Saturday, August 17, 2019

Trust him forward!

The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you. ~ Psalm 37:5 (NLT) 

I am 100% certain of this -- God won't leave you hanging. He is going to finish what he started and on the day when Christ Jesus has the grand opening for his kingdom y'all will already be looking a lot like him -- so good! ~ Philippians 1:6 (ABP)

KEY IDEA:
Trust Christ to get you to where you need to be.
PRAYER:
Dear God, thank you for holding my hand along the way. I pull away sometimes because I'm immature and impulsive. Fortunately, I haven't hurt myself so much that I'm beyond repair. You still want to lead me and I still want you to lead me. My goal is to live from this day forward as a mature, convinced, and convincing follower of Christ Jesus 100% of the time -- even before the day of Christ. Amen.

DAILYTEXTS.ORG

*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)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

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)

NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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