Saturday, October 24, 2020

THE GIFTS

HAGGAI 1:14 (CEV)
So the Lord God All-Powerful made everyone eager to work on his temple, especially Zerubbabel and Joshua.

1 TIMOTHY 4:14 (CEV)
Use the gift you were given...

SUMMARY SENTENCE
Use the gifts you've been given by God to serve him.

PRAYER
Thank you, Lord, for the gifts that you have given to me so that I can serve you. It feels good to be included in what you are doing. I confess, though, that too much of me gets channeled into my own agenda. I end up using my gifts for my own goals. Realign my agenda so that it looks exactly like your agenda. Then stir within me the enthusiasm needed to use the talents, skills, and gifts in me to advance our common agenda. I'm going to work on your temple. Amen.
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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)

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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