Tell
Hallelujah!
Thank God! Pray to him by name!
Tell everyone you meet what he has done! ~ Psalm 105:1 (MSG)
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the savior of the world. ~ 1 John 4:14 (CEB)
KEY THOUGHT:
Tell everyone about what Jesus has done.
PRAYER:
LORD God, thank you for sending your Son Jesus into the world to save us. Forgive me for being slow to talk of this. I'm not embarrased or afraid, I just struggle to communicate salvation to a world which is resistant to its need for salvation. I ask that your Holy Spirit would give me the words to say and the sensitivity to say it all in a way that people will hear. I'm going to tell everyone about what has happened. 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)
