Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow you to clothe us today.

²⁷ “Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? 
²⁸ Why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, 
²⁹ yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. 
³⁰ But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
won’t he much more…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek first your kingdom today.

³¹ “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ 
³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 
³³ But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. 
³⁴ Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious…

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well”

Authors Adam Bucko and Rory McEntee envision what a “new monasticism” could mean today:  

Monastic [life], then, represents for us a complete commitment to the transformative journey, … which takes us into the fullness of our humanity, allowing divinity to flower within us in increasing degrees of love, compassion, joy, sorrow, and wisdom. The monastic is the one who devotes his or her life to this ideal, and allows all life decisions to flow out…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be generous in the measure we use for those around us today

¹ “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. 
² For with whatever judgement you judge, you will be judged;
and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to see our own imperfections today and deal with them

³ Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye,
but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? 
⁴ Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’
and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 
⁵ You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye,
and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

3 ‘Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be careful today and to be able to discern when to hold back in relationships

⁶ “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs,
neither throw your pearls before the pigs,
lest perhaps they trample them under their feet,
and turn and tear you to pieces.

Heavenly father
give us grace to ask, seek and knock today. 

⁷ “Ask, and it will be given you.
Seek, and you will find.
Knock, and it will be opened for you. 
⁸ For everyone who asks receives.
He who seeks finds.
To him who knocks it will be opened. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to desire good today, for ourselves and for others

⁹ Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 
¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 
¹¹ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 
¹² Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek today the way that leads to life, particularly when others do not.

¹³ “Enter in by the narrow gate;
for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction,
and there are many who enter in by it. 
¹⁴ How the gate is narrow and the way is restricted that leads to life!
There are few who find it.