Episode 86: Elizabeth
Hope for Right Now Podcast – Trust in the Impossible: An Advent Series, Elizabeth
While Walking with Purpose founder Lisa takes time to write our next women’s Bible study, Laura is keeping the Hope for Right Now podcast going strong with a four-week series: Trust in the Impossible: An Advent Series.
Advent is meant to be a time of interior reflection—the weeks we prepare our hearts and homes to receive the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. But with the secular world’s demands and distractions, keeping our eyes on what matters can be challenging, and the season of quiet we dream about feels impossible.
What if this Advent, we said no to the overwhelm of the secular world and yes to the overshadowing of the Spirit? Each week, Laura introduces a Biblical figure from the gospel of Luke, whose story reveals the secret to a simple, peace-filled Advent—one where we yield to God’s will, respond in faith, and trust in the impossible.
Today’s Biblical figure: Elizabeth. If you are in a season of painful waiting, allow Elizabeth to help you see your situation as an opportunity to grow in faith and glorify God.
Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
Luke 1:39–45 (bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/1)
Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
John 9:2–3: And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in Him.”
John 11:32: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
John 11:35: Jesus wept.
John 11:36–37 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
John 11:40: Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”
Luke 1:15: And he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Exodus 31:1–3: The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the Spirit of God.”
Numbers 11:25: Then the Lord came down in a cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did so no more.
1 Samuel 10:10: When they came to Gib’e-ah, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.
Matthew 5:3–12 (bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5): The Beatitudes
Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Hide yourself in the quiet. Ask for the Holy Spirit to flood you and strengthen you in humility and faith. Ask for the help to see your waiting as an opportunity to grow in faith and glorify God.
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Father John Riccardo, Christmas homily (youwerebornforthis.actsxxix.org/157)
Saint Francis de Sales
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