Daily Pause

Daily Pause

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Daily Pause episodes

  • June 27th, 2022 - Mark 2:13-17
    “Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.””
    ‭‭Mark‬ ‭2:13-17‬ ‭NIV‬‬
    12 min
  • June 24th, 2022 - Ezekiel 37:1-12
    The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
    I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
    4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord…7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
    9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
    11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them:…. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live,…Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”
    Ezekiel 37:1-12
    16 min
  • June 23rd, 2022 - Acts 8:26-38
    26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”
    30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
    31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
    32 This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:
    “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
    Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
    36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.
    Acts 8:26-38
    15 min
  • June 22nd, 2022 - Matthew 9:2-13
    9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
    10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
    12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
    Matthew 9:2-13
    13 min
  • June 21st, 2022 - Luke 19:1-10
    Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
    5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
    7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
    8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
    9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
    Luke 19:1-10
    14 min
  • June 20th, 2022 - Genesis 12:1-5
    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.]
    4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
    Genesis 12:1-5
    13 min
  • June 17th, 2022 - Romans 5:1-5

    Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.  2  Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory. 3  We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.  4  And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.  5  And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

    13 min
  • June 16th, 2022 - Ephesians 3:14-21

    14  For this reason I kneel before the Father,  15  from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.  16  I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,  17  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,  18  may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,  19  and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20  Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,  21  to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

    13 min
  • June 15th, 2022 - John 3:5-17

    5  Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.  6  Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.  7  You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’  8  The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” 9  “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked. 10  “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?  14  Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,  15  that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” 16  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  17  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

    14 min
  • June 14th, 2022 - Ephesians 2:13-22

    13  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.   17  He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.  18  For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19  Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,  20  built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.  21  In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.  22  And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

    13 min

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Pause is the learned art of stopping to immerse in the presence of God and untangle from the demands of life. Pause frees our souls to breathe the fresh air of God's grace, even if just for a minute - this is active restoration.