Powerful Partner
I, the Lord All-Powerful,
have made these plans.
No one can stop me now! ~ Isaiah 14:27 (CEV)
What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us? ~ Romans 8:31 (CEV)
Lord All-Powerful,
THANKS: I'm extremely grateful to know that you are my ally.
REGRETS: However, even with your promise to carry those who are marching with you, I often try to go alone. And that doesn't work so well.
INTERCESSION: Because I am so forgetful, please remind me often that when we are on your side, you are on our side.
PURPOSE: I'm facing some big challenges this week. But I'm not going to let them discourage me. To the contrary I'm a little excited to see how you are going to work things out.
Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 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 — my own 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)
