everybody what is going on you know what time it is you're listening to join the journey podcast

with your host emma daughter thanks for joining i am in the podcast studio with today's divo

writer alex arsey howdy happy fourth of july if you're listening to this episode

weeks later a little behind

the plan. It is releasing on July 4th. And that's actually really great timing. I mean,

if you think about, if you've been tracking with the plan, you've probably read through the

book of Joshua at this point. And we know that the five books

of Moses kind of anticipated the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham regarding the promised land.

But now, through this string of military victories under Joshua, Israel has now conquered the

land and is dividing it amongst the 12 tribes. And so it's kind of like their own personal

Fourth of July, which is great. Yeah, and they're moving in, moving into the land.

Alex, before we really dive in, would you share your story, how you came to know the Lord,

fast forward, what's going on in your world today?

Yeah, absolutely.

So I grew up in a family that got saved while I was super young, and so it was really cool

because I kind of got to learn how to

have a faith alongside my parents. And both my parents are really smart individuals. And so most of what

that looked like was me learning how to talk the talk and all the verses and all the things to say.

But truly, I think I was learning alongside my parents how to truly have a relationship with Jesus.

And so most of my life was spent,

or most of my early life was spent living my life

for people pleasing, for pleasing everybody around me,

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