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. Listen, I want to remind us to spend our time investing

in our future. Don't invest in the past. Investing in the past is when you

relive your hurts, your pains, your disappointments. See, it's easy to focus on who hurt you,

what didn't work out, what mistake you've made. But you know what

that is? It's a big waste of time and energy. We can't do anything about what happened in our

past. It's done. It's over with. It's finished. But we can do something about today.

And when you begin to focus on what you can change and not what you can't change,

that is a good investment in the future.

You know, we weren't designed to carry around a lot of unnecessary negative baggage.

And sometimes we fill our bags with bitterness, resentment, heartache.

But can I tell you that you've got to get up every day and let that stuff go?

Forgive the people who offended you.

Release them. Forgive yourself. You see, when you are weighed down with all of this junk,

it's hard to see where you're going. It's hard to even be ready to get there. One time, Joel and I, we had scheduled

back-to-back work trips. We really don't ever do this, but this just happened to be an instance

that we did this. We had come home from a week out, and we came back in, and we only had like

two hours to be at home. And then we'd have to turn around,

head back to the airport. Well, on the way home, all I could think about was those dirty clothes

in my suitcase. There was a week's worth of dirty clothes in my suitcase. When I got home,

I dumped all those dirty clothes and I began to refresh my suitcase. When I got home, I dumped all those dirty clothes and I began to refresh my suitcase.

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