Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend? We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes. And if you're ever in our area, please stop by and be a part of one of our services. I promise

you, we'll make you feel right at home. But I like to start with something funny and I heard about

this man that was very stingy with his money. Just before his death, he made his wife promise him

that she would have him buried with the $50,000 he had saved.

His wife reluctantly agreed. At the funeral, before they closed the casket, she snuck in this small

wooden box. Her friend said, surely, you didn't just bury the money, did you? The wife said,

of course I did. I'm a Christian. I can't lie. She said, you mean't just bury the money, did you? The wife said, of course I did. I'm a Christian. I can't

lie. She said, you mean you just buried $50,000? Why I said, yes, I did. I wrote a check.

Say it like you mean it. 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 daily direction.

God said in Psalms that he will lead us down the best path for our lives.

He has the wisdom we need, the guidance, the direction, but it's not going to happen automatically.

Every morning we have to go to him and say,

God, show me my assignment, show me what to do, show me where to go, give me the words to speak.

Asking for wisdom, for guidance, that's an act of surrender. It takes humility to say, God, you know what's best for me.

I can't do this on my own.

I need your help.

Open the right doors, close the wrong doors, make the path clear.

The scripture says, when you acknowledge God in all your ways, he will direct your path.

But too often, we make our plans without consulting God, then we ask him to bless those plans.

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