From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it's clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we're witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Faith That Endures | Stakelbeck Tonight | March 25, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck.
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- And as believers,
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- All of us walk through trials and tribulations.
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- It's part of the christian life.
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- But where is god during those critical, life defining moments?
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- Well, he's a lot closer than you might think.
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- And that is the subject
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- Of shannon breen's brand new bestseller.
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- Shannon, of course,
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- Is the chief legal correspondent for fox news channel
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- And host of fox news sunday and the live in the brain podcast.
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- She's also a new york times bestselling author,
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- And her latest book is nothing is impossible with god
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- 11 heroes, one god endless lessons in overcoming.
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- I recently had the chance to sit down
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- With shannon to talk about what it really means to trust god
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- In the middle of life's toughest battles,
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- And how these powerful stories can strengthen
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- Your faith when you need it most.
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- Take a look.
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- Shannon, great to see you!
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- Congrats on the book number one.
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- And hey,
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- I recently saw you at the national religious
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- Broadcasters convention in nashville.
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- You gave a great personal testimony keynote speech,
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- And you talked about some of your trials and tribulations.
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- A lot of people may not know they see you on fox news
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- Every sunday doing such a great job,
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- But it was a tough, long road to get there.
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- How did your personal struggles and your journey impact
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- Your decision
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- To write this book about these 11 biblical heroes?
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- Eric, thank you so much for having me.
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- And i think, you know, it's that common thread of overcoming
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- Everybody's got to overcome something
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- Or they have their in their midst of it.
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- And all of this collection of these people from the bible,
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- I felt like they're encouragers
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- Because we can
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- Look at their story and see, no matter how dark
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- And difficult the valley was,
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- That they walked through or the thing
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- That they were facing, that seemed impossible to them,
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- That god was always working at it
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- Now, not always the way that we pray or we hope.
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- But he is with us in the circumstance.
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- Even if he doesn't remove it or change it, he can be confident.
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- We can be confident that he is faithfully walking us through.
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- I did share about my career path, which has been,
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- It's had some twists and turns.
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- I think it's fair to say,
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- Because i do think sometimes people look up and say like, oh,
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- You went from lawyer to this and now you're doing this show.
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- That's such an amazing opportunity.
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- And all of that is true.
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- But, i was a lawyer and i went and interned
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- At a local tv station in tampa, florida.
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- I was grandma intern because i think it was about 29,
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- 30 years old pushing it at that point that i went ahead,
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- Had my midlife crisis,
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- Got my first job, but i was answering phones
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- And working the teleprompter,
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- Making coffee and doing all those things,
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- Going out with any producer
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- Or a reporter who would let me go with them.
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- Cameraman.
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- Camera woman.
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- And you know, just find out how it works in the field.
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- And so i started doing a little bit on air.
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- My boss said, we'll let you have this opportunity
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- If we need some coverage somewhere.
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- And there's a breaking story.
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- And so was just kind of getting my feet wet
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- And getting into the business.
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- And i came in one day, my boss and his boss were gone.
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- There was a whole management
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- Change, and the new guy who came in, called me
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- In on a friday afternoon a couple weeks into his tenure
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- And said,
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- You know,
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- You're the worst person
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- I've ever seen on tv
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- And you will never make it in this business.
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- And that was a gut punch.
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- And i learned a lot from that, humility,
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- The reality
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- That i had a lot of work to do and really kind of trusting
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- God for that process and that timing.
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- When i went months without a job, without an interview,
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- And i had really prayed about making this career change.
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- So that was a test of my faith to say, listen,
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- I think god is leading me here. i confidence in that.
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- So what do you do
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- With being smacked in the face with being fired?
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- All i could do was trust him that he would guide me
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- Through that and he ultimately did.
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- You trust and patience, i think, from your personal story,
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- Shannon, also, the story of noah,
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- Who was one of the 11 biblical figures you feature in the book.
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- How does noah resonate with you personally
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- And what can we all learn about him?
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- Look, he's for decades and decades he's building this ark.
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- He's being ridiculed.
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- And even in your case, you weren't ridiculed per se,
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- Although that boss wasn't very kind to you,
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- But maybe your family, your friends were saying,
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- Shannon, you've got this great legal career.
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- Why switch careers in midstream?
