OVERFLOWING WITH HAPPINESS
PSALM 5:11 (CEB)
...all who love your name
can rejoice in you.
ACTS 13:52 (CEB)
Because of the abundant presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives, the disciples were overflowing with happiness.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's presence in our lives fills us with joy.
PRAYER
Glorious God, thank you for the Holy Spirit who resides among us and in us. It is wonderful to have you with us. Yet, even though there is so much cause for joy in my life I get distracted by the happiness-sucking things going on in the world. Help me to put those things in perspective so that my joy washes them out to sea never to be seen again. I'm going to allow your loving presence to fill my life with joy. 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)
