Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly father
give us grace to be attentive to the actions of others, particularly when it is at odds with their words. 

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 
¹⁶ By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? 
¹⁷ Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 
¹⁸ A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a...

Heavenly father
give us grace to do your will today 

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,
but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 
²² Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name,
in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 
²³ Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to what we know you are calling us to do today 

²⁴ “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them,
I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock. 
²⁵ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house;
and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. 
²⁶ Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them
will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 
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Heavenly father
give us grace to dare to put our hopes into words and listen to your response

¹ When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 
² Behold, a leper came to him and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

³ Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” 
Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 
⁴ Jesus said to him, “See that...

Heavenly father
give us grace to voice our deepest needs and our highest hopes. 

⁵ When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help, 
⁶ saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”
⁷ Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
⁸ The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof.
Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 
⁹ For I am...

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those who belong to the household of faith, lest we fall into faith-less habits and find ourselves in a dark place

¹⁰ When Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to those who followed, 
“Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel. 
¹¹ I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, 
¹² but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown...

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow ourselves to be touched by you, and then to touch others with the same grace as we serve them

¹⁴ When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. 
¹⁵ He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to be unafraid when confronted with all forms of mental illness, and respond to the person graciously. 

¹⁶ When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons.
He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 
¹⁷ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
“He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose who live in the kingdom of heaven 

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
¹⁹ A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
²⁰ Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Heavenly father
give us grace to follow your Son, Jesus today, particularly in the face of tragedy.  

²¹ Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”