Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes. 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. I like to start with something funny, and I heard about

this lady that died, and she was at the pearly gates, and St. Peter said, you can't come in yet.

You have to correctly spell a word. She said, what word? He said any word. So she spelled the word love,

L-O-V-E. He said, welcome to heaven. Then Peter asked her if she would take his place for just a

moment. He instructed her if anybody came up just to follow the same procedure. A few minutes,

she sees her ex-husband walking up. She can't believe it. Says, what are you

doing here? He said, I just had a heart attack. Did I really make it to heaven? She said, not yet.

You have to spell a word correctly. He said, what word? There was a long pause, and she said,

Czechoslovakia. I want to talk to you today about emptying out the negative. It's easy to go

through life holding on to things that are weighing us down. Guilt, resentment, doubt, worry.

The problem is when we allow these things in, they're taking up space for the good things that should be

there. Imagine your life is like a container. You were created to be filled with joy, peace,

confidence, creativity. But if you allow worry in, it pushes out the peace. There's not space for both. You can't go above a hundred percent.

You have a limited amount of room. If you allow guilt to take up space, that's space that you don't

have for the confidence you need. And the reason some people don't enjoy their lives is because

their container. their heart is contaminated

with so many things. They have 10% worried, stressed out over their job, 12% bitterness, mad at

their neighbor, 20% guilt, beating themselves up for past mistakes, 9% jealousy, their co-worker is more beautiful.

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