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 home.

We love you. We know God has good things in store for you. He rewards the people that seek after him. I believe that's you. Or you wouldn't have tuned in or you wouldn't come out today. But thank you so much. It's just great to have you here. I like to start with something funny each week. And I heard about this husband and wife. They'd been arguing. Now they were giving each other the silent

treatment. The man had to catch a flight early the next day and he needed his wife to wake him up

at five in the morning. Not wanting to break the silence, he just wrote a note and put it by the side

of her bed that said, please wait me up at five. The next morning, he woke up at eight in the morning.

He was furious that he had missed his flight. He went back in to find out why his wife didn't wake

him up. And he noticed a little piece of paper by the side of his bed. He opened it up and it said,

wake up. It's five. 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 having the right expectations in your

relationships. Too often, we expect the people in our lives to perform perfectly, to never disappoint us, to always be there for us,

especially in our marriages. We expect our mate to cheer us up when we're down, to always be

understanding, always be loving and kind. But really, those are unrealistic expectations.

There's no such thing as the perfect spouse,

perfect boss, the perfect friend. No matter how much those people love you, no matter how good of a person they are, at some point they're going to disappoint you. At some point, most likely,

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