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. Well, God bless you. Always our joy to come into your homes.

We love you. We know God has great things in store. And If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by and be a part of one of our services. I promise you this. We'll make you feel right at home. Thanks so much for tuning in today. And again, thank you for coming out. I'd like to start with something funny. And I heard about this elderly lady.

She went to church one Sunday morning and a friendly usher, met her at the back door and said, ma'am, where would you like to sit? She said, I want to sit on the very first row. The usher said, oh, no, ma'am, you don't want to do that. Our pastor is very boring. He'll put you to sleep. Let me seat you somewhere else. she looked appalled.

She said, sir, do you know who I am?

He said, is very boring. He'll put you to sleep. Let me seat you somewhere else. She looked appalled.

She said, sir, do you know who I am? He said, no, ma'am. She said, I am the pastor's mother.

He hung his head in embarrassment. And finally he looked up and he said, ma'am, do you know who I am?

She said, no. He said, thank God. Hold up your Bible and say it like you mean it. 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. Today I will

be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. my heart is receptive, I will never be the same.

In Jesus name. God bless you. I want to talk to you today about staying open for God to do it his way.

So often we put God in a box. We tell him how to meet our needs and when to do it and who he should

use. We've got all these preconceived ideas about how it's going to happen. But it says in Isaiah 55,

God's ways are not our ways. They are higher and better than our ways. The way God chooses to do something may not be the way that you were expecting.

If you are set in your thinking with preconceived ideas of how God's going to do it and who he's going to use,

you might miss the answer that God is sending you.

You could overlook someone, not even give them

the time of day, yet God sent them to be instrumental in your life. You could pass on an

opportunity because it's not what you had in mind, yet the fact is God is sending it to try to take

you to a new level.

What am I saying?

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