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I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard about this 84-year-old woman.

She went on a blind date with a 93-year-old man.

When she returned home to her daughter's house, she seemed kind of upset and her daughter asked her

what was wrong she said i had to slap him three times she said you mean he tried to get fresh she

said no i thought he was dead say it like you mean it this is my bible i am what it says i am i have what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do

what it says I can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess, my mind is

alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus name, God bless you. I want to talk to you today about balanced books. This is an accounting

term. It means to make up from loss. When account is low or when there's a deficit, when you balance the books,

you add revenue to equal it out. You have to first determine how much the account

is behind. You take all the losses, all the deficits, total them up, then you know how much

you need to add. When the books are properly balanced, no one can tell there's ever been a loss.

There is no deficit. In the same way, God is promised he will

balance the books in our lives. We all go through things that put us at a deficit, an unfair

situation, a rough childhood, a friend betrayed us, we lost a loved one. If nothing changed, we would be out of balance.

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