Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate to those who suffer economic injustice

²¹ They will build houses and inhabit them.
    They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² They will not build and another inhabit.
    They will not plant and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice righteousness today

²⁸ Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 
²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Heavenly father
give us grace today to talk about the hope we have, particularly when we sense that we are childlike in our understanding.  

¹⁴ The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵ But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ they were indignant.
¹⁶ ‘Do you…

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel was among those who call on his name.
    They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
⁷ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
    They kept his testimonies,
    the statute that he gave them.
⁸ You answered them, Yahweh our God.
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to pray constantly

¹² Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those selling doves. ¹³ ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ‘“My house will be called a house of prayer,” but you are making it “a den of robbers.”’

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate towards those who carry immense sorrow

²⁰ “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
    nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
    and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow the anointing of your spirit to remain in us today, and to learn from you

²⁶ These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray. 
²⁷ As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you.
But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to follow in the steps of Jesus, doing everything in the name of the Lord

⁹ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’
‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
¹⁰ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, ‘Who is this?’
¹¹ The…

¹⁹ Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, ²¹ and having a great priest over God’s house, ²² let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, ^23…

⁴ The King’s strength also loves justice.
    You establish equity.
    You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
⁵ Exalt Yahweh our God.
    Worship at his footstool.
    He is Holy!

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be attentive to what you ask us to do and to do it. 

⁶ The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 
⁷ They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. 
⁸ A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in the hope of a new heaven and a new earth

¹⁷ “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
    and the former things will not be remembered,
    nor come into mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
    for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
    …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to remain in you

²⁴ Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning.
If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father. 
²⁵ This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life. 

Heavenly father
give us grace today to use any power that we have with gentleness

⁴ This took place to fulfil what was spoken through the prophet:
⁵ ‘Say to Daughter Zion, “See, your king comes to you,
gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”’

The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;
    the righteous run to it and are safe.

¹ Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
    He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
    Let the earth be moved.
² Yahweh is great in Zion.
    He is high above all the peoples.
³ Let them praise your great and awesome name.
    He is Holy!

Heavenly father
give us grace today to bring to you the resources we have for your use. 

¹ As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, ² saying to them, 
‘Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her.
Untie them and bring them to me. 
³ If anyone says anything to you, say…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to all, including ourselves

^{[There will be an end to unrighteousness]
15} You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.

^{[But righteousness is altogether different]]}
He will call his servants by another name,
¹⁶     so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be truthful

²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. 
²¹ I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth,
but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 
²² Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?
This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 
²³ Whoever…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be moved with compassion to others

³² Jesus stood still and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”
³³ They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”
³⁴ Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
    Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
    I will strengthen you.
    Yes, I will help you.
    Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

⁴ Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth!
    Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
⁵ Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp,
    with the harp and the voice of melody.
⁶ With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn,
    make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
⁷ Let the sea roar with its fullness;
  …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be honest before you about our needs

²⁹ As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. 
³⁰ Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out,
“Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!” 
³¹ The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to serve you and other people

¹³ Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,“Behold, my servants will eat,
    but you will be hungry;
behold, my servants will drink,
    but you will be thirsty.
Behold, my servants will rejoice,
    but you will be disappointed;
¹⁴ Behold, my…