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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. |
| 0:02.3 | Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. |
| 0:06.0 | If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend. |
| 0:10.3 | We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. |
| 0:13.9 | God bless you. |
| 0:15.2 | Such a joy to come into your homes. |
| 0:17.4 | We love you. |
| 0:18.3 | And if you're ever in our area, please stop by and be a part of one of our services. |
| 0:22.4 | I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks so much for tuning in. And thank you again for |
| 0:27.2 | coming out today. And I like to start with something funny. And I heard about this man. He was the only |
| 0:32.7 | Protestant in a large Catholic neighborhood. And every Friday during Lent, while his neighbors were eating cold fish, he was grilling a steak in the backyard. |
| 0:43.0 | They couldn't stand the temptation and decided to try to convert him to Catholicism. |
| 0:48.2 | He finally agreed. |
| 0:49.6 | The priest sprinkled water over him, said you were born a Baptist, you were raised a Baptist, |
| 1:00.2 | now you're a Catholic. The next year, on the first Friday of Lent, they smelled the same smell in the air. They rushed to his house. He was in the backyard, sprinkling water over his |
| 1:05.8 | steak. Say, you were born a cow, you were raised a cow, but now you're a fish. |
| 1:18.8 | Hold your Bible up. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. |
| 1:25.4 | 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. |
| 1:30.0 | I boldly confess, my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, |
| 1:37.9 | I will never be the same. In Jesus' name. God bless you. I want to talk to you today about it's under your feet. How we see our difficulties very often will determine whether or not we get out of them. |
| 1:46.3 | When we face challenges and things come against us, it's easy to get overwhelmed and start |
| 1:52.2 | thinking, this is never going to work out. |
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