Daily Bible Verses

¹ Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea;
    Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
³  I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
⁴     I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
⁶ I have called on you, for you…

Heavenly Father
            in amongst all the destruction that takes place in this world,
            give me grace to do what is right
            and give me grace to allow you and others do what I cannot do (e.g. “close the door of the ark”)

Genesis chapter 7

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Prayer: Heavenly Father, when I make foolish decisions give me grace to hear your voice calling me;
and when others act foolishly and are afraid give me grace to call out to them in your name.

⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

⁸ Then the man and his wife…

When Genesis says that God created the heavens (what is unseen) and the earth (what is seen) it means that God created absolutely everything
When Genesis says that there was a tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it is talking about the knowledge of absolutely everything.

Why is it that the knowledge of absolutely everything leads to death?

• is it that knowledge is power, and that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”?
• is it…

Genesis 1: Creation summary:
* God speaks words of permission: “Let there be ….”
* What God permits then occurs “And there was …”  “And it was so”
* God separates - and makes things different and distinct
* God gives names to what is created so that they can be part of our lives
* God sees that…

Heavenly Father, give me grace to finish the work that I have been doing and rest for one day.

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
² By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 
³ Then God blessed the seventh day…

Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of life-giving water in all its forms: mist, rain and rivers. 
* Thank you too that “back in the day” you gave us the breath of life - that which makes us humans conscious living beings.

⁴ This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

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Prayer: Heavenly Father,
* give grace to those we know who are married to be at one with each other.
* give grace to those we know who seek to be married to discern who it is right for them to marry
* give grace and comfort to those we know whose marriages ended in separation, divorce or death
* today and everyday

¹⁸ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to receive your love in our hearts
and give us grace to seek the glory that only comes from you.

³⁹ “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 
⁴⁰ Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 
⁴¹ I…

Heavenly Father
give us grace, to put to good use the resources at our disposal, however inadequate they seem.

¹ After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. ² A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. ^3 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be both generous to others and careful in our use of resources

¹⁰ Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. ¹¹ Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the…

Sometimes (Isaiah 1:15) this is what God has to say to people:

            ¹⁵When you stretch our your hands
            I will hide my eyes from you;
            Even through you make many prayers, I will not listen;

Wow!  Why is this?: It is because
  …

Heavenly father
give us grace in the storms of life to hear the voice of our Lord, to address our fears and to let our Lord into the boat of our lives

¹⁶ When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷ and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. ^18…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful to your Son Jesus work which will bring us the daily bread of eternal life

²² On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. ^23 …

Heavenly father
give us grace to come to Jesus, the bread of life today

²⁹ Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
³⁰ They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? ³¹ Our fathers ate the…

Heavenly father
give us grace to “see” Jesus and believe in Him, and so to have eternal life and be raised up on the last day.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 
³⁶ But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. 
³⁷ All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to…

Heavenly father
give us grace to see spiritual things clearly, which may be hidden by our own preconceptions.
and give us grace to believe in and feed on Your crucified and risen son today

⁴¹ The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.” ⁴² They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today in the death and resurrection of the Son of Man

⁵² The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
⁵³ Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. …

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to trust in your son, so that his word would live in us, so that we would be saved from all that pulls us away from life in all its fullness.

³¹ “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ³² It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. ^33 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace not only to hear the life giving words of Jesus , but also to put our trust in you, so that the way we live shows how much we value your grace and mercy.

²⁴ “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life,
and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 
^…

Heavenly Father give me the humility to admit that I don’t understand things, particularly if I ought to know them by now.

Jesus said  ^7 “”You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You^[c]must be born again.’ ⁸ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its…

Heavenly Father, whenever I see the effects of humanity’s inhumanity and I seek to condemn, turn my eyes to your one and only Son, so that I believe that you are present in the very worst situations seeking to save people from destruction.

¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^[…

Heavenly Father,
give me grace to see the truth about my dark deeds
give me grace to come to the light, rejoicing that dark deeds are exposed for what they are
deliver me from the love of darkness and the fear of exposure.

¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ …

Heavenly Father, give me grace so that I may be generous in my affirmation of the gifts of others, and know when others must become greater, and I must become less.

²² After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. ²³ Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. ^24…

Heavenly father
Give me grace to be open to the truths about what is not seen
Give me grace to be open to the Spirit who you give without limit
Give me grace to walk the way of the cross, as Jesus did, trusting that this is the path of eternal life.

³¹ The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. ^32…