Again and again
God will comfort Zion again... ~ Zechariah 1:17 (MSG)
God saved us from the threat of death, and we are sure that he will do it again and again. ~ 2 Corinthians 1:10 (CEV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God comes through again and again.
PRAYER
God, I get excited when I read about the ways that you have rescued people in the past. And I feel thankful when I start listing all the ways that you have come through in my own life. How is it, then, that I struggle to trust you each time I encounter a new problem -- each time sickness or injustice raise their ugly heads? Rekindle my faith so that I can apply what I've learned from the past to the current situation. And help me to share that hope with fellow strugglers. I'm going to trust that you will come through again and again. I pray in the name of Christ Jesus, who is still the hope of the world, 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)
