Daily Bible Verses

I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:16-18)

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May you be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God

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As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4:1–3

We’re told Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. But it doesn’t always feel that way.
 
In recent days, perhaps your patience has been tried by a family member who’s staying with you: they’ve constantly complained…

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to…

‘And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.’  EPHESIANS 6:18
 

Jesus, I pray for my brothers and sisters in Christ – especially those who are being persecuted.

Another way that Christians have sought to pray continually is to practise the presence of God throughout their day. This means developing a joyful awareness of God’s presence in all the activities of the day and…

The king gave a banquet lasting seven days. […] The garden had hangings of linen, fastened to silver rings on marble pillars. […] There were couches of gold and silver. Served in goblets of gold, the royal wine was abundant. […] On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits, he commanded that Queen Vashti be brought before him, in order to display her beauty. But Queen Vashti refused to come.  ESTHER 1:5, 6a, 7, 11–12

Margaret Killingray from London Institute for Contemporary Christianity writes: 

The…

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?’

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3:13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews – young and old, women and children – on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

8:7 King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther … . …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be fruitful whatever our circumstances (Egypt), particularly in the fruit of the spirit of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness and Self Control

1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be afraid (particularly if what we are afraid of could be a figment of our immagination)

8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. 
9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 
10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to find hope when we are afflicted. 

12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. 
They started to dread the children of Israel. 
13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 
14…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to fear you and have the courage to do what is right

15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 
16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, 
if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know when is the time to wait and not take drastic action 

1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 
2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into your hand those things which are beyond our ability to  sort out

3 When she could no longer hide him, 
she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. 
She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. 
4 His sister…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow ourselves to be motivated by compassion. 

5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. 
Her maidens walked along by the riverside. 
She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. 
6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be creative in the way in which we face difficult situations.

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, 
“Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
The young woman went and called the child’s mother.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to pass responsibility to others at the appropriate time. 

10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. 
She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to refrain from overcoming evil with evil

11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. 
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 
12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into practice doing the good things that we notice others doing and not doing the wrong things that we notice others doing. 

13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. 
He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
14 He said, “Who made you a prince and a…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 The shepherds came and drove…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be aware of and respond to the needs of others

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 
17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice hospitality

18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be a blessing to those who live as foreigners in a a foreign land 

21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. 
22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to cry out to you in assurance that you hear our groanings. 

23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to go about the normal work of life knowing that you will guide us and be present with us

¹ Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, 
and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to open our eyes to see your work in the world. 

² Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. ³ Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to

⁴ When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”
He said, “Here I am.”
⁵ He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.” 
⁶ Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of…

‘Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

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‘You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.’   EXODUS 20:17
 
Holy Spirit, please may I be mindful of any tendency to compare myself to others. Forgive any attitude of entitlement or envy.

Research has shown that the practice of gratitude as a discipline protects a person from the destructive impulses of envy, resentment, greed, and bitterness.…

⁷ Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the ‘tent of meeting’. Anyone enquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.  ¹¹ The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

¹² Moses said to the Lord, ‘You have been telling me, “Lead these…

Then Moses said to the Israelites, ‘See, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills – to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver, and bronze,  to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of artistic crafts.’  (Exodus 35:30–33) 

Dr John Dennison from London Institute for Contemporary Christianity writes: 

In Bezalel we have an example of a human…

19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

²⁶ So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, ²⁷ for all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 

4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, (Galatians 4:4) 

Richard Rohr reflects: 

Since the very beginning of time, God’s Spirit has been revealing its glory and goodness through the physical creation. Christians believe that this universal Christ presence was later “born of a woman under the law” (Galatians 4:4) in a moment of chronological time. This is the great Christian leap of faith!  

We daringly believe that God’s presence was poured into a single human…

¹ Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³ For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴ But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else. ⁵ For each man will bear his own burden.

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⁷ Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹ Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up. ¹⁰ So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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 earth was formless  
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1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

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