GOD RESPONDS
PSALM 34:6 (MSG)
When I was desperate, I called out,
and GOD got me out of a tight spot.
LUKE 11:10 (NTE)
You see, everyone who asks receives! Everyone who searches finds! Everyone who knocks has the door opened for them!
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God responds to us when we are in need and call to him.
PRAYER
God, you are generous with your attention. Yet, I worry about being overwhelmed by my circumstances. Help me to relax in your generosity. I'm going to trust you regardless of what comes or might come. 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)
