Welcome to the Voochurch podcast. Today, Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. kicks off a new collection of talks.

Happy, healthy, holy, lose the world, gain your soul. With the start of a new year, we can easily feel overwhelmed with the goals we want to set and the growth we want to experience.

Instead of focusing on these external adjustments, we're starting off 2023 with one focus. Health.

In this collection, we will dive deeper into key areas of our soul, learning practical patterns we can exercise to take care of our souls and live happier, healthier, and holier.

For more collection resources visit voochurch.com slash happy. Now let's lean into this message. So good together.

Today, out of third John, just one little verse, let it set up the next few weeks and we'll talk about it. This is the prayer that John has for the people of God. And it's my prayer for you as we start this year.

Third John, chapter 1 verse 2. Dear friend, ask you, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

Isn't that just a beautiful little scripture to pray over our friends, over our family, over our church? I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

Everyone say good. Someone say soul. Someone say soul good. That's what I want to preach to you about today.

I want to preach for a few moments on this subject. So good. Someone say soul good. I like our church because our church likes to talk back at the preacher. And sometimes when I'm preaching real good, I'll hear people in the front and go, so good.

So good. But maybe we got to just change it in 2023 to so good. So good. So good. We're starting a new collection, which is always fun when you're here at the beginning of it, called Happy Healthy Holy.

Losing the world and gaining your soul. Just help me out a little bit. How many out there you'd like to be happier in 2023? Where are you at? If you don't have your hand up, I'm worried about you.

How many out there you'd like to be healthier? Where are you at? Where are you at? Anyone already joined a gym? Anyone already started the diet?

I'm getting ready to jump into 21 days of prayer and fasting. I'm giving up bread for 21 days. I might die. Okay. I love bread.

We want to be healthier. How about this? Here's a real question. How many of you would like to be holier in 2023?

That is the intent and the goal of this collection. And I suppose what I want to try to do with all of us today is a massive introduction sermon to where I want to take us for the next five weeks.

I believe the Lord has really been speaking to me. And I believe there's some things he's put on my heart that I want to get into your heart.

But I think we have to begin with this understanding that if we're going to see our lives become happier, healthier, holier, we're going to have to break past the notion that for those things to take place, it's not going to happen through an external change.

It truly is going to come from an inside-out change. It's going to be an internal one. Since we're on the kind of path of questions, how many of you? Maybe we don't all believe this.

How many of you actually believe that God's will for your life is better than your will for your life? Like what a massive question, right? Like, do I truly believe?

I'm asking myself this. Do I truly believe that God's will is better than my will? We pray that prayer, God, not my will, but your will. That's a dangerous prayer right there.

I don't want my will, God, I want your will. And if we're going to get God's will in our life, and I think many are here today and many are watching life on Line and Sandwich, I do want God's will in my life.

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