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- You're married, you have a life.
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- Now you're going to delve into tv. what are you doing?
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- And i'm sure noah got those questions as well.
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- People even mocking him, scoffing at him.
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- But he was patient and he trusted the lord.
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- How does that resonate for you and for all of us?
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- Yeah, eric,
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- You must have been spying on my family,
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- Because those are the conversations
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- That we had at the time.
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- Like, what are you doing with this career?
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- And, you know, my parents couldn't
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- See the job that i was doing.
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- I wasn't working in a market
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- That they knew about or that they had access to.
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- So i think they questioned a lot of times
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- Whether i was even employed
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- Working these crazy overnight hours, two a am to 11 a.m..
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- And that took me away from a lot of my family
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- And friends, the normal things that you would be doing in life.
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- So they had a lot of questions.
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- You know, for noah, i look at his story
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- As somebody who, you know,
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- Had a very clear direction from god,
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- And i'm sure that people thought he was nuts.
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- He's building this huge thing.
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- That doesn't make sense. it's not near the water.
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- How is this going to work at that point?
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- You know, most scholars believe it
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- Had never rained on the earth.
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- So trying to explain to people what was going to come or what
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- Noah understood about what was going to come,
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- I'm sure to people it didn't make sense.
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- But god was so angry with humanity at that point,
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- He said, you know, it's only in their hearts,
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- All of them, to do wicked and evil things all the time.
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- And he wanted to wipe everybody out.
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- But he found noah to be faithful, and he trusted him
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- With this mission to preserve humanity
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- And to by to the animals who showed up at the ark.
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- But he was your right
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- Building for years,
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- And i'm sure people thought that he was nuts.
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- So i think the lesson there is, listen,
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- If god has called you to something,
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- The only thing that really matters
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- Is the mission that he's put you on, and trusting
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- That he's going to guide you even when it doesn't make sense.
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- When culture maybe questions what you're doing
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- And who you are and what you're standing for.
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- Noah is a great example of just moving forward
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- One step at a time.
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- Each little part of the puzzle that we get from the lord
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- And those faithfulness, obviously,
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- Is what turned out to save humanity.
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- Hey, another great biblical figure
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- To highlight in the book is moses.
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- Now, one of the things he faced was fear.
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- He was not a good public speaker.
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- He kind of implored the lord to someone else, i can't speak.
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- God gave him aaron.
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- Of course, in your case, you've got a painful
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- Genetic eye disorder.
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- You opened the book talking about it.
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- Talk about how that could have been an obstacle.
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- But ultimately it was not.
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- You worked diligently.
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- You overcame it with god's help, of course.
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- Talk about the role that played in your life
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- And how it factored into your message in this book,
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- And dealing with trials and tribulations.
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- That could have been the thing where you
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- You kind of hang it up, look, you're in tv,
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- You have to read off the teleprompter,
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- You have to have good vision.
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- That's part of what you do.
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- Talk about your struggle there and how you overcame it.
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- With god's help.
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- Yeah.
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- That was such a tough time in my life.
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- And i,
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- You know, in the middle of it, i never would have thought
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- It would be something that i would share publicly
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- Or that it would be a possible testimony.
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- I was really just
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- Trying to survive living in chronic pain,
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- And it was exceptionally difficult.
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- I went doctor to doctor trying to get a diagnosis,
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- So when i finally did,
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- Come to the end of my rope and ended up finding this doctor
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- When i'd just about given up on traditional medicine,
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- He was my answer to prayer.
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- You know, i, i reflected so many times
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- On paul's story in corinthians where he says
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- That he had this thorn in his side,
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- And that he asked repeatedly for god to take it from him.
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- And the lord essentially said to him, you know,
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- My power is made perfect in your weakness.
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- And paul goes on to say,
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- Therefore i will boast
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- All the more gladly about my weakness,
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- So that christ's power may rest on me.
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- And i'd read those verses.
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- I knew those verses,
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- But now i was living those verses and really just desperate
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- For help.
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- And i you know, it came to a point where
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- I said, lord, it it probably doesn't appear
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- That it's going to be your decision
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- To heal me in this, so please just send me
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- Someone who can help me get me to the right place.
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- Found this doctor.
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- You know, i always tell him you're my answer to prayer.
