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Daily Pause
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. Welcome to the Daily Pause. The Daily Pause is a 10 minute daily devotional tool freshly designed each day by Point of Grace church near Austin Texas to help us intentionally pause and breathe - immerse and untangle. The goal is that Monday - Friday we would take time…
Episodes
Daily PauseMarch 10th, 2023 - John 14:1-6
John 14:1-6 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told…
Daily PauseMarch 9th, 2023 - John 14:22-31
John 14:22-31 22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied, “If anyone…
Daily PauseMarch 8th, 2023 - John 14:15-21
John 14:15-21 15 “If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17…
Daily PauseMarch 7th, 2023 - John 14:7-14
John 14:7-14 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the…
Daily PauseMarch 6th, 2023 - John 14:1-6
John 14:1-6 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told…
Daily PauseMarch 3rd, 2023 - John 13:31-38
John 13:31-38 31 When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will glorify…
Daily PauseMarch 2nd, 2023 - Matthew 20:24-28
Matthew 20:24-28 24 When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. 25 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers…
Daily PauseMarch 1st, 2023 - Philippians 2:5-11
Philippians 2:5-11 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality…
Daily PauseFebruary 28th, 2023 - John 13:6-10
John 13: 6-10 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but…
Daily PauseFebruary 27th, 2023 - John 13:1-5
John 13:1-5 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own…
Daily PauseFebruary 24th, 2023 - Acts 11
19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the…
Daily PauseFebruary 23rd, 2023 - Acts 2
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…
Daily PauseFebruary 22nd, 2023 - 1 Corinthians 12
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body…
Daily PauseFebruary 21st, 2023 - 1 Corinthians 12
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as…
Daily PauseFebruary 20th, 2023 - Romans 12:1-5
Romans 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is…
Daily PauseFebruary 17th, 2023 - Ephesians 4:17-32
Ephesians 4 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They…
Daily PauseFebruary 16th, 2023 - Ephesians 4:7-16
Ephesians 4 7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the…
Daily PauseFebruary 15th, 2023 - Ephesians 4:1-7
Ephesians 4 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and…
Daily PauseFebruary 14th, 2023 - Romans 12:9-18
Romans 12 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never…
Daily PauseFebruary 13th, 2023 - Romans 12:1-5
Romans 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is…
Daily PauseFebruary 10th, 2023 - Ephesians 5:8-10 & 15-20
Ephesians 5 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness…
Daily PauseFebruary 9th, 2023 - 1 Peter 5:1-7
To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of…
Daily PauseFebruary 8th, 2023 - Ephesians 3:14-19
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches…
Daily PauseFebruary 7th, 2023 - 1 Peter 2:4-10
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a…
Daily PauseFebruary 6th, 2023 - Ephesians 2:19
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…
Daily PauseFebruary 3rd, 2023 - Galatians 5:13-25
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. … 16 So I…
Daily PauseFebruary 2nd, 2023 - Matthew 11:25-30
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…
Daily PauseFebruary 1st, 2023 - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in…
Daily PauseJanuary 31st, 2023 - Matthew 11:25-30
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them…
Daily PauseJanuary 30th, 2023 - John 2:1-11
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When…
Daily PauseJanuary 27th, 2023 - John 4:28-42
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be…
Daily PauseJanuary 26th, 2023 - Matthew 9:9-13
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…
Daily PauseJanuary 25th, 2023 - John:43-50
43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of…
Daily PauseJanuary 24th, 2023 - John 1:40-42
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his…
Daily PauseJanuary 23rd, 2023 - John 1:35-39
135 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” 37 When the two disciples…
Daily PauseJanuary 20th, 2023 - Matthew 14:1-13
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus, 2 and he said to his attendants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is…
Daily PauseJanuary 19th, 2023 - Matthew 11:2-11
2 When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples 3 to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect…
Daily PauseJanuary 18th, 2023 - John 1:29-37
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one I meant when I said…
Daily PauseJanuary 17th, 2023 - John 1:19-27
19 Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders[c] in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. 20 He did not fail to confess, but…
Daily PauseJanuary 16th, 2023 - John 1:6-15
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He…
Daily PauseJanuary 13th, 2023 - Luke 2:41-52
41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to…
Daily PauseJanuary 12th, 2023 - Matthew 2:19-23
19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of…
Daily PauseJanuary 11th, 2023 - Matthew 2:13-18
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there…
Daily PauseJanuary 10th, 2023 - Matthew 2:9-12
9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the…
Daily PauseJanuary 9th, 2023 - Matthew 2:1-8
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been…
Daily PauseJanuary 6th, 2023 - Numbers 6:22-27
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 and keep you; 25…
Daily PauseJanuary 5th, 2023 - Psalm 1:1-6
1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is…
Daily PauseJanuary 4th, 2023 - Galatians 4:4-7
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…
Daily PauseJanuary 3rd, 2023 - Luke 2:21-24
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…
Daily PauseJanuary 2nd, 2023 - Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)
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…
Daily PauseFriday December 30th – Joy To the World
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…
Daily PauseThursday December 29th – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
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…
Daily PauseWednesday December 28th – Silent 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…
Daily PauseTuesday December 27th – Hark the Herald Angels 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…
Daily PauseMonday December 26th – What Child is this?
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…
Daily PauseDecember 25th Praying Simeon's Song
Luke 2: 22-32 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…
Daily PauseDecember 24th A Prayer to Treasure
Luke 2: 17-19 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what…
Daily PauseDecember 23rd A Prayer for Peace
Luke 2: 13-16 13 Suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying: 14 Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace…
Daily PauseDecember 22nd - A Prayer for Attention
Luke 2: 8-12 8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and…
Daily PauseDecember 21st - A Prayer for Generosity
Luke 2: 1-7 1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took…