The Moravian Church, one of the full communion partners with the ELCA has provided daily texts and shared them with the world since 1731. Each year a devotional is printed encouraging daily reading and prayer. I wanted you to experience it and try it out today. Mount Carmel Ministries takes the daily texts, writes prayers and offers a way to read and pray over the texts.
Read the two verses aloud and look for similarities. The T.R.I.P. form of prayer is patterned after Martin Luther's way of praying.
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hanks As you read the texts for the day, consider what God your Father is offering you. Perhaps you can claim something new about your identity that the texts reveal. As you see this new identity as gift give to you by God, you can respond with thanks. By expressing your thanks in writing you confirm the truth of what God has given you. Perhaps you could begin your thanks by writing, "I than you God that . . ." and then finish it with the ideas you discovered in the texts for the day. Write as freely as you are able.
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egret After you have written how thankful you are for what God has given to you as His precious child, think of one habit or attitude that is not in agreement with this image. Regret or confession will surface for you as a result of this time of reflection. Write down a sentence prayer that identifiers what you would like to confess to your Lord Jesus about your behavior. Keep this prayer short and limit your regret to 1 thing.
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ntercession Asking the Holy Spirit for help is some concrete way comes more easily after we have made the "regret" response. Intercession is one way of prayer for the Holy Spirit's power to help us with inner change. In this prayer we are asking for help with one specific need or issue we identified in the "regret" response.
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urpose Now we have the opportunity to see if there is something concrete that the Triune God is leading us to do today. As specifically as you can, identify one action God is encouraging you to take based on your T.R.I. responses. Some texts will be clearer that others for your plan of action response
Friday January 24 - The haughty eyes of the people shall be brought low, the pride of everyone shall be humbled; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. Isaiah 2:11
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked. Galatians 6:7
Prayer: Merciful God, I confess that my haughty pride sometimes looks down on others. I don't like admitting this, but I know it happens. Open my eyes to see like Jesus, through the yes of forgiving love. Help me to recognize your Spirit at work in everyone. Especially help me with grace for those who are hard to Understand.
See you in worship,
was hungry and you fed me" 
