All people
Lord, all the nations you have made
will come and worship you.
They will bring glory to you. ~ Psalm 86:9 (NIRV)
God has shown us how kind he is by coming to save all people. ~ Titus 2:11 (CEV)
Gracious God,
THANKS: I join the praise band in honoring you. Thank you for being so kind to us. Thank you for saving us.
REGRETS: I'm sorry that in spite of your kindness, I don't always act like a saved person. I'm more interested in keeping peace in my own life and family than in sharing salvation with "all people."
INTERCESSION: Please use your power of kindness to continue to change me. I want my desires to line up with your desires.
PURPOSE: And I'm going to start by singing a worship song to you -- even if no one else is around I know that you hear. All honor goes to you.
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)
