Just A Little Bit (Joyce Meyer)

honor for me to be here today. And I want to teach you something that will you'll enjoy have fun with, but it will also make you come a pyre because we're living in a day that really, to be honest, we talk about how hard it is, but God shows us for this time. We didn't just end up here in twenty twenty five accidentally. We're here for a purpose and the world is very dark, but we have the privilege of being lights in a dog for it. And I think we need to shine a lot little brighter

than what we are. Amen. And you know, everybody, you all have a pulpit. Maybe it's not this one. It might be your backyard fence or your desk at work, but you've all got a pulpit. And most people that will come to the Lord will come through somebody like you. Your influence, because the ones that really need it aren't here today. But they are different places in your world. And really we're not supposed to be doing all the work anyway, Paul said. You train them up so they

go out and do the work of the ministry. You know. Well, first of all, I'll tell you I have four grown children, and my baby will be forty five in December. My oldest son will be sixty. I don't know how that all worked out, since I'm only fifty's that's an odd thing. But we have four grown children. Dave actually ended up with some kind of virus and couldn't come this weekend. And we have four grown children. We have twelve grandchildren

and twelve great grandchildren. And so I feel like all I do is write checks all year, don't take them very long, and all they wants money, like five or six years old, they got their hand out for the cash. Dave and I in January will be married fifty nine years, and we are not alike at all. So don't tell me that you can't get along with somebody that's different than you are, because you can if you want to.

And I've actually had the great privilege. I can't. I can't think of having the privilege of doing anything greater than actually handling and teaching the Word of God, the most important thing that we have. And I've been teaching for fifty years, and i want to talk to you today about well. I actually put two titles on it. The first one was acceptable Sins, which I think that we think there are some of those, and I think there are things that are sin that we have forgotten

our sin. But I decided to change the title to just a little bit, because you know, that's the biggest lie the devil tells people. It's just a little bit, that's not a big deal, that doesn't matter. I think the hardest thing for a sincere Christian to do is to keep the balance between holiness and legalism, because see, I've been legalistic, and I don't want to be legalistic. I don't want to feel like I can never do anything or never have any fun, you know, but all

I can do is spiritual things. However, if I have to choose to lean toward holiness, I'm going to always lean toward holiness. And some people will call that legalism, but it's not. And God has called us to be a holy people. And we live in a more casual society today, and I don't know that I think it's good. But maybe that's because I'm older. I don't know, but it seems like the more casual our society gets, the

more casual our morals get. And I think we have to be really careful because we are a unique generation that has been called far such a time as this. Do you know that Jesus actually really could come back in our lifetime? I mean, he really could call the church home at any day. And I don't ever want

to be ashamed when I stand before him. When fifty years ago, just as I was starting to teach home Bible studies, I was going to a Walgames drug store one day, and I remember I was walking down the street to get there, and I saw a penny laying on the street and I just kind of kicked it. Walked over it, and I got about this far, and the Lord spoke very clearly to me, and he said, if you pick up pennies, you'll always be blessed. But I knew it had nothing to do with the penny.

What he was saying to me was, if you pay attention to little things, I'll always bless your life. And he has. And We've picked up many pennies in our life. I will dig them out of the dirt. I won't leave them there because they have a very special meaning to me. And we've tried the best we can to run our ministry with integrity and excellence. But I think it's time to tighten our belt of truth just a

little bit tighter. You know Ephesians six, when it talks about warfare, one of the first things that says is tighten the belt of truth. Tighten it so you may know the word, but God wants us to lean in on it a little bit more. Make sure we're living it, not just not just talking about it. And so I think that there are things that we do that we shouldn't do, but we do them because the devil says it's just a little bit. Everybody does it. I mean

maybe you're not here because I know their integrity. But there are pastors I know that do things that God won't let me do, and I used to. I went to God complaining about it one time because there was a movie that was out that I really wanted to see, and I just knew God didn't want me to go see it. But I mean, my pastors were seeing it. Everybody was seeing it, and I got a little miffed. I thought, why is it that everybody else can do stuff and I can't do anything? And you know what

he said to me. Look, Joyce, you asked me for a lot. Do you want it or not? So you know, everybody wants everything that you here talked about, but not everybody's willing to live the lifestyle they need to live to get it. I want to read your story. It's by a woman named Annette Nee. Many parents are working hard to explain to their children and teens why some video games, music, movies, books, and magazines are not acceptable material for them to see or bring into their homes.

