Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live. You don't have to know how to ever since, ever since we've got you left.

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,

the deep in your understanding of God's Word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

Well, my guest today writes this. He says, do you ever feel like you're not growing in your

faith the way you're supposed to? It turns out there are forces working against you,

threats to your faith, trying to keep you from flourishing in your relationship with God.

So today, we're going to talk about six threats that Jesus addresses in the parable of the sower and how we can overcome them.

You want to know what they are?

I'll give you a sneak peek.

Pride, pain, worries, wealth, wants, and not waiting.

So if you wonder why your faith doesn't seem to be working, you've come to the right place today.

Author and Pastor Mike Novotny joins me today to talk about his new book, What's Big, Starts Small, Six Ways to Grow Great Faith.

What's Big, starts small, six ways to grow great faith.

Got five copies to give away today.

You know the drill, if you've been listening long enough, but I know we get new listeners

all the time, so here's the drill.

You text the word book, just the word book, not in quotes, not with an

exclamation point, just the word book to 877-933-24-84. And the reason we're so particular is because

that word book will kick you back a link so you can enter the drawing. A quick announcement before we

hear from Pastor Nebotany. We love to pray. And in our staff meeting meeting we pray for many of you by name but we know we've got many many

many listeners and on our website there is a link that says let us pray for you and what's so powerful

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