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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 presence 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. Well, I love the power

of a story, and you may hear me say this often, that God is writing an amazing epic story

with your life, and the temptation of what the enemy wants is for you to be so stuck in the

small story in the hard chapters that you forget that

God ultimately will have this last say. The enemy will not have the last say. And one of the reasons

I love Christian fiction is it reminds me of that. A good biblical fiction novelist will take you

into a story of intrigue, of twists and turns, of, you know,

biblical history. And so you get kind of context. And then, I mean, you know this. If you've

listened to me, my favorite novelist is Tessa Afshar. And she happens to be a good friend, too.

But I can't tell you how many times I've been reading one of her novels, like I'm on the plane,

on a way to an event, or on the way home, and I put the novel on my chest, and I just pray

about something in my life because her stories inspire faith in me. And so that's why I'm so

grateful to have my precious friend. And as I said, one of my favorite novelists on the show today.

She's also an award-winning Bible study author.

Today we're going to talk about her newest novel, The Peasant King,

but we're also going to talk about how God works all things together for the good,

for those who love him and are called according to his purpose.

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