Show Notes
Recorded live, this special Advent gathering invites listeners into the Story of stories through teaching, live worship, and guided prayer. Through music, reflection, and a holy encounter, Stasi leads us through a journey into waiting, longing, and the faithful Presence of Jesus, who came for us and is coming still.
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RESOURCES Worship set on Spotify: https://wahe.art/491LuQO
Our deep gratitude to our incredible singers for their stunning performance at the gathering! Thank you to Amy Dale, Dani Bovee, and Laura Werner.
Randy Gill – Mary’s song (“The Magnificat”): https://youtu.be/Fayk8ygaN18 Watch the unedited live stream: https://wildatheart.org/events/women-advent-2025-livestream
Film Scene Referenced: The Shawshank Redemption
For more on the three levels of hope: Casual hope, crucial hope, and ultimate hope, read All Things New: Heaven, Earth, and the Restoration of Everything You Love by John Eldredge https://amzn.to/3v7mwz2
….. VERSES: Proverbs 13:12 (NIV) – Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Matthew 11:28 (NIV) – Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Psalm 42:5 (NIV) – Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Psalm 42:1 (NIV) – As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
Psalm 71:14 (NIV) – For me, I will always have hope. I will praise you more and more.
1 Peter 1:3-4 (NIV) – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
Isaiah 25:1 (NIV) – Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you and praise your name for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.
Genesis 3:15 (NIV) – I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
Galatians 4:4 (NIV) – But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law.
Luke 1:28-38 (NIV) – The Annunciation passage (quoted in full)
Luke 1:46-55 (NIV) – The Magnificat (Mary's song)
Romans 8:38-39 (NIV) – For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psalm 62:5-6 (NIV) – Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) – For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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