One parent came up with an original idea that's hard to refute. He listened to all the reasons his children gave for wanting to see a particular PG thirteen movie. It had their favorite actors. Everyone else was seeing it. Even church members said it was great. It was only rated PG thirteen because of the suggestion of sex. They never really showed anything. The language was pretty good. They only used a large name in vain three times in the whole movie. The video effects were fabulous, The plot

was power packed. Video effects were fabulous. Yes, there was those this one scene where they blew up a bunch of people in kill them, But you know, not violence as normal stuff today. It wasn't really that bad. Even after all these explanations for the rating, the father would not give in. He didn't even give them a satisfying explanation for saying no. He just said no. A little later that evening, the father said to his teens, if

you'd like some brownies, I've made some fresh. He explained he'd taken the family's favorite recipe and added a little something new. They said, what is it, and he calmly replied that he had added just a little bit of dog poop. He said, but it's just a little as in this whole batch of brownie. You won't even taste it, But all the other ingredients or gourmet quality. He had taken great care to bake the brownies at the precise temperature at the exact time. He was sure they'd be superb.

Even with all the explanations of the perfect attributes of the brownies, the teens, not one teen would even try one. The father acted surprised. Well, there's only one little element in there that I don't know. Why you actually stubborn? He said, I assure you you won't notice it, you won't taste it, if at all. But they all held firm and not one would even try the brownies. He then explained that the movie they wanted to see was

just like those brownies. Stand enters our minds and our homes by deceiving us into believing that just a little bit won't matter, just a little bit won't make any difference. So now when the father's children want to do something they shouldn't do, he just says, would you like a brownie? Now? I have one main thing that I want to get out today, and so I'll have to just kind of give you a little dust over so we all have a good idea. Okay, I doubt that any one of

you is going to rob a bank next week. I doubt that anybody here is planning to rob the local mini march. I doubt that anybody here is planning a murder. But there are some of you here this morning that harbor jealousy. Oh yeah, it is a sin. Bible says, Jealousy rots the bones. You know, it's amazing to me that we don't see this center. Everything that God tells us to do or not to do is not for

his benefit, it's for ours. He just tells us to do what will make us happy, and what will make us better, and what will that make us healthier and make us live long. Jealousy rots the bones. It has an actual effect on your health. But let's just say that there's a woman at work that is not a believer, and there's an office that's opened up. There weren't enough offices for everybody, but certain people got offices and somebody had quit, and so now this office was open. And

you're a Christian and you prayed for that office. You even gave a little extra that week in the offering because you wanted that office. But this girl who wasn't even a Christian got it. Now, all of a sudden, you can't like her anymore, because as soon as you become jealous of somebody, you can no longer have a loving right relationship with him. Or maybe let's say it's a sibling rivalry. Maybe just somebody here today maybe or somebody watching on television. Maybe you have a brother or

sister that's smarter than you are. I had one son that got straight a's and never had to crack a book, and another another one that a girl's. She got good grades, but I mean she studied so hard. That was all the girl did. And then I had two who didn't care. And one of those two the ministry now. And because he wasn't a book guy, he was a hands on guy. And everybody has gifts, and you should never be jealous of somebody else's because what happens if you're jealous of

somebody else's gifts. It causes you not to see your own, and then we end up being robbed. Because God put that gift in them for you. The gift that's in me makes me work. You get to enjoy it, right, and so I need your gift and you need mine. But if we get jealous of each other, then it doesn't happen. What if my eyes said, you know, I'm really tired of just looking at that ring. I've looked at that ring all my life and I'm just tired

of it, and I want my own ring. Now. What if God said, oh, okay, well there you have it. So now I've just messed up everything. I got my ring, I got my way, but now I can't see what I'm doing or or where I'm going in life? Amen? Or what about unforgiveness? And you know, I know you hear a lot about unforgiveness, but it's the single biggest

problem in the church. You would be absolutely astonished at how many people are in here today that are angry with someone and you don't forgive them because you don't think they deserve it, or you know, it's it's funny when somebody does something that hurts us, how well we remember it, but how quickly we forget the things that we do to other people.

