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. Praise you and thank you for all that you're doing. Amen.

You may be seated. I want to encourage every one of us today that that you're doing. Amen. You may be seated.

I want to encourage every one of us today that if you're waiting on a prayer to be answered,

or maybe you're waiting for some things to change in your life and it hasn't happened for a long time, and you're just waiting for things to change so you can move on with life,

I want to encourage you to not let

those things stop you. Don't get stuck in those areas of your life. God doesn't want you to ever

get stuck. He wants you to live with enthusiasm. He wants you to live with joy. He wants you to live with expectancy of what he can do in

your life. You see, sometimes we're waiting on things to change. We're looking at everything

around us and we forget to look at our God. See, the Bible says we are to wait upon the Lord.

We're not to wait for all of our prayers to be answered.

We're not to wait for things to change before we can be happy.

We're to wait expectantly on the Lord.

Exciting with the anticipation. God, I may be in a difficult season,

but God, that doesn't stop you from working in my life. You see, with an excitement and a joy and a

passion for life, that's how God wants us to live. You know, we sometimes we think that seems impossible.

I can't be that happy all the time. Really, Victoria? The Bible says that there is a joy in you

that Jesus gave you. He says, the joy that is in me, I've given you. You have the ability to tap into the

resources that God has given you. You see, the Bible says that the righteous are to get brighter

and brighter until the full day. We're to thrive like a green leaf. We're not supposed to wither. Our dreams and hopes are not

supposed to wither, but we're supposed to thrive. We're supposed to shine brighter and brighter.

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