Faith
Abram left just as the LORD told him... ~ Genesis 12:4 (CEB)
The real children of Abraham, then, are those who put their faith in God. ~ Galatians 3:7 (NLT)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Those who act in faith are those who inherit the blessings of God.
PRAYER
Gracious God, thank you for calling us all to faith. I get excited when I see how the earliest promises apply to even me. I confess that in spite of this good news, I'm prone to wander and apply my faith in unreliable people, institutions, and things. Draw me even closer so that trusting you becomes more natural. I want it to be my default attitude and action. I'm looking forward to where you are leading. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