do three things. Pray for our enemies. So if you want to forgive somebody, you pray for them. You pray for them to be blessed. And you think, well, I don't want them to be blessed. Well, you pray for them to be blessed anyway. And that doesn't mean God's going to give them a new house. Maybe He'll give

them some revelation about how they treat people. You pray for them to be blessed, you bless and do not curse them, And that means in that way that you speak well of them, you don't speak evil of them, so you don't run around telling everybody else what they did. And Thirdly, if they have a need, who that's the out you one. If they have a need, you meet that need. Now, forgiveness doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be around the person. You don't have to have

a reconciliation of the relationship. But how you feel about them in your heart, you release them in your heart, You release them into God's hands, and you do yourself a favor when you do that, not them you because you can't. It messes your love life up if you're mad at people. And I tell you, I want to be so good at forgiveness that I'm forgiving somebody while they're still trying to offend me. So that's I just wanted to give you an idea, But I got to

get going here to get to the real stuff. One I want to mention is lying. There are a lot of Christian liars, because any time you don't keep your word, you're lying. Now we're gonna get down to the little stuff, because I think God cares about the pennies. If you tell somebody, I'll call you back this afternoon. And and really, if the truth were told, you already know when you say that you're not going to call him back this afternoon. You've just found a way to get rid of them.

I tell you how God cured me of that. We were in Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, ministering several different churches and we kind of really hooked up with this one couple that were pastors, and so we said to them. I said to them, hey, you guys ought to come to Saint Louis sometime and stay for about a week, and we'll take you to the arch and you know, we'll do all these things. Well, I don't even know why I said it. I didn't really say it. I didn't really say it because I wanted them to come. I

just was trying to be nice. Well, about a month went buying the man calling, he said, well, we're ready. I said, ready for what? He said, We're ready to come to Saint Louis. And I thought, oh, And I said, to god, God, what am I going to do? I can't have company for a week right now. I'm just up to my eyeballs and work. And he said, I'll tell you exactly what you're gonna do. You're gonna tell them to come, and you're going to put them in a good hotel and you're going to spend the week

with them. And that's going to teach you not to say things that you really don't mean. And ma'am, don't tell people. I'll pray for you, and then don't pray for them. I'll pray for you as a good way to get rid of people too. Sometimes I'm gonna pray for you about that. Well, then you pray for them about that. If you tell somebody you're going to call them back, you call them back. If you say I'll call you in a few weeks and we'll go to lunch,

call them and take them to lunch. We expect God to keep his word, and God expects us to keep our word. Amen. I mean these to me are areas where you could lean a little toward legalism and it wouldn't hurt I honestly try before God, anything that I tell somebody I'm going to do to the best of my knowledge, I do it. And if there's anything I've forgotten, Lord,

please remind me. But the thing I actually want to talk to you about today is a big sin, but one that people I don't think you even think it's a sin, and that's complaining. I don't know if you know who Madam Guyan is, but she lived in the sixteen hundreds and some of her books have really helped me. Pretty strict, but they've really helped me. And she said something is just like God, You've got to be kidding. She said, even if you sigh, it's a sign of discontentment.

So let me just tell you I've got a ways to go, because I still do sigh. In numbers twenty one, verses four through seven, the Bible says, and they journeyed from Mount Horror by way to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient, depressed, much discouraged because of the trials of the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses. Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness. There's no bread here, neither is there any water. And

we loathe this light, contemptible, unsubstantial manna. Then the Lord sent fiery burning serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and many Israelites died. It was twenty three thousand exactly. And so they went to Moses and said, we have sinned. Duh. Sometimes it takes us a long time to get the idea that God's trying to get something across to us and we're just not paying any attention.

