Held | Monday Week 12 | Numbers 23:19-20

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Hello, and welcome to Held, where we break open scripture using the ancient technique called Lectio Divina.

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Each day we read and meditate on sacred scripture while allowing quiet time to sit and listen to God's voice.

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There will be times in the podcast where I will instruct you to hit pause.

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It is important that you take however long you need during those periods.

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There is no need to rush.

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So before we begin, let's open up with a prayer to the Holy Spirit, followed by our prayer to St.

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Gabriel.

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Come, Holy Spirit, come.

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Come, Holy Spirit, give us the wisdom to understand the words that we are about to open up with.

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Help us- to know what it is that God is speaking to us today.

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Give us the fortitude to move forward after we've read this scripture and opened it up, to, to move forward and, and to go out in the world and be who you've called us to be.

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Amen Saint Gabriel, messenger of God, you were entrusted with bringing God's word to Mary.

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Help me to be attentive to God's voice today.

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Help me to receive his word with the same openness and trust that Mary showed.

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Pray for me as I enter into this time of prayer.

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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Our scripture reading today is from the Book of Numbers.

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It's chapter twenty-three, verses nineteen through twenty God is not a human being that he should lie or mortal that he should change his mind.

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Has he promised and will he not do it? Has he spoken and will he not fulfill it? See, I received a command to bless.

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He has blessed, and I cannot revoke it So I'm gonna go ahead and read this a second time a little bit slower, and I ask that you just be attentive to these words and just see where God's speaking to you today.

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What word or phrases are, are jumping out? Perhaps the entirety of scripture is speaking to you today, but just be attentive as I read this a little slower the second time God is not a human being that he should lie or a mortal that he should change his mind.

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Has he promised and will he not do it? Has he spoken? And will he not fulfill it? See, I received a command to bless.

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He has blessed, and I cannot revoke it So let's take a moment and sit with the scripture we just heard What word or phrases caught your attention? Where have you quietly started to doubt that God will do what he said? What would it look like to you to remember that He is not like the people who have let us down before? So let's not try to solve anything right now.

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Simply just notice what God may be drawing our attention to.

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Pause the podcast now.

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Take as much time as you need Now let's enter into prayer and respond to God.

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Bring Him the specific promise you've been treating as uncertain.

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Ask Him to help you actually believe that He can't lie.

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Pause the podcast now and pray Now, as we enter into the contemplation phase, we're gonna quiet our minds and, and let all those words go.

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You may find this to be a little bit difficult, and that's okay.

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It can be difficult to just try to quiet our minds, but it's extremely important.

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This is a, an extremely important phase of our Lectio Divina.

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This is where we allow ourselves, in a time of quiet, to be open to what God's speaking to us today.

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So again, let the words go.

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We don't need to f- be figuring anything out here.

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We're just simply going to rest in God's presence.

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Be still.

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Know that He is here.

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Pause the podcast now, and please stay here as long as you need So today, go forth remembering that when God speaks, it holds.

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Not because the situation has changed yet, but because of who is doing the speaking.

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When doubt rises today, let it be the cue to return to His Word, not a sign that you were foolish to trust it.

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Offer th- offer that same steadiness to someone else who's waiting on something too.

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Be patient.

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Be steady.

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Be present.

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Go in peace, and go share the love of Christ with the world around you.

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Until next time, may you always remember that you are held