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- Which he kind of laughs nervously about that.
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- But he really was.
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- And, yeah, was something i wouldn't have chosen,
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- But it definitely did grow my faith.
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- I mean, it relates to the book
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- And so many of these books that you talk about, moses,
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- We can often feel completely inadequate
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- For what's in front of us, what we're facing.
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- And that's why i love this collection
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- Of these overcomers in this story, in this, in this book.
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- They're not stories. they were real people.
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- And, you know, god was working through all of their, journeys,
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- And they were difficult journeys at times.
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- And, you know, for me, it was trusting
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- That god had a plan even when i couldn't see it.
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- I never gave up that he was working or,
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- You know, was angry and asking him,
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- Why would you put me through this?
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- I really struggled.
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- But when i found this doctor,
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- The pieces started to come together.
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- He did tell me at the end of our first appointment.
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- There's no cure for this. what?
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- You have this genetic condition.
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- And essentially, i was just tearing my corneas.
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- Just about every night at the height of what
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- I was at the worst of what i was going through.
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- But i'm able to look back and see that there was purpose in.
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- It's, god made me much more empathetic person through that.
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- And it's given me a chance to share my testimony
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- And witness in so many different ways,
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- And to relate to people and to hear from people
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- Who are really difficult, painful citizens to situations,
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- Whether it's physical, whether it's emotional.
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- I think when you share with people,
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- They know that you understand
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- The darkness and the depth of what they're walking through.
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- And in that way, it can very much be a testimony
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- Coming up.
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- Success, power, influence and a choice.
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- Chase the world or follow god.
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- Shine and bring reveals the moment everything changed.
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- That's next.
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- That's next.
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- Yeah.
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- Look, you were raised in a wonderful christian home.
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- You went to liberty university.
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- Then all of a sudden you find yourself
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- Thrust into the world of tv news.
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- Even the legal world can be dog
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- Eat dog, of course, but you're in the world of tv news.
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- There could be some colorful language
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- Behind the scenes and much more, needless to say.
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- But you keep your christian walk.
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- You keep your testimony.
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- How do you do that?
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- I think that's something, shannon.
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- A lot of a struggle with,
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- We're in the world, but we're not of the world.
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- And you talk about daniel in the book
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- And what he experienced in babylon, of all places,
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- How he stayed true to god.
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- How do you do that in your life
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- And career with so much kind of swirling around you in
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- Dc in the belly of the beast?
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- Yeah, i love that you highlight his story,
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- Because what a beautiful example of
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- Just not being afraid, even when your faith
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- Is going to put you in life or death danger.
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- In daniel's case.
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- And i have to say, to be honest, there were times earlier
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- On in my career where i was more muted about my faith.
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- I had a boss tell me one time,
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- Referred to me as being too much of a
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- Jesus girl and talking about that kind of thing.
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- Too churchy, too religious.
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- And, i thought, okay, well, maybe that is something that,
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- Is for my personal life,
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- But it's not for my professional or public life.
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- But there came a point where i felt like i was,
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- You know, doing some things that i considered compromises.
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- I was chasing,
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- Earthly success in a way that was not about building
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- God's kingdom, was much more about building mine.
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- And i do, you know, was doing those kinds of things for years.
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- And i finally came to a point where i said, you know what,
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- If doors are to open, only the lord can open
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- Some of these doors.
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- If the doors to closed, he's going to keep it tightly shut.
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- I don't need to be about my business
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- As much as i need to be about his business.
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- And i'm just super grateful
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- That i work at a place that's very honoring to faith
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- And, allows me to have open conversations about that.
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- Right?
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- These books,
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- But yeah, dc is a very egocentric, powerful place
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- That will feed your ego if you let it.
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- Just like any business has the potential to do that.
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- And certainly tv, we're all a little bit of hams,
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- Probably to be in this business, you you have to have a little
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- Bit of that.
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- But for me, it's a daily grounding in the word,
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- In prayer, oftentimes journaling if i have time as well
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- And just kind of set
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- The day that way, put on my full armor and say,
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- I don't know what this day is going to bring,
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- But lord, help me to be your servant.
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- To my team and whatever place you put me,
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- Help me to kind of die to self and be about your business and,
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- For whatever season i'm
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- In, i just try to do that faithfully and not perfect.
