Daily Bible Verses

‘You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.’   JOHN 15:14–15
 

Lord, I long for true friendship with you. Help me to hear your voice and obey your commands.

Pray Continually: One way to acknowledge God’s presence with us throughout the day is to talk with him, as with a…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be obedient to your command to love all others, particularly when there is pressure not to. 

¹⁷ “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. 
¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 
¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own.
But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to endure the pain of suffering when we have done what is right. 

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 
²¹ But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. 
²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse…

Heavenly father
give us grace to receive your Spirit of truth today
give us discernment to know what truth needs speaking, whatever the consequences

^15:26 “When the Counsellor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. 
²⁷ You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

^16:1 “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. …

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.” 
^14…

Heavenly father
give us grace to care for those closest too us, whether or not they are our biological family 

²³ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat.
Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 
²⁴ Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
“They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast…

Heavenly father
give us grace to admit to our frailty and to our needs, to consistently do your will, and to place ourselves in your hands

²⁸ After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” 
²⁹ Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. 
³⁰ When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.”…

Heavenly father
give us grace to do whatever acts of kindness are within our power to do. 

³⁸ After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body.
Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. 
³⁹ Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
⁴⁰ So…

Heavenly father
give us grace to confront our worse fears and go without delay to confront them. 

¹ Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark,
to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. 
² Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved,
and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb,
and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

^3 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to see evidence of the kingdom and believe it.

The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. 
⁵ Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. 
⁶ Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb.
He saw the linen cloths lying, ⁷ and the cloth that had been on his head,
not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. 
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to express our deep longing to be with you, even when we don’t know what that would look like

¹¹ But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping.
So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, 
¹² and she saw two angels in white sitting,
one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 
¹³ They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”

She said to them, “Because they have…

Heavenly father
give us grace to hear your voice today and obey it

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him,
“Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him,
and I will take him away.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”
¹⁷ Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me…

Heavenly father give us grace to be at peace, even when circumstances could lead to fear.

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. ¹⁹ When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled,…

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!’  (John 20:19)

Richard Rohr says: “For the great mystics, God is always experienced as abiding in their own soul and, in seeming contradiction, as totally transcendent and mysterious at the same time! God is both intimate and ultimate, no longer “out there,” though not just “in here,” either. When we know that we are living tabernacles…

Heavenly father
give us the grace of your holy spirit today to face up to what causes pain (in people’s hands and sides) and to be a forgiving presence

²⁰ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. 
²¹ Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” 
²² When he had said this, he breathed on them…

Heavenly father
give us the grace, courage and honesty to face up to what we do and no not believe

²⁴ But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. 
²⁵ The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails,
put my finger into the print of the nails,
and put my hand into his side,
I will not believe.”

Heavenly father
give us grace to be with fellow believers, to give space for you, to hear your peaceable words, to reach out to you and to see you today.

²⁶ After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle,
and said, “Peace be to you.” 
²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, 
“Reach here your finger, and see my hands.
…

Heavenly father
give us grace to listen to what is written in the bible, and grace to allow ourselves to believe in Jesus and to have life in his name

²⁹ Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
³⁰ Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; 
³¹ but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son…

Heavenly father
give us grace to have hope when we fail 

¹ After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias
He revealed himself this way. 
² Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. 
³ Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.”
They told him, “We are also coming with you.”
They immediately went out, and entered into the boat.
That night, they…

Heavenly father
give us grace today to listen to and act upon your guidance, particularly when have previously failed. 

5 Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?”
They answered him, “No.”
6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”
They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish. 
7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!”

Jesus said, ‘Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.’ When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish. (John 21:6) 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3v5,6) 

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