Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace in the face of civil unrest, international catastrophe and natural disaster, to have hope for a day of blessing, when all people (Egypt, Assyria and Israel) will be blessed

¹  “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. 
² I will stir up the Egyptians against the…

¹ Fight, Yahweh,  against those who fight against me.
³  Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
⁴ Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed
⁷ For without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

⁹ My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh.
    It shall rejoice in his salvation.
…

¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up who ¹²  reward me evil for good,
¹³     for when they were sick,
¹⁴     I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

¹⁵ But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.
  …

Heavenly father
* give us grace to hear your words and not be afraid
* give us grace to have hope and to believe in you

¹  Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,  I am your exceedingly great reward.”
² …

¹¹ Come, you children, listen to me.
    I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good.
    seek peace, and pursue it.

¹⁸ Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart,
    and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
^19 …

¹ Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous!
    ² Give thanks to Yahweh  and sing praises to him.
⁴ For Yahweh’s word is right.
    All his work is done in faithfulness.
⁵ He…

¹ Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
    whose sin is covered ²  and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
³ When I kept silence before you
    ⁴  your hand was heavy on me and my strength was sapped. (Pause).…

Heavenly father
give us grace when we are tempted to give up hope, to trust in you.

⁶⁰ Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this (that those who eat Jesus’ flesh and drinks his blood live in him, and he in them.), said,
“This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
⁶¹ But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples…

Heavenly father
give us grace to depart from all unrighteousness (including empty chatter) so that we may be prepared for every good work today.

¹⁵ Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. ¹⁶ But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in…

Heavenly father
give us grace to cling on to hope in the face of sorrow, trouble and oppression.
give us grace to turn away from arrogance and from anything which puts down others.

¹ Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. …

Heavenly father

• give us grace to trust in you in times when you seem absent (unlike Abram and Sarai in their barren-ness)
• give us grace to take responsibility for our own actions (unlike Sarai)
• give us grace to hear you speaking to us in difficult circumstances (like Hagar)

¹ Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. ² …

Heavenly father

give us grace to desire to do your will and to seek your glory
and thank you for the understanding and truth that will flow as a result.

¹⁴ But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 
¹⁵ The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”

¹⁶ Jesus…

Heavenly father

give us grace to have compassion for those who are suffering as a result of their own sins
give us grace to repent of our own pride - pride which leads to oppression and wrath.

^15:1 In a night, Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab!

^16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! 
⁴  For the…

¹⁶ There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.
    A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
¹⁸ Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him,
    on those who hope in his loving kindness,
¹⁹     to deliver their soul from death,
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace to discern when healthy love of self turns to something unhealthy, arrogant and abusive
give us grace in our families to be respectful, thankful and affectionate

¹ But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,  blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection…

Heavenly father
give us grace to walk before you and be blameless
and thank you for your covenant with those who do so, to be at home on earth with you as our God

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. 
² I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”…

Heavenly father
give us grace to judge between what is good and what it not good in our traditions and habits.
and give us grace to look beyond superficial appearances

(While people at the time were right to generally do no work on the seventh day, they failed to see that healing someone might be the right thing to do, even on the Sabbath)

¹⁹ Jesus said  Didn’t Moses give you the…

Heavenly father
give us grace to turn to you for strength and worship you alone

¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength.
⁹ your strong cities will be a desolation.  and ¹¹ you will have a harvest of grief and of desperate sorrow.

⁷ In that day, people will look to…

¹  I will bless Yahweh at all times.
⁴ I sought Yahweh, and he answered me,
    and delivered me from all my fears.
⁶ This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him,
    and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁸ Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good.
    Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.…

¹⁹ Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
    ²⁰  they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
²² You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent.
    Lord, don’t be far from me.

²³ Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! ²⁴ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to learn from the faith, patience, love and steadfastness of others;
give us grace to hope that you will deliver us out of all our adversities; and
deliver us from being deceived and deceiving.

¹⁰ But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, 
¹¹ persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra.
I…

Heavenly father
* give us grace to hold on to the hopes and dreams which you give us, particularly when we are aware of the difficult realities which face us.
* give us grace to hold on to the fact that you alone are our ultimate hope

⁷ Yahweh said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
^8…

¹⁰ Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
    He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
¹¹ The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever,
    the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh…

Heavenly father, when we are afflicted give us grace to be a blessing to those who are poor, needy and afflicted.

²⁸ This burden was in the year that king Ahaz (of Judah) died (in whose reign Philistia had oppressed parts of Judah)
²⁹ Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his…

Heavenly father
give us grace to hold on to our hope when we are aware of darkness, and when we are frustrated that the light isn’t move visible.

¹ After these things (when Peter had said “We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God”) , Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ^…

Heavenly father, give me grace to fear only you, so that I may fear no one else, for I know that if I trust in anyone or anything other than you, so I shall stumble and fall.

