Christian alarm clock

Start every morning with God.

The moment you turn your alarm off, you're already praying.

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Galatians 5:22‑23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Paul writes to churches in Galatia, contrasting behavior that comes from selfish impulse with what grows where the Spirit is at work. Fruit is not manufactured by trying harder, it grows slowly, the way a tree produces what its roots are drawing up.

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What it's for

The hard part was never wanting to.

Almost nobody decides against praying in the morning. The day just starts first. So the thing that has to change isn't your intention, it's what happens in the ninety seconds after you wake up.

Prayer becomes a habit

You already set an alarm every night. This one ends with you praying instead of reaching for a feed. Enough mornings in a row and it stops being something you have to decide.

You learn the Bible

A passage a day with the context around it: who wrote it, who they were writing to, and what it asks of you. A year of mornings is a year of passages you understand.

You grow closer to God

Not because an app can do that for you. Because the ordinary version of it is showing up daily, with something to read and something honest to say. This gets you in the room.

How it works

Alarm off. Scripture on.

The stop button always works. What changes is where it leaves you.

It rings

A real iPhone alarm on the lock screen, as loud as any other.
You turn it off

One tap, the way you always do. Nothing to solve, nothing to wait out.
You're already praying

Stopping it opens today's passage. Before you've decided anything, you're reading.

Your morning

Five minutes with God, where the scrolling was.

LearnThe day's passage, what it means, and one thing to do with it.
Check inHow close God feels, and how you're doing.
AskWhatever you're carrying today, in your own words.
PrayHalf written for the passage, half for what you asked.
AmenHold it to finish, and the morning counts.

Galatians 5:22‑23

Dear God,

There is a moment coming today where I will want to force my way through something small.

Help me notice it as it happens, before I have already reacted.

Give me one breath in that moment instead of the sharp answer.

Show me what patience would actually look like there.

Grow this in me, because I cannot manufacture it by trying harder.

I am not sure what I am doing here yet, and I am doing it anyway.

Take this small start and make something of it that outlasts my enthusiasm for it.

Meet me again tomorrow, earlier than I would like.

Amen.

Plainly

What it is.

365: A passage for every dayA full year before any repeats.
WEB: Public-domain scriptureThe World English Bible, never paraphrased.
5 min: About five minutesPassage, check-in and prayer, then on with your day.
iOS 26: A real iPhone alarmBuilt on AlarmKit, so it rings like one.

Start tomorrow morning with it.

It isn't on the App Store yet. Leave an email and I'll write to you once there's a build worth putting on your phone.