Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father, give me grace so that I may be generous in my affirmation of the gifts of others, and know when others must become greater, and I must become less.

²² After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. ²³ Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. ²⁴ (This was before John was put in prison.) ²⁵ An argument developed…

Heavenly father
Give me grace to be open to the truths about what is not seen
Give me grace to be open to the Spirit who you give without limit
Give me grace to walk the way of the cross, as Jesus did, trusting that this is the path of eternal life.

³¹ The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. ³² He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. …

³¹ The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. ³² He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. ³³ Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. ³⁴ For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in…

Heavenly father,
give me the humility to receive from those who have very little, (just as Christ asked the woman for a drink)
and give me an understanding of, and a thirst for, the living water which wells up to eternal life

¹ Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— ² although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. ³ So he…

Heavenly Father, give me grace to be able to face up to what my real needs are, and to find the deep peace that comes from you.

(Note: only men could divorce women, and a prime reason was for not being able to bear children. 
To have been cast aside five times means that the woman was thirsting for: having children, having a husband, having economic stability and not being treated as a failure and outcast in society)

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty…

Heavenly Father
give me grace to respond to you primarily in ways that are of the spirit and invisible
and may the physical and visible actions to be true to what is in my spirit.

¹⁹ “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
^21…

Heavenly Father
Give me grace to tell those around me about what you mean to us
and give them grace to hear you speaking to them

²⁷ Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman.
But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
²⁸ Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 
²⁹ “Come, see a man…

Heavenly Father give me grace:

• to not let familiarity with you stop me hearing what you have to say to me.
• to take you at your word, and to get on with life on the assumption that what I have heard is true.

⁴³ After the two days he left for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country.) ⁴⁵ When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in…

Heavenly Father
give me grace to not loose the desire to be well, and the courage to do the things I fear that I cannot do; and
make me a channel of your grace to those who have lost hope and courage .

John 5

¹ After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches. ³ In these lay a great multitude of those who were…

Heavenly father,
give me grace to walk with you;
give me grace not to turn away from walking with you and thus miss the mark (which is sin)

⁹ Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
¹¹ He answered them…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to be affectionate, as you are affectionate
Give us grace to be fully alive and not dead
Give us grace to honour the name of Jesus

¹⁹ Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you,
the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing.
For whatever things the Father does, these the Son also does likewise.
²⁰ For the Father has affection for the Son,
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace not only to hear the life giving words of Jesus , but also to put our trust in you, so that the way we live shows how much we value your grace and mercy.

²⁴ “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life,
and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 
²⁵ Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to trust in your son, so that his word would live in us, so that we would be saved from all that pulls us away from life in all its fullness.

³¹ “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ³² It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. ³³ You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ^…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to receive your love in our hearts
and give us grace to seek the glory that only comes from you.

³⁹ “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 
⁴⁰ Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 
⁴¹ I don’t receive glory from men. ⁴² But I know…

Heavenly Father
give us grace, to put to good use the resources at our disposal, however inadequate they seem.

¹ After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. ² A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. ³ Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be both generous to others and careful in our use of resources

¹⁰ Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. ¹¹ Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. …

Heavenly father
give us grace in the storms of life to hear the voice of our Lord, to address our fears and to let our Lord into the boat of our lives

¹⁶ When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷ and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. ¹⁸ The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. ^19…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful to your Son Jesus work which will bring us the daily bread of eternal life

²² On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. ²³ However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread…

27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” 

28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 

29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” 

Heavenly father
give us grace to come to Jesus, the bread of life today

²⁹ Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
³⁰ They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? ³¹ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven^[…