God heals
The 9th Sunday after Pentecost
He set his people free.
He made a covenant with them that will last forever. ~ Psalm 111:9a (NIRV)
The crowd was amazed! Those who hadn’t been able to speak were talking, the crippled were made well, the lame were walking, and the blind could see again! And they praised the God of Israel. ~ Matthew 15:31 (NLT)
Healing Savior,
THANKS: Thank you for saving us from our sin and all that is unhealthy. Thank you for being a promise keeper. Thank you for healing broken people like me.
REGRETS: The crowd was amazed but I have allowed some of the amazement to slip away. I take your faithfulness and gifts for granted. I know that in a sense you want your salvation to become so normal and natural that we operate in it without giving it a second thought.
INTERCESSION: But help me to never forget or to become complacent about what you are doing for us -- for me.
PURPOSE: I want to glow in amazement over your kindness.
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 — 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)
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)
