Episode 297: A Word For Frightened Hearts
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
4.9 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Synopsis: In this episode, living amidst the most anxious generation of all time, Fr. John and Mary reflect on Isaiah’s encouraging, timely and healing words from God: Be strong! Fear not!
Scripture passage: Isaiah 35:4-7a
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to you. We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo, Mary Guilfoil. We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29. This is the podcast where we talk about the Word of God and how it brings healing and encouragement and renewal to our daily lives. Mary, happy Labor Day. |
| 0:18.2 | Gosh, Father John, happy Labor Day to you, too. We get a long weekend. |
| 0:21.6 | We get a long weekend. |
| 0:23.6 | But here we are making a podcast, or at least an episode, right? |
| 0:27.3 | Hey, we talk about how the Word of God brings hope and encouragement. |
| 0:30.7 | And boy, is that ever true for this week's scriptures, isn't it? |
| 0:36.8 | What's our topic this week? Our topic for today is a word for |
| 0:40.4 | frightened hearts, Father John. I don't know anybody with a frightened heart. Do you? Oh, maybe there's a few. |
| 0:47.3 | They're all around. They're all around us and sometimes my heart gets frightened too. Indeed. Let's pray |
| 0:50.8 | then. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. Lord, we just ask for your Holy Spirit to descend upon us right now. |
| 1:00.0 | Expose all those areas in our lives that were nervous or restless or anxious about, |
| 1:07.6 | and often with very good reason. Help us to bring them to you and to let your mercy and your power and your love overshadow them so that we may not succumb to fear. |
| 1:21.3 | We just lift up especially those who are listening right now who are most in need of your comfort and your encouragement. Give them, |
| 1:29.5 | we ask Father, what they need in these days. We ask it all in Jesus' name. Amen. In the name of the |
| 1:36.5 | Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. We got news. We want to continue to push regarding |
| 1:42.7 | the rescue project, don't we, Mary? Yeah. So again, |
| 1:45.2 | you know, picking up from last week, we told all of you around about the rescue project |
| 1:49.6 | challenge. It's launching on September 10th. We just encourage you to go to our web page, |
| 1:55.2 | rescuproject.us, backslash challenge, everything you need to know about how to press into the challenge, |
| 2:03.3 | share the challenge with your family and friends is all right there. We've already shared it |
| 2:08.7 | with a number of people inviting them to share it, and we're seeing some real excitement around |
| 2:14.6 | what we're doing. This is a 14 consecutive day audio shortened version of the rescue project. |
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