Daily Bible Verses

Give us grace to be forgiven and forgiving people today,
being willing not to hold past sins against others
(and give us grace to know when and how to confront ongoing sins in ourselves and others)

⁶Even as David speaks the blessedness of the man
to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works,
⁷“Blessed are they whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
 whose sins are covered.
⁸Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not account…

Give us grace to be true to our baptism, that we may be immersed in you and trust in you today (just as the descendants of Abraham should be true to their circumcision and trust in you today)

⁹Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also?
For we are saying that faith was accounted to Abraham towards righteousness.
¹⁰In what way then was it accounted?
When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
¹¹He…

Give us grace to affirm the faithfulness of others today, being thankful that Abraham’s family of faith is wide.

¹²He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision,
but who also walk in the steps of the faith in uncircumsion of our father Abraham
¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring
that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law,
but through the righteousness of faithfulness.
¹⁴For if those who are of the law are heirs,
faith is made…

Give us grace to trust you in difficult circumstances with hope, particular in valleys of deep shadows.

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.”
This is in the presence of him whom he believed:
God, who gives life to the dead,
and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
¹⁸Besides hope, Abraham in hope trusted,
to the end that he might become a father of many nations,
according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
^19…

5 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; ² through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: ⁵ and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live at peace which arises from faithfulness

¹Being therefore made righteous out of faithfulness,
we have peace towards God
through our Lord Jesus Christ;
²through whom we also have access by…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in hope and love, whatever our circumstances

And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
³Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
^…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in love particularly when our circumstances are shaped by sins (both our own and those of others)

⁶For while we were yet weak, at the right time
Christ died on behalf of the wicked.
⁷For one will hardly die on behalf of a righteous person…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live reconciled lives both in our relationship with You and in our relationship with others.

⁹Much more then, being now made righteous in his blood,
we will be saved from wrath through him.
¹⁰For if while we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God through the death of his…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to walk in paths of righteousness today

¹²Therefore just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin;
so death passed to all people, because all sinned.
¹³For until the law, sin was in the world;
but sin is not accounted when there is no…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace that we may over abound in grace and righteousness

¹⁷For if in the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one;
so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
^…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be dead to sin today, so that we may walk in newness of life

(^5:20 where sin abounded, grace over abounded)

^6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
²…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be alive today to everything that is good, and dead to everything that is not

⁷For he who has died has been freed from sin.
⁸But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
⁹…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be instruments of righteousness today

^6:12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body,
that you should obey it in its lusts.
¹³Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness,
but present…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace today to be obedient to you from the heart

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace?
May it never be!
¹⁶Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone,
you are the servants of whomever you obey;
whether of sin to…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live as your servants today, free from sin.

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh,
for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness
and to wickedness upon wickedness,
even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
²⁰…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be joined to you today, producing your fruit

¹Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law),
that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
²For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives,
but if the…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in the spirit of Jesus, and so be free of sin and death

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
²For the law of the Spirit of…

June 2 Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live by the spirit of your laws rather than the letter

^7:6But now we have been discharged from the law,
having died to that in which we were held;
so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to face up to our failings today.

¹⁰The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
¹¹for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me,
and 5through it killed me.
¹²…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to serve you today.

²¹I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
²³but I see a different law in my…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace, to be in Christ today, so that, by your Spirit, we put to death the deeds of the body

⁸Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of…

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-06-4-fatherhood-r25 

12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation – but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

…

Heavenly Father, Send your spirit on us to that we may live in hope and liberty

¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”…

Heavenly Father, send your spirit on us in our weakness, so that we may live in hope.

²²For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
²³Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for…

From the beginning of time until now, the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of giving birth. —Romans 8:22 

Richard Rohr writes of an evolutionary faith informed by Scripture and a foundational trust in God’s never-ending love and creativity:  

In this passage, St. Paul seems to fully acknowledge evolution. It’s always seemed completely strange to me that there should be any resistance whatsoever to evolution or evolutionary thinking in Christian theology or practice. Christians should have been the first in line to recognize…

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Gerry Hughes (1924–2014) in  …

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to be conformed to the image of your Son today

²⁸We know that all things work together for good for those who love God,
for those who are called according to his purpose.
²⁹For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son,
…

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) 

God is not in competition with anybody, but only in deep-time cooperation with everybody who loves. Whenever we place one caring foot forward, God uses it, sustains it, and blesses it. 

Love  is this center drawn to that center; this person drawn…

Heavenly Father, Give us grace to live in the love of Jesus today

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
³⁶Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long.
 We…

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. 
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

12 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Nonviolence teacher Ken Butigan understands God’s love to be at the center of nonviolence. 

Our true calling is to love one another as God has loved us. When we take this seriously, we are transformed into lovers who care for all beings. In practical terms this means resisting the tendency of the violence system to divide the world into various enemy camps. A fundamental script of this system is to separate “us” from “them”: … those who are worthy of our love and those…

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” Romans 12:21

That is the heart of the challenge—what do we believe? What is our ground? What narratives have shaped us and are shaping us? We must have the clarity to name evil for what it is, yet without losing ourselves in othering, understanding that in some way or form, we are part of what we are naming. We must engage not just with what’s out there but with what’s within us as well. History is filled with revolutions that promised liberation only to replicate the cruelty they overthrew. Justice movements have…

‘The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them’ (Romans 14:3–4).

Sometimes there can be friction between those of us who count calories and those of us who don’t, because both groups can be tempted to look down on the other group. 

When speaking to the divided Roman church on this very topic, Paul said: ‘The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not…

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. ³ For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”Psalm 69:9 ⁴ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through…

5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, 6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you,…

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)

How do we foster embodied presence and joy? I believe we do it through practice and through meditation. Left to your own devices, the natural state of the human brain is a wandering and critical mind. Meditation helps bring that chaos into a more peaceful state. If it’s difficult, begin with sitting in silence. Let your mind do what it wants before slowly bringing it into the present moment. Use music if it…

13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2024-09-18-overflow-with-hope-r3

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22,23)

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-05-23-choose-joy-r25 …