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 a joy to come into your homes. If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by and see us.

I promise you we'll make you feel right at home here at one of our services.

But thanks for tuning in. I like to get started with something funny each week. And I heard

about this minister. He was up in the pulpit preaching away one Sunday morning.

He noticed a man on the front row sound asleep. That made him so aggravated. He started preaching

louder and harder, but it seemed like the louder he got, the sounder he slept. And so he

finally stopped right in the middle of his sermon, and he said that the man sitting next to him,

would you please wake that man up? The man said, wake him up yourself.

You put him to sleep.

All right, hold up your Bible, 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 giving birth to the promises that God has put in your heart.

We all have dreams and desires, things that we're believing to come to pass.

And these promises are like seeds planted in the soil of our hearts.

And most of the time, they don't happen overnight.

There's a period of waiting involved. And this is when it's so easy to give up.

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