Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

Welcome to Sizzy Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully

inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word and that heightens

your awareness of his very real

presence in your life. Well, today I'm talking with one of my favorite people about one of my

favorite topics. Our friend Addison Bavir joins us today to talk about his new book, Words with

God, Trading Boring, Empty Prayer for Real Connection. Listen to what he writes. He says,

It's only through prayer that we can know and face

what we truly are and what this moment requires of us. Until we learn our lives can be a prayer,

we will remain strangers to our fears, hopes, sins, and desires, weaknesses and strengths. Prayer is,

in a real sense, the ticket into the cosmic narrative. I love that. Opening our eyes to the greater story so we can locate our scene and play a part. Isn't that beautiful? We'll get them on in a moment. Just a quick announcement here. If you listen, especially to our radio stations or online, want you to know we've got an amazing app and it's free. Go to the app store. Search Faith

Radio Network. You'll find it. You can listen when you travel this season. You can take us with you. We'd love that. You can catch the live show. You can live stream or catch the podcast after the fact. All right, let me tell you about my guest. We'll get him on this show. Addison Bavir, Listen to this.

Loves disassembling the boxes that fragment and frustrate our lives.

A process he calls integrative faith.

He's the author. show. Addison Bavir, listen to this, loves disassembling the boxes that fragment and frustrate

our lives, a process he calls integrative faith. He's the author of Saints and the co-author

of the bestseller of the Holy Spirit, an introduction. He also serves as the C.O. of Messenger

International. It's a discipleship organization that impacts millions of people in nearly every

country. He's a father to four, husband to one. He spends most of his days in Tennessee. And if you may remember, Addison joined us once a month for quite a while. And then he went into a busy season and we're hoping to get him back with some regularity in the days ahead. Addison, you've written a beautiful book. Welcome back to the show. Thank you, Susie. It's so good to be back. It's good to hear

your voice and be on the show again. So I want thank you for your kind words. You're always so generous. Well, we look so forward to this conversation, Edison, and our listeners love you. So I'm really looking forward to unpacking what's on your heart. Before we dig into the content of your book, First, friends, I should tell you, we've got a handful of copies to give away.

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