Daily Pause

22 The Lord said to Moses, 23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

24 “‘“The Lord bless you

27 “So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

Numbers 6:22-27

I now consecrate this year of life to You and You alone! You are my Lord in 2023!

I consecrate every aspect of my life and all of my living this year totally and completely to You. I yield my spirit, soul, body, my heart, mind and will to the life and leading of Your Holy Spirit.

Come Holy Spirit, fill me afresh every day this new year. I want to follow Your lead.

Jesus I receive all the work and triumph your life, death, resurrection ,ascension and current reign over my life. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price. Thank you for giving me my salvation identity.

I pray "Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done" over my life, over my family and over my church in 2023.

Jesus, I consecrate all of me to you and invite You to reign over every dimension of my life every day of this new year. I consecrate to you:

• my time and abilities

• my possessions, money, and influence

• my personality, sexuality and imagination

• my work, plans and ambitions,

• my friends, family and church

• my hopes and dreams

• my loves, losses and worries

• and my brokenness, imperfections, disappointments and failures

My all day, every-day life is set apart and consecrated to You Jesus – flood my life with Your creative and renewing presence. Thank you for setting me apart as Yours.

I now bring the authority, rule and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over all aspects of my life; and over all my arenas of influence this New Year. I come in Jesus name against Satan and His kingdom binding and banishing him and all forces of evil from my life, my family and my church this year in the powerful and victorious name of Jesus!

Amen

1 Blessed is the one

4 Not so the wicked!

6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,

Psalm 1:1-6

My dear Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You today to be restored in You and renewed in You.

I now consecrate this year of life to You and You alone! You are my Lord in 2023!

I consecrate every aspect of my life and all of my living this year totally and completely to You. I yield my spirit, soul, body, my heart, mind and will to the life and leading of Your Holy Spirit.

Come Holy Spirit, fill me afresh every day this new year. I want to follow Your lead.

Jesus I receive all the work and triumph your life, death, resurrection ,ascension and current reign over my life. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price. Thank you for giving me my salvation identity.

I pray "Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done" over my life, over my family and over my church in 2023.

Jesus, I consecrate all of me to you and invite You to reign over every dimension of my life every day of this new year. I consecrate to you:

• my time and abilities

• my possessions, money, and influence

• my personality, sexuality and imagination

• my work, plans and ambitions,

• my friends, family and church

• my hopes and dreams

• my loves, losses and worries

• and my brokenness, imperfections, disappointments and failures

My all day, every-day life is set apart and consecrated to You Jesus – flood my life with Your creative and renewing presence. Thank you for setting me apart as Yours.

I now bring the authority, rule and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over all aspects of my life; and over all my arenas of influence this New Year. I come in Jesus name against Satan and His kingdom binding and banishing him and all forces of evil from my life, my family and my church this year in the powerful and victorious name of Jesus!

Amen

4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, _“Abba_, Father.” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.

Galatians 4:4-7

My dear Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You today to be restored in You and renewed in You.

I now consecrate this year of life to You and You alone! You are my Lord in 2023!

I consecrate every aspect of my life and all of my living this year totally and completely to You. I yield my spirit, soul, body, my heart, mind and will to the life and leading of Your Holy Spirit.

Come Holy Spirit, fill me afresh every day this new year. I want to follow Your lead.

Jesus I receive all the work and triumph your life, death, resurrection ,ascension and current reign over my life. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price. Thank you for giving me my salvation identity.

I pray "Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done" over my life, over my family and over my church in 2023.

Jesus, I consecrate all of me to you and invite You to reign over every dimension of my life every day of this new year. I consecrate to you:

• my time and abilities

• my possessions, money, and influence

• my personality, sexuality and imagination

• my work, plans and ambitions,

• my friends, family and church

• my hopes and dreams

• my loves, losses and worries

• and my brokenness, imperfections, disappointments and failures

My all day, every-day life is set apart and consecrated to You Jesus – flood my life with Your creative and renewing presence. Thank you for setting me apart as Yours.

I now bring the authority, rule and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over all aspects of my life; and over all my arenas of influence this New Year. I come in Jesus name against Satan and His kingdom binding and banishing him and all forces of evil from my life, my family and my church this year in the powerful and victorious name of Jesus!

Amen

21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.

22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”), 24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”

Luke 2:21-24

My dear Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You today to be restored in You and renewed in You.

I now consecrate this year of life to You and You alone! You are my Lord in 2023!

I consecrate every aspect of my life and all of my living this year totally and completely to You. I yield my spirit, soul, body, my heart, mind and will to the life and leading of Your Holy Spirit.

Come Holy Spirit, fill me afresh every day this new year. I want to follow Your lead.

Jesus I receive all the work and triumph your life, death, resurrection ,ascension and current reign over my life. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price. Thank you for giving me my salvation identity.

I pray "Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done" over my life, over my family and over my church in 2023.

Jesus, I consecrate all of me to you and invite You to reign over every dimension of my life every day of this new year. I consecrate to you:

• my time and abilities

• my possessions, money, and influence

• my personality, sexuality and imagination

• my work, plans and ambitions,

• my friends, family and church

• my hopes and dreams

• my loves, losses and worries

• and my brokenness, imperfections, disappointments and failures

My all day, every-day life is set apart and consecrated to You Jesus – flood my life with Your creative and renewing presence. Thank you for setting me apart as Yours.

I now bring the authority, rule and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over all aspects of my life; and over all my arenas of influence this New Year. I come in Jesus name against Satan and His kingdom binding and banishing him and all forces of evil from my life, my family and my church this year in the powerful and victorious name of Jesus!

