Daily Bible Verses

¹ Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
    you who lead Joseph like a flock,
    you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might!
    Come to save us!
³ Turn us again, God.
    Cause your face to shine,
    and we will be saved.

Heavenly father
give us grace to believe and trust in you today.  

²⁷ As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!” 
²⁸ When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
²⁹ Then he…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live in peace and wholeness today.

⁴ Surely he has borne our sickness
    and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued,
    struck by God, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions.
    He was crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
  …

Heavenly father
give us grace today to abstain from all those things which war against our souls.. 

¹¹ Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims,
to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 
¹² having good behaviour among the nations,
so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, 
they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

…

Heavenly father
give us grace to receive and give your life giving touch  today. 

²³ When Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder, 
²⁴ he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.”
They were ridiculing him. 
²⁵ But when the crowd was sent out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.…

¹ I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people – ² for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ³ This is good, and pleases God our Saviour, ⁴ who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God and one mediator between…

¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
    According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
¹² Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom
    their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
¹³ So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
    will give you thanks forever.
   …

Heavenly father
give us grace to trust in the wholeness flows from you

²⁰ Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; 
²¹ for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”
²² But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” 
And…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be open to and respect our real source of power 

¹ Who has believed our message?
    To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed? 

[Note: arm denotes God’s power to deliver, support, conquer. e.g. His “outstretched arm” delivered Israel from Egypt ]
² For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
    and as a…

Heavenly father
give us grace for us to live in you, and for you to live in us, so that we communicate your goodness in what we do and say today 

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a people for God’s own possession,
that you may proclaim the excellence of him
who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. 
¹⁰ In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to face up to both our deepest needs and also your love and power

¹⁸ While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshipped him, saying,
“My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
¹⁹ Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples. 

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God.
    The expanse shows his handiwork.
² Day after day they pour out speech,
    and night after night they display knowledge.
³ There is no speech nor language,
    where their voice is not heard.
⁴ Their voice has gone out through all the earth,
    their words to the end of the…

⁸ Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
    Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
    for we are in desperate need.
⁹ Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
    Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
¹⁰ Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
    Let it be known among the…

Heavenly father
give us grace to make sure that our lives always have room for you. 

¹⁶ No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment;
for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. 
¹⁷ Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins,
or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined.
No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace to have time today to open our eyes to see your glory in unexpected places.

¹³ Behold, my servant will deal wisely.
    He will be exalted and lifted up,
    and will be very high.
¹⁴ Just as many were astonished at you—
    his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—
¹⁵ so he will…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to obedient to your commands and promptings today

⁷ For you who believe therefore is the honour, but for those who are disobedient,

“The stone which the builders rejected
    has become the chief cornerstone,”

⁸ and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offence.”

For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. 

…

Heavenly father
give us grace to mourn in all situations where the absence of your grace and love is most accute

¹⁴ Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
¹⁵ Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.…

³¹ The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. ³² He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. ³³ Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. ³⁴ For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit…

¹ God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
    They have defiled your holy temple.
    They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
    the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
³ They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
    There…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be channels of your grace today particularly to those who have lost their way

¹⁰ As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. 
¹¹ When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
¹² When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to distance ourselves from all that is unclean today. (loving the sinner while hating the sin)

¹¹ Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing!
    Go out from among her!
    Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
¹² For you shall not go out in haste,
    neither shall you go by flight:
for Yahweh will go before…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be in Christ today, serving you and others. 

⁴ coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. 
⁵ You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Because it is contained in Scripture,

“Behold, I lay in Zion a…

Heavenly father
give us grace to hear your voice today, particularly when we are going about our normal business

⁹ As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office.
He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him. 

¹⁶ But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. ¹⁷ When they saw him, they bowed down to him; but some doubted. ¹⁸ Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ^20…

Heavenly father
give us grace to confront our worse fears and go without delay to confront them. 

¹ Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark,
to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. 
² Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved,
and said to them, “They have taken away the…