Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father give me grace to turn away from what is indiscriminately destructive
* Give me grace to value interdependence with all of your creatures

⁸ God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 
⁹ “I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature of the earth. 
¹¹  …

‘I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you – the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.’
 
And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a…

Heavenly Father
* give me grace to turn away from what is indiscriminately destructive
* give me grace to value interdependence with all of your creatures

⁸ God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 
⁹ “I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature of the earth. 
¹¹  There…

Heavenly father
* give us grace to seek first the Kingdom of God, rather than to seek to make a name for ourselves.

¹ The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.  ⁴ They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

⁵ Yahweh came…

Heavenly Father give us hope when we face tragedy and new circumstances.

²¹ Noah was the father of Shem, father of^:10 Arpachshad, father of ¹² Shelah, father of ¹⁴ Eber, father of ¹⁶ Peleg, father of ²⁰ Reu, father of ²² Serug, father of…

1 The Lord had said to Abram, 
‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 ‘I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.’  (Genesis 12:1-3)

According to the ancient stories of Genesis, God is up to something surprising and amazing in our world. While we’re busy plotting evil, God is plotting goodness…. While we plot…

Heavenly Father,
give us grace to look forward to the next part of our lives, to know what we must leave behind, so that we can be a blessing to others.

¹ Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. ² I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. ^3 …

Heavenly father give us grace to call on your name (like Abraham), particularly in hard times so that we bring blessing to others rather than misfortune (unlike Abraham)

⁷ Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” ^[a]

He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. ⁸ He left from there to go to…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to return to the places where we have experienced your presence in the past, and to call on you.
(whether these are physical places or frames of mind or social settinns)

¹ Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South. ² Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. ³ He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel,…

Heavenly father give us grace to make wise decisions to avoid strife in our close relationships, and to avoid wickedness.

⁵ Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. ⁶ The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together. 
⁷ There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock.. 
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