Hello, my friends and welcome back to the morning mindset.

I hope you are ready today, right now, to get your mind aligned with the truth in God's

Word.

We have been doing so in the recent series through observing the Advent season.

It's a time of looking forward to Christmas and what it means for us in terms of the promises

of God being fulfilled.

We're going to get to that by looking at a passage in John chapter 12 in just a moment.

But I want to thank you for listening and I want to thank you particularly if you're

not inside the United States.

There are people listening in countries all over the world.

I'm looking at a map right now that shows the statistics.

There are listeners in a small little nation called Suriname.

Do you know where that is?

That's in the north part of South Africa.

Thank you for listening.

I see people listening in Jordan over in the Middle East.

I see people listening in the United Kingdom.

I see that people are listening in Papua New Guinea.

They're just people all around the world and I'm so thankful that you're there.

Let's look at the Advent passages today and let's see how the Lord would encourage

us as we align our minds with him.

We're looking at John chapter 12 verse number 35 and this is a statement that Jesus made

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