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Merry Christmas to you and your family. We are so blessed to come into your homes on this Christmas day.

Hope you're having a great Christmas season. Have something a little bit different on the program today.

I have some of my family with me, my beautiful wife Victoria, my mom's here, my sister April, my brother Dr. Paul, my sister Lisa, my sister Tamra.

So we thought we would just share some holiday memories, maybe some things that will encourage and inspire you, but we're going to have a good time together. Thanks for joining us.

We just wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

We want to thank you for always being a part of this ministry. It means so much to us.

Know that we're praying for you and we know God's best is still in store.

We believe that, hey, well, it was 41 years ago, Christmas time, that we got the news that my mother wasn't healthy.

You probably heard me tell the story many times if you watch, but mama, I remember that so clearly because my brother Paul called me.

I was in college and he said, Joel, mother sick, and I'd never seen my mother sick a day in her life, but come to find out you were diagnosed with terminal cancer, but that was a difficult time.

It was right at Christmas time, especially, and I was in the hospital too, just a few days till Christmas time.

But then I just remembered God's word works. It never fails, Joel, but Daddy and I laid on the floor of the foot of our bed and prayed that Jesus would touch and heal me.

And do you know what he did? It's been 41 years now. I got some scriptures. I have them on my phone. I read them every day.

And then I put scriptures in the house and pictures of me, like wanting to ride a horse that I rode 25 years ago, and I did that.

And you know what, Jesus was so good and so merciful. And Joel, if it had not been for that, maybe I wouldn't be praying for the sick today.

But 41 years later, Jesus gave me my life back, and he can do it for you. He didn't love me anymore than he loves anybody else, so he can do that for anybody.

That's amazing. Paul, I remember, you know, Paul, you're a medical doctor when you called and it wasn't good news.

No, Joel, the biopsies were clear. She had metastatic adenocarcinoma to her liver, which means that tumor had spread to her liver, multiple areas.

But at that time, and even now, there's not really good treatment for it. So when they said she had a few weeks to live, that was right.

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