On God's side
I, the Lord All-Powerful,
have made these plans.
No one can stop me now! ~ Isaiah 14:27 (CEV)
So what should we say about this? If God is for us, no one can defeat us. ~ Romans 8:31 (NCV)
KEY IDEA:
Align your life with God because he can't be defeated.
PRAYER:
Great and powerful God, it is good to have a friend like you on my side. I know that it would make sense to be on your side. And I want to be on your side but I'm still a bit flakey. So I need a lot of your attention to help me keep my priorites straight. Fortunately, in spite of my weaknesses you are still on our side. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul. The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
