Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Say it

Stand up and speak to the people. Tell them everything that I tell you to say. ~ Jeremiah 1:17 (ERV)

We don’t tell people about ourselves. But we tell people that Jesus Christ is Lord... ~ 2 Corinthians 4:5a (ERV)

God, you have spoken. And you have given us something to say to the world. We confess, though, that we mostly like to talk about ourselves -- or the things which seem important to us. That is strange. If we really believe that you've given us something to say, we need to say it. I need to say it. Please help me to share the Jesus message today. Help me to overcome my poor choice of words and the fear that I might mix things us. Your Holy Spirit will enable me to tell people that Jesus Christ is Lord. Today I will live to tell people about Jesus. Amen.

Difficult Words
Strange -- something unusual, something that is not the way it should be, a mystery
Overcome -- defeat, conquer, have success over
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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)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

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)

NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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