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- But trust him to redeem me when i mess it up.
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- Amen. shannon. so well said.
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- I was in dc for 17 years, base there
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- And there are good people there
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- Who really are working for the lord.
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- So it's not all bad folks.
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- Just so you know, hey, there are setbacks.
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- Absolutely.
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- There are setbacks in all of our lives.
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- Of course, you discuss them in the book.
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- Look, the genetic eye condition that you struggled
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- With rejection early on in your tv career,
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- Criticism, maybe questioning from your family, etc.
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- You highlight elijah, who's one of my favorite biblical figures
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- In the book.
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- Look, he was at the height of heights,
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- Defeating the prophets of baal.
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- Then we read just a few verses later, he's almost suicidal,
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- It seems. god take my life. i don't want to live anymore.
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- And then god lifts him up out of the depths.
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- How do you deal with that, shannon?
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- How do all of us deal with that?
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- And how do we lean on the bible when we have those moments?
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- We have the high highs, the low lows,
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- And sometimes we're in the pit.
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- What do we do when we're in the pit?
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- And what can elijah and some of the other figures
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- In this book show us about how to deal with
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- That, with that adversity?
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- Yeah, i love his story too,
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- Because he's really faithful, like you said, brave.
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- I mean, he
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- He's going to confront king ahab, who was horribly wicked
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- And had really drawn the people aside
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- Into idol worship and all kinds of things
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- That were clearly not what the lord wanted for them.
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- But even though he has these big victories,
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- We see him on the run and he is very lonely.
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- He deals with loneliness.
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- And there's a point where he's hungry, he's tired.
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- He's saying to the lord, i'm the only one left.
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- I'm the only one
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- Fighting on behalf of you and the lord needs.
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- And where he's at, he sends a raven to give him food.
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- He makes sure he's by a brook where he has water to drink,
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- And he encourages him and he says, i am here with you.
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- I want to talk with you.
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- And, you know, there's a passage they're talking about,
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- Like there's a wind that comes, there's a fire.
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- All of these things, an earthquake.
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- But god's not in those.
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- It's in the whisper where he's saying to elijah,
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- There is a remnant preserved of thousands of other people
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- Who are fighting for the same holiness that you are.
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- You're not alone.
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- So in two ways, i think, you know,
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- We can learn and be encouraged from elijah's story
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- And that god is with us as believers.
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- He is always with us.
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- We are never, ever alone,
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- But also that there are others in the fight with us.
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- They're believers around the globe and places
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- That we don't know about underground churches
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- And those who, in a free country like we have,
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- Who worship openly that support each other.
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- I mean, all of those things are true.
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- And when we lean on god in those really desperate times,
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- Sometimes i'll even say, lord, i'm in a terrible mood,
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- Or i'm really cranky or i'm super discouraged.
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- I don't even want to be praying right now.
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- But i know intellectually it's what i need to do.
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- So can you just meet me where i'm at?
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- And sometimes that's my prayer.
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- You know, i'm struggling with the doubt.
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- I'm struggling with, feeling defeated or something.
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- Just meet me where i'm at. and he always does.
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- His word is true, and he will show up.
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- Amen. love it folks.
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- The book is called nothing is impossible
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- With god 11 heroes one god, endless lessons in overcoming
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- And pick it up right now.
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- Amazon.com, barnes and noble. wherever books are sold.
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- Coming up after the break,
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- Shannon bream shares how she sees god at work,
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- Not just in the headlines she covers,
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- But in the quiet moments of everyday life.
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- That's next.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Can you talk about god putting that doctor
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- In your path, dealing with the eye condition,
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- And you get into that in the book as well.
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- I love it how god is in the little things in our lives.
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- Not always the big fireworks, sometimes just little god winks.
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- Some have called it,
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- Where jesus makes his presence felt in our lives.
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- Talk a bit more about that
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- And how god has done that in your life.
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- I think sometimes it can be somebody who mentions something,
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- Maybe a verse that you read that morning,
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- It comes up later and you're like, oh,
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- I see you wanted me to get that.
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- You wanted me to get that lesson,
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- Conversations that you have with people.
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- But it really does.
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- He shows up in the mundane of every day.
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- Most of us have jobs outside the home or at home
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- With our families.
