Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly father
* give us grace to hold on to the hopes and dreams which you give us, particularly when we are aware of the difficult realities which face us.
* give us grace to hold on to the fact that you alone are our ultimate hope

⁷ Yahweh said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
⁸ Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

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Heavenly father

• give us grace to trust in you in times when you seem absent (unlike Abram and Sarai in their barren-ness)
• give us grace to take responsibility for our own actions (unlike Sarai)
• give us grace to hear you speaking to us in difficult circumstances (like Hagar)

¹ Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. ² Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my…

⁶ ‘Sarai ill-treated Hagar; so she fled from her. ….⁷ The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert ….¹⁰ The angel said, ‘I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.’    ….¹³ Hagar gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: ‘You are the God who sees me,’ for she said, ‘I have now seen the One who sees me.’ Genesis 16:6-13

Hagar She was an Egyptian…

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am God Almighty (“El Shaddai”); walk before me faithfully and be blameless.  (Genesis 17:1)

In the book of Exodus and elsewhere, God is El Shaddai, God of the mountain or God Almighty [Genesis 17:1; Exodus 6:3; Job 8:5]…. In the original Hebrew, the phrase simply reads “God of the mountain.” In Hebrew, the word shaddai has more than one meaning. It is also the word…

Heavenly father
give us grace to walk before you and be blameless
and thank you for your covenant with those who do so, to be at home on earth with you as our God

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. 
² I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

³ Abram fell on his face.

God talked with him, saying…

Heavenly father
give us grace to teach your covenant to the next generations
give us grace to sacrifice the needs of the flesh so that our spirits may become strong.
give us grace to allow ourselves to carry the painful marks of being in covenant relationship with you, at a very personal level.

⁹ God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. 
¹⁰ This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be honest about the hopes and dreams we believe you have given us.
give us grace to hold on to the hopes and dreams you have given us even when it seems laughable to do so.

¹⁵ God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, her name shall be Princess (Sarah). 
¹⁶ I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her.
She will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

¹⁷ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek you and worship you today

18 Yahweh appeared to Abraham (our God, while never fully comprehended, can be “seen” by those who look)
by the oaks of Mamre (this takes place at home - the first place that Abraham lived in the land),
as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. (this takes place in a time of rest during the day- when no outdoor work could be done)
² He lifted up his eyes and looked, (He gave attention to that which was…

So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, ‘On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.’  

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, ‘I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, …

12 Jacob had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the Lord…