SAVING GOD
PSALM 119:94 (MSG)
Save me! I’m all yours.
JOHN 15:7 (CEV)
Stay joined to me and let my teachings become part of you. Then you can pray for whatever you want, and your prayer will be answered.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
When you're connected to God through Christ you have asking-power.
PRAYER
Saving God, rescue me from misuse of wealth, heartless judgments, and ignorant discrimination. Grant me the desire to be steeped in your word and to abide with you in prayer. Teach me, Lord, to learn how to live more generously, lovingly, and inclusively. By loving others wholeheartedly, let my life glorify you. Amen. (Daily Texts, Ground Up Grace edition)
*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)