Amen

Today's devotion is adapted from the book "Restoration Year" by John Eldredge. A great daily devotional book. Click here if you would like to purchase your own copy.

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)

My dear Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You today to be restored in You and renewed in You.

I now consecrate this year of life to You and You alone! You are my Lord in 2023!

I consecrate every aspect of my life and all of my living this year totally and completely to You. I yield my spirit, soul, body, my heart, mind and will to the life and leading of Your Holy Spirit.

Come Holy Spirit, fill me afresh every day this new year. I want to follow Your lead.

Jesus I receive all the work and triumph your life, death, resurrection ,ascension and current reign over my life. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price. Thank you for giving me my salvation identity.

I pray "Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done" over my life, over my family and over my church in 2023.

Jesus, I consecrate all of me to you and invite You to reign over every dimension of my life every day of this new year. I consecrate to you:

• my time and abilities

• my possessions, money, and influence

• my personality, sexuality and imagination

• my work, plans and ambitions,

• my friends, family and church

• my hopes and dreams

• my loves, losses and worries

• and my brokenness, imperfections, disappointments and failures

My all day, every-day life is set apart and consecrated to You Jesus – flood my life with Your creative and renewing presence. Thank you for setting me apart as Yours.

I now bring the authority, rule and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over all aspects of my life; and over all my arenas of influence this New Year. I come in Jesus name against Satan and His kingdom binding and banishing him and all forces of evil from my life, my family and my church this year in the powerful and victorious name of Jesus!

Amen

This week the Daily Pause will take on a little different format fitting  for the season we are in. Each day we will open with prayer to immerse  in the presence and love of God … then we will engage with a well-known  Christmas Carol, hearing something of the story behind the carol as well  as the deep soul stirring theology of the lyrics. We will get to  embrace these age tested songs in a fresh way giving the Holy Spirit  ample space time and truth to restore our souls in this unique season.

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Joy to the world, the Lord is come  

Let Earth receive her King  

Let every heart prepare Him room  

And Heaven and nature sing  

And Heaven and nature sing  

And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing

Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns  

Let all their songs employ  

While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains  

Repeat the sounding joy  

Repeat the sounding joy  

Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy

He rules the world with truth and grace  

And makes the nations prove  

The glories of His righteousness  

And wonders of His love  

And wonders of His love  

And wonders, wonders, of His love

Joy to the world, the Lord is come  

Let Earth receive her King  

Let every heart prepare Him room  

And Heaven and nature sing  

(And Heaven and nature sing)  

And Heaven and nature sing  

(And Heaven and nature sing)  

And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing  

And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing

Joy to the world, the Lord is come  

Let Earth receive her King  

Let every heart prepare Him room  

And Heaven and nature sing  

(And Heaven and nature sing)  

And Heaven and nature sing  

(And Heaven and nature sing)  

And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing  

And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing

This week the Daily Pause will take on a little different format fitting  for the season we are in. Each day we will open with prayer to immerse  in the presence and love of God … then we will engage with a well-known  Christmas Carol, hearing something of the story behind the carol as well  as the deep soul stirring theology of the lyrics. We will get to  embrace these age tested songs in a fresh way giving the Holy Spirit  ample space time and truth to restore our souls in this unique season.

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1 God rest you merry, gentlemen,

Refrain:

This week the Daily Pause will take on a little different format fitting  for the season we are in. Each day we will open with prayer to immerse  in the presence and love of God … then we will engage with a well-known  Christmas Carol, hearing something of the story behind the carol as well  as the deep soul stirring theology of the lyrics. We will get to  embrace these age tested songs in a fresh way giving the Holy Spirit  ample space time and truth to restore our souls in this unique season.

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Silent night, holy night!

Silent night, holy night!

Silent night, holy night!

This week the Daily Pause will take on a little different format fitting  for the season we are in. Each day we will open with prayer to immerse  in the presence and love of God … then we will engage with a well-known  Christmas Carol, hearing something of the story behind the carol as well  as the deep soul stirring theology of the lyrics. We will get to  embrace these age tested songs in a fresh way giving the Holy Spirit  ample space time and truth to restore our souls in this unique season.

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Hark! the herald angels sing,  

  “Glory to the new-born King;  

Peace on earth, and mercy mild;  

  God and sinners reconciled.”  

Joyful, all ye nations, rise,  

  Join the triumph of the skies;  

With angelic hosts proclaim,  

  “Christ is born in Bethlehem.”

2 Christ, by highest heav’n adored,  

  Christ, the everlasting Lord:  

Late in time behold Him come,  

  Offspring of a virgin’s womb.  

Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,  

  Hail th’ incarnate Deity!  

Pleased as man with man to dwell,  

  Jesus our Immanuel.

3 Hail the heav’n-born Prince of Peace!  

  Hail the Sun of righteousness!  

Light and life to all He brings,  

  Ris’n with healing in His wings:  

Mild He lays His glory by,  

  Born that man no more may die;  

Born to raise the sons of earth;  

  Born to give them second birth.

This week the Daily Pause will take on a little different format fitting for the season we are in. Each day we will open with prayer to immerse in the presence and love of God … then we will engage with a well-known Christmas Carol, hearing something of the story behind the carol as well as the deep soul stirring theology of the lyrics. We will get to embrace these age tested songs in a fresh way giving the Holy Spirit ample space time and truth to restore our souls in this unique season.

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What Child Is This?

What child is this, who, laid to rest,

Why lies He in such mean estate

So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh;