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The 3rd Day of Christmas
Listen to God’s voice today! Don’t be stubborn and rebel... ~ Psalm 95:7-8 (CEV)
Let the Spirit fill your life... ~ Ephesians 5:18 (CEV)
KEY THOUGHT:
Give God access to your life.
PRAYER:
Loving God, thank you for speaking into my life -- for all of your leading and guiding. I am pretty strong willed and my natural inclination is to live life on my own terms. Fill me with your Holy Spirit so that I sense the value of being more receptive to your leading. I'm going to give you complete unfettered access to my life for the sake of Jesus, who us the good shepherd. 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 -- 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)
