Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

Welcome to Sissy L Ever since, ever since we've got you.

Welcome to Sissy 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,

the deep in your understanding of God's word

and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

Well, if you're walking through a battle right now, you may wonder why, how will I get through

this? Where is God? Has he lost my address? Well, every Friday during the month of August,

this is week two, so every Friday during the month of August, I'm going to talk about how to be

strong in battle, how to discern places where we're giving the enemy easy access to our lives,

what's really wise battle strategy for the current times in which we find ourselves.

And we're going to give away five copies every Friday of my new book, Strong in Battle,

why the Humble Will Prevail, Along with those beautiful 10 quote cards.

Thanks to Bethany House, we're kind of partnering with them to give away

five copies every single Friday during the month of, what is this, August. Okay, you can text

the word book to get in on the drawing, 877-933-2484. Today I'm going to talk about navigating

the long battle. And I have a few questions for you before we get started, because I really

want to pray for some of you as we go. And then I have an announcement as well. So the question I have

for you is, what's been the long battle for you? And maybe you're through it. Maybe you're on the

other side, but you're thinking that took a long time to see a breakthrough. Or maybe you're walking through it even right now. And you're like, I, you know, I see God moving in these other areas of my life. But here, it's crickets.

I don't know why he's not speaking. I don't know why he's not moving. What is the long battle

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