#102. The AGAIN We Always Point Back To: Dwelling with Immanuel

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It is a week before Christmas.

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You don't have time to listen

to an episode, and we get it.

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This is going to be so quick

because I have an incredibly

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important update for you.

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If you've listened to the last couple

episodes, you know that we are launching

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a brand new Daily Bible podcast for

busy moms On December 26th, we'll be

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launching some prep episodes so you can

prepare to dwell in the coming new year,

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my goal is to meet the

busiest people that I know.

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Moms right where they're at.

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Every Christian mom that I know is

longing to spend more time in the

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word of God, and I don't think that

there have ever been more distractions

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and things vying for our attention.

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I plan to use the purity of the

podcast platform, so there are no

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ads, no distracting images, nothing

but you having the word of God read

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over you, hearing how to apply it

to your lives and your families.

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And then you and your kids being prayed

over all in under 10 minutes a day.

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That's the game plan.

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I hope you'll join us.

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We have free printable plans, and

those will be available on our

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website beginning December 26th.

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We'll post reminders and updates

here on the Again podcast and direct

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you over to the dwelling place.

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So you don't miss a beat.

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I've been praying for a long time that

this project would bless and reach moms

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who need it, and if you wanna be part of

that process, we would be so grateful.

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If you're interested in joining the launch

team, you can email me@stephanieate.com.

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I'll link that in the show

notes, and I'll give you all

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the things that you could post.

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And big surprise because we truly

wanna reach the moms who need this.

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We're also gonna increase our social

media footprint a little bit and be

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posting on Facebook and Instagram, you'll

be able to share that content as well.

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Please, prayerfully consider is this

what the Lord would be calling you

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to in the new year and be looking

for that content on December 26th.

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And I don't really wanna be pushy.

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But do you think the Lord would say

he isn't calling you to be in his word

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whatever your plans are for the new

year, I hope that being faithful in

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the word tops the list Before I let you

go, let me explain a little bit why I

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wanted to name this, the dwelling place.

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To do that, I'm gonna read you one of my

favorite Bible verses about motherhood

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and this is one of the things

that makes the Lord feel so near.

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I had never heard anyone else

preach on this, and even today

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when I look in commentaries,

there's barely anything there.

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But once in the kindness of the Lord

as I was going through a difficult

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pregnancy, he helped me discover a

verse in a chapter I had read many

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times before, and it's ministered

to me ever since Psalm 84 begins.

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How lovely is your dwelling place?

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Oh Lord of hosts.

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My soul longs yes faints

for the courts of the Lord.

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My heart and flesh sing

for joy to the living God.

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This whole chapter is about worshiping

the Lord and the pilgrimage to reach the

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temple, but tucked in between all of this.

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Worship is a sweet verse that can

encourage us in our motherhood.

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Even the sparrow finds a home and

the swallow a nest for herself where

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she may lay her young at your altars.

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That sparrow laying her young at his

altar and then worshiping is what I

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believe God is calling all of us to.

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We love our children with every part

of our being, and when we trust in a

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good, holy God, we can surrender them.

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But if you're anything like me,

this is a process you need to do

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over and over through different

circumstances in your parenting.

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Maybe at this point you're in a really

sweet season and you have a little nest of

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doves, perhaps they're pestering you a lot

and they feel more like woodpeckers and

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maybe it's all out chaos in your home and

you feel like I am raising cuckoo birds.

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Regardless.

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We need the word of God to help

us in all of these seasons.

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For me personally.

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Without Jesus, I am a mess and I need

to keep coming back to His word over and

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over to remind me what he calls me to

and to give me an eternal perspective.

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With this Dwelling Place podcast,

you'll have three options.

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First, if you are in one of the busiest

seasons or you're exhausted from just

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having a newborn, you could just commit

to track one where you'll listen to

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one of these brief episodes every day.

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And since I'll be reading a section

of scripture over you in each

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episode, that would be a way that

you can commit to being in the word.

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And track two would be for you to

listen to these Dwelling Place episodes,

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as well as listen to the chapters

of scripture being read over you.

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You can do that while you're folding

laundry, doing the dishes or as you are

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driving kids to and fro and track three

for those moms that have more capacity.

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Would be to listen to the dwelling

placed episodes and then to also

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be reading through the scripture.

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I am making this a five day Bible

reading plan because generally moms

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have different schedules on the weekend,

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every part of this has been designed

for busy moms helping us apply

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the word of God to our lives.

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In every episode of the Again podcast,

whether we've talked about laundry or

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meal planning, raising tab leaders or

guiding teens, we have sought to point

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you to the word of God, and it's only

fitting that if our greatest, again, is

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dwelling with our Savior, that we would

provide a way for you to do just that.

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I hope you're ready for

this peaceful launch.

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and

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For an accessible way for you to

be in scripture all year, beginning

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on December 26th, we're gonna do

everything together to set you up

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to be successful in the new year.

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We at Entrusted Ministries want

to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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I pray that joy and peace would

reign in your homes and in all of the

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busyness and preparation that the Lord

still guides you to dwell with the

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newborn King Emmanuel, Jesus Christ.

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We'll see you next week.