Daily Bible Verses

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  • Heavenly Father
    * Give me grace to be thankful for all the resources in the world, particularly those that have life within them;
    * give me grace to respect all life; and
    * give me grace to respect all those who are made in your image.

    God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 

    The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky.

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  • Heavenly Father give me grace to turn away from what is indiscriminately destructive
    * Give me grace to value interdependence with all of your creatures

    God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 
    “I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature of the earth. 
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  • Heavenly Father
    * give me grace to turn away from what is indiscriminately destructive
    * give me grace to value interdependence with all of your creatures

    God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 
    “I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature of the earth. 
    11  There…

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  • Heavenly father
    * give us grace to seek first the Kingdom of God, rather than to seek to make a name for ourselves.

    The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

    Yahweh came…

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  • Heavenly Father give us hope when we face tragedy and new circumstances.

    21 Noah was the father of Shem, father of:10 Arpachshad, father of 12 Shelah, father of 14 Eber, father of 16 Peleg, father of 20 Reu, father of 22 Serug, father of…

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  • Heavenly Father,
    give us grace to look forward to the next part of our lives, to know what we must leave behind, so that we can be a blessing to others.

    Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 3 …

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  • Heavenly father give us grace to call on your name (like Abraham), particularly in hard times so that we bring blessing to others rather than misfortune (unlike Abraham)

    Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” [a]

    He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. He left from there to go to…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to return to the places where we have experienced your presence in the past, and to call on you.
    (whether these are physical places or frames of mind or social settinns)

    Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel,…

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  • Heavenly father give us grace to make wise decisions to avoid strife in our close relationships, and to avoid wickedness.

    Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together. 
    There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock.. 

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  • Heavenly father give us grace to hear your voice, to lift up our eyes, to receive grace, to “get up and go” and to make space for you in our lives

    14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you,…

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  • Heavenly father give us grace to do the things that we can do in difficult situations, so that it is you who are at work in us.

    The kings of Sodom, Gomorrah lost in battle against other kings  11 who took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, 12  and also Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

    14 When Abram heard that…

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  • Heavenly father
    * give us grace to appreciate those people who act as bridges between us and You (priests). 
    * give us grace to share your blessings with others

    18 Melchizedek, priest of God Most High, brought out bread and wine and 19  blessed Abram, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your…

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  • Heavenly father give us grace to seek to do what is right, rather than to seek to profit from doing right.

    21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people (that you rescued from those who captured them), and take the goods for yourself.”  22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, 23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal…

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  • Heavenly father
    * give us grace to hear your words and not be afraid
    * give us grace to have hope and to believe in you

    Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,  I am your exceedingly great reward.”
    Abram said, “Lord[…

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  • 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

    Yahweh said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
    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)

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

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  • 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…

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  • 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

    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. 
    I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

    Abram fell on his face.

    God talked with him, saying…

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  • 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.

    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…

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  • 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.”

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