Daily Bible Verses

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
    and grieved him in the desert!
⁴¹ They turned again and tempted God,
    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They didn’t remember his hand,
    nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt: ^44…

Heavenly father
give us grace to follow your Son, Jesus today, particularly in the face of tragedy.  

²¹ Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace to know you and your justice today and have no part in oppression.

¹Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
    Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:
    for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. [and oppress you]
² Shake yourself from the dust!
    Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose faith and hope are in you, particularly when faced with anything that is at all deadly

¹⁸ [live] knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 
¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, 
²⁰ who was foreknown indeed…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those whose who live in the kingdom of heaven 

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
¹⁹ A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
²⁰ Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”…

1 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
    let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;
    turn your ear to me and save me.
3 Be my rock of refuge,
    to which I can always go;
give the command to save me,
    for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
 …

[God gave the Israelites mannah and quail to eat in the wilderness]

²⁹ So they ate, and were well filled.
    He gave them their own desire.
³⁰ They didn’t turn from their cravings. [presumably something other than the mannah and quail]
    Their food was yet in their mouths,
³¹     when the anger of God went up against…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be unafraid when confronted with all forms of mental illness, and respond to the person graciously. 

¹⁶ When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons.
He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 
¹⁷ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
“He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”

…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust in your justice today

[The consequences of turning from the peaceful and righteous way of the Lord apply to all people.  
In this case this has happened to the people of Jerusalem (in the shape of desolation, destruction, famine and sword),
but it will also happen to those who have walked over and afflicted them]

¹⁷ Awake, awake!
    Stand up, Jerusalem,
 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to walk humbly before you today, rejecting all other useless ways of life

¹⁷ If you call on him as Father,
who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work,
pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, 
¹⁸ knowing that you were redeemed,
not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to allow ourselves to be touched by you, and then to touch others with the same grace as we serve them

¹⁴ When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. 
¹⁵ He touched her hand, and the fever left her. So she got up and served him. 

²¹ But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; ²² even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, ²³ for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; ²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; ^25 …

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
    They returned and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their rock,
    the Most High God, their redeemer.
³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth,
    and lied to him with their tongue.
³⁷ For their heart was not right with him,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today as those who belong to the household of faith, lest we fall into faith-less habits and find ourselves in a dark place

¹⁰ When Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to those who followed, 
“Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel. 
¹¹ I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live as your children so that your kingdom may come on earth as it is in heaven. 

¹⁶ I have put my words in your mouth
    and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
that I may plant the heavens,
    and lay the foundations of the earth,
    and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be pure in our thoughts and then in our actions today.

¹³ Therefore prepare your minds for action. 
Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— 
¹⁴ as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 
¹⁵ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to voice our deepest needs and our highest hopes. 

⁵ When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help, 
⁶ saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”
⁷ Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
⁸ The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof.…

Heavenly father
give us grace to dare to put our hopes into words and listen to your response

¹ When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. 
² Behold, a leper came to him and worshipped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

³ Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to turn to you when we have problems, particularly when we are trapped, when we face death and when our resources fail. 

¹⁴ The captive exile will speedily be freed.
    He will not die and go down into the pit.
    His bread won’t fail.
¹⁵ For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace to live as those who are set free from the fear that we are alone when we suffer
and those who live in the glorious freedom of the risen Christ

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently.
They prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 
¹¹ searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ,
which was in them, pointed to, when he…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to what we know you are calling us to do today 

²⁴ “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them,
I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock. 
²⁵ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house;
and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock. 
²⁶ Everyone who hears these words of mine and…

6 I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
7 I would flee far away and stay in the desert;
8 I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.”

²² they didn’t believe in God,
    and didn’t trust in his salvation.
²³ Yet he commanded the skies above,
    and opened the doors of heaven.
²⁴ He rained down manna on them to eat,
    and gave them food from the sky.
²⁵ Man ate the bread of angels.
    He sent them food to the full.
^26 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to do your will today 

²¹ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,
but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 
²² Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name,
in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 
²³ Then I will tell them, ‘I…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to not be afraid today, but to find comfort in you. 

¹² “I, even I, am he who comforts you.
    Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,
    and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
¹³ Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker,
    who stretched out the heavens,
    …