Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for listening to the podcast. We have a new resource.

It's a 2024 daily devotional. We'd love to send it to you. It'll help you start the day off right.

You will love this devotional. And know this. We are praying for you and we are believing for God's very best for you in 2024.

Well, God bless you. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We love you.

We know that God has good things in store for you, and we come with good news.

It's telling them earlier how God rewards people that seek after him. And I know that's you

or you wouldn't even be tuned in today. So thanks for stopping by. And I hope you hope if you're ever in our area, you'll come be a part of one of our services. We'll make you feel right at home, but glad to have you with us today. I'd like to start each week with something kind of funny, so somebody told me this one, there was this man, he was a Southern Baptist man by the name of Bill. He loved to sneak away to the horse tracks and bet.

And one day after losing almost all of his money, he noticed this priest stepped out onto the

tracks and blessed this horse. And he watched very curiously, and sure enough, that horse won first

place. The next race, the priest blessed another horse. And again, he won. And so Bill ran back to the ATM machine, got all his money out. And the next time, the priest not only touched the horse's forehead, but he touched his eyes, his ears, and all of his hooves. And Bill was so confident he bet all of his money on that horse. But in the middle of that race, that horse fell down dead.

He could not believe it.

He rushed over to that priest.

He said, what in the world happened?

The priest said, this is the problem with you Protestants.

You don't know the difference between a blessing and the last rites.

All right, hold your Bibles up.

Say it like a minute.

Ready?

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.

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