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

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

God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, God bless you. It's always 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 thanks so much for tuning in. And thank you again for coming out today. I like to start with something funny. And I heard about this little girl. She asked her mother how the human race got started. The mother explained how God created Adam and Eve and they had children and on and on.

Here we are today.

A few days later, she asked her father the same question.

He explained how many years ago there were monkeys.

Little by little, they became more like people and now here we are.

Confused, she went back to her mother said mom you said God created people

Dad said we came from monkeys how can that be mom said all that's easy honey I told you about my side of the family

He told you about his

Hold up your Bibles say it like you mean it this is my Bible I am what it says I am I. 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 focusing on the promise, not the problem.

What we focus on, we magnify.

We're not changing its actual size.

We're simply making it bigger in our own mind.

If you stay focused on your problems,

on a negative medical report, on what somebody said about you, on how you'll never get out of debt, all that's going to do is make it bigger than it really is. It's changing your perception

of it. You can take a small coin.

If you hold it up close enough to your eye, eventually it will block the sun.

That coin, even though it's billions and trillions of times smaller, because you've got it so close, it's distorting your perspective.

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