Daily Bible Verses

¹ To you, Yahweh, I call.
    My rock, don’t be deaf to me;
    lest, if you are silent to me,
    I would become like those who go down into the pit.
³ Don’t draw me away with the wicked, who speak peace with their neighbours,
    but mischief is in their hearts.

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¹ Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
    Whom shall I fear?
Yahweh is the strength of my life.
    Of whom shall I be afraid?

³ Though an army should encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear.
Though war should rise against me,
    even then I will be confident.

⁴ One...

¹ To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.

⁴ Show me your ways and ⁵ Guide me in your truth,
    For you are the God of my salvation.

⁸ Good and upright is Yahweh,
    therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
⁹ He will guide the humble in justice.
¹⁰ All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth
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Lord God, who shall live with you?

² Those who do what is right,
speak the truth in their hearts;
⁴  despise all evil thoughts and actions
honour those fear God, and
are faithful...

Heavenly father,
open my heart to an understanding of the goodness that is only to be found in you,
that I may seek after you
and lead me not into the foolish temptation of thinking that there is no such goodness, and no such God

¹ The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
    They are corrupt.
    They have done abominable deeds...

^1-3Why do those with power seek to use it against people rather than for people?

^4-7From the perspective of our Father in Heaven, the one with real power, it is laughable that people should think that this is what power is for.

Laughable, this is, if it wasn’t so serious.
God rebukes them in his anger, and points them to how power is really exercised, by His Son on a hill top on...

Blessed are those who do not follow advice which is based on wanting to do others down
Blessed are those who don’t stop attempting to do what is right.
Blessed are those who don’t ridicule what is loving and good.
Blessed are those who delight in who God is, as shown in the bible.
Blessed are those who day and night think about
* the one who brings peace to families (like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)
* the one who brings peace to those who are abused (like Hebrew slaves in...

Heavenly father
give us grace to die to the things of this world so that we might live in Your song
and thank you that when we are faithless in this, Jesus is still faithful.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring^[a] of David, according to my Good News, ^9...

Heavenly father
give us grace to serve you today with a pure conscience.
give grace today to those whose sincere faith nurtured us in the faith.

³ I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day ⁴ longing to...

Heavenly father
stir up in us your gifts of power, love and self control.

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to know your Son, the bringer of life and immortality

⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was...

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful and loving today through your Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

¹³ Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us...

Heavenly father
give us the strength that we need to face today’s hardships, strength which flows from the grace that is in Christ Jesus

¹ You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ² The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be...

Here’s my problem:

O Lord, so many things, people and systems seem to be against me, and more seem to keep cropping up. - how many are my foes! Many are rising against me.
Many of those who know of my faith in you are saying to me “There is no help for you in God”

What do I know of my heavenly Father?

But you, O Lord, are a shield around me...

I say to God

Answer me when I call to you,
    my righteous God.
Give me relief from my distress;
    have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

God replies:

² How long will you people turn my glory into shame?
    How long will you love delusions and seek false gods...

¹ Listen to my words, Lord, ² hear my cry for help,
    my King and my God, for to you I pray.
    ³ In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice and I wait expectantly.

⁴ For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness;...

¹ In the Lord I take refuge.
How then can you advise me to hide?

² Yes, the pure in heart do come under attack
³ and the foundations are being destroyed

⁴ But I know that the Lord  is on his heavenly throne.
and sees into hearts of all, seeing...

¹ Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore;
those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.

² Everyone lies to their neighbour;
they flatter with their lips
but harbour deception in their...

Heavenly father, give me grace to be thankful for the past (my experience of you in love, grace, creativity, trust, truth, humility, joy, peace, hope, mercy, healing and justice)

¹ I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;
    I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

Heavenly father, give me grace to delight myself in you today (in all of the above)

...

When things go wrong, LORD, you seem distant,
almost as though you are hiding yourself,
and I don’t understand why.
 

I am troubled both by the suffering of those who are weak,
and also by the success of those who have no room for God.
It seems particularly wrong that those who are helpless
suffer at the hands of those who are arrogant and greedy,
 

So, Arise, LORD, and do something for those who are helpless,
for I know that you see...

AAARRRGGGH!

¹ How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
    How long will you hide your face from me? (your attention seems to be elsewhere)
² How long must I wrestle with my thoughts (I have to deal with stuff on my own)
    and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
...

Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name.
Heavenly Father open my eyes today to see more clearly your character (your name)
and give me grace to give you honour today by displaying child-like trust.

¹LORD God, Our God
How majestic is your name in all the earth (and for all people)
You have given (us all) your splendour (and it is) above the heavens.

(And yet)  ^2 ...

I know that I am weak:

            ¹ Lord my God, I take refuge in you;
 save and deliver me 
from everything and everyone that ²  can tear me apart

and yet I know that I have a certain moral strength

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¹ Lord God - things aren’t going well in my life
and I wonder whether it is, in part, because I have, by my own actions, brought this upon myself
and am feeling your just anger and wrath.

² OK! But I wish to repent, put this in the past and find healing
because I’ve run out of energy and am in pain.

³ I feel out of...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to do this: 

¹ The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
    because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble.
He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
    to proclaim liberty to the captives
    and release to those who are bound,