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Welcome to Susissy Larson Live. Always, 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 deep in your understanding of God's Word, and that

heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, my guest today says one of the reasons

we feel so powerless in this day is because we've not recognized the power that is available

to us in Jesus Christ. In fact, he writes this, if your season of life is more difficult than you

anticipated, or if your faith feels stagnant and the joy of knowing God seems distant, do not stop believing the vibrant relationship with God that you've imagined can be a reality.

My friend, author, Pastor Alan Jackson joins me today to talk about his book, Intentional Faith, aligning your life with the heart of God.

I'm so grateful to tell you, we've got

five copies to give away today. We covered this book, I want to say a couple years ago, and just

opening it back up again. It just inspired me afresh today, so I'm thrilled we've got a handful of

copies to give away. You can text the word book to get in on the drawing, 877-933. Once again, you text the word book, and here's the number, 877-933-24-84. Once again, you text the word book, and here's the number,

87-933-24-84. It'll kick back a link to you so you can enter the drawing that way. So glad to have you

listening today. Quick announcement before we hear from Alan. This is the month that we are focusing

on forgiveness. And our hope is, as believers, we're focusing on forgiveness

as a way of life every day. But we really wanted to set aside this month to just engage on a deeper

level, to do more work with our heart, seeking God, asking the Lord, search my heart. Do I have

anything against anybody? And doing that work so that we walk pureheartedly before him. And we bless

those who persecute us. We walk

with an assurance that God sees all and will deal with all when it's all said and done,

but he wants us to walk in a heart of forgiveness. So just be thinking about that as we're walking

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