Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to live today as those who remember that all ungodliness will perish, when Jesus returns. 

¹ This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you;
and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you 
² that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets
and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 
³ knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to have an eternal perspective

⁸ But don’t forget this one thing, beloved,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be patient and forgiving, just as you are. 

⁹ The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness;
but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live holy and godly lives

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,
and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat,
and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 
¹¹ Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this,
what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, 
¹² looking for and earnestly desiring the…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to live in peace

¹³ But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth,
in which righteousness dwells.
¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things,
be diligent to be found in peace,
without defect and blameless in his sight. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to be patient, particularly if we find life inexplicable.  

¹⁵ Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation;
even as our beloved brother Paul also,
according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, 
¹⁶ as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things.
In those, there are some things that are hard to understand,
which the ignorant and unsettled twist,
as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus

¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand,
beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. 
¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Heavenly father
give us grace, mercy and peace today and always

¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, ² to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Heavenly father
give us grace to serve you today with a pure conscience.
give grace today to those whose sincere faith nurtured us in the faith.

³ I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day ⁴ longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; ^5 …

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. For this reason, I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you…. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.   2 Timothy 1:5–7 

Rev. Yvette Flunder encourages us to use our own gifts in the service of others:  

Paul is talking to Timothy about the gift of God placed in Timothy by God. Apparently some…

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. ⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus…

Heavenly father
stir up in us your gifts of power, love and self control.

⁶ For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 

Heavenly father
give us grace to know your Son, the bringer of life and immortality

⁸ Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, ¹⁰ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful and loving today through your Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

¹³ Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

¹⁵ This you know, that all who are…

Heavenly father
give us the strength that we need to face today’s hardships, strength which flows from the grace that is in Christ Jesus

¹ You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ² The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. ³ …

Heavenly father
give us grace to die to the things of this world so that we might live in Your song
and thank you that when we are faithless in this, Jesus is still faithful.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring^[a] of David, according to my Good News, ⁹ in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But…

Heavenly father
give us grace to depart from all unrighteousness (including empty chatter) so that we may be prepared for every good work today.

¹⁵ Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. ¹⁶ But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness, ¹⁷ and those words will consume…

Heavenly father
give us grace to turn away from our destructive desires, to call on you, and to fill our lives with righteousness, faith, love and peace.

²² Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 

Heavenly father
* give us grace to be patient and gentle with whom we disagree; and
* give us teachable spirits.

²³ But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. ²⁴ The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient, ²⁵ in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance…

Heavenly father
give us grace to discern when healthy love of self turns to something unhealthy, arrogant and abusive
give us grace in our families to be respectful, thankful and affectionate

¹ But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,  blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection

Heavenly father
give us grace to be forgiving, truthful, self controlled, gentle, loving what is good, faithful and humble, loving you as our God, allowing your power to work in us.

² Men will be .unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, 
⁴ traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 
⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power.
Turn away from these, also

Heavenly father
give us grace to not take advantage of the vulnerabilities of others
give us grace to always search after the truth in our learning
protect us from our minds becoming corrupted.

⁶ For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, ⁷ always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to learn from the faith, patience, love and steadfastness of others;
give us grace to hope that you will deliver us out of all our adversities; and
deliver us from being deceived and deceiving.

¹⁰ But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, 
¹¹ persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra.
I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. 

…

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today to truly love our close friends.

1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

Heavenly Father
Give us grace today 

2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 

3 For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth. 4 I…

Richard Rohr explores the ways we have used our God-given power for good and ill:  

Despite the many abuses of power documented throughout history, power itself cannot be inherently bad. In the New Testament, the Holy Spirit is described as dynamis, which means power (Acts 10:38; 1 Corinthians 2:4–5). Jesus tells his disciples before his Ascension that “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Then you will be my witnesses … to the very ends of the Earth” (Acts 1:8).…

42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give…

3 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple. 3 Seeing Peter and…

1 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer – at three in the afternoon. 2 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money…

The community of believers was of one mind and one heart. None of them claimed anything as their own; rather, everything was held in common. Acts 4:32

The book of Acts is all about the early community of Jesus’ followers that formed after Jesus’ ascension. Communities of followers of the Way—as they’re called—start to form and what we find in Acts 4 are descriptions of what started to happen in these communities. Another way to say it is that this is what it looked like when people began to experience transformation. 

The first thing it says is that the people are of…

Then Peter began to speak: ‘I now realise how true it is that God does not show favouritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
ACTS 10:34–36
After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: ‘Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles should hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the…

‘About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.’ ACTS 16:25–26
 

Pray: Father, I don’t claim to understand the link between worship and freedom, but I thank you for Paul’s prison doors opening.

Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians was addressed to new believers…

“people who are turning the whole world upside down” (see Acts 17:6)

An essential aspect of Franciscan spirituality is what Richard Rohr calls “the integration of the negative.” Rather than insisting that God values perfection or an idealized morality, Francis of Assisi intuited, through the example of Jesus’ life and death, that God could be found in all things, even those our religion and culture urge us to reject. 

I suppose there is no more counterintuitive spiritual idea than the possibility that God might actually…

But let justice roll on like a river,
    righteousness like a never-failing stream!

https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-01-17-elijah-part-3-our-voice-r25

We ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord.
—Colossians 1:9–10 

Our goal consists in doing the will of God, but first we have to remove our attachment to our own will so that we can recognize the difference between the two. Throughout history, many people who did horrible things were convinced that they were doing God’s will. That’s why we have to find an instrument to distinguish between God and us. Paul calls this gift the discernment…

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[…

We meet together….

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.’ Colossians 1:10

We’re part of the church when we’re gathered on Sunday and equally so when we’re scattered on Monday. They’re two sides of the same whole-life-discipleship coin. Our gathered times should equip us for our scattered times, whilst our scattered times should inform our gathered times.

There’s a clear warning in Hebrews 10:25 not to lose the habit of meeting together, and we see a clear…

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. …

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead…

‘For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him’ (Colossians 1:16).

Sam Brown, London Institute of Contemporary Christianity writes ….

When I was 17, I heard something on a podcast I’m still thinking about today.  

How do you account for the essential meaninglessness of professional sport?  

In the time since I first heard that question,…