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

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We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. God bless you. It's great to be with you today.

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of one of our services. I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard about these two brothers.

They were known for being very dishonest and having no integrity. They were also very wealthy.

One of them died.

His brother said to the pastor, I'll make a deal with you.

If you'll say at the funeral that my brother was a saint, I'll make a large donation to your church.

The pastor agreed.

The man made the donation.

At the funeral, the pastor said, this man was

dishonest. He cheated, lied, stole. But compared to his brother, he was a saint. All right, 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 how God wastes nothing. We all go through things

that we don't understand, things that are not fair, dealing with an illness, had a rough childhood

or a relationship didn't work out. There are seasons we're not making progress, no good breaks, and everything is routine.

Sometimes we make mistakes and bring heartache and trouble on ourselves.

It's easy to get discouraged and lose our passion for life.

But the beauty of our God is he doesn't waste anything that we go through.

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