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 Larson Live. new dance you don't have to know how to ever since him but since please can you welcome to

susie larsen live 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 deep

in your understanding of god's word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your

life. Well, our American culture has shifted drastically over the years when you say many compare

our society to modern day Babylon. And my friend and I were talking about that idea recently.

And she said, you know, when Joshua led the Israelites to conquer the promised land,

they had sort of a conquering mindset.

But for believers living in Babylon, they needed a different approach, a different strategy,

one of humility, one of wisdom, of, you know, kindness of discernment.

It seems we probably need a different approach, a different strategy, if we want to win

this culture for Jesus.

So about six years ago, and my show was actually named

Live the Promise, Dr. Larry Osborne released a book titled Thriving in Babylon, why hope, humility,

and wisdom matter in a godless culture. This book released six years ago, and I had him on several

times. I was so intrigued by the book. Well, I told him, and I told his publisher, you need to

relaunch this book right now

in the atmosphere because I felt like it was a prophetic message back then, and it's even more so now.

So some of the things we're going to talk about today are why panic and despair are never

from God. What true optimism looks like, how humility disarms even our greatest enemies.

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