Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The Spirit

(Lord,) You gave your good spirit to teach them. ~ Nehemiah 9:20a (CEB)

And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. ~ 1 Corinthians 2:12 (NLT)
Lord, 
THANKS: Thank you for filling your people with the Holy Spirit. Thank you for instructing us in how to have blessed lives. Thank you for for being so generous.
REGRET: Unfortunately, I don't take full advantage of the gift of your Spirit. I'm too satisfied with wisdom from the world and I'm not very teachable sometimes.
INTERCESSION: So, please move in my heart. Have your Spirit poke me and nudge me toward a state of mind where I can and will learn from you. I want to be able to share your wisdom with others, too. But you need to do something in me first.
PURPOSE: I'm going to focus today on tuning-in to your Spirit. I'm going to be on the lookout for the wonderful things that you are so generously giving to us -- to me.
Amen.
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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)

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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