Episode Transcript
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One of my favourite ways to pray with Scripture
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is through the lens of personal experience.
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How is Jesus speaking to me;
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what might he be saying?
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It’s often a word or a phrase that catches my attention.
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Let’s take Peter’s reaction to being miraculously rescued from prison
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in our first reading.
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He says,
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“Now I know it is all true!”
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The curious thing though, is that for Peter,
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this experience took place several years
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after his profession of Jesus’ divine identity,
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"You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
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What can we make of that?
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I wonder if the Lord is inviting us, you and I,
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to examine the dynamic nature of our faith journey
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because it’s not meant to be static.
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Is my faith mostly built on what I believe,
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what I profess, or what I do,
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or is it characterised more by my
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joyful response to what God has done
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and is doing in and through me?
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Recognising that God’s power, Holy Spirit,
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is working in and through us
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is vital to a dynamic faith.
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The experience of encountering the Lord
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becomes the wellspring of new life which causes
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“His praise to always be on my lips,”
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to quote our Sunday Psalmist.
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It is also Holy Spirit who causes and empowers
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our capacity to share what God has done with others,
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“Now I know it is all true.”
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As we celebrate the feast and witness of Saints Peter and Paul,
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may we be open to God’s power in our hearts.
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Amen.
