Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

This is an encore presentation of Susie Larson Live.

Welcome to Susie larsen live always honor 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, here's a question for you. Are you able to enjoy life and live with a

confident heart even when you know someone thinks ill of you and someone maybe has a critical

eye towards you? Can you enjoy life or as your day goes south when you know someone thinks

unwell of you? How do we break free from

the bondage of others' opinions? Well, that's what I'm going to talk about today. And I didn't book a

guest because you're going to be the special guest today, which means I'm counting on your interaction.

I'm going to walk through the story of the woman at the well. And man, I know we've got plenty of male listeners. This isn't a female story and this isn't a female concept. Identity in Christ, breaking free from the bondage of other's opinions is, you know, something that all of us deal with. I think we deal with it in different ways, but I think there's a powerful lesson to learn in this passage of scripture today. I want to hear your thoughts and your insights, but also we're going to kind of commit this

time to prayer as well. So if I can pray for you in any way, I want you to text those prayer requests in,

and I'll sort of intermingle prayer with just this walk through scripture. I also am going to be

drawing a bit from my book, The Uncommon Woman, and this is all about finding your identity and the love of Christ.

And I know the book I wrote it for women, obviously, woman is in the title.

But I want to tell you, there's a male theology student who told me that he carries this book

around in his backpack to refer to whenever he needs a reminder about who he is.

He tore the cover off because he doesn't want people to know, right? But anyway, I'm giving five copies away of the uncommon woman today, especially if you need a

fresh reminder of just the fact that your identity is not up for grabs, not changeable

with popular opinion.

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