Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

We love you so much. It's fun to be in the house of the Lord. It's fun to celebrate a God who is for us and not against us.

Can you imagine coming to a God who you don't know what he thinks about you? You don't know

how he feels about you. You don't know. But we don't come to a God like that. We come to a good God

who's already told us that he loves us with an everlasting love, that he

redeemed us for his good pleasure.

He is pleased with you today.

He loves you.

He gave you his very best.

And that is something to celebrate.

That's something to remind ourselves of, to stir up

every single day of our life, because life doesn't remind us of that. Life tries to tell us

something totally different. It tries to show us difficulties, heartaches, hardships.

But Jesus is saying, I've given you my joy.

I've given you what you need to defeat the power of the enemy and stay strong in this life. Amen?

You've got what it takes to stand strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's what I want to talk a little bit about today. I want to talk about staying strong in God through joy. The Bible says that the joy of the

Lord is our strength. That's what Nehemiah told the people who had, were downcast. He said, go, eat,

celebrate. The joy of the Lord is your strength. It is what is going to sustain you. It's going to

fight off anxiety. It's going to help balance your life. And Jesus said the joy that

he had, he gave it to us. He said, my joy, I give to you and I give it to the full. Now, the joy that

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