Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father, our maker
give us grace to trust in your saving power, even when you are hidden from us

¹¹ Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel
    and his Maker says:
“You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,
    and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
¹² I have made the earth, and created man on it.
¹³ I have raised him up in righteousness,
    and I will make all his ways straight.
He shall build my city,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to seek you and your righteousness today

¹⁸ For Yahweh who created the heavens,
    the God who formed the earth and made it,
    who established it and didn’t create it a waste,
    who formed it to be inhabited says:
“I am Yahweh.
    There is no other.
¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret,
    in a place of the land of darkness.
I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see how we turn away to other sources of fulfilment and strength, and to turn to you for these today. 

²⁰ “Assemble yourselves and come.
    Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.
Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,
    and pray to a god that can’t save.
²¹ Declare and present it.
    Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has shown this from ancient time?…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to have confidence and hope in proclaiming in deed and word that Jesus was reconciling ALL things to himself

²² “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
    for I am God, and there is no other.
²³ I have sworn by myself.
    The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked,
that to me every knee shall bow,
    every tongue shall take an oath.
²⁴ …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to allow you to carry us when we are weary, rather than look to those things which bring us aditional burdens. 

1 [The Babylonian] idols are a burden for the weary.
² They could not deliver the burden,
    but they have gone into captivity.

³ “Listen to me, all the remnant of the house of Israel,
    that have been carried from their birth,
    that have been carried from the womb.
⁴ Even to old age I am…

3 ‘Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. 4 Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you

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Heavenly Father
give us grace to see those things/people who we put in place of you.

⁵ “To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal,
    and compare me, as if we were the same?
⁶ Some pour out gold from the bag,
    and hire a goldsmith,
    and he makes it a god.
They fall down—
    yes, they worship.
⁸ “Remember this, and show yourselves men.
    Bring it to mind again, you transgressors…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust you for today and tomorrow.

⁹ Remember the former things of old:
    for I am God, and there is no other.
    I am God, and there is none like me.
¹⁰ I declare the end from the beginning,
    and from ancient times things that are not yet done.
I say: My counsel will stand,
    and I will do all that I please.
¹¹ I call a ravenous bird from the east,
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to consider what is taking place today and reflect on what might happen tomorrow.

¹ ‘Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon;
     ³ Your nakedness will be exposed - I will take vengeance;
⁴ Our Redeemer – the Lord Almighty is his name –
    is the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance;
    I gave them into your hand,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be careful and wise in what we trust today, particularly being wary of what makes us comfortable. 

⁸ ‘Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,  “I am, and there is none besides me.
¹⁰ You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you
¹¹ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away.
a catastrophe you cannot foresee…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to listen to your voice today, and grace to rely on you as citizens of the kingdom of heaven, in truth and righteousness

 ¹ “Hear this, house of Jacob,
    you who are called by the name of Israel,
    and have come out of the waters of Judah.
You swear by Yahweh’s name,
    and make mention of the God of Israel,
    but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
² …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be guided by you today, whether the guidance is from of old, or whether it is from today.

[God revealing things in advance]

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate;
⁵ therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
    before it came to pass I showed it to you;
    lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.
    My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
⁶ You have heard it.
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be merciful today, particularly in difficult circumstances

⁹ For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,
    and for my praise, I hold it back for you
    so that I don’t cut you off.
¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you,
    but not as silver.
    I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹ For my own sake,
    for my own sake, I will do…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to hear your eternal voice today.

¹² “Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel my called:
I am he.
    I am the first.
    I am also the last.
¹³ Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
    and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
    when I call to them, they stand up together.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust that your purposes are being worked out in our world (just as they were when the Chaldeans in Babylon who had taken Israel into exile were defeated by Cyrus who then permitted Israel to return from exile)

¹⁴ “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear!
    Who among them has declared these things?
He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon,
    and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
¹⁵ I, even I, have spoken.
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be obedient to you today so that we may live in peace and righteousness

¹⁷ Yahweh,
    your Redeemer,
    the Holy One of Israel says:
“I am Yahweh your God,
    who teaches you to profit,
    who leads you by the way that you should go.
¹⁸ Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
    Then your peace would have been like a river
    and your…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to open our hearts to you today so that we may live in peace

²⁰ Leave Babylon!  [The place where Israel went into exile]
    Flee from the Chaldeans!  [The new power who will return Israel to their own land]
With a voice of singing announce this,
    tell it even to the end of the earth:
    say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
²¹ They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.  [Remembering back to when…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live in the knowledge that our pasts, our presents and our futures are in you.

¹ Listen, islands, to me.
    Listen, you peoples, from afar:
Yahweh has called me from the womb;
    from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
² He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
    He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me a polished shaft.
    He has kept me close in his…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live as Jesus did- finding strength in you and being a blessing to others

⁵ Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
    says to bring Jacob again to him,
    and to gather Israel to him,
    for I am honourable in Yahweh’s eyes,
    and my God has become my strength.
⁶ Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust your guidance today, particularly when we are out of our comfort zone

⁸ Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.
    I have helped you in a day of salvation.
I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people,
    to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
⁹ saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
    to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They…