Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace to rejoice in forgiveness today (both ours and others’)

²¹ Remember these things, Jacob and Israel;
    for you are my servant.
    I have formed you.
    You are my servant.
    Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
²² I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to see your glory of your love today and for your love to be in us. 

²⁴ Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am,
that they may see my glory, which you have given me,
for you loved me before the foundation of the world. 
²⁵ Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you,
but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. …

Heavenly father
give us grace to live life in all its fullness, and not be led into temptation of doing anything which is the opposite of life.

²  Judah took a Canaanite woman as his wife, . ³ who bore him sons named Er, ⁴  Onan. ⁵  and Shelah. ⁶ Judah took a wife for Er, and her name was Tamar. 
⁷ Er was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him. …

Jesus Prays on the Mount of Olives & is arrested

39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. 40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” 41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” 43 An angel from…

Heavenly father
give us grace to desire to live honourably in all things, to care for those entrusted to us with joy, and to submit to those in authority over us.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account,
that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

¹⁸ Pray for us, for we are…

¹ God, you are my God.
    I will earnestly seek you.
My soul thirsts for you.
    My flesh longs for you,
    in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
² So I have seen you in the sanctuary,
    watching your power and your glory.
³ Because your loving kindness is better than life,
    my lips shall praise…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see in perspective all that we have made and all that we hold dear, so that they may not take your place. 

⁹ Everyone who makes a carved image is vain.
    The things that they delight in will not profit.
 ¹¹ Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed;
    and the workmen are mere men.
Let them all be gathered together.
 …

Heavenly father
give us grace so to live in you that we may be one with our brothers and sisters in you. 

²⁰ Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, 
²¹ that they may all be one;
even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you,
that they also may be one in us;
that the world may believe that you sent me. 
²² The glory which you have given me, I have…

Heavenly father
give us grace not to lose hope in grief and mourning, thanking you that you are working your purposes out. 

²⁹ Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes. 
³⁰ He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?” 
³¹ They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood. 
…

27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” 

28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 

29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” 

Heavenly father
give us grace to live with our eyes fixed on heaven, giving allegiance to you through being generous.

¹⁰ We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat. 
¹¹ For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin,
are burned outside of the camp.
¹² Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the…

⁹ Surely men of low degree are just a breath,
    and men of high degree are a lie.
In the balances they will go up.
    They are together lighter than a breath.
¹⁰ Don’t trust in oppression.
    Don’t become vain in robbery.
If riches increase,
    don’t set your heart on them.
¹¹ God has spoken once;
 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to stand firm on you as our Rock so that we will not be afraid of anything today

⁶ This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel,
    and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:
“I am the first, and I am the last;
    and besides me there is no God.
⁷ Who is like me?
    Who will call,
    and will declare it,
 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to live truthfully today

¹⁶ They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 
¹⁷ Sanctify them in your truth.
Your word is truth.
¹⁸ As you sent me into the world,
even so I have sent them into the world. 
¹⁹ For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 

Heavenly father
give us grace not to lose hope, giving thanks for your provision through people going about their business (ishmaelites)

 ²³ When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic of many colours ; 
²⁴ and they took him, and threw him into the pit which was empty.
²⁵ They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites
bearing spices…

21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God…

Heavenly father
give us grace to look to Jesus who is the same yesterday, today and forever  and to consider the faith of those who have told us about him in their words and their deeds

⁷ Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God,
and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. 
⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. …

⁵ My soul, wait in silence for God alone,
    for my expectation is from him.
⁶ He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.
    I will not be shaken.
⁷ My salvation and my honour is with God.
    The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
⁸ Trust in him at all times, you people.
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to receive the living water of your Spirit, so that we would bring glory to you today 

1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,
    and Israel, whom I have chosen.
² This is what Yahweh who made you,
    and formed you from the womb,
    who will help you says:
“Don’t be…

Heavenly father
give us grace to have your joy made full in us today, particularly in the face of temptation
and keep us safe from the evil one

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.
I have kept those whom you have given me.
None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 
¹³ But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world,
that they may…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to do what is good particularly when others are not (like Reuben)

¹² His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. 
¹³ Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.”
He said to him, “Here I am.”
¹⁴ He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word…

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!”

Heavenly father
give us grace to be free from the love of money and to be content with what we have

⁵ Be free from the love of money,
content with such things as you have, for he has said,
“I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
⁶ So that with good courage we say,
“The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.  What can man do to me…

¹ My soul rests in God alone.
    My salvation is from him.
² He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress.
    I will never be greatly shaken.
³ How long will you assault a man?
    Would all of you throw him down,
    like a leaning wall, like a…

Heavenly father
give us grace to acknowledge our sins so that they may be blotted out and forgiven. 

²⁵ I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;
    and I will not remember your sins.
²⁶ Put me in remembrance.
    Let us plead together.
Declare your case,
    that you may be justified.

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