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- There's mundane work.
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- It feels like that we have to do.
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- I think about the story of gideon,
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- Who was really kind of the impetus for this whole book.
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- You know,
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- When god
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- Shows up to talk to him,
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- He is doing the work of threshing wheat.
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- And, listen, israel was in a bad place.
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- He's hiding.
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- Normally you would do it out in the open,
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- Where the wind would have help
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- You separate the wheat from the chaff,
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- But they're in such a bad position.
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- He's hiding in a winepress, which is sort of a dark, damp,
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- Enclosed area, trying to do this threshing of the wheat.
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- But that's where god shows up.
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- And it just struck me as, hey, that's his day to day work.
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- That's his obligation. that's what he's doing.
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- I mean, god is is showing up in every bit of our life,
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- And he speaks to us for listening.
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- Yeah. gideon kind of personifies all the themes in the book.
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- You've got fear, you've got doubt, you've got trust.
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- You've got someone who didn't think they were up to the task.
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- So he really kind of personifies
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- The themes throughout the book.
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- Shannon, hey, tell us a bit more about you
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- And kind of what your schedule looks like.
- 00:17:06.158 --> 00:17:08.060
- Fox news sunday. you've got a very full plate.
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- You've got the live in the brain podcast,
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- You're married, you've got a lot going on.
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- How do you juggle it all
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- And stay grounded and stay true to jesus through it all?
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- Because look at
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- Covering war, rumors of war, everything happening
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- In this upside down world right now.
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- It's a 24 over seven job in news.
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- How do you take time?
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- And i think of jesus who you highlight in the book as well.
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- He always took time away to pray.
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- Maybe it was four in the morning away from the disciples.
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- He find out a alone time with god.
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- How do you do that with your busy schedule?
- 00:17:38.790 --> 00:17:40.759
- I think a lot of a struggle with that.
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- Yeah, eric, you know the so well to being in the business
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- As well.
- 00:17:45.531 --> 00:17:46.632
- I mean, for me in the morning is that reset time.
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- And it became really non-negotiable
- 00:17:48.767 --> 00:17:51.036
- For me during covid. i'm not perfect every day.
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- But the goal is the rule is, that's where i start my day
- 00:17:53.105 --> 00:17:57.342
- And in the word and in prayer
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- And just getting the grounding and the assurance that, listen,
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- We know how the story ends,
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- The good overcomes evil,
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- And there is hope in the midst of war and, tragedy
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- And struggle and death and crime and all of those things.
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- And i would kind of joke, but it's true.
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- I mean, any time i sort of
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- Get too big for my britches,
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- And the lord is good at keeping me humble.
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- Whether it's my dog waking me up in the middle of the night,
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- You know, throwing up on a new rug or,
- 00:18:20.532 --> 00:18:22.568
- You know, something silly,
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- There's plenty in life, i think, to ground us.
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- But for me, i,
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- You know, to sit in church is my favorite part of the week.
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- And to sit in that service
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- And just to share with my brothers and sisters
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- In a praise and worship song and a good sermon, knowing that,
- 00:18:35.113 --> 00:18:38.317
- We know we may not know each other all by name,
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- But we know each other's lives a bit.
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- And then we're sharing this journey,
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- This journey of faith together, bearing each other's burdens.
- 00:18:44.957 --> 00:18:47.993
- And i've seen that happen so many times in my life,
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- Whether i've been struggling or my husband or something.
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- We've walked through,
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- Having people reach out and say, i'm praying for you.
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- That reminds me to pray for others as well.
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- And listen, i'm not always the greatest sleeper.
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- And so,
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- When i'm up in the middle of the night,
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- It's a good time for prayer and scripture
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- Memorization and quoting back to myself.
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- And one of the tricks my mom taught me,
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- And i actually was doing this last night,
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- When she can't sleep is she'll start
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- Working through the alphabet
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- And she'll think of somebody with the name at a adam.
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- Let me pray for him.
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- Be brett, let me pray for him.
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- And so it's one of those things that you put good use,
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- To your time.
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- And it also gives me the comfort that the lord is listening
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- 24 seven and gives me a chance to pray for other people.
- 00:19:26.898 --> 00:19:30.068
- And i love that strategy for sleepless nights.
