A daily
quiet time.

Choose a plan.

A plan decides what you'll read each day, so you can come to the Lord without first wondering where to turn.

1. Press ⌘6 to open Quiet time.
2. Click Choose a plan…. Pick one: Psalm, Proverb and one more, the whole Bible in a year, the New Testament in 90 days, or the Gospels a chapter a day. Make a plan… lets you choose the books and pace yourself.
3. The right-hand side shows how it works and its first week. Choose the translation, then click Start plan.

Add a devotional.

A good devotional opens a verse for you, as a friend might over breakfast. The app comes with two classics: Spurgeon's Morning and Evening and Daily Light on the Daily Path.

1. On your plan's page, find the Devotionals card and click Change….
2. Tick the ones you want: from your library, or Our Daily Bread and Heartlight online. Add a website… adds a devotional site of your own.
3. Each is read as part of the day, opened on today's reading.

Read each day.

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105). Today's card has everything for the morning.

1. Click Read. Each of the day's readings opens in turn, with a bar at the top to move on to the next.
2. Rather listen? Click Read with audio, and they're read aloud one after another. F7 and F9 go to the part before or after; F8 or ⌘P pauses.
3. Each part is ticked off as you finish it. Under the progress bar are your streak, your best run, and how many of the last seven days you read.
4. In the calendar, a dot marks a day you read. Click a day to read it.

Worship first.

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). A song or two before you read quiets the heart and turns it to Him.

1. On the Worship music card, turn on Songs before the reading, and Songs after the reading if you like, and choose how many.
2. The AI assistant picks songs from your Apple Music libraryfrom the music files in your Music folder to suit the day's readings. A card says why each one was chosen.
3. Click Play songs, or let them start by themselves after the countdown.

Sing the words.

While a song plays, its words show in the reading column, so you can sing along, or simply pray them.

1. When the lyrics are timed, the line being sung is lit in blue and kept in view.
2. Faint pictures come and go behind the words: a cross, a dove, a river, hands raised. Each has a verse beneath it.
3. Press ⌘. for focus mode: the song across the whole window. Esc leaves it.

End with a verse.

The closing verse gathers up what the morning's reading taught, so you leave with one word from the Lord to carry through the day.

1. Turn on the Closing verse card on your plan's page. The AI assistant chooses the verse while you read.
2. At the end, it opens highlighted, with a card that says how it sums up the day. With audio, it's read aloud after a countdown; Read now skips the wait.
3. Under Every day, type a favourite passage, such as Pro 3:5-6, and click Add. It's read at the very end, every day.
4. Click Finish to end your quiet time.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you … And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.Ezekiel 36:26–27

Set a reminder.

Jesus rose a great while before day and went out to pray (Mark 1:35). A gentle reminder helps the habit take root.

1. Press ⌘, for Settings, and find Quiet time.
2. Turn on Remind me and set the time. If you haven't read by then, a notification lists the day's readings.
3. Turning it on sends one straight away, so macOS can ask you to allow notifications.

Start from the menu bar.

Start from the notification area.

Closing the window leaves the app in the menu bar, at the top of the screen, with today's reading a click away.

Closing the window leaves the app in the notification area, by the clock, with today's reading a click away.

1. Click the app's icon in the menu barin the notification area. A small window shows today's reading, your streak and the week.
2. Click Start Quiet time (or press ↩). The speaker button beside it starts it read aloud.
3. Turn on Open at login, so the app is always there, and the reminder always comes.

Write what you learned.

A few lines each morning become a record of the Lord's faithfulness. Months from now, you'll see how He has led you.

Write

1. Press ⌘5 for the Journal and ⌘N for a new entry. Or, in Read, select a verse and press N for an entry linked to it.
2. Write what struck you, and a prayer. Type a reference such as Psalm 23 and it becomes a link; type # to add a tag, such as #prayer.

Ask about your journal

1. Click Ask at the right of the toolbar, and choose Whole journal.
2. Ask a question, or click a suggestion.