Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Here's the podcast from Susie 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, the deep in your understanding of God's Word, and that

heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

You listen often enough, you know, I typically have a guest on the show that I interview for an hour.

And once in a while, I fly solo. And my bosses have asked me to try to do that little more often.

And I appreciate that. And I always love the shove to be challenged and stretched. But whenever I do,

I confess, I feel always a little bit nervous. And today, not that I'm nervous, but I feel an urgency

in my heart. And I will say in past shows when I've gone solo, I've had some good notes in front of me,

but this time, not so much. I've got a few scratches on a piece of paper,

my Bible, and some thoughts in my heart, but it feels like an urgent word. And I want to talk about

how to live in this day, in this hour. I read something the other day from an author, and I

so appreciated what he was saying. He was saying

the Western Church is largely unprepared for the times that we are about to enter. Because we've coddled

comfort and ease and kind of a toxic positivity to a fault, like everything's going to just keep getting better and everything's

going to be okay. And you know what? I have to agree with that if our goal, if our priority is

comfort and ease and denial about the day and the hour that we're in, we are not prepared

because darkness is going to get darker. But when the darkness gets darker,

the bright always shines brighter. I believe so strongly that, and I've been saying this for

years, that we're coming into times where we will see the clash of the kingdoms, where the darkness

will be so defied that the enemy will show his hand because he knows his time is short.

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