- 00:19:30.068 --> 00:19:31.937
- I'm actually going to try that.
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- What a great tactic i. got to shoot last night.
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- Yeah. wow. okay, then you need some.
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- You really need to get some rest. i mean, man, hey.
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- Last question.
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- We we've broken down.
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- Nothing is impossible with god. you're incredible. new book.
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- But you're also, of course, fox news
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- Is chief legal correspondent.
- 00:19:47.052 --> 00:19:48.787
- A lot of people are asking on my team,
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- Are we going to have a supreme court vacancy in 2026?
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- What's your take, shannon?
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- Could we see that this year?
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- I wouldn't be surprised.
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- You know, any time that you're up against
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- What will be
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- Some really difficult midterm elections, the speculation grows
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- Because if republicans lose control of the senate,
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- They'll lose their ability to have, a confirmation
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- Process for a new justice, a new nominee.
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- Not completely, but it's going to be a lot tougher,
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- To get somebody through that the president would pick.
- 00:20:16.815 --> 00:20:18.950
- So there's always this ramp of speculation.
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- I mean, justice thomas is the most senior member of the court.
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- He doesn't give any signal he's going anywhere.
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- So speculation about justice alito, and others.
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- But listen, they've all hired clerks.
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- They've all done the things that would make
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- You think they're going to stick around.
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- But in a political year,
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- Just one of those conversations we can't resist having.
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- Yeah, we will be watching it
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- All on fox news sunday, anchored of course,
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- By shannon bream in the live in the bream podcast.
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- The book is
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- Nothing is impossible with god right now, folks.
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- Amazon.com wherever books are sold, it's a great one.
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- Shannon.
- 00:20:49.448 --> 00:20:50.415
- Thanks so much. thanks for writing the book.
- 00:20:50.415 --> 00:20:51.850
- It's a great one. congrats! we'll see you again soon.
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- God bless.
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- Eric, thank you so much.
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- God bless you.
- 00:20:56.388 --> 00:20:59.057
- Thanks again to shannon bream
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- For that great conversation, folks.
- 00:21:00.325 --> 00:21:01.760
- Again, the book is called nothing is impossible with god.
- 00:21:01.760 --> 00:21:04.563
- You can pick it up right now
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- At amazon.com or wherever books are sold.
- 00:21:05.530 --> 00:21:08.467
- It is a great and encouraging read.
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- Coming up, my final thoughts
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- On what god says about the overcomers.
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- That's next.
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- That's next.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- As we wrap up here, keep this in mind.
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- We just heard from shannon bream of fox news
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- That trials are part of the christian life
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- Pain, waiting, setbacks, prayers that seem to go unanswered.
- 00:21:32.125 --> 00:21:37.029
- We all walk through those seasons, right?
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- But here's the truth.
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- We are never walking through them alone.
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- Even in the darkest valleys, god is present
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- And often far closer to us than we realize.
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- Jesus himself told us in john 1633, in this world
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- You will have trouble, but take heart.
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- I have overcome the world.
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- That's the promise we hold on to.
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- Not that life will be easy, but that he has already secured
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- The victory.
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- And we see that truth all throughout scripture.
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- As shannon bream shared in her great book,
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- Noah building in obedience when it had never even rained.
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- Moses standing before pharaoh when the odds were impossible.
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- Daniel facing the lion's den.
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- Elijah at his lowest point, feeling alone,
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- And gideon overwhelmed by fear, yet called to lead.
- 00:22:25.077 --> 00:22:29.449
- Time and time again, god shows us what it looks like
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- To trust him when life doesn't make sense.
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- When fear sets in.
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- When the road ahead feels impossible.
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- Because here's the reality.
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- God's power is often revealed
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- Most clearly in our weakest moments.
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- This is about pain with purpose.
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- Faith in the middle of uncertainty
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- And the unshakable truth that even when god
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- Does not change the situation immediately,
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- He is still working.
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- He's refining, strengthening, preparing something greater.
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- So if you're walking
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- Through a hard season right now and we all do, right,
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- Don't lose heart. hold on to him.
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- Stay anchored in his word because nothing.
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- Absolutely nothing is impossible with god.
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- Thanks for joining us tonight on stackelberg tonight.
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- Until next time. god bless you.
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- We'll see you soon.
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