Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love in word and deed and truth

¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, 
then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? 
¹⁸ My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be honest to ourselves and to others today, with you as our judge. 

¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him, 
²⁰ because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 
²¹ Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to believe in the ways and person of Jesus, and to love others as he commands us.

²² so whatever we ask, we receive from him, 
because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. 
²³ This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, 
and love one another, even as he commanded. 
²⁴ He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. 
By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be wise 

1 Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be the body of Christ in flesh and blood.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in the assurance that he who is in us is greater than all else

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to listen to truth

5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 
6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. 
By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

John Ruusbroec’s famous text The Divine Espousals, describes intimate union with God “without difference”:  

In this storm of love two spirits struggle—the Spirit of God and our spirit. God, by means of the Holy Spirit, inclines [Godself] toward us, and we are thereby touched in love; our spirit, by means of God’s activity and the amorous power, impels and inclines itself toward God, and thereby God is touched. From…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know you and to love as you love.

7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. 
8 He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. 
 

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 …

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God”.  (1 John 4:7)

If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. 

We are invited to encounter a love that just keeps opening to us, and then pass on the same by “opening and opening” to the increasingly larger world around us, willingly falling into the “bright abyss,” where all weighing and counting are unnecessary and even burdensome.  

We are invited…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live through Jesus

9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love others as we have been loved by you. 

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 
11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live as those who are loved and forgiven

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love others

12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be open to your Spirit

13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to pray for peace in our world

14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to let our thoughts, actions and words be a celebration of all that Jesus is.

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to remain in your love today

16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. 
God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 
 

¹⁶ We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. ¹⁷ In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. ¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us. ²⁰ If a man says, “I love God,”…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to keep our eyes on the Jesus today, being changed into his likeness - the one who is perfect in love  

17 In this, love has been made perfect among us, 
that we may have boldness in the day of judgement, 
because as he is, even so we are in this world. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to not be afraid

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to know that we are loved

19 We love him, because he first loved us. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love those we work and live alongside

20 If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; 
for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 
21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love you and trust Jesus to be our saviour (Christ) 

1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. 
Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to love you and obey your command to love others

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, 
when we love God and keep his commandments. 
3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous. 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to believe in (the ways of) Jesus, particularly when faced with worldly difficulties 

4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. 
This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. 
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 
 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be immersed in Christ, remembering both the water of baptism and the blood of the cross

6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; 
not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. 
It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 
…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to find life in Christ today 

10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. 
He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to life in all its eternal fulness 

13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God,
that you may know that you have eternal life, 
and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.