Daily Bible Verses

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  • Isaiah 58v9-10

    Heavenly Father
    give us grace today to turn away from looking down on others, and put our hearts into caring for others

    “If you take away from among you the yoke,
        finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
    10 and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
        and satisfy the afflicted soul,
    then your light will rise in darkness,
        and your obscurity will be as…

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  • 1 Peter 5v7

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to ……

    cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

     

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  • 15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

    17 Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that…

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  • Psalm 89v11-13

    11 The heavens are yours.
        The earth also is yours,
       
     the world and its fullness.
        You have founded them.
    12 You have created the north and the south.
        Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
    13 You have a mighty arm.
       
     Your hand is strong…

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  • Matthew 13v28-30

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today tol live at peace alongside all that is good and all that is not good in the world. 

    28 “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

    29 “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. 
    30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,…

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  • Isaiah 58v6-9

    Heavenly Father
    give us grace today to give to those in need and to work towards freeing the oppressed

    “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
        to release the bonds of wickedness,
        to undo the straps of the yoke,
        to let the oppressed go free,
        and that you break every yoke?
    Isn’t it to distribute your bread…

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  • 1 Peter 5v5-6

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to subject ourselves to others, walking humbly under your mighty hand


    Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder.
    Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another;
    for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
    Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time…

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  • Matthew 13v24-28

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to trust you when bad things happen

    24 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. 26 But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also. 27 The…

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  • 1 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore judge…

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  • Psalm 89v8-10

    Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
        Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
    You rule the pride of the sea.
        When its waves rise up, you calm them.
    10 You have broken Rahab [Egypt, probably] in pieces, like one of the slain. 
        You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

  • Matthew 13v23

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to hear and understand the word of the Kingdom of God, so that we may bear fruit abundantly

    23 What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

     

  • Isaiah 58v1-5

    Heavenly Father
    give us grace today to be humble and become aware of any disobedience in ourselves so that our sin may be burnt away and become like ash.  

    “Cry aloud! Don’t spare!
        Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
    Declare to my people their disobedience,
        and to the house of Jacob their sins.
    Yet they seek me daily,
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  • 1 Peter 5v1-4

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to fulfil our own calling today willingly, humbly and faithfully

    Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed: 
    Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; 
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  • Matthew 13v22

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to avoid the deceitfulness of riches

    22 What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 

  • Psalm 89v5-7

    The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,
        your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
    For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
        Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
    a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
        to be feared above all those who are…

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  • Matthew 13v20-21

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to allow your words to us take root in the way in which we live today.

    20 What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 

  • Isaiah 57v18-21

    Heavenly Father
    give us grace today to have a contrite and humble spirit so that we may have peace in our hearts, and may be a channel of peace to those who are far off, and to those who are near. 

    18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him.   [who is of a contrite and humble spirit, from verse 15]
        I will lead him also,
        and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
    19 I…

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  • 1 Peter 4v16-19

    Heavenly father give us grace today to entrust our souls to you, particularly when we find ourselves in trouble. 

    16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. 
    17 For the time has come for judgement to begin with the household of God.
    If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God? 
    18 “If it is…

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  • Matthew 13v18-19

    (Ignore previous email)

    Heavenly Father
    Give us grace today to understand what you say to us in our hearts

    18 “Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. 19 When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. 

  • Variety: 1 Peter 2

    1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a…

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  • Psalm 89v3-4

    “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
        I have sworn to David, my servant,
    ‘I will establish your offspring forever,   
        and build up your throne to all generations.’” 
    [and Jesus is David’s descendant]

    Give us grace today to live in Jesus’ kingdom 

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  • Matthew 13v16-17

    Heavenly father
    give us grace today to be thankful for everything we have have been given.

    16 “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. 
    17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men
    desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them;
    and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

  • Isaiah 57v16-17

    Heavenly Father
    give us grace today to know when to let go of our anger, as you let go of yours. 

    16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;
        for the spirit would faint before me,
        and the souls whom I have made.
    17 I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.
        I hid myself and was…

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  • 1 Peter 4v15

    Heavenly father give us grace to do good today, particularly in our interaction with other people 

    15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other people’s matters

  • Matthew 13v13-15

    (Sorry for wrong version sent out earlier)

    Heavenly father
    give us grace to live today with our eyes open and ears attentive, so that we may understand and find healing for when our hearts are callous, our ears dull of hearing and our eyes wide shut. 

    13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see,
    and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. 
    14…

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