God’s Hand Holding Yours | Vol I, Week 13, Held Catholic Devotional

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God's hand holding yours.

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just sit with that for a minute.

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Just think about that.

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there's just a, a simple beauty and warmth in just that one statement.

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God's hand holding yours.

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There's just this confidence, right? Just this quiet confidence that we can walk in knowing that God is with us and he's holding our hands.

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that is the theme for week 13 of Held.

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and yeah, I can't actually believe that I'm saying week 13.

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we've gone through so much as far as, recordings and podcasting and YouTube videos and now we're finally reaching the end of volume one.

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13 marks the end of volume one in the book.

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So for those of you that have been following along, thank you so much.

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I really appreciate it.

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I don't...

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I actually don't really have words to say how appreciative I am of just actually even just going through this journey of what God's calling me to do.

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So it's just been, and amazing for me.

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It's been, fulfilling for me.

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It's been, just a, a awesome growth, and I hope, for those of you that are following along, maybe, some of you guys that are following along actually purchased the books, and maybe...

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hopefully you're finding some peace in the words that are written there.

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and so again, it just thank you so much.

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I really appreciate that.

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And so kinda jumping back into, this week 13, it...

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We really close out volume one with the essence of Held, right? just that, that em- embodiment, that, that visual experience of God holding us and God holding our hands.

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And really one of my favorite scriptures is the kinda the anchor scripture for this week, so if you're following along in the books, it's the day one scripture.

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and it's Isaiah 41:13, and if any of you have one of these cool little prayer cards that I have, that's the, the scripture that I have on there, and it's, "For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand.

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It is I who say to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.'"

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And if I had to pick any one verse out of all of them that I think embodies what I was trying to convey when putting these devotionals together, it is this verse.

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It is that statement from the Lord just telling us, "Do not fear, He will help you."

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and there's...

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What am I trying to say here? There is peace there, right? There is a bit of, comfort in that word.

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Now, and I think I talk about this often, is that none of what, I talk about and none of the reflections say anything about not struggling or that God is going to take our struggles away.

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And for those of us that, that really do struggle with fear and anxiety, that we're gonna continue to do so, right? We...

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It's not all of a sudden it's just gonna go away.

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In those moments, we can have comfort, right? In, in knowing that the Lord is walking with us, holding our hand, holding us, we can, not allow that anxiety to turn into other things.

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We cannot...

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we can take that tool away from the devil.

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I've told...

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I've used that analogy a few times, in these videos and throughout the podcast, is that, fear begets other emotions, and those other emotions can, be grasped onto by the evil one and just really twisted and, and turned into something that it's not.

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So when we turn to scripture, we take that tool away from the devil.

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the other scriptures for this week that we're gonna be reading, And again, I think it's a really good week.

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It's Psalm 73:23-24.

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again, the visual of, the, the Lord holding our hands and holding our right hand.

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then we're gonna move on to, on Wednesday in the podcast, we're gonna do John 10:28, through 29.

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Also, I will note, I will...

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One quick note, a little segue.

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On the podcast, I have extended these verses a little bit more.

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I think when we're n- really, spending some time doing Lectio Divina, it's nice to have a larger scripture.

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those of you following along, you're gonna notice there is gonna be some discrepancies sometimes between the scripture and the podcast and what's actually in the book.

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so in the book it's John 10:28-29.

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again, just that visual of the Lord holding our hands.

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and then we're gonna finish up the week with Hosea, 11:3-4, again, where he's talking about how He's been with us since the very beginning.

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and so yeah, this...

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It's just a great way to, to end volume one.

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And again, I just really can't thank you enough, for following along with me on this journey and being here with me.

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and I really pray for you guys.

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I really pray that you're able to find some peace in these words.

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I know I, was able to find some peace as I was writing it.

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And as even as I'm going along and, and doing these videos, it's been, it's been great for me personally, again, because it, it reminds me that when we're in these moments that, that we can turn to our Lord.

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He really wants to be there with us.

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He is there with us.

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We just need to acknowledge that and, Yeah, we just have to, we just have to acknowledge His presence and allow Him to be with us and allow Him to walk this journey with us and to be there, in the good times and in, in the bad.

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So again, I can't thank you enough.

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i- if you haven't had the opportunity to, please check out the website.

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It's xavierpublishing.com.

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all of the books are available there.

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but yeah, thank you so much, and God bless