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Welcome to 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, that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your

awareness of his very real presence in your life. He's with you, you know. When Jesus wants his

bride to be awake, expectant, ready for his return, and though we don't know the date, we are called

to discern the times. Listen to Jesus' own words from Luke's Gospel chapter 12. He says,

be dressed and ready for service.

Keep your lamps burning, as though you are waiting for your master to return from the wedding feast.

Then you'll be ready to open the door and let him in the moment he arrives and knocks.

The servants who are ready and waiting for his return will be rewarded. I tell you the truth.

Listen to this. Jesus himself will seat them, put on an apron,

and serve them as they sit and eat. He may come in the middle of the night or just before dawn,

but whenever he comes, he will reward the servants who are ready. That means some of his servants

won't be ready. So I've got some questions for you before we dig into today's show. How ready

are we, really?

How united are we? That's one of the last things Jesus prayed before he went to the cross,

that we would be one. How biblical are we? How expectant are we? I mean, as a whole, do you believe

that the church is living kind of on the front of our feet? Are we praying

kind of on the edge? Are we living with the holy expectancy? What are we as God's people

doing right now to prepare for Jesus' imminent return? Well, our Bible prophecy pro expert,

Jeff Kinley joins me once a month. And today we're going to dig from his book, Wake the Bride,

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