WordPoints Daybook Series

Daily Affirmations of Hope and Courage

Book 4 - Reaching Forward

Daily Motivation to Move Ahead More Steadily

Reaching ForwardIs there anything about tomorrow worth reaching for? Is heaven, the highest hope of the human heart, anything more than wishful thinking? Reaching Forward contains 366 daily meditations that are designed to pull you out of the past. These readings will give you a higher vision of tomorrow, while reminding you of today’s simple duties. They will help you see a better connection between today and tomorrow.

Reaching Forward is Book 4 in the WordPoints Daybook Series. Written by Gary Henry, author of the best-selling Diligently Seeking God, each page offers a brief essay framed by scripture text and a literary quotation. Using the form of a daily devotional with one page for each day of the year, the book centers on the thought of Philippians 3:13,14: “One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Whoever you are, you’ve made mistakes. Your past is marred and broken. But you also have a future — and that future depends upon the choices you are making right now. These devotions will urge you to meet your difficulties with creativity and determination.

Reaching Forward takes us to a new place: where the elegance of classic devotion meets the tough-mindedness of today’s readers. As it probes the issues of hope, self-discipline, and courage, Reaching Forward will:

  • Challenge you to consider the idea of eternity more carefully
  • Help you to sharpen your spiritual goals
  • Encourage you to be more forward-looking
  • Show you how to use the present to build a better future
  • Motivate you to live your life more decisively

Don’t settle for what you were yesterday. Reaching Forward is a book about stretching ourselves and pressing ahead. Are you ready to reach for the better things? What about the best things?

Each book in the WordPoints Daybook Series contains “daily affirmations of hope and courage.” Standing in the centuries-old tradition of the “daybook,” these books contain a single reading for each day of the year. The idea is to use each day’s reading as the starting point for a brief, but profitable, meditation. The readings are short enough to be read by busy people (as most of us are these days), but they are ‘provocative’ and ‘suggestive’ in the highest sense. Highly concentrated, each meditation provides the foundation for deeper consideration throughout the day.

Reaching Forward will stir you up. Don’t lose another day looking backward!

Read the Preface to Reaching Forward

Gradual Growth (January 28)

Gradual Growth (January 28)

Sooner or later, God’s methods will be seen to have been the best, however ineffective they may seem right now. In the meantime, let’s trust the process and give it time — nothing less than a lifetime — to work. The process may be slow, but it’s very sure.

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Child-Like Wonder (January 27)

Child-Like Wonder (January 27)

In the kingdom, there are many new things to be learned. But before we can learn them, there is a good deal of grown-up “stuff” that needs to be unlearned, especially our desire for counterfeit pleasures rather than the real ones that God has provided.

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Led by Light to His Dwelling (January 26)

Led by Light to His Dwelling (January 26)

We need to be more honest, openly acknowledging the things that move us most deeply. The darkness is to be avoided, yes. But even more than that, the light is to be loved. The Lord is to be worshiped “in the beauty of holiness” (Psalm 29:2).

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