Stay faithful
The Lord said to Elijah: But seven thousand Israelites have refused to worship Baal, and they will live. ~ 1 Kings 19:18 (CEV)
You have stayed with me in my time of trial. ~ Luke 22:28 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
Those who stay faithful to the Lord will experience the life he gives.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for your faithfulness to us -- your undeserving people. You are indeed a God of grace, offering full acceptance to those who accept your grace and stick with you. I'm not perfectly faithful. Help me to trust your faithfulness and allow it to become the seed of faithfulness in me. I'm going to grow in faithfulness and the life of Christ. 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)
