PSALM 25:12 (CEB)
Where are the ones who honor the LORD?
God will teach them which path to take.
PHILIPPIANS 1:9 (ABP)
I pray that your love will well up, filling you with complete knowledge and keen insight.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Let God fill you with his love, knowledge, and wisdom.
PRAYER
Guiding God, you lead us along all the right roads, while filling us with everything necessary to top off our tanks. Forgive me for worrying about the future. Fill me with your love, knowledge, and wisdom. I'm going to trust you to guide me along the entire way using what you are providing. Amen.
PSALM 69:13 (NLT)
But I keep praying to you, LORD,
hoping this time you will show me favor.
In your unfailing love, O God,
answer my prayer with your sure salvation.
JOHN 16:23 (MSG)
When I see you again, you’ll be full of joy, and it will be a joy no one can rob from you. You’ll no longer be so full of questions.
This is what I want you to do: Ask the Father for whatever is in keeping with the things I’ve revealed to you. Ask in my name, according to my will, and he’ll most certainly give it to you.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Be encouraged because you're in the loving care of a generous God.
PRAYER
Listening God, I swim through rough waters of doubt and despair when I forget that I am in the ocean of your love. The sure salvation of Jesus keeps me from sinking. Help me to trust in the power of Christ's name. As I meet challenges today, help me to pray through them without fear. Amen. (Daily Tests, Ground Up Grace edition)
JEREMIAH 32:42 (MSG)
Yes, this is GOD’s Message: ‘I will certainly bring this huge catastrophe on this people, but I will also usher in a wonderful life of prosperity. I promise.
1 JOHN 3:2 (MSG)
But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in seeing him, become like him.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
As we trust Christ we realize that the best is yet to come.
PRAYER
Gracious God, thank you for welcoming me into your family as one of your children. I confess, though, that even from such a privileged position I'm inclined to allow the crisis of the day to capture all my attention -- indeed, my imagination. Help me to live as a trusting child in your care. I know that the best is yet to come in spite of the current troubles. Amen.
ISAIAH 29:15 (CEV)
You are in for trouble,
if you try to hide your plans
from the LORD!
Or if you think what you do
in the dark can’t be seen.
EPHESIANS 5:13 (NTE)
Everything becomes visible when it’s exposed to the light...
SUMMARY SENTENCE
You can't hide anything from God; so why try?
PRAYER
Lord of light, from you nothing is hidden and nothing is kept secret. You know us inside and out, even understanding what we have yet to discover about ourselves. Lord, forgive us for trying to hide from you. Call us out of our darkness and draw us to the light of your grace. 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 — 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)
