Daily Bible Verses

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?’

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3:13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews – young and old, women and children – on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

8:7 King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther … . …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be fruitful whatever our circumstances (Egypt), particularly in the fruit of the spirit of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness and Self Control

1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be afraid (particularly if what we are afraid of could be a figment of our immagination)

8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. 
9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 
10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to find hope when we are afflicted. 

12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. 
They started to dread the children of Israel. 
13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 
14…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to fear you and have the courage to do what is right

15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 
16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, 
if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know when is the time to wait and not take drastic action 

1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 
2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into your hand those things which are beyond our ability to  sort out

3 When she could no longer hide him, 
she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. 
She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. 
4 His sister…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to allow ourselves to be motivated by compassion. 

5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. 
Her maidens walked along by the riverside. 
She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it. 
6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be creative in the way in which we face difficult situations.

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, 
“Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
The young woman went and called the child’s mother.…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to pass responsibility to others at the appropriate time. 

10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. 
She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to refrain from overcoming evil with evil

11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. 
He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers. 
12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.…

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.  (Exodus 2:11-12)

As an outsider both among his own people and among the Egyptians who had raised him, [Moses] probably wrestled every day with issues related to his identity. Should he fit into the environment in which he had…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to put into practice doing the good things that we notice others doing and not doing the wrong things that we notice others doing. 

13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. 
He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
14 He said, “Who made you a prince and a…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 The shepherds came and drove…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be aware of and respond to the needs of others

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 
17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to practice hospitality

18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be a blessing to those who live as foreigners in a a foreign land 

21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. 
22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to cry out to you in assurance that you hear our groanings. 

23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to go about the normal work of life knowing that you will guide us and be present with us

¹ Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, 
and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.