Thursday, May 26, 2016

Weakness and Power

Do not let your suffering people be disgraced. Let the poor and helpless praise you. ~ Psalm 74:21 (NCV)

My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness. ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NLT)
Lord,

THANKS: Your power is awesome! You use it to help even the weakest and most helpless people. Thank you for caring so much about me.

REGRETS: I'm tired of being weak and of failing to live up to your standards. But my weakness gives me a fresh appreciation for your grace.

 INTERCESSION: Fill my life with grace so that I can tell others about how you are changing me and how weakness can actually be an asset in the economy of your kingdom. Transform my mind and my words -- flood them with grace so that everything I think and say oozes with grace.

PURPOSE: Even though I'm a weakling I'm expecting that your grace will be enough for me to live for you.

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)

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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