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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's

devotional. Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive podcast where we spend a few minutes Monday through Friday

just trying to get to know God a little better. I'm Mike Bro, and one of the ways

I started to get to know God better was studying the life of Jesus. You see, Jesus not only came to

lay down his life so we could be forgiven and free, but he also came to show us what God is really like.

And so for the next several days, we're continuing to look at some of the things that Jesus said

on the hillside, 2,000 years ago, to a bunch of people like us. I'm talking ordinary folks who were searching for

happiness and fulfillment in their lives. And so Jesus launches into the most radical,

countercultural teaching about how to find true happiness. Now we've already learned that happiness

is not based on what is happening around us, but what is happening in us, that according to Jesus,

true happiness is an inside out kind of thing. We started walking through this section,

commonly known as the Beatitudes, this list of internal steps to deep

and lasting happiness. Now, like I previously said, I'm not sure if this is exactly the way

Jesus originally taught it out, but it sure seems like to me to sort of, I know, resemble the rungs

of a ladder where each step builds upon the one before it. Last episode, we learned that the very first step, the happiness, is the acknowledgement

that you need God.

That without him, we're spiritually bankrupt.

Jesus says, blessed are the poor in spirit, those who are humble enough to say, you know what,

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