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Welcome to Sizzy 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.

My guest today says that we have but two purposes in life.

One, know the God who created us. And two, to walk out the call,

he's assigned to us. My friend Ben Peterson joins us today to talk about his new book,

engage your destiny, practical ways to run after your God-given purpose. I remember when he was

working on this book. And now that I get to look at it, it's finished product, it is fantastic.

We've got a handful of copies to give away today. Mark Batterson, who's been on the show a bunch of times, endorsed it and said, engage your destiny, will leave you inspired to navigate your own journey toward fulfillment. I would wholeheartedly agree with that. If you just need a fresh reminder of just your call of God on your life, the call of God on your life and your God-given purpose, go ahead and text the word book to 877-933-2484. And you know, it's been a while since I've said this, but texting is sort of my love language. When you text, I get to hear from you and just get a sense of where you're at and how you're doing. So if you don't mind, answer this question for me. If you got a sense of your God-given purpose, tell me what it is. It could be anything. Encouraging the downhearted, helping heal the sick, helping the poor, teaching children. If you have a sense of your calling, why don't you text me and let me know what it is.

877-933-24-84. Quick announcement before we hear from Ben. If you're new to the Faith Radio audience, maybe even more new to the faith journey, where you can say, I don't really have

faith in Jesus to speak of. I'm sort of here out of curiosity. Or maybe I've got a few questions about Jesus. We want to walk with you on this journey. We want to help you get some of those questions answered. And you can start by texting the word faith to 4124. You can get that conversation started just to help you answer some questions. Again, text the word faith to 4-4. Now, let me tell you about my guest. We'll get him on the show.

Ben Peterson is a veteran, husband, father, and founder of Engage Your Destiny. It's a ministry to active military members and their families.

He served in combat in Iraq during the surge in 2008 and 2009 as a chaplain's assistant, the bodyguard

and ministry assistant to the chaplain. In 2016, Ben founded Engageor Destiny. Since founding the

ministry, he's spoken to over 300,000 service members, conducted emotional intelligence and

spiritual readiness trainings with 101st Airborne, Third Special Forces Group,

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