Oh joyce, does the Bible really say complaining is sin? Well, it says give thanks in all things, no matter what the circumstances. Might be be thankful and give thanks for this is the will of God for those of you who are in Christ Jesus. Well, that was a lousy clap, that was Pye. And then over in the New Testament in First Corinthians eight through eleven, it repeats that whole thing again, that's in numbers, and Paul said these things befell them by way of a figure as an example

and a warning to us, a warning. You know, everything that you hear in church is not supposed to make you feel great. And that's one of the problems we have today. People just go to get their blessing and they want to feel good. Tell me how wonderful I am, Tell me all the good things that the Bible has to say about me. Well, you know, I just went through a season of doing that. I spent about six weeks telling the whole world how wonderful they were. Now

I feel led to go in another direction. I feel a new annoying coming on me for a season. One of those Mama's thinkings, we must not gratify evil desire and indulge in immorality, as some of them did. God called what they were doing immorality. They were crabbing and complaining about this miracle that God's raining down out of the sky. You think miracles would keep you happy, They

really won't because we get too used to things. I bet they were excited about that Man of the first few days, But you know, we get familiarity with things. I remember saying to the Lord once, why don't you do the things that you used to do? When I was first baptized in the Holy Spirit? I mean, I had so many supernatural things happening. It was just like I'd ask God for an answer to something and open my Bible and that would be the answer. Why don't you do the things you used to do? And boy

did he shock me? He said, Oh, I still do them. You've just gotten used to them. How many amazing things is God doing in your life every day that you don't even recognize as amazing anymore? Do you know how amazing it is just to have a church like this to go to? I mean, really amazing. There's so many amazing things that God does for us. But we have gotten Yes, God's our friend, but he's also sovereign, and he means what he says, and when he says to do something, if we don't do it. We're going to

feel it in our own life. Remember what I say. I think if you get this, it'll really help you. Everything that God tells us to do or not to do is for our benefit. It's not for his. It's for our better. He's telling us what will make us happy, what will make us powerful, what will put us in a position where the devil can't touch us. He's telling us how to live a life that is so far superior that you can't hardly believe it. And we have the audacity to obey him. Yes, but just a little bit.

There's just a little bit that we You know, Saul, when God told him to go in and kill all the women, the men, the babies, the cattle, don't leave anything. And Saul did a little too much thinking, and instead of just doing what God told him to do, he killed everybody, kept got rid of everything except the good stuff. And when Saul confronted him about it, the prophet Saul, he said, well, I just kept the good things to sacrifice them to the Lord. Now you're really getting light.

I just did it for you. Lord. Well, I desire sacrifice. I desire obedience, not sacrifice. And I think Sometimes we don't obey God in something, and then we will do something like give extra money in the offering, and I think it just happened so fast. Sometimes we don't even realize what we're doing. We're trying to make up for something else that we should have done and we didn't do. Wonder how happy it would make the Lord if everybody that's a Christian never complained. I'd be happy if I

could make it through one whole day. And I mean, I really try to do this. I'll tell you what we don't do very well is inconvenience. We are just spoiled, rotten inconvenience. Well, my electric went off for two hours. None of my electronics would work. I couldn't use my epad, you paid epad, whatever they are, there's too many, too many things. It's YouTube and whatever the pad is. I forget. I mean, we can't live if we don't have all

of our electric stuff. I mean, I left my phone at home on this trip, and I was kind of proud of myself. I thought, I'm gonna see how I do without it. But they figured out a way to get it to me and I got I had it by the time I got here. Okay, listen to what Poe says in First Corinthians. First Corinthians ten eight. We must not gratify evil desire and indulge in immorality, as some of them did, and twenty three thousand suddenly fell

dead in a single day. Wow. We should not tempt the lord try his patience, become a trial to him by critically appraising him and exploiting his goodness, as some of them did and were killed by poisonous serpents. Nor should we discontentedly complain, as some of them did, and were put out of the way entirely by the destroyer. Now these things befell them by way of a figure,

