ASK
PSALM 86:5 (NLT)
O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive,
so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.
LUKE 11:1 (CEB)
Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Look to God to provide.
PRAYER
Thank you, O Lord, for offering a love that doesn't disappoint. You make it easy to turn to you. Yet, I'm slow to ask. Teach me how to turn to you -- to look to you -- to ask of you -- to rely on you. Through the presence of your Spirit in my life, I'm going to get over my self-sufficiency and turn to you for everything. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own 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)
