Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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feed your faith, visit lakepoint.church slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's

devotional. A welcome to the Daily Drive podcast where we spend just a few minutes together

diving into God's word and allowing his truth to set us free to live a kind of

full life that he has always dreamed that you and I would. My name is Bro, and we're walking and we're

walking and we'll actually climbing together through a little section known as the Beatitudes. It's

found in Matthew chapter 5 and it's the intro to this amazing teaching that Jesus gave that's

come to be known as the sermon on the Mount.

And I'm not sure about the way we're breaking it down.

I may get to heaven and Jesus will say, nice try, bro.

But this approach does make a lot of sense to me.

I have walked these principles as steps for lots of years, as well as millions of people in recovery have. This section forms the

basis for many recovery ministries around the world. It was the genius of, like Bill W.,

and the Oxford group, to take these words of Jesus and flesh out some steps to wholeness,

healing, and freedom. So we're imagining these principles as rs on a ladder, steps that build up on the

one before it. I won't review them all the day. You can go back and catch up if you'd like, but the last

time we talked about how living and authentic, what you see is what you get, coming to God, cracks

and all, and being real kind of life is one of the wrongs on this ladder of happiness.

And today we're climbing a little bit higher. In fact, we're almost to the top.

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