Hey, everybody. Welcome to You Were Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo and Mary Guilfoil.

We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29.

And this is the podcast where we talk about how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope in the God who created and rescued this world in order that we can be agents of transformation and recreation.

Mary, it's hard to believe we are getting uber close to Holy Week and the great celebration

of Jesus' death, resurrection, ascension, and talk about transformation and recreation.

I mean, I just love these days.

I know you do too, huh?

Yeah, and I can't believe tomorrow is April 1st. The pace with which Lent has passed is mind

boggling. I don't know if that's more of a testimony to my age, that the older I get, the faster

time flies, but this is such a beautiful season to be in. And so no matter where you are

in your Lenton fast and your Lenton journey, if we've struggled along the way, there's still

time to begin again. I'm beginning again. So hopefully what we're going to talk about today

is going to give us fuel and grace to just to realize what we have

in this time. Yeah, and just a quick reminder before we pray, we're in the middle right now of

doing an extended meditation on Psalm 51, as we would prayed about what we should do for at

Lent as a podcast series. This just seemed to be something that the Lord was

inviting us to spend time with. And I have found this so personally rich as you're going to tee up in a

second. We're going to spend the whole podcast just talking about two verses. I mean, that's just how

rich the word of God is. So if you've missed what we've done so far, please feel free to jump

back into the previous episode so you can catch up. But I think to what the Lord's led us to reflect on

today, I have found particularly both inspiring, convicting, and challenging. So I pray it will be

a blessing to others as well. With that, what's our topic? Our topic today is take not your spirit from me.

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