ALL-POWERFUL GOD
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
2 SAMUEL 7:22 (CEV)
LORD All-Powerful, you are greater than all others. No one is like you, and you alone are God. Everything we have heard about you is true.
REVELATION 1:17-18 (CEV)
He put his right hand on me and said: Don’t be afraid! I am the first, the last, and the living one.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God is without peers.
PRAYER
Glorious God, you are incredible. There is no one and nothing like you. Yet, I am among those who can become very casual about you and your word. I let the world influence me. Refresh my vision of you and what you're about. I am going to rest under your care and move forward at your direction. 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)
