Sunday, March 20, 2016

Guidance

This God is our God for ever and ever. He will be our guide to the very end. ~ Psalm 48:14 (NIRV)

Now stand up straight! Stop your knees from shaking and walk a straight path. ~ Hebrews 12:12-13a (CEV)
God, you are the one and only for me -- for ever and ever!

THANKS: I'm grateful for your promise to guide us all the way to end.

REGRETS: There are times, though, when I still get scared. The things around me are freightening and I temporarily quit trusting in your guidance. I'm sure that is offensive to you -- just as it is a setback for me.

INTERCESSION: Please help me to stay calm. There is a lot going on that could make me panic. But I want to walk forward with my life -- trusting you to get me to where I need to go. Help me to see enough of where I'm going that I can move forward.

PURPOSE: I'm going to trust you -- no matter what happens.

Amen.
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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 -- 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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