Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly father
give us grace to be forgiving today

¹⁴ “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 
¹⁵ But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Heavenly father
give us grace to focus on you when no one is looking (and when they are!)

¹⁶ “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces.
For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting.
Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. 
¹⁷ But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 
¹⁸ so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret;
and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you…

Heavenly father
give us grace to treasure the things of heaven in our hearts today.  

¹⁹ “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; 
²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; 
²¹ for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Heavenly father
give us grace to see the light today

²² “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 
²³ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Heavenly father
give us grace to use money today in the context of serving you, rather than using you to serve money.

²⁴ “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You can’t serve both God and Mammon. 
²⁵ Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink;
nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 
²⁶ See…

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 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labour…

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.