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.

God bless you.

It's great to be with you today.

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I'd like to start with something funny. And I heard about this elderly couple. They were sitting on a swing celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.

Feeling romantic, the husband said to his wife, honey, our love is tried and true.

She had difficulty hearing and asked him to repeat it.

He said it louder.

I said, our love is tried and true.

She still couldn't hear him.

Said, what?

Would you speak up?

Frustrated, he shouted, I said,

our love is tried and true. She said, well, fine. I'm sick of you too. Okay, y'all, nothing inspiring, but here we got ready? This is my Bible. I am 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 choosing to be happy.

When we make up in the morning, we get to choose how we're going to live that day. We can choose

to live in faith, happy, expecting favor, or we can choose to live discouraged, defeated, focused on our problems.

Happiness doesn't automatically happen. It's a choice we have to make. You can't wait to see

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