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. You know, life will always present things to worry about.

We'll always have cares, we'll always have concerns. There'll be things

that try to trouble us. But we all know that when we worry about the cares of life and the

troubles of life, that they'll add no value to us. The scripture talks about that. It says worry adds

no value to your life. I heard it said like this one time, worry is like sitting in a rocking chair.

You have something to do, but you get nowhere.

You just rock and rock and rock.

You're doing something, but it's not getting you anywhere. Worry is not good for our

life, and it needs to be contained. We need to learn to win the war over worry. You know,

worry does change one thing. Worry changes your personality. It makes you frustrated, suspicious,

cranky, miserable. Worry is not good for us. It changes who we are and it causes us to miss

the beauty of the moment and to be fruitful in our lives. It literally chokes us spiritually.

Listen, do you remember when Jesus was at Mary and Martha's home? He was there to have a dinner

and to fellowship with Mary and Martha and her brothers, he noticed something about Martha.

It must have been in her personality because he said this to her.

He said, Martha, Martha, you're anxious and troubled about so many things.

See, he saw her moving around, doing a lot of stuff, but she wasn't fruitful in what she was doing.

He wasn't discrediting that there were things to be done, but he was addressing how she was handling those things.

He says, you're so anxious and so troubled.

You know, I believe that when we're anxious and when we're troubled, we miss what's going on in our life right now.

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