Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace to acknowledge our sins so that they may be blotted out and forgiven. 

²⁵ I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;
    and I will not remember your sins.
²⁶ Put me in remembrance.
    Let us plead together.
Declare your case,
    that you may be justified.

[and...

Heavenly father
give us grace to live as those who belong to you, giving glory to you through the power of your name

⁹ I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world,
but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 
¹⁰ All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 
¹¹ I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and I...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to hear what you are saying to us, even in our dreams
give us grace to be careful how we communicate this to others.

⁵ Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. 
⁶ He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 
⁷ for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold,
my sheaf arose and also stood upright;...

1 I will extol the Lord at all times;
    his praise will always be on my lips.
2 I will glory in the Lord;
    let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
3 Glorify the Lord with me;
    let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
    he delivered me from all my...

Heavenly father
give us grace to love, both family, friends and strangers, particularly those imprisoned in any way

¹ Let brotherly love continue. 
² Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers,
for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it. 
³ Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them,
and those who are ill-treated, since...

⁵ For you, God, have heard my vows.
    You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
⁶ You will prolong the king’s life.  [I think it is ok to see Jesus as our king in this psalm]
    His years will be for generations.
⁷ He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever.
    Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that...

Heavenly father
give us grace to drink in all that you give us today, so that our lives may be a celebration of you. 

¹⁹ I will even make a way in the wilderness,
    and rivers in the desert.
²⁰ The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honour me,
    because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,
    to give...

Heavenly father
give us grace to accomplish the work which you give us to do today, staying true to what you have revealed to us in the person of Jesus 

⁴ I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. 
⁵ Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. 
⁶ I revealed your name to...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to avoid hurting others when we are motivated by love (like Jacob)
give us grace to avoid being negative to others whatever the cause (unlike Joseph’s brothers) 

¹ Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan. 
² This is the history of the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers.
He was a boy with the sons...

⁹ Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all, ‘This day is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.’ For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.

¹⁰ Nehemiah said, ‘Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy...

Heavenly father
give us grace to serve you today with reverence and awe

²⁵ See that you don’t refuse him who speaks.
For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth,
how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, 
²⁶ whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying,
“Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”...

¹ Hear my cry, God.
    Listen to my prayer.
² From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed.
    Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
³ For you have been a refuge for me,
    a strong tower from the enemy.
⁴ I will dwell in your tent forever.
    ...

Heavenly father
give us grace to be open to what you are doing in our lives and the lives of others TODAY.

¹⁶ Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,
    and a path in the mighty waters,   
[Yahweh is powerful in nature]
¹⁷ who brings out the chariot and horse,
    the army and the mighty man
    (they lie down together, they shall not rise;
...

Heavenly father
give us grace to lift up our eyes to you today and know you

¹ Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, 
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; 
² even as you gave him authority over all flesh,
so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 
³ This is eternal life, that they...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be at peace with those who are outside our family, race and nation.

¹ Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). 
² Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan:
⁶ Esau took all the members of his household, his livestock, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. ^7...

¹ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
    he heard my cry for mercy.
² Because he turned his ear to me,
    I will call on him as long as I live.

³ The cords of death entangled me,
    the anguish of the grave came over me;
    I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
⁴ Then I called on the name of the Lord...

Heavenly father
give us grace to today inhabit the city where you dwell

¹⁸ For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched,
and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 
¹⁹ the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, 
²⁰ for they could not stand that which was commanded,
“If even an animal...

⁶ God has spoken from his sanctuary:
    ⁷ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine.  Judah is my scepter.  
[If God is our God, then God says “You are mine, and a Jewel” - All of these are tribes of Israel or places they live]

⁸ Moab is my wash basin.  I will throw my sandal on Edom.
    I...

10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion;
for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh. 
11 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day,
and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you,
and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. 
12 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land,
and will again choose Jerusalem. 
13 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh;
for he has...

Heavenly father
give us grace to always look to you for our deliverance and away from any person or thing which we would put in your place. 

¹¹ I myself am Yahweh.
    Besides me, there is no saviour.
¹² I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown,
    and there was no strange god among you.
Therefore you are my witnesses”,
   ...

Heavenly father
give us grace in times of trouble to know the joy and peace from knowing that you are with us. 

²⁹ His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. 
³⁰ Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you.
By this we believe that you came from God.”
³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 
^32...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to do what is right (unlike Reuben in this story and Simeon and Levi in the the previous chapter), and thank you for the peace and harmony which results from our desire to be at peace with our brother (like Esau and Jacob)

²¹ Israel [other name of Jacob] travelled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 
²² While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his...

Do Not Worry

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life)  28...

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek after peace, and turn from bitterness and being ruled by physical appetites.

¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, 
¹⁵ looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God,
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it, 
¹⁶ ...

¹ God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down.
   You have been angry.  Restore us, again.
² You have made the land tremble.  You have torn it.
   Mend its fractures,  for it quakes.
³ You have shown your people hard things.
    You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
⁴ You...