S11 E02 A Year of God's Favor Part 2

Abiding Together

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we declare and claim this new year as a year of God's favor! We discuss the power of repentance and blessing and the beautiful exchange that God wants to bestow on us as his beloved children. We continue our discussion on becoming a new creation in Christ through repentance, claiming God's blessings, and destroying areas of idolatry in our life. We pray this week each of you would allow yourself to be found and renewed by the God of restoration!

Sister Miriam's one thing - The King of Love My Shepherd Is - Sarah Kroger

Heather's one thing - Hail O Queen - Damascus Worship

Michelle's one thing - Rhythm - Lisa Keeven

Michelle's other one thing - Crowned for Ashes. You can read more about this ministry through the following interview.

Other Books Mentioned:

Deliverance Prayers for the Laity

Discussion Questions:

What stood out to you from this week's episode?
Where does God want to bestow a beautiful exchange in your life (a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of the spirit of despair)?
How can you cultivate the spiritual practices of repentance and renouncing? How can you cultivate the spiritual practices of claiming blessing and calling forth goodness?

Journal Questions:

What part of Isaiah 61 is God inviting you to be rooted in, in this new year?
Michelle shared a quote from Andy Couch, "Idols promise everything and deliver nothing." What areas of idolatry is God asking you to repent as you move into a new year?
Are there areas of dysfunction, sin, or idolatry you would like to renounce especially for the sake of restoration in your family and future generations?

Quotes to Ponder: "… in this new year that God is giving us to sanctify us and unite us more closely to Himself, let us make Him grow in our souls, let us keep alone and set apart; may He be truly King." - St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

Scripture for Lectio Divina - "...to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor… " - Isaiah 61:2

This episode is sponsored by OSV Challenge.

Are you a Catholic innovator or entrepreneur? OSV Institute for Catholic Innovation invites you to apply for the 2022 OSV Challenge. This multi-round entrepreneurial competition seeks and builds up Catholic innovators by offering opportunities for personal development, professional guidance, and idea acceleration—and a shot at one of five $100,000 prizes. This year the OSV Challenge also includes four new idea tracks for creative arts, entrepreneurship, parishes and dioceses, and technology that are specially designed to support the applicants in each track. At least one $100,000 winner will be selected from each track. Applications for the OSV Challenge are due February 18, 2022, so don't wait to enter! Visit osvchallenge.com for full details.

Announcing our 2022 Lenten Study

This year we will be journeying through the season of Lent with a six-part series based on Restore: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation written by our very own Sister Miriam James Heidland. You can pre-order your copy from Ave Maria Press here or pre-order from Amazon here. We look forward to journeying with you this Lent!

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0:00.0	Hello friends, this episode of the Abiding Together podcast is brought to you by OSV.
0:04.8	Are you a Catholic innovator or entrepreneur? Do you have an idea ready to impact the church
0:09.0	that just needs some support to take it to the next level? OSV Institute for Catholic Innovation
0:13.6	invites you to apply for the 2022 OSV challenge. This multi-round entrepreneurial competition
0:19.2	builds up Catholic innovators by offering opportunities for personal development,
0:23.3	professional guidance, and idea acceleration, and a shot at one of five 100,000
0:28.8	dollar prizes. If your napkin idea needs a boot camp to discover its potential, the OSV
0:33.8	challenge has that covered. If your innovative idea is already in motion, the OSV challenge
0:38.4	will provide the tools to help you accelerate. This year there are also four new idea tracks
0:42.8	for creative arts, entrepreneurship, parishes, and dioceses, and technology that are especially
0:48.4	designed to support the challengers in each track. At least one 100,000 dollar winner will be selected
0:54.0	from each track. If you're ready to take your trailblazing project to new heights, and you're ready
0:58.8	to innovate for the love of the world, then OSV challenge is looking for you. They invest more than
1:03.6	a million dollars annually in emerging innovators, passionate creators, and saints in the making.
1:08.8	Applications are due February 18th, 2022, so don't wait to enter. Visit osvchallenge.com for full
1:15.6	details. The church needs your idea. So what are you waiting for?
1:45.6	So grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and welcome home.
1:54.5	Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the Biting Together podcast. Welcome to season 11,
1:59.7	episode two, and we are going to talk about, which I think you're going to like. You got a little
2:03.6	foretaste of it last week when Michelle was talking about proclaiming the year of Jubilee. We're
2:07.8	going to talk about a year of favor. So it's kind of a continuation of our discussion last week
2:12.5	from our word of the year, and then what the Lord is doing. But the year of favor, especially
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