Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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We believe you're going to have an awesome 2024, healthy, productive, and favor-filled.

God bless you today and enjoy the message.

You know, I want to talk to us a little bit about relationships and how to bring value to our relationships.

You know, we're going to be around people all the time, and we're going to have people in our

life that are close to us.

And some of those relationships can bring us great joy and satisfaction.

And sometimes some of those same relationships can be a source of frustration and they can be a challenge in our life.

We've got to learn to balance the two extremes.

Have you ever been in love with someone a moment and then they say something you don't like and you're mad at them?

That doesn't make sense.

We got fickle feelings.

We've got to learn how to balance these things called relationships

and learn to bring out the best in each other

and enjoy relationships.

Listen to what the Apostle Paul teaches us

in 1st Corinthians 13.5. He says, love keeps no records of wrongs.

Love keeps no records of wrongs. You see, the Apostle Paul was telling us, if we're going to balance

out our relationships and we're going to enjoy them, we're not going to be frustrated and irritated, we're going to have to learn to keep records of the good things.

We're going to have to learn to find the good in our relationship, the good in the people that we are connected to.

See, it's easy to see the worst in people. Let me tell you,

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