Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly Father, pour out your grace on me so that I may be attentive to the needs of others
* so that I may look after their interests
* and so that I may hear cries of injustice.
* What I ask for myself I ask for those who fail to see the humanity in those affected by their actions.

⁹ Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

¹⁰ …

Heavenly Father
Make me a channel of your grace to those whose self inflicted misery is more than they can bear.

¹⁰ The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. ¹¹ Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. ¹² When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its…

Heavenly Father
* When things go well in my life and I have the benefits of food, leisure activities and technology,
* may I call out to you for the grace to see what is not good,
* particularly in any disproportionate, oppressive or ungracious response to those who have hurt me.

¹⁷ Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.
Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 
¹⁸ …

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, after his image, and named him Seth

The first humans lived a long time.  The male…

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 of man was great in the earth, & that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart…

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 Yahweh said to Noah (⁶ who was 600 years old) , “Come with all of your…

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”)

¹ Yahweh said to Noah (⁶ who was 600 years old) , “Come with all of your household into…

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 The waters continually receded from the earth.  ⁴ 5…

Heavenly Father
* Give me grace to be thankful for all the resources in the world, particularly those that have life within them;
* give me grace to respect all life; and
* give me grace to respect all those who are made in your image.

¹ God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 

² The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky.
…

Heavenly Father give me grace to turn away from what is indiscriminately destructive
* Give me grace to value interdependence with all of your creatures

⁸ God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 
⁹ “I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature of the earth. 
¹¹  …