Defeat evil
Balaam answered Balak’s servants: “Even if Balak gave me his house stuffed with silver and gold, I wouldn’t be able to defy the orders of my God to do anything, whether big or little. ~ Numbers 22:18a (MSG)
Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good. ~ Romans 12:21 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
We're able to defeat evil with good as we pay attention to God's orders.
PRAYER:
Lord,
THANKS: Thank you for the victory over evil that Christ Jesus established at the cross and through the resurrection. Thank you that I get to share in that victory.
REGRETS: Sometimes I don't do things the way that God wants me to. It's nothing big -- just little stuff. But even the little things are a big failure.
INTERCESSION: Help me to focus on orders and stay the course.
PURPOSE: I'm going to stick with the winning side.
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 -- 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)
