Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Faithfulness

Joseph spoke to Potiphar’s wife, who wanted to seduce him: How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God. ~ Genesis 39:9b (NLT)

Jesus was faithful over God’s house as a Son... ~ Hebrews 3:6a (CEB)
God,

THANKS: Thank you for sending your faithful Son into a world where faithfulness is always under threat. And like Joseph he did not allow temptation to destroy his faithfulness.

REGRETS: I confess that when it comes to living for you, I am not consistent. I am not totally faithful. Forgive me for giving in to persistent temptations.

INTERCESSION: Help me to stay strong when I am confronted by temptation.

PURPOSE: I want to stay faithful to you. And I know that it is possible to do because you have been faithful to us -- and we're now a part of your household. Faithfulness is what defines our family. It is who we are because we are Jesus' people.

Amen.
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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 — 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)

NRSVUE = New Revised Standard Version (© 2021 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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