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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. |
| 0:06.0 | If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend. |
| 0:10.3 | We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, God bless you. It is always a joy to come into your homes. We love you and we're praying that you're going to have a blessed, |
| 0:21.5 | prosperous year. If you're ever in the Houston area, I hope you'll stop by, be a part of one of our |
| 0:26.6 | services. I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks for tuning in today. |
| 0:31.3 | I like to get started with something funny each week and I heard about this man that was very |
| 0:35.6 | stingy with his money. |
| 0:45.0 | And just before his death, he made his wife promise that she would have him buried with the $50,000 he had saved. |
| 0:47.2 | The wife reluctantly agreed. |
| 0:52.5 | At the funeral, just before they closed the casket, the wife put in a small wooden box. |
| 0:56.5 | Her friend said, surely, you didn't just put the money in there, did you? |
| 0:58.4 | The wife said, of course I did. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm a Christian. |
| 1:01.3 | I promised him I would do it. |
| 1:03.1 | I can't lie, so I did it. |
| 1:06.3 | She said, you mean you just buried $50,000? |
| 1:08.2 | The wife said, I sure did. |
| 1:09.4 | I wrote a check. All right. Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. |
| 1:16.6 | 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. |
| 1:24.7 | Today I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess, my mind is alert, |
| 1:31.0 | my heart is receptive, I will never be the same. In Jesus name, God bless you. I want to talk to |
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