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

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always 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, we've got an important show for you today, especially if you feel stuck or you feel like the enemy continues to kind of like the fox's nip at the vine. Well, my guest today, Carlos Whitaker, he's been on a handful of times. We just love him. We're talking about one of his older books because I couldn't believe I missed this one when we had him on for one of his more recent books. It's called Kill the Spider, Getting Rid of What's Holding You Back. And he says, as you replace false beliefs with God's life-giving truth, you'll discover a freedom like you've never known before. So get ready to slay every spider in your life. The fight will be fierce, but know that God is on your side, and you will emerge victorious and free. If you're ready to be done with the spiders and the lies and the webs, the enemy spins in your life to make life just kind of come down to a stall where you don't feel like you're making forward, moving progress, you're not living in freedom. Today is the day. I'm glad you're listening. We've got six copies to give away Carlos Carlos' book, Kill the Spider, getting rid of what's really holding you back. And Carlo writes like he speaks.

I'm telling you, Carlos' book is just honest and it's actually funny at times, and he really invite you into raw, authentic honesty before the Lord. You can text the word book to get in on the drawing.

877-933-24-84. He's dealt with anxiety, panic attacks. We'll get into that a little bit later. Maybe you relate to that. I think you'll find the book helpful. Again, you can text the word book to get in on the drawing, 877-933-24-84. Quick announcement. Okay, if you've been listening long enough, you know we have a fundraiser in the fall and in the

spring, and then just a couple days at the end of the year. But we are listeners supported. We don't have commercials. And so we really wouldn't want to be able to, we wouldn't want to do this journey without you. We're in this together. Next week is our fall fundraiser. And I love our fundraisers because it's a time to cast vision for where we sense God is taking us.

It's to remember and recall his faithfulness. fundraiser. And I love our fundraisers because it's a time to cast vision for where we sense God

is taking us. It's to remember and recall his faithfulness and his goodness. And just because

I'm a little tiny bit competitive, former athlete and all that, I love it when we get matched

challenge money because, so somebody will lay down the gauntlet to say, we're given a $5,000 gift,

but you have to match it within this hour for all that money to be released. In fact, I love match challenges so much. I may or may not have last fundraiser made up an imaginary friend. But I admitted he was imaginary. And I said, I have an imaginary friend, and I think he wants to get it. Anyway, and somebody did come forward to be my imaginary friend.

All that to say, we've got some match challenge money coming in, but if you feel like you want to lay down the gauntlet and issue a challenge, maybe you're single and you want to challenge other singles or you're married, you want to lay down in the honor of marriages, whatever it is, you can text us or email me and I'll get you in touch with Carter-Dreblo.

You can email me, Susie. Oh, no, I just got Carter's email. Carter. Thank you, Angie. Carter at myfaithradio.com. Carter at myfaithradio.com. How fun would that be if you laid the gauntlet down? All right, let me tell you about my guest. We'll get him on the show. Carlos Whitaker is an author, speaker, worship leader, and self-professed hope dealer. I love that. He speaks at some of the largest churches in the country, and at conferences, including Orange, Catalyst, and others. A People's Choice Award winner, host of popular podcast. He's also the author of The Moment Maker, Kill the Spider, and others. He lives with his wife, Heather and their three children in Nashville. Carlos, it's been due long. Welcome back to the show. Hey, Susie, so glad to be here. Looking forward to our conversation, and you've been on enough to know. We love to start every day, just making it personal, and I'm just wondering what the Lord's been talking to about these days. Goodness, gracious, so much these days. I've actually been on a social media fast for about six weeks. So I haven't, I just haven't been on my

phone. And the Lord's voice has just been booming the entire time. And the thing that he's been teaching me these last few weeks has really been from the first chapter of James in the New Testament, where in James chapter 1, verse 2, you know, I've read this verse before.

It says, consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance, but endurance must do

its complete work so that you may be mature and complete lacking nothing. Now, what I've been

learning is about the word great. You know, I think that the author could have said,

consider it a joy, my brothers.

But there's a reason he put great in there.

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