Daily Bible Verses

¹ I rejoice in your strength and your salvation, Yahweh!
² You have given me my heart’s desire,

³ For you meet me with the blessings of goodness.
⁴ I asked life of you, you gave it to me, even length of days forever and ever.
⁶ You make me glad with joy in…

¹May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble.
²     send you help and ³ remember all your offerings and sacrifices.
⁴ May He grant you your heart’s desire

⁵ We will triumph in your salvation.
    In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.
…

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God and show his handiwork
² Day after day they pour out speech,
    and night after night they display knowledge.
⁴ Their voice has gone out through all the earth,
    their words to the end of the world.

^7 …

¹ I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
² Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;
    my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
    my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
³ I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
    and I am saved from my…

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 will answer me, God.
    …

¹My relationship with you, God, is my safe place,
 ²for it is the source of all goodness.

³I delight in seeing how your goodness flows in the lives of others
⁴and I turn away from other life sources which give rise to much sorrow

⁵ I…

¹ The earth is Yahweh’s, and those who dwell therein.
⁴ Those with a pure heart who have not lifted up their soul to falsehood, ⁵ shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, ⁶ whom they seek

The next bit was probably about  lifting out of the way the heavy doors in the temple…

¹ Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity.
    I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
² Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me.
    Try my heart and my mind.
³ For your loving kindness is before my eyes.
    I have walked in your truth.
…

¹³ Jesus went to celebrate God’s gift of freedom (in the feast of Passover) at the place set aside for worship (the temple).
¹⁴ Instead of being a place which focused on God and His gifts, the temple was a place focussed on things to be bought and sold.
^15-17 Jesus drove out those whose primary concern was money saying “Stop turning my…

Jesus taught us to pray “Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done on earth as it is in heaven”
The kingdom of heaven is of primary importance, what happens on earth is important but is secondary.
 How does that work out in practice:

¹ On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, ² and Jesus and his disciples had…

¹ In you, Yahweh, I take refuge, ³ for you are my rock and my fortress,
    therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
    ⁴ Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
    ⁵ Into your hand I commend my spirit.
⁶ I hate those who regard lying vanities,
    but I trust in Yahweh ^14…

¹ I will extol you, ² Yahweh my God, for I cried to you,
    and you healed me ³ and raised me up
⁴ Sing praise to Yahweh, and give thanks to his holy name.
⁵ For his anger is but for a moment.
    His favour is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
    …

¹ Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty,
    ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
² Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
    Worship Yahweh in holy array.

⁴ Yahweh’s voice is powerful.
    Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.
⁷ Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
⁸     Yahweh’s…

¹ To you, Yahweh, I call.
    My rock, don’t be deaf to me;
    lest, if you are silent to me,
    I would become like those who go down into the pit.
³ Don’t draw me away with the wicked, who speak peace with their neighbours,
    but mischief is in their hearts.

^6…

¹ Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
    Whom shall I fear?
Yahweh is the strength of my life.
    Of whom shall I be afraid?

³ Though an army should encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear.
Though war should rise against me,
    even then I will be confident.

⁴ One…

¹ To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.

⁴ Show me your ways and ⁵ Guide me in your truth,
    For you are the God of my salvation.

⁸ Good and upright is Yahweh,
    therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
⁹ He will guide the humble in justice.
¹⁰ All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth
^11 …

Lord God, who shall live with you?

² Those who do what is right,
speak the truth in their hearts;
⁴  despise all evil thoughts and actions
honour those fear God, and
are faithful…

Heavenly father,
open my heart to an understanding of the goodness that is only to be found in you,
that I may seek after you
and lead me not into the foolish temptation of thinking that there is no such goodness, and no such God

¹ The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
    They are corrupt.
    They have done abominable deeds…

^1-3Why do those with power seek to use it against people rather than for people?

^4-7From the perspective of our Father in Heaven, the one with real power, it is laughable that people should think that this is what power is for.

Laughable, this is, if it wasn’t so serious.
God rebukes them in his anger, and points them to how power is really exercised, by His Son on a hill top on…

Blessed are those who do not follow advice which is based on wanting to do others down
Blessed are those who don’t stop attempting to do what is right.
Blessed are those who don’t ridicule what is loving and good.
Blessed are those who delight in who God is, as shown in the bible.
Blessed are those who day and night think about
* the one who brings peace to families (like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)
* the one who brings peace to those who are abused (like Hebrew slaves in…

Heavenly father
give us grace to die to the things of this world so that we might live in Your song
and thank you that when we are faithless in this, Jesus is still faithful.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring^[a] of David, according to my Good News, ^9…

Heavenly father
give us grace to serve you today with a pure conscience.
give grace today to those whose sincere faith nurtured us in the faith.

³ I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day ⁴ longing to…

Heavenly father
stir up in us your gifts of power, love and self control.

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to know your Son, the bringer of life and immortality

⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful and loving today through your Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

¹³ Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us…