Kingdom come
The whole earth will know his true greatness... ~ Micah 5:4 (CEV)
Come and set up your kingdom. ~ Matthew 6:10 (CEV)
Lord,
THANKS: We are waiting for the time when the whole earth will be engulfed in your kingdom. We look forward to a world defined by your justice, compassion, mercy, and sacrifice. Thank you for that future -- even as it starts to unfold now.
REGRETS: I'm too attached to the kingdom of the world -- the ways and things which currently define how things work.
INTERCESSION: I need to fully give up my attachments to everything except you and your kingdom. I need help doing that.
PURPOSE: I'm going to be a part of the kingdom that you are establishing across all of your creation.
Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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 -- a 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)
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.)