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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

That deepen your understanding of God's Word

and that heightens your awareness of his very real

presence in your life. Have you ever wondered how much our desire for control actually costs us?

You know, we grab for position, we grab for provision because maybe at the end of the day,

we don't really believe God's going to come through for us. So we take matters into our own hands.

Well, my guess today writes this. The problem is

control is the devil's deal. The more we seek it, the more it betrays us. In place of predictability,

it gives us anxiety. In place of certainty, it creates more complexity. In the place of unity,

it divides. It's not that we cannot control things. It's that we break them even more when we try. But she says,

you know what, God has something better for us than our incessant desire and need to control things.

Dr. Sharon Hattie Miller joins me today to talk about her new book, The Cost of Control,

why we crave it, the anxiety it gives us, and the real power from God's promises. And I got to

tell you, every time I see Sharon comes out with a book,

I'm like, I got to talk to it because her books are so thoughtful, so deep and so insightful.

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