⁵ The Lord spoke to me again: ⁶ “Because the people of Judah are not satisfied with adequate resources I have given them (e.g. the rivers of their own country) and melt with fear at their militarily…

Heavenly Father
give me grace to not loose the desire to be well, and the courage to do the things I fear that I cannot do; and
make me a channel of your grace to those who have lost hope and courage .

John 5

¹ After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five…

Heavenly Father
In the storms of life, give me grace to know that you remember me and grace to be patient as I wait for the flood waters to subside.
In the face of evil, give me grace to smell the sweet aroma of the love that is also in humankind.

¹ God remembered Noah and all the animals that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.    ^3 …

Heavenly Father give me grace to care for members of my family.

¹ Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; ² the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. ³ Honor widows who are widows indeed. ⁴ But if any widow…

¹ I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
² Yahweh is my rock, in whom I take refuge;
³ I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
    and I am saved from my enemies.

⁴ The cords of death surrounded me.
⁶ In my distress I…

Heavenly Father give me grace to hear and understand what needs to be done
Give me grace to say “Here am I.  Send me”
Give me grace to do this particularly when the outlook is bleak, and what I do will make little difference.

⁸ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

(People just don’t want to…

Heavenly Father, give me grace
            to speak goodness to others, with love and faithfulness;
            to be pure in my words and deeds;
            to use the gifts you have given me; and
            to pay attention to myself.

^…

Heavenly Father give me grace:

• to not let familiarity with you stop me hearing what you have to say to me.
• to take you at your word, and to get on with life on the assumption that what I have heard is true.

⁴³ After the two days he left for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country.) ⁴⁵ …

Heavenly father
* give us grace to be patient and gentle with whom we disagree; and
* give us teachable spirits.

²³ But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. ²⁴ The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient, ^25 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to turn away from our destructive desires, to call on you, and to fill our lives with righteousness, faith, love and peace.

²² Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 

In the beginning there was God, and no explanation is given, but rather just a state of affairs that we are invited to experience.

And God created - that is he brought into being something which had not existed.

God created everything, both what is unseen (the heavens) and what is seen (the earth).

All was not completely satisfactory in four different ways.

            the…

Heavenly Father, when I see the wickedness, corruption and violence of human kind, and am grieved in my heart, and wish that such wickedness should not exist; I thank you that you feel the same way.
Thank you that you are able to see what is good in human kind and that you desire to live in covenant relationship with us.
Give me grace to walk with you today.

⁵ Yahweh saw that the wickedness…

Heavenly Father
* Give me grace to all people as being in your image
* and give me grace not just to live, but to walk with you, as Enoch did.

¹ In the day that God created people, he made them God’s likeness, both ²  male and female, and blessed them.
 ³ Adam then became the father of a son in his own likeness…

¹ Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea;
    Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
³  I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
⁴     I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
⁶ I have called on you, for you…

Heavenly Father
            in amongst all the destruction that takes place in this world,
            give me grace to do what is right
            and give me grace to allow you and others do what I cannot do (e.g. “close the door of the ark”)

Genesis chapter 7

¹ …

Prayer: Heavenly Father, when I make foolish decisions give me grace to hear your voice calling me;
and when others act foolishly and are afraid give me grace to call out to them in your name.

⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

⁸ Then the man and his wife…

When Genesis says that God created the heavens (what is unseen) and the earth (what is seen) it means that God created absolutely everything
When Genesis says that there was a tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it is talking about the knowledge of absolutely everything.

Why is it that the knowledge of absolutely everything leads to death?

• is it that knowledge is power, and that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”?
• is it…

Genesis 1: Creation summary:
* God speaks words of permission: “Let there be ….”
* What God permits then occurs “And there was …”  “And it was so”
* God separates - and makes things different and distinct
* God gives names to what is created so that they can be part of our lives
* God sees that…

Heavenly Father, give me grace to finish the work that I have been doing and rest for one day.

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
² By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 
³ Then God blessed the seventh day…

Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of life-giving water in all its forms: mist, rain and rivers. 
* Thank you too that “back in the day” you gave us the breath of life - that which makes us humans conscious living beings.

⁴ This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

…

Prayer: Heavenly Father,
* give grace to those we know who are married to be at one with each other.
* give grace to those we know who seek to be married to discern who it is right for them to marry
* give grace and comfort to those we know whose marriages ended in separation, divorce or death
* today and everyday

¹⁸ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to receive your love in our hearts
and give us grace to seek the glory that only comes from you.

³⁹ “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 
⁴⁰ Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 
⁴¹ I…

Heavenly Father
give us grace, to put to good use the resources at our disposal, however inadequate they seem.

¹ After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. ² A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. ^3 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be both generous to others and careful in our use of resources

¹⁰ Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. ¹¹ Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the…

Sometimes (Isaiah 1:15) this is what God has to say to people:

            ¹⁵When you stretch our your hands
            I will hide my eyes from you;
            Even through you make many prayers, I will not listen;

Wow!  Why is this?: It is because
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