GOD'S PROMISES
JOSHUA 21:45 (CEB)
Not one of all the good things that the LORD had promised to the house of Israel failed. Every promise was fulfilled.
GALATIANS 4:28 (CEB)
Brothers and sisters, you are children of the promise like Isaac.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Allow God's promises to define your life.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for your loyalty and faithfulness. What you say goes -- even if I'm not seeing it at the moment. I confess to allowing unseen fulfillments to drag me down at times. I so want everything spelled out in a clear and timely (my time frame) manner. Help me to trust you and embrace the "not yet" as a sign that you are busy doing what you've said you'd do. So far, even though things haven't turned out the way I expected, they've actually been better. I'm going to trust that your promises all work that way. 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)
