Welcome to the Prayers of Rest podcast. I'm your host, Asherita Choochoo, and I'm joined here today by our producer, Kendra Stanton. Kinsra, hi.

Hi. Hi. I'm so happy to be here with you. So, yeah, you're usually on the back end, making things happen and making sure that

these episodes post-weekly posting transcripts to our Patreon community. You, yeah, you're the

one that delivers week after week and serves our community so well. So I'm excited for you to be in front

of the microphone with me today as we announce our new spring podcast season. Yes. Yeah, I'm so

excited for that. So what is the topic of the spring season, Asherida? I'm so excited for everybody to hear.

Yeah.

So as we were kind of planning ahead, you know, this is something that most listeners probably

aren't familiar with the scheduling of podcasts and different podcasts do it in different ways,

but we actually tend to record a whole season at a time.

And we work about three to five months in advance.

So I sit down for a day or two of just prayer and record the prayers.

So as we plan ahead of time, and as we as a team spent time,

just praying and planning for 2023, this theme of spiritual battle kept coming to mind.

And it does seem like the last two years have just been really intense. There's a lot going on in the world.

There's a lot going on in the U.S. where we live, where a lot of our listeners live, and it can feel like we're in the midst of a battle.

And scripture has a lot to say about that, which is, you know, why I was

thinking it would behoove us, I think, to spend some time praying through the armor of God.

But the problem with that, Kendra, and you and I were talking about this a little bit, is like, well,

putting on the armor of God, praying as like spiritual warfare doesn't sound very restful.

Yeah, yeah, it doesn't sound very restful.

I mean, like, when I think of the word rest and resting in God's presence, like,

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