Healer
THE 6th SUNDAY IN EASTERTIDE
Lord, please make me healthy
and strong again. ~ Isaiah 38:16 (CEB)
One of the lepers, when he realized that he was healed, turned around and came back, shouting his gratitude, glorifying God. ~ Luke 17:15 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord is a healer.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for healing me. I enjoy so much good health -- yet there are parts of me -- and things I do -- that are unhealthy. Please continue to heal my life and give me a new enthusiasm for your doctoring. I'm going to live healthier today than yesterday. 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)
