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Won't he do it? Yes, he will. He'll take a stone.

Make it still.

Yeah, we'll only do it.

Yes, he will.

Welcome to Susie 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,

amazing presence in your life. Well, if you listen often enough, you know, Jamie Winchup joins us

about once a month. We talk about our identity in Christ. We talk about how would you live

if you weren't afraid of

anything.

And a few times on past conversations, something that's come up that is still sticking with me

is the idea the difference between a scarcity mindset and an abundance mindset.

And in a scarcity mindset, our self-sins take over.

If we live in the not enough, there's not going to be enough.

We want certainty. We want perfection from people. We won't live with mystery. There's not a lot of

grace. You see the self-sins of self-protection, self-ambition, even self-sabotage fuel our choices.

And most often when you're in scarcity, your choices are selfish. And one of the

hallmark, one of the hallmarks of scarcity mindset is the need to control your world,

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