Hi, this is Joel in 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. 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.

I like to start with something funny and I heard about this elderly lady. She was at the store. She accidentally locked her keys in the car. She had a coat hanger.

She was trying and trying to get it unlocked, but she just couldn't get it open. She prayed and asked God to help her.

About that time, this guy pulls up on a motorcycle, rough looking, dressed in leather, tattoos, a skull cap, 15 seconds. He had the car open.

She hugged him and said, Lord, thank you for sending me this nice man. He said, lady, I'm not a nice man. I just got out of prison for auto theft.

She hugged him again and said, Lord, thank you. You even sent me a professional.

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 God has the final say. We all face situations that look permanent, like they're never going to work out.

It's easy to get discouraged and accept that it wasn't meant to be. But it's not over until God says it's over.

The medical report may not look good, but that sickness doesn't have the last word. God has the final say.

You may have struggled with an addiction for years, but the addiction doesn't have the final say. People may be against you.

You have opposition, but people don't have the final say. No disrespect, but the doctor, the banker, the lawyer, the expert, the judge.

They may be good people, but they're not on the throne. God is on the throne. Him being for you is more than the world being against you.

God won't let you get in a problem that he can't get you out of. He wouldn't have let the three Hebrew teenagers be thrown into a furnace if he didn't know the fire wasn't going to harm them.

King Nebuchadnezzar thought he was in control. He thought he had the final say that the fire would finish them off. That's what always happened.

But this time he wasn't dealing with ordinary people. He was dealing with children of the most high God. They came out without the smell of smoke.

There's something about you that makes you unstoppable. You have an advantage. God not only breathed life into you, but he put a hedge, a protection around you.

Nothing can touch you without his permission. You're not at the mercy of bad breaks, sicknesses, accidents. People against you. None of that can stop your destiny.

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