’s Guidance", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Father, I wake each day seeking Your guidance. I know that without You I am blind, stumbling in darkness. But with You, the path is straight, and the light is sure.\n\nTeach me to quiet my heart, to hea"}, {"id": "card_n_e91e5b22158f", "title": "Easton: Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or forma"}, {"id": "card_n_6ae2bda95465", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Morning Offering", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I spend my mornings praying and studying the Bible. I fast to stay focused on God, give thanks for the meals He provides, pray daily for guidance, and take opportunities that come through Him."}, {"id": "card_n_f95275c429a8", "title": "Devotional: Die to Yourself Daily", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The battle against ego is daily. When the crisis ends, it’s easy to believe we stood on our own. But Scripture calls us to die daily, take up the cross, and walk humbly before God. The Spirit strength"}, {"id": "card_n_a1e237176346", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Lord, Make Me a Tool Worn to Your Hand", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God what is next for me? I look for your light. I can’t see the way. Please make my way known. I do not want to spend my life in the wilderness. I seek your face.\n\nOpen the door to my next chapter O’ "}, {"id": "card_n_0e4db0590ef1", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q99", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?\n\nThe whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciple"}, {"id": "card_n_714a3d277588", "title": "Devotional: Reflection: Living Sacrifice", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To be a living sacrifice means to surrender daily. It is not a one-time offering but a continual laying down of self. Every thought, every action, every desire — given over to Him.\n\nThis is our reason"}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}, {"id": "card_n_7e27e8be7086", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Surrender to God’s Will", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, not my will but Yours be done. My heart resists, but I know only in surrender is there peace. Help me die to myself each day, to trust You fully, and to walk in obedience. Your ways are higher, "}, {"id": "card_n_569c4e416971", "title": "Devotional: God in Three Persons: A Reflection on Wholeness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God the Father represents the Mind, Jesus the Son the Body, and the Holy Spirit the Spirit. Humans are made in God’s image — mind, body, and spirit — and should cultivate all three.\n\nTo neglect one is"}, {"id": "card_n_d3a772440323", "title": "Devotional: God’s Portion", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Israel was the Lord’s portion — His inheritance from all the nations. The tithe was a shadow of this, pointing forward to the greater reality. Through Jesus, we now have the opportunity to become God’"}, {"id": "card_n_48e193d28539", "title": "Romans 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.\n2. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.\n3. For being ignor"}, {"id": "card_n_47ef7cadb694", "title": "Devotional: Jiu-Jitsu and Faith: A Parable", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jiu-jitsu is like faith. You start out clumsy, unable to see the traps, vulnerable at every turn. With time and guidance, you begin to recognize the snares and the escapes. You find peace in the chaos"}, {"id": "card_n_4e58e46e878d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_01: I will hearken what the Lord God shall say within me.(1) Blessed is the soul ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will hearken what the Lord God shall say within me.(1) Blessed is the soul which heareth the Lord speaking within it, and receiveth the word of consolation from His mouth. Blessed are the ears which"}, {"id": "card_n_462dd2ad643c", "title": "Devotional: Insight: The Ephraim Gate", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be careful which gates you open. God may be warning you to close off partnerships, habits, or voices that look like allies but are walking in rebellion. If you don't close the gate when He says to — i"}, {"id": "card_n_2a888e86aa6a", "title": "Psalm 84 — How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart a"}, {"id": "card_n_1ced2505b85d", "title": "Psalm 42 — As the Hart Pants", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.>> As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God . My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I co"}, {"id": "card_n_0de24f52987b", "title": "Psalm 43 — Psalm 43", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning becaus"}, {"id": "card_n_b71f054ebab7", "title": "Devotional: Reflection: Faith and Trials", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Faith grows not in comfort but in trial. The testing of faith purifies, like gold in fire. Though painful, it draws us nearer to God, strips away pride, and teaches us endurance. The end of such testi"}, {"id": "card_n_939087c78d96", "title": "Easton: Bless", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen. 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps. 45:2; 104:24, 35). (2.) We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps. 103:1,"}]}