Welcome to Season 6 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

Our program continues to be sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John is a good friend and he's helped me and my family in everything

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I certainly commend him to you if you have needs in any of those areas. You can reach him at

205-326736-3-64. Thank you again for your ongoing encouragement and support. Let's get started.

Welcome back to the program. I'm super excited today to share with you an event from Old Testament

history, this time from King Saul, that I think you will find super relatable

on the good side and also probably on the bad, and ultimately can help us reason through things

and make better decisions in life, which can bring about great results. Before we get into that

chapter, just really, really quickly, a little follow-up from last week. I think I probably have the best friends

that there are. Last week, I opened the episode by introducing two things. One was a rebranding and

relaunching of the Excel Stillmore three-month journal. It is now available on Amazon. I'm trying to

find a way to work that Amazon algorithm. I've asked people to check out the site,

maybe order, or definitely rate and review if you've ordered one before. And so many friends

participated in that. If you have not yet checked it out, the link and also a short video is in the show

notes. And if you happen to have that journal and you want to go that extra mile and really just

blow things out of the water, then take a picture or two of the insides of that book and add them to the review.

Anyway, whether you do that or not, just so good last week and I feel very encouraged.

The second thing is this early endeavor to write a New Testament daily devotional.

I will tell you right now, it is very difficult.

I don't think I understood how challenging it would be. But just the words of encouragement from

friends over this last week has really helped me. So thank you for your kindness and thank you for

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