Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe. Church slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to

today's devotional. Hey, thanks for hanging with us on the daily drive today, whether you are actually

on your daily drive or you're working out or you're sitting on the porch, sipping coffee,

you're starting your day or getting ready for bed, just grateful that you would want to

spend a few minutes getting to know God better. My name is Mike Bro, and I thought since it was

spring, you know, the growing season, we'd spend some time taking a look at some of the ways

that God grows you and me from the inside out and helps us become fruitful people.

Yesterday we talked about how God will use pivotal circumstances that prune us and grow us.

We can look back at all the things we've experienced, unexpected things, hard things, painful things,

and we can see how God grew our character through it all.

We saw this scripture yesterday from James chapter 1 where he writes,

Consider it a sheer gift, friends,

when tests and challenges come at you from all sides,

because you know that under pressure your faith life is forced into the open,

and it shows its true colors.

So don't try to get out of anything prematurely.

Let it do its work so you can become mature and well developed, not deficient in any way. We spent the entire week on suffering

back, I think it was last December. So check that out if you could use some hope for what you're

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