Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us all grace to be open to the Holy Spirit, our Counsellor, so that we may have conviction about sin, righteous and judgement arising from our saviour Jesus. 

⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 
⁶ But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. 
⁷ Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It
is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counsellor won’t come to you.
But if I…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live in the truth today

¹² “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
¹³ However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth,
for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak.
He will declare to you things that are coming. 
¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. 
¹⁵ All things that the Father…

Heavenly father
give us grace in times of weeping and lamenting to experience the everlasting joy of the resurrection

¹⁷ Some of his disciples therefore said to one another,
“What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ 
and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?” 
¹⁸ They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”
¹⁹ Therefore Jesus perceived that they…

Heavenly father
give us grace so to understand the forgiving love of Jesus that we may know what to ask in this name so that our joy may be full

²³ “In that day you will ask me no questions.
Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 
²⁴ Until now, you have asked nothing in my name.
Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. 
²⁵ I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech.
But the time…

Heavenly father
give us grace in times of trouble to know the joy and peace from knowing that you are with us. 

²⁹ His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. 
³⁰ Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you.
By this we believe that you came from God.”
³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 
³² Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come,
that you will be scattered, everyone…

‘I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.’ JOHN 16:33
 
‘Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!’ (Revelation 7:12)

The act of rejoicing is something quite different from naïve optimism. It is not subject to the ups and downs of the circumstances of our lives. In fact, Jesus warns that in this world we will have trouble.…

Heavenly father
give us grace to lift up our eyes to you today and know you

¹ Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, 
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; 
² even as you gave him authority over all flesh,
so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 
³ This is eternal life, that they should know you,
the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to accomplish the work which you give us to do today, staying true to what you have revealed to us in the person of Jesus 

⁴ I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. 
⁵ Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. 
⁶ I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world.
They were yours, and you have given them to…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live as those who belong to you, giving glory to you through the power of your name

⁹ I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world,
but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 
¹⁰ All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 
¹¹ I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and I am coming to you. Holy Father,
keep them through your name which you have given…

Heavenly father
give us grace to have your joy made full in us today, particularly in the face of temptation
and keep us safe from the evil one

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.
I have kept those whom you have given me.
None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 
¹³ But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world,
that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 
¹⁴ I have given them your…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live truthfully today

¹⁶ They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 
¹⁷ Sanctify them in your truth.
Your word is truth.
¹⁸ As you sent me into the world,
even so I have sent them into the world. 
¹⁹ For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 

Heavenly father
give us grace so to live in you that we may be one with our brothers and sisters in you. 

²⁰ Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, 
²¹ that they may all be one;
even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you,
that they also may be one in us;
that the world may believe that you sent me. 
²² The glory which you have given me, I have given to them;
that they may be one, even as we are one; 
²³ I in them…

Heavenly father
give us grace to see your glory of your love today and for your love to be in us. 

²⁴ Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am,
that they may see my glory, which you have given me,
for you loved me before the foundation of the world. 
²⁵ Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you,
but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. 
²⁶ I made known to them your name, and will make it known;
that the …

Heavenly father
give us grace to be truthful and kind, particularly in the face of hatred and violence 

¹ When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron,
where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. 
² Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. 
³ Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees,
came there with lanterns,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to avoid violence and deceit today, however much we are provoked 

¹⁰ Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it,
struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. 
¹¹ Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath.
The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
¹² So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to avoid the temptations of hearing without understand, of abusing of power, of denying what we know to be true

¹⁹ The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 
²⁰ Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet.
I said nothing in secret. 
²¹ Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek your kingdom which is not of this world

²⁸ They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium.
It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. 
²⁹ Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
³⁰ They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
³¹ Pilate therefore said to them…

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek after truth today

³⁷ Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king.
For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
³⁸ Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him. …

Heavenly father
give us grace to use power to do good (as Pilate wanted to do) rather than to do evil (as the chief priests and officers did)

⁴ Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
⁵ Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
⁶ When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said…

Heavenly father
give us grace to give our allegiance to you rather than to any earthly power, whatever the consequences

¹² At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying,
“If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
¹³ When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out
and sat down on the judgement seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.” 
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