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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. Question for you, why do we do the very things

that we don't want to do? And why do we sometimes think thoughts or say things or make choices

that we know will weaken us? You know, recently I counseled a young woman. I'd like to mentor young

women and she was in a rough spot in her marriage. And I just challenged her to be careful and will weaken us, you know? Recently, I counseled a young woman. I'd like to mentor young women,

and she was in a rough spot in her marriage. And I just challenged her to be careful about the

narrative that she was drafting about her marriage. She was starting to make statements and

judgments about her marriage that actually weren't true, but she was like rendering a verdict

against her marriage. So I challenged her to get with her hubby, go out on a date, and to be

honest about some of the false narratives that they've been developing, and lay them out on the

table, and find out what's true in Scripture, what they can believe God for, what is possible

because they are both people who love Jesus, who are filled with the spirit of God, and write a

new narrative, one to live up to, and aspire to. And she received it so well,

and I was so appreciative. Well, I'm going to be honest with you. I'm just coming off of some

really busy days with some travel and events, and I'm tired. I woke up, tired, didn't sleep the best,

and it's always when the enemy sneaks in to poke at me where it hurts. And without even realizing it, I started to form

a narrative in my brain around some of the hurts in my heart over a different area in my life,

but truly starting being tempted to kind of connect the dots and draw some wrong conclusions. And I

caught myself, and I thought, wow. And it really fit in with today's topic, because my guest

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