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.

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 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 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

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