Hey, I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything show, affectionately known as Joe, where around here you will always hear honest conversations about life, faith, and true strength, courage, and love in the midst of our real everyday life.

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Today's guest, best-selling author and podcast podcast host, Becky Thompson, is here to talk

all about one of my favorite subjects, the Holy Spirit and his power and presence in our lives.

How to hear from the Holy Spirit, what blocks us and what Jesus meant when he said he was

leaving us with something better when he left this earth. Hard to believe

that anything would be better than the presence of God in physical form. But that's what he said.

All of that plus much more about her new book, God's So Close, and a passage of scripture we

shared that is a huge favorite of both of ours, all on today's Joe.

Okay, so Becky, hi and nice to meet you.

This is our first time meeting, actually.

I know. I love it. I'm so grateful. Thanks for giving me a chance to have this conversation with you, Lisa.

Oh, it's going to be good. It's going to be really good because of what we're going to talk about today.

So, husband, three kids, Oklahoma. I spent a little bit of my childhood in Oklahoma, not too long, but a bit of time.

If someone is from, let's say, North Carolina, since that's where I live,

they've never been to Oklahoma, what would you tell them that they need to know about Oklahoma?

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