Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly father
give us grace to be ready for today 

⁶ But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ 
⁷ Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be thankful for all the abilities you have given us

¹⁴ “For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them. 
¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to use the abilities that you have given us diligently and generously

¹⁶ Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. 
¹⁷ In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two....

Heavenly father
give us grace today to not be afraid

¹⁸ But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money.
¹⁹ “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them. 
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Heavenly father
give us grace to live fully today with as many or as few abilities as you have given us, so that we may not be weeping at the end of the day

²⁶ “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. 
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be gracious to those who are hungry, thirsty, naked, sick or in prison

³¹ “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. ³² Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate...

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be gracious to those who are hungry, thirsty, naked, sick or in prison

⁴¹ Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; ⁴² for I was hungry, and you didn’t...

He will answer, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” —Matthew 25: 45 

To enter the mind of Christ is to realize our oneness with the faces we see on television in the evening news. It is to realize we are one with that homeless person we saw going through the trash receptacle. The woman at the local market, the man who comes to check our gas meter, and all who have hurt us, abandoned us, and have otherwise wronged us, along with all the women and men we have never met—we are to realize that we are equally, fully one...

Heavenly father to give us grace today to face up to our future however difficult it may be  

1 When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, 
2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid  doing anything which we know to be wrong, and to avoid doing anything by deception

3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people 
were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. 
4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him...