Daily Bible Verses

‘Enter his gates with thanksgiving
    and his courts with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.’  PSALM 100:4 
 
Lord, I have so much to be grateful for… (list at least ten!)

Joy and gratitude are linked. Researcher Brené Brown found, without exception, that every person she interviewed who described living a joyful life…

Deep within them I will plant my law, writing it on their hearts. Then I will be their God and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33).

Richard Rohr presents the journey of the prophets as one that ends in trusting God’s unconditional love and grace. He uses the prophet Jeremiah as an example: 

The first covenant between YHWH and Israel appeared to be bilateral: “If you obey my voice and hold fast to my covenant, you of all the nations shall be my very own” (…

“From God’s fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” John 1:16 

Richard Rohr insists that grace is the essence of who God is.  

The goodness of God fills all the gaps of the universe, without discrimination or preference. God is the gratuity of absolutely everything. The space in between everything is not space at all but Spirit. God is the “goodness glue” that holds the dark and light of things together, the free energy that carries all death…

 ‘Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
 to loose the chains of injustice
 and untie the cords of the yoke,
 to set the oppressed free
 and break every yoke?
 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
 and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and…

‘You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.’   JOHN 15:14–15
 

Lord, I long for true friendship with you. Help me to hear your voice and obey your commands.

Pray Continually:…

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-03-10-the-spirit-during-lent-part-3-give-it-up-for-jesus-r25 

1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2…

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-03-21-hungry-r25 

19 ‘There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 …

‘For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him’ (Colossians 1:16).

Sam Brown, London Institute of Contemporary Christianity writes ….

When I was 17, I heard something on a podcast I’m still thinking about today.  

How do you account for the essential meaninglessness…

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, (Luke 4:1)
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life…

‘… and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’ MATTHEW 28:20
 

Lord Jesus, thank you that you are with me always. May I become more conscious of your presence.

Think how different our lives would be if we were constantly aware of God’s presence with us – his loving, welcoming presence. If we allowed his life to flow…

They will come with weeping;
    they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead them beside streams of water
    on a level path where they will not stumble,
…

18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20…

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labour:
10 if either of them falls down, one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who…

Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honour the emperor. (1 Peter 2:17)

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-03-3-do-you-want-to-walk-r25 …

Jesus Wept John 11:35

Richard Rohr considers Jesus a model of prophetic tears.  

The realisation that all things have tears, and most things deserve tears, might even be defined as a form of salvation from ourselves and from our illusions. The prophets knew and taught and modelled that anger must first be recognised, allowed—even loved!—as an expression of the deep, normally inaccessible sadness that each of us carry. Even Jesus, our enlightened one, “…

Blessed are you who weep now,
    for you will laugh. (Luke 6:21)

Richard Rohr describes the path of tears as one that leads to sympathy with suffering and communion with reality.

Are we the only animal that cries and sheds tears as an emotional response? It seems so, but what function do they serve…

So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

James Finley says:  

This is a paraphrase of …

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.’ 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16–18
 
Father, I want to live out my faith in every area of my life. Please help me use these three simple guidelines to do that.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-02-28-time-r25 

¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: ‘Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ Give ear,…

The tongue has the power of life and death,
    and those who love it will eat its fruit. (Proverbs 18:21)

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-02-24-words-of-life-r25

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,  (Luke 4v1)

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-03-5-the-spirit-during-lent-part-1-turning-on-the-power-r25 

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

John Ruusbroec’s famous text The Divine Espousals, describes intimate union with God “without difference”:  

In this storm of love two spirits struggle—the Spirit of God and our spirit. God, by means of the Holy Spirit, inclines [Godself] toward us, and we are thereby touched in love; our spirit, by means of God’s activity…

15 ‘Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognise them. Do people pick grapes from thorn-bushes, or figs from thistles?…

Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel explore how we can live out the biblical virtue of solidarity: 

While recognising the value of every vantage point, faith-rooted community organising also understands that a fair hearing of differing perspectives is necessary for truth to emerge. Fair hearings for those with low social status are hard to come by, however. In contrast to a society that gives inordinate weight to the perspective of those with more social status, we read…