A LIFE OF PRAYER
PSALM 44:8 (CEV)
We boast about you, our God,
and we are always grateful.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-17 (TPT)
Let joy be your continual feast. Make your life a prayer.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Make your life a prayer.
PRAYER
Honorable God, it is a privilege to approach you. Forgive me for embracing distractions that keep me from using my life as a prayer to you. Turn it around for me. I want the entirety of who I am -- everything I think, do, and say to be an expression of my gratitude to you. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
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)
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)
