Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly father
give us grace to sleep well tonight 

⁵ Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 
 

Heavenly father
give us grace to be ready for today 

⁶ But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ 
⁷ Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be thankful for all the abilities you have given us

¹⁴ “For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them. 
¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to use the abilities that you have given us diligently and generously

¹⁶ Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. 
¹⁷ In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to not be afraid

¹⁸ But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money.
¹⁹ “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them. 
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Heavenly father
give us grace to live fully today with as many or as few abilities as you have given us, so that we may not be weeping at the end of the day

²⁶ “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. 
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be gracious to those who are hungry, thirsty, naked, sick or in prison

³¹ “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. ³² Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate…

34 ‘Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me…

And the king will answer them, “Truly, I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.” —Matthew 25:40

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis reflects on how we are called to love imperfect people imperfectly:

This is the kind of love Rabbi Jesus was talking about. If they’re in prison, if they’re hungry, if they’re naked, if they’re lonely, if they’re a stranger, a widow, a child, if they’re an outsider, if they’re last, they become first. In our holy imagination, this kind of love is radical: beyond borders, beyond religion,…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to be gracious to those who are hungry, thirsty, naked, sick or in prison

⁴¹ Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; ⁴² for I was hungry, and you didn’t…

‘They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or ill or in prison, and did not help you?”
 ‘He will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” (Matthew 25: 44-45)

Some thoughts from Dom Camara (1909–1999)

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He will answer, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” —Matthew 25: 45 

To enter the mind of Christ is to realize our oneness with the faces we see on television in the evening news. It is to realize we are one with that homeless person we saw going through the trash receptacle. The woman at the local market, the man who comes to check our gas meter, and all who have hurt us, abandoned us, and have otherwise wronged us, along with all the women and men we have never met—we are to realize that we are equally, fully one…

Heavenly father to give us grace today to face up to our future however difficult it may be  

1 When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, 
2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

Heavenly father
give us grace today to avoid  doing anything which we know to be wrong, and to avoid doing anything by deception

3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people 
were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. 
4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to spend time with the people that you need us to spend time with. 

6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 

Heavenly father
give us grace to see what needs you are calling us to address today 

7 a woman came to Jesus having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. 
8 But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much and…

Heavenly father
give us grace to see the good in what others do

8 But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”  10 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to hear your guiding voice and act upon it

17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, 
“Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
18 He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to act graciously to those around us irrespective of whether it is reciprocated

20 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. 
21 As they were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
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Heavenly father
give us grace today to be thankful even when we feel broken

26 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. 
He gave to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”