Healing
God heals the brokenhearted
and bandages their wounds. ~ Psalm 147:3 (CEB)
That evening people brought to Jesus many who were demon-possessed. He threw the spirits out with just a word. He healed everyone who was sick. ~ Matthew 8:16 (CEB)
Jesus, there is a lot of brokenness inside me. Some of it is of my own doing. But much of it is simply the result of living life in a troubled world. Everything I read in the Bible suggests that you are in the business of repairing that which is broken. So I feel totally at ease when I'm with you -- like I'm in the perfect spot in life. Nothing else seems to matter. I feel better and experience healing at your touch. Remind me to share this good news -- starting 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)
