Daily Pause

Acts 3:1-8 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 4 Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Pet...

James 5:13-18 13 Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.  14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.  16 Therefo...

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...

Ephesians 6:18-20 18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. 19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I...

1 Timothy 2:1-4 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—  2  for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.  3  This is good, and pleases God our Savior,  4  who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.  5  For there is one God and one media...

Romans 10:1-4 Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.  2  I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.  3  For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.  4  For Chr...

Matthew 14:13-21  13  When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns.  14  When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. 15  As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the cro...

Matthew 9:35-38 35  Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.  36  When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.  37  Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  38  As...

Psalm 96:2-4   "Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods."

Romans 10:11-15 11  As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”  12  For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,  13  for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14  How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of who...

Acts 13:2-4 1  Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.  2  While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”  3  So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed...

Matthew 28:16-20 16  Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.  17  When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.  18  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  19  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy S...

Isaiah 6:4-9 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 Wi...

7  Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?  8  If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.  9  Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spi...

24  For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?  25  But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. 26  In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.  27  And he who searches our hearts knows th...

5  But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.  6  The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.  7  Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8  So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopp...

11  Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.  2  As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3  They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.  4  Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name...

12  And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:  13  I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  14  Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,  15  I will remember my covenant between me and yo...

15  Then God said to Noah,  16  “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.  17  Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” 18  So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.  1...

11  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.  12  And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13  On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

9  This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.  10  Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 11  Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.  12  God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.  13  So God said to Noah, “I am...

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.  2  Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,  3  and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.  4...

12  God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.  13  So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.  14  So make yourself an ark of cypress[ a ] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.  15  This is how...

Genesis 8:15-22 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”  18  So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’...

Genesis 7:1-6 The Lord then said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout t...