Friday, May 27, 2016

Power and Hope

God stepped in and saved me from certain death. I’m alive again! Once more I see the light! ~ Job 33:28 (MSG)

God will raise us from death by the same power that he used when he raised our Lord to life. ~ 1 Corinthians 6:14 (CEV)
God,

THANKS: Thank you for using your awesome power to benefit people -- including me. The resurrection of Jesus has given me hope and empowers me to face difficulties everyday.

REGRETS: I'm sorry that I get so easily distracted by the power system in the world. Sometimes I want more of that power (to use for good, of course) and sometimes I'm afraid of the power that people have. I worry over who will win the election. I think too much about all the lethal life-sucking power out there.

INTERCESSION: Help me to see how you are already intervening to turn deadly circumstances into life-giving hope.

PURPOSE: No matter what happens I'm going to paint today with hope. I'm not going to dwell on the worldly power struggles -- but on Jesus who broke the chains of death.

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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