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

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Well, God bless you. It is always a joy to come into your homes. We love you and we pray that you're going to have a blessed prosperous year.

If you're ever in our area, I hope that you'll stop by and visit one of our services.

I promise you we'll make you feel right at home, but thank you so much for tuning in today.

I'd like to get started each week with something funny. So listen to this one.

A minister bought a new horse and trained it to respond to praise the Lord, meaning giddy up, and hallelujah meaning woe.

His friends were so impressed, he'd shout praise the Lord and it'd take off running when he shouted hallelujah, it'd quickly stop.

One day while out riding, the horse got spooked and took off running straight toward a cliff.

He frantically yelled, woe, but nothing happened. He then remembered he taught the horse something different,

but couldn't remember what it was. He shouted, amen, glory, bless God. Finally, right before the edge of the cliff, he shouted hallelujah,

and the horse came to a screeching halt. He breathed to sigh of relief and said, praise the Lord.

All right, hold your bibles up and say it like you mean it. 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. 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.

I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same, never, never, never, I'll never be the same in Jesus name.

God bless you. You sound great as usual. We've been talking about breaking the strongholds of the past and how negative things can keep getting passed down from generation to generation.

The decisions that we make, they don't just affect ourselves, they affect our children and their children and on and on.

And the Bible talks about how the iniquity of the fathers can be passed down for three or four generations. That simply means bad habits, addictions, negativity, wrong mindsets. Those are all iniquities that can be passed down.

And some of you are struggling in areas right now because of the choices people have made that have gone before you. Many times you can look back and see it somewhere in your family line.

And it's so important that we recognize what's happening and not just be passive and think, well this is just the way I am.

Joel, it's been in my family for years and years. No, you need to rise up and do something about it. It may have been there for years but the good news is it doesn't have to stay there.

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