Daily Bible Verses by Book

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
    Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
    I will strengthen you.
    Yes, I will help you.
    Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to turn to you both before and after we face difficult situations 

¹⁴ Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob,
    and you men of Israel.
    I will help you,” says Yahweh.
    “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁵ Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.
    You will thresh the mountains,
    and beat them small,
 ...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to open our eyes and minds to see and understand your work in the world

¹⁷ The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.
    Their tongue fails for thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them.
    I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
¹⁸ I will open rivers on the bare heights,
    and will make the wilderness a pool of water.
²⁰     that they may see, know, consider, and understand...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see the limitations of all those things that we might be tempted to put in place of you
give us grace to hear your voice and understand the nature of things (“what they are”)  

^{[Talking about whatever we put in place of God, Yahweh says]
21} Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
    “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
²² “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen!
    Declare the former things, what they are,...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see the worthlessness of what we put in place of you today 

²⁵ “I have raised up one from the north [Cyrus], one who calls on my name,
    and he shall come on rulers [the Babylonians] as the potter treads clay.
²⁹ Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing.
    Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Heavenly father
give us grace to be gentle today with others particularly when we feel strongly about the rights and wrongs of situations.

42 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
    my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
    I have put my Spirit on him.
    He will bring justice to the nations.
² He will not shout,
    nor raise his voice,
    nor cause it to be heard in the street.
³ He won’t break a...

[They[ Do not cry out or shout aloud,  or make their voice heard in the streets; 
But faithfully they bring true justice  refusing to be wavered or crushed, 
until true justice is established on earth.  —Isaiah 42:2–4 

Richard Rohr identifies the elusive nature of prophetic leadership:  

The normal power systems of our world worship themselves and not God. For that reason, prophets almost never hold official positions, like that of king, priest, or elder. However, neither do they dismiss the proper roles that rulers and...

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful in being a blessing to others, bringing light and freedom

⁵ God Yahweh,
    he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
    he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
    he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
⁶ “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness.
    I will hold your hand.
    I will keep you,
...

Heavenly father
give us grace to let our lives be the song of the presence of the living God, rather than a whimper to hollow alternatives.

⁸ “I am Yahweh.
    That is my name.
    I will not give my glory to another,
    nor my praise to engraved images.
⁹ Behold, the former things have happened
    and I declare new things.
    I tell you about them before they come up.”
^10...

Heavenly father
give us grace to open our eyes and see your ways

¹³ Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.
    He will raise a war cry.
    He will triumph over his enemies.
¹⁴ “I have been silent a long time.
    Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. 
¹⁵ I will destroy mountains and hills,
    and will dry up the pools.
¹⁶ I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.
    I will lead them in paths...