Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. We love having you guys listening to the podcast, and we just speak blessings over you and your family.

We sure hope you enjoy these podcasts, and we are praying for you and believing for God's very best in this holiday season.

I want to encourage us today about remembering, remembering the good,ing the things that are helpful to us. You see,

so many times in life, there's negative things that happen to us, maybe a bad childhood,

maybe a divorce, some negative words had been spoken in your life. And those are the things we don't want to remember.

We want to remember what is beneficial and what is good. Have you ever been mowing the lawn or

maybe washing the dishes, driving down the street, and all of a sudden a memory from the past

hits your thoughts? Man, it came out of nowhere, or maybe something that had happened

two weeks ago at work, just kind of runs right into your thought life, and it makes you feel

sad or lonely, depressed. Maybe those negative thoughts made you even feel fear for a moment,

fear of what would happen in the future.

You see, that's what negative thoughts do to our life.

They stop us.

They're intended to cause us to pause, to not walk in faith in victory.

So that's why I want to encourage us so much to remember what we're remembering.

Let's remember the good.

The apostles wrote many times in the New Testament.

They wrote things like this.

I am writing to remind you.

I am writing to remind you again.

Paul put it this way.

He said, I never get tired of reminding you.

...