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You don't have to live with guilt and condemnation all the time and always being afraid that you've disappointed God.

Matter of fact, I can tell you that God is pleased with you and you might say, no, no, no, Joyce, you don't know what I've done.

There's no way God could be pleased with me.

I didn't say God's pleased with everything that you've done, but he's pleased with you.

Well, thank you for joining us today on enjoying everyday life.

I love the word. It has changed my life, keeps me strong, and I believe that you love the word too, or you would not be taking this time to listen to the word.

We're talking about faith. Again today, started yesterday talking about faith.

Share about Abraham and how God told him that he was going to be the father of many nations, that he didn't have one child at all, and he was too old to have children, his wife was too old to have children.

And yet he believed God, because he believed God, the Bible says it was counted to him as righteousness, and he's considered to be the father of faith.

Great scripture in John chapter 6. They ask, what must we do to please God?

I think that's a question that we all have. We want to please God. If you love God, you want to please Him. What must we do to please God?

And if you don't know what the Bible says, the devil will give you a whole big long, long, long list of things that he will tell you that you have to do to please God, including being perfect and never making a mistake.

Well, you know, if we could be perfect and never make mistakes, then we wouldn't need Jesus. So we all have strengths, but we also all, all, every one of us also have weaknesses.

We all make mistakes. We all need forgiveness.

And thank God, it's always available to us. God's mercy is new every single day, every day.

And if you have got some sin on your conscience right now, something that you're holding against yourself or something that you're hanging on to guilt about, God wants you to reach out to Him, repent of that sin, talk to Him about it, confess it, tell Him all about it.

He knows anyway. I don't know why we ever think we're just going to keep some secret from God. He knows everything. And to repent means to be willing to turn away from it and go in a new direction.

Get rid of that thing today. Don't just keep dragging it around with you. Today is a new day. And God's got new things for you. Paul said the one thing that was the most important to him was to let go of all the things that were behind and to press into the things that were ahead.

So without faith, it's impossible to please God. Those that come to Him must believe some things.

Hebrews 116 says we believe that God is. You're never anywhere where God isn't. He is everywhere all the time.

And you believe that he is a rewarder. I'm so glad that God is a rewarder that he's good. That he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

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