THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S SPIRIT
EZEKIEL 39:29 (CEV)
Never again will I turn my back on the people of Israel, and my Spirit will live in them. I, the Lord, have spoken.
1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-7 (CEB)
There are different spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; and there are different ministries and the same Lord; and there are different activities but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
When God's Spirit lives in us amazing things happen.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for sending your Holy Spirit to live in and among us. You have given us everything we need to live well together. Forgive me for all the times that I am inhospitable to the presence of the Spirit. I end up missing out. Change my heart so that I'm more fully tuned into what you are doing here and now -- so that I can live my life in such a way that I benefit the common good. 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)
