Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for listening to the podcast.

2024 is going to be an amazing year for you and your family. Know that we're praying for you.

So get ready. Keep your expectations up. It's going to be a great year.

Hope you enjoy today's message. We believe it, Father. We stand in awe of who you are in Jesus' name.

Have you ever heard the term a self-made man?

Usually it refers to someone who had nothing and became wealthy and influential all on his own.

Usually it's one of those rags to riches stories.

We've all heard them, read about him, seen him on TV.

But today I want to talk about a man who became wealthy, influential, and he was a legacy

lever on this earth. Now, this man was not a self-made man. His label read

God-made man. He was a God-made man. And the reason I say and describe him as a God-made man is because God spoke to him and said something

very significant to him.

Now, this man's name is Abraham.

Yeah, Abraham, the Father of our faith, the one we read about in Genesis.

He was a God-made man. In Genesis 12, 2, he was living in a land

where his father had settled. His relatives were all there. When God spoke to him, he said this to him.

He said, Abraham, I want you to leave the land of your father, and I want to

you, I want to take you to a land that I will show you, and I want to make you into a great nation.

What God spoke to him was, I want to take you and I want to make you.

That's why Abraham wears the label God made man, because he willingly trusted God to take him somewhere. He didn't know he was even going,

where he was even going, and he trusted God to make him able to do what God had called him to do.

Now, God said this to Abraham. He said, Abraham, I'm going to make you

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