THE FATHER IS WAITING
January 1
God lives and works today! And He does so as a Father, who loves His children with an inexpressible love. Do we know something of the joy and happiness that comes from being His child?
THE ROYAL OFFER
January 2
God’s love is making us a royal offer, through which our lives can be completely transformed. And yet God must experience time and again, that we would much rather believe in human offers than in His! Blessed is he who accepts the royal offer of the Lord!
DOESN’T GOD HEAR MY PRAYERS?
January 3
Haven’t we all asked ourselves at times, “Doesn’t God hear my prayers?” God seems to keep silent and we see no way out of our problems. Listen to the helpful answer.
THE GIFT OF JOY!
January 4
Whoever has experienced God’s reality in his life, has found a spring of ever-flowing joy and blessedness. But what can we do if we don’t have His joy?
GOD WANTS TO COMFORT
January 5
The Bible calls Him the God of all comfort. Today, each one of you who is suffering because God has taken away someone you love, can and should experience His wonderful comfort.
FIRE AND COALS
January 6
To be filled with love for God means to be filled with an invincible power and joy. How can we acquire such a love for Him and how can we keep this love burning in our hearts.
GOD IS MY SUPERVISOR
January 7
Can we testify to God’s reality in our daily work? Or is being over-worked one of the main barriers between us and God, often separating us from Him and getting us down?
TODAY – THEREFORE
January 8
God lives and works today! We can see this especially in the fact that He is fulfilling the prophecies about the end time, which Jesus spoke 2000 years ago. For now, we are living in the nuclear age; the last times have truly begun. What does this have to do with each one of us?
SURROUNDED BY ANGELS
January 9
God lives and works today! This certainty is a great comfort, which we all need more than ever in today’s world. Is there any way we can find security – for today and the future?
THE CITY OF GOD – AT ANY COST
January 10
One of the greatest miracles of God is that He longs to have us sinful beings at His side for all eternity. For this reason, He has prepared the City of God, full of glory and splendor.
THE POWER OF OBEDIENCE
January 11
Why do we experience so little of God’s wonderful reality in our lives? Perhaps because we are no longer prepared to go the way that brings such happy experiences. What way is this?
CHILD-LIKE PRAYER
January 12
God lives and works today. Throughout the ages, men have experienced this reality. Yes, when they turned to Him in prayer, God did hear and intervene. Their troubles were really changed! But perhaps you’re asking yourself, “How should I pray, so that I can experience His power in my life?”
O BLESSED CROSS!
January 13
Do our lives bear witness to God’s reality? Perhaps we can testify with gratitude about how we’ve experienced His love and strength at certain times in our lives. But how did we react when He laid a burden or a cross upon us?
ONE LOOK AT JESUS
January 14
Perhaps we know that God lives and works today intellectually. But what can help us to make it a reality in our lives, the kind of reality that revolutionizes and makes everything new?
ONE LIFE IS FAR TOO LITTLE
January 15
God lives and works today. We can see this especially when He lays His hand upon someone and says in a very personal way, “You are mine!” Whoever is prepared to answer this call will experience a wealth and happiness in his life greater than he’s ever dreamed.
ATTACKING OUR FEAR
January 16
God lives and works today! What a comfort, power, and security this knowledge brings us. And yet, don’t most of us know times when this knowledge seems to disintegrate because we are gripped by an inexplicable fear? Where can we get help to overcome fear?
IT’S WORTH IT!
January 17
God lives and works today! Perhaps you know this, but in hours of despair, everything seems to fall apart? Perhaps difficult circumstances oppress you, and life with certain people becomes unbearable? Do you feel you’d like to give up and throw everything away? Then listen to this meditation: IT’S WORTH IT.
ALONE FROM THE
January 18
If you long to experience God as a Father who is always ready to give good gifts to His children, listen to the testimony taken from the experiences of the Lutheran Evangelical Sisterhood whose home is on the little Land of Canaan in Darmstadt, Germany.
THE EASY WAY OUT IS THE DANGEROUS WAY
January 19
God lives and works today! But the hours come in every life when we are tempted to doubt God’s reality, when the difficulties or suffering become too great and we don’t know how to go on. Here is a helpful word for just these times!
VICTORIOUS IN HOURS
January 20
Perhaps you have experienced God’s reality at certain times in your life. Most of us, however, if we were to be honest, would have to admit that these times are far outweighed by the times when we give in to the temptations of Satan – and when our lives seem to testify to anything but God who lives and intervenes. This program will show us how, instead of Satan, the living God can have the victory in our lives.
Listen to A Word for Today
DO YOU LOVE ME?
January 21
God’s innermost heart is filled with love for us, His children. He longs to make our lives rich and happy, as you will hear in today’s meditation by Basilea Schlink, DO YOU LOVE ME?
AFTER I FOUND THIS TREASURE
January 22
God lives and works today. Whoever can testify to this from his own experience has found the greatest treasure there is – a treasure he would never trade with anyone. But how can we acquire this treasure?
FOUR WATCHWORDS FOR TIMES
January 23
OF DIVINE JUDGMENT For God chastens and disciplines because he loves; and afterwards, wants to do ever so much more good to us. Today’s testimony by Basilea Schlink can help you when you find yourself in a similar situation when God comes with His judgment.
GIVING TRUE PRAISE TO GOD
January 24
In all ages men have sought to praise Him in their songs. It is important to bring Him praise, for this is why we have been created. But what should we do when we are afraid of the future or having a hard time, and don’t feel up to praising God?
THE WAY OF THE CROSS
January 25
A dark and ominous future lies before us. However, God can only intervene and demonstrate His all-conquering power under a certain condition. What is this condition?
A WAY OUT OF TROUBLE
January 26
God lives and works today. But do our lives bear witness to this even when we are in trouble? For most of us, the opposite is probably true. We succumb to our problems and let them get the better of us! Listen to A WAY OUT OF TROUBLE.
REDEEMED TO LOVE
January 27
God transforms people who by nature only think about themselves and their advantages and welfare. He redeems them into loving, sympathetic people who make other people’s lives rich and happy. Listen to more about this in today’s testimony from the life of Basilea Schlink.
THE WAY IS PREPARED
January 28
God lives and works today! That means that the distress and darkness in our lives and the world today need not remain there. What a joyful message! God has prepared a way out. Today’s meditation by Basilea Schlink will tell about the great and exciting promise this truth holds for each of our lives.
THE POWER OF THANKSGIVING
January 29
Perhaps you are amazed to see what God does in the lives of other people, but you yourself don’t experience His power? Perhaps you even pray, “Lord, help me,” but He doesn’t seem to listen? What is the matter?
THE MIGHTIEST POWER
January 30
Love for God contains an immeasurable strength for it unites us with the almighty Creator of the whole universe. If you are longing to have this love in your life, then listen to this meditation by Basilea Schlink.
THE REVOLVING STAGE!
January 31
God lives and works today! If you don’t experience His reality in your life, maybe it’s because you need a change of “scenery.” Listen to this program by Basilea Schlink called THE REVOLVING STAGE!