Stay calm and carry on
With your powerful arm
you protect me
from every side. ~ Psalm 139:5 (CEV)
Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death? ~ Romans 8:35 (CEV)
KEY THOUGHT:
No one -- no thing is powerful enough to yank us from the loving presence of Christ.
PRAYER:
God, you are the perfect combination -- all-loving and all-powerful. I am grateful that I am safe with you. Forgive me for panicking when trouble comes my way. Help me to calm down and to trust who you are. I'm going stay calm and carry on. Amen.
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)
