Welcome in to the Subconscious Mind Mastery Podcast, the Sunday series. I'm Thomas Miller, and I really do thank you for being here. You know, there are like over a million podcasts out there now so that you landed on this one and are spending some time here. I really do appreciate it.

We're going to talk about, I think, what probably is one of my

favorite verses in the Bible. It comes from the Old Testament, and I wanted to talk about this

in one context, and then I had a phone call last night as I'm recording this the next morning,

but I was like, no, this, I'm going to tell a story.

I'm going to absolutely tell a story.

What a much better way to go.

And this comes from the book of Proverbs.

The book of Proverbs in the Old Testament was written by Solomon.

Now, just some very quick, overskim history, going back to about 1,000 BC, the Hebrews, or the Israelites,

if you will, after their exodus from Egypt, had been wandering in what is now the Sinai area

for 40 years. I don't know why God would have chosen that as their destiny, because people

wandering around in the desert for 40 years would get grumpy. And they did.

So one day they started crying out for a king. They said, everybody else around here has a king.

We want a king. God said, oh, you don't know what you're asking for. Yes, we do. Yes, we do.

We want a king. And we want one now. Well, Saul was appointed the first king.

And then he got booted out because of corrupt politics. I'll let you sit with that one.

But then the little shepherd boy, David, became king. David of David and Goliath lore. He had a little

mishap, but otherwise served the Lord well.

After his death, his son Solomon became king. And God granted Solomon one wish because of the

faithfulness of his father, because God called David a man after his own heart. And Solomon chose for his one wish from the Lord,

wisdom. And he became the wisest man on earth. And just like his father, he captured that which was in his

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