Friday, January 20, 2017

The Lord offers peace

But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Don’t be afraid! You won’t die.”

So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it “The Lord makes peace.” ~ Judges 6:23-24a (CEB)

 Jesus says: "I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn’t like the peace that this world can give. So don’t be worried or afraid." ~ John 14:27 (CEV)

 KEY IDEA:
The Lord offers his peace to calm our anxieties.
PRAYER:
Lord,

 THANKS: Thank you for being concerned about me and the things which cause me to be anxious.

 REGRETS: I confess that I feel too much anxiety. I know that you offer peace. But I still choose to get stressed over all the problems.

 INTERCESSION: Help me to experience your peace today. There are so many things which are stressful. I need some relief.

 PURPOSE: I'm going to trust Jesus not just for salvation -- but also for peace. I'm planning that his peace will become so much a part of who I am that I'll be transformed into a peacemaker.

 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 -- 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)

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)

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.)

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