Daily Bible Verses

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  • 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)
    He lifted up his eyes and looked, (He gave attention to that which was…

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  • Heavenly father
    thank you that you see when others are unkind to us
    give us grace (like Jacob) to hear your voice and be obedient to it or (like his wives) to discern your voice speaking to others and be obedient to it. 

    [Jacob said to Rachel and Leah]: 10 During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am…

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  • Heavenly father
    give us grace in difficult relationships to listen to you (as laban did),
    and refrain from making things worse (as Jacob and Rachel did)  and from hankering after other Gods (as Rachel did) 

    17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, 
    18 and he took away all his possessions to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. 
    19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim [Gods] that were her…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to be honest about our fears (as Jacob did)
    give us grace to avoid making rash statements when we are not in full possession of the facts (as Jacob did)

    26 Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me,
    and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? 
    27 Why didn’t you tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs; 
    28 and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to resolve conflicts today,  
    and when it is time to go separate ways, give us grace to do so with love and blessings

    36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. “What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 
    37 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff?
    Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
    41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace, when faced with what we fear, to lift up our eyes and voice to you.

    1 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 
    When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army
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    Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother,
    He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau:
    ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says.
    I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. 

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to be creative in our use of resources in the pursuit of peace

    13 Jacob stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother: 
    14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 
    15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 
    16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants,
    “Pass over before me, and put a space…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to dare to be alone with you, and the grace to have an honest struggle with you. 

    22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives and eleven sons and 23 sent them over the Jabbok stream.
    24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. 
    25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him,
    the man touched the hollow of his thigh,
    and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled. 
    26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.”
    Jacob…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to be courageous and humble in difficult situations today, like Jacob
    give us grace to so focus on loving relationships that we are forgiving

    1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men.
    He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. 
    2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. 
    3 He himself passed over in front of them,
    and bowed…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to act graciously to others (as Jacob did), and faithfully to you (which Jacob didn’t) 

    8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?”
    Jacob said, “To find favour in the sight of my lord.”
    9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
    10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favour in your sight,
    then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face,
    as one sees the face…

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  • Heavenly Father
    fill us with your grace, even after we have done what is wrong (like Shechem) 
    fill us with your grace when others have done wrong (like Jacob and Hamor)

    34 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the daughters of the land. 
    Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. 
    His soul joined to Dinah, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady
    Shechem spoke to…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to speak peace to others today without deceit
    give us wisdom to discern the difference between truth and deceit in others. 

    11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. 
    12 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

    13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke,

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace not to repay evil for evil (like Simeon and Levi), but to be peacemakers (like Jesus)

    24 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son;
    and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 
    25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers,
    each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. 
    26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to be obedient to what you call us to do, and put nothing in your way 

    35 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there.
    Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

    Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him,
    “Put away the foreign gods that are among you,
    purify yourselves, change your garments. 
    Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel.
    I…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to dwell with you today, particularly in our struggles, so that we may be blessed

    God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him
    10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel (Wrestles-with-God). 
    He named him Israel. 
    11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply.
    A nation and a company…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace when faced with sorrow to be nourished by thankfulness

    16 They travelled from Bethel. [House of God]
    There was still some distance to come to Ephrath [Fruitful],
    and Rachel travailed. She had hard labour. 
    17 When she was in hard labour, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

    18 As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni [Son of my sorrow]
    but his…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to do what is right (unlike Reuben in this story and Simeon and Levi in the the previous chapter), and thank you for the peace and harmony which results from our desire to be at peace with our brother (like Esau and Jacob)

    21 Israel [other name of Jacob] travelled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 
    22 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

    Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to be at peace with those who are outside our family, race and nation.

    Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). 
    Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan:
    Esau took all the members of his household, his livestock, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to avoid hurting others when we are motivated by love (like Jacob)
    give us grace to avoid being negative to others whatever the cause (unlike Joseph’s brothers) 

    Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan. 
    This is the history of the generations of Jacob.
    Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers.
    He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives.
    Joseph brought an evil report of them t…

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  • Heavenly Father
    give us grace to hear what you are saying to us, even in our dreams
    give us grace to be careful how we communicate this to others.

    Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. 
    He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 
    for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold,
    my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold,
    your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
    His…

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