The whole world
(The Lord says,) I have placed you here as a light
for other nations;
you must take my saving power
to everyone on earth. ~ Isaiah 49:6b (CEV)
(Jesus said,) But when the Holy Spirit comes to you, you will receive power. You will be my witnesses—in Jerusalem, in all of Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world. ~ Acts 1:8 (CEV)
God, I confess that my world is very small. I am consumed with the things happening in my life, my family, my clan, my school, my village, my island, and my culture. But you are consumed with love for the whole world. And you are calling me to speak to the people out there about Jesus. Please send your Holy Spirit on me so that I might start to care as much about those people as I care about my people. Give me the power of the Holy Spirit so that I can live into our calling as followers of Jesus. I am expecting that you will put me in touch with someone from beyond my small world today. 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)
