Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

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Welcome, welcome to Susie Larson 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 deepen your understanding of God's Word and that heightens your awareness of his variable presence in your life. Do we have a show for you today? You're about to hear a story that's going to blow you away. It's going to inspire your faith. And it's going to awaken you to God's power, to redeem. This is one of those shows where you're probably not going to hear as much from me. I want to give our guests as much time as possible to share his incredible story. Although knowing myself the way I do, I'm thinking I might interject a little bit here and there. I definitely will ask for some amens. We give resources away every day. This isn't one of those days we get to do that, but I'm asking you for some amends. I'm telling you, you're going to want to shout it out.

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and you can register to win at MyFaithRadio.com. All right, now let me tell you about my guest. We'll get

them on the show. Matthew Mayer is a former professional soccer player. He played on teams in

North Carolina, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. I got an amen from Steve already. I can always

count on you, Steve.

He's the author of three books and a monthly contributor to the Cape May County Herald.

He is a speaker and hosts Rechurched, a podcast aiming at instigating Christians to be Christian.

He's a teaching pastor at coastal Christian Church in Ocean City, New Jersey, where his desire is to inspire conscience so people know God and

instigate conviction so people may show God. I love that. He and his beautiful wife, Sarah,

and their daughter, Willow and son Ezekiel live in New Jersey. And he is actually a pastor and a

friend of one of our dear friends, Jamie Longo. Jamie's been on the show actually before. And so she's the one

who told me about him. And I'm like, oh, my goodness, he's got to get on the show. Pastor Matt, so good to have you on the show. Susie, thank you so much for having me. When I hear somebody read the bio, I'm always like, wow, that sounds pretty compelling. I want to hear what I have to say after all that. Yeah, you might just pause and be moved by your own words doing this show. I'm quite sure of it.

Well, I mean, the Lord is speaking through you in such a profound way. And I just so, friends, you just got to settle in because we've got a show for you today. But you know this. We'd love to start every day, talking to scripture, making it personal. And just in your own time with

Lord, what's you been talking about these days? Yeah, what an amazing question. Of course,

I just got back from California where I had the opportunity to speak to a men's event. So I spent

a majority of my preparation time in the book of Daniel. That book is a book I taught at my church

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