Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be dead to sin today, so that we may walk in newness of life

(^5:20 where sin abounded, grace over abounded)

^6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
²…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be alive today to everything that is good, and dead to everything that is not

⁷For he who has died has been freed from sin.
⁸But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
⁹…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be instruments of righteousness today

^6:12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body,
that you should obey it in its lusts.
¹³Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness,
but present…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace today to be obedient to you from the heart

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace?
May it never be!
¹⁶Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone,
you are the servants of whomever you obey;
whether of sin to…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live as your servants today, free from sin.

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh,
for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness
and to wickedness upon wickedness,
even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
²⁰…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be joined to you today, producing your fruit

¹Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law),
that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
²For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives,
but if the…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in the spirit of Jesus, and so be free of sin and death

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
²For the law of the Spirit of…

June 2 Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live by the spirit of your laws rather than the letter

^7:6But now we have been discharged from the law,
having died to that in which we were held;
so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to face up to our failings today.

¹⁰The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
¹¹for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me,
and 5through it killed me.
¹²…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to serve you today.

²¹I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
²³but I see a different law in my…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace, to be in Christ today, so that, by your Spirit, we put to death the deeds of the body

⁸Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of…

Heavenly Father, Send your spirit on us to that we may live in hope and liberty

¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”…

Heavenly Father, send your spirit on us in our weakness, so that we may live in hope.

²²For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
²³Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be conformed to the image of your Son today

²⁸We know that all things work together for good for those who love God,
for those who are called according to his purpose.
²⁹For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son,
…

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) 

God is not in competition with anybody, but only in deep-time cooperation with everybody who loves. Whenever we place one caring foot forward, God uses it, sustains it, and blesses it. 

Love  is this center drawn to that center; this person drawn…

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Gerry Hughes (1924–2014) in  …

From the beginning of time until now, the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of giving birth. —Romans 8:22 

Richard Rohr writes of an evolutionary faith informed by Scripture and a foundational trust in God’s never-ending love and creativity:  

In this passage, St. Paul seems to fully acknowledge evolution. It’s always seemed completely strange to me that there should be any resistance whatsoever to evolution or evolutionary thinking in Christian theology or practice. Christians should have been the first in line to recognize…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in the love of Jesus today

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
³⁶Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long.
 We…

12 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. 
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Nonviolence teacher Ken Butigan understands God’s love to be at the center of nonviolence. 

Our true calling is to love one another as God has loved us. When we take this seriously, we are transformed into lovers who care for all beings. In practical terms this means resisting the tendency of the violence system to divide the world into various enemy camps. A fundamental script of this system is to separate “us” from “them”: … those who are worthy of our love and those…

‘The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them’ (Romans 14:3–4).

Sometimes there can be friction between those of us who count calories and those of us who don’t, because both groups can be tempted to look down on the other group. 

When speaking to the divided Roman church on this very topic, Paul said: ‘The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not…

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. ³ For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”Psalm 69:9 ⁴ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through…

5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, 6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you,…

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-09-18-overflow-with-hope-r3

Do not press me to leave you 
or to turn back from following you! 
Where you go, I will go; 
where you lodge, I will lodge; 
your people shall be my people, 
and your God my God.  
Where you die, I will die— 
there will I be buried.
(Ruth 1:16–17) 

Theologian Julia Lambert Fogg presents a biblical story of intergenerational immigration: 

Ruth is the story of a mother and a daughter-in-law who cross borders, lose their husbands, immigrate and emigrate, and ultimately help each other survive even…

12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.’

Dear Lord, We thank-you so much for your Promise that this present Storm/Winter we are in will pass, that the season of Spring will come again. Help us to look up and see what you are doing and the courage to get up and go with you when you call us out of one season of our lives into another.  Amen.

11See! The winter is past;
    the rains are over and gone.
¹² Flowers appear on the earth;
    the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
    is heard in…

1 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their…

3 Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, 2 to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.

3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we…

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 roused himself from his holy habitation!”

17 The Lord your God is with you,

    the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
    in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
    but will rejoice over you with singing.”