Refuel
Work hard at whatever you do. ~ Ecclesiastes 9:10 (CEV)
Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. ~ Romans 12:11 (MSG)
SUMMARY SENTENCE:
Continue to pour your entire God-energized self into serving the Lord.
PRAYER:
Lord God, thank you for calling me into your service. I confess that I get tired and burned out because I'm tapping into my personal resources rather than into the energy flowing from your Holy Spirit. Show me how to recharge through what you are offering and how to ignore the demands that want my energy rather than yours. I'm going to pour myself into serving while exercising holy indifference. Amen.
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)