as an example and a warning to us. They were written to admonish and fit us for right action by good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached their climax. You know, the Bible doesn't say that we are just to be encouraged, Paul told Timothy. Preach the word encourage, urge, warn, and rebuke. So we need a healthy diet of all of it in order to be balanced. Yes, we need to be encouraged. There are times when we

need to be rebuked. There's times when the sermon needs to make you squirm just a little bit in your seats. And you know, I mean, if we're not going to learn anything, you got to learn something when you go to church. I mean it's great, the worship is great, and it's great to jump around and be happy, and we all need that. But you need to listen to every word that Stephen says. Don't ever be the kind of person if somebody asks you what did Stephen preach on the day, say it was good? I know it

was good. I want you to know. Well into the middle of next week, if somebody asks you, oh, I heard Joyce is at your church. On you what does she preach on? I want you to be able to tell them that we have to stop just letting a little bit of sin into our lives because a little bit doesn't matter. And when you have something inconvenient, I want you to when you start to complain, to remember, oops, that's something I'm not supposed to do. Yeah, go on,

how many of you complain? Everybody in the whole church is sinning. Let me ask you a sincere question. Do you believe that little things like this make a difference, so it's not the big things that we're guilty of. It's all the little stuff. A man that I knew, his wife had divorced him and he had met another guy and they both claimed to be Christians. And this other guy was living with his girlfriend, had been for quite some time. And he says to the guy that

I know, I've got a good idea. Why don't we fast once a week and pray together for God to do these certain things they wanted him to do. Nay, excuse me, but that's just stupid. I mean, why even bother? Yeah, but you know, somehow or another, he had himself convinced that what he was doing wasn't wrong. And that's the scary part. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things. Who can know his own heart? That's why we got to have some meetings with ourselves. I mean,

at least once a week. You used to have a meeting with yourself and just really ask God, am I doing okay? Here? Is there something you need to remind me of? Do I need a little kick in the rear? And See, this doesn't mean that you have to live this rigid, legalistic life where you can never do any things or have never have any fun. But how about if I throw this out? What if you start listening to your conscience. That's one of the best things that God has given us as a conscience, it's part of

our spirit. Conscience comes from their intuition revelation. So I can sit and talk to your head all day, but I want it to fall from your head to your spirit and become a revelation. We have got so much information, but we needed to become revelation because when it's revelation, that's when you start really doing it. One of the definitions I found for complain, to complain means to remain.

So the Israelites remained in the wilderness forty years, trying to make an eleven day trip, and one of the reasons found. I have found ten reasons why they stayed out there, but one of them was just complaining. They just complained every time it was inconvenient. Now it's God's fault, it's Moses's fault, and we wish we would have stayed in Egypt where we had those onions and leaks and garlic. Whew.

I might rather try a brownie than that. I don't know if we could just understand what we give up in an effort to try to get what we think we want. God doesn't answer complaints, He answers prayers. Philippians four six Philippians for six. Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition, definite request with thanksgiving. Now, you know, the Lord says a lot of stuff to me that I just don't get by with much. Not that I'm

trying to, but I don't. And I was praying for something one time, and the Lord said, why should I give you that? You're already complaining about what you've got. Why should I give you something else to complain about. We're supposed to be thankful. People I love be thankful and say so. It's not enough to say, well, I'm a thankful person. Well, how many people are in your life that are blessings to you that you haven't thanked

in a long, long, long long time. You know, if the word thank you was around your house as more marriages would last a lot longer. Dave told me the other day to get him something, and I said, say please, and he didn't say it. I said, you're not getting it. Till you say please. Don't take me for granted. Even in your home, you need to say please and thank you. It's amazing. I mean, if we just had better manners. See, how can you be a light in a dark world?

Get out there and you know, you don't really have to preach to everybody. I forget the famous person that said it, but somebody said preach at all times and if necessary, use words. Who was it, Mike Saint Francis of Assissi. He's like my brain when mine gives out. I say, there's so much stuff I forget. Now it's just gotten to be hilarious. I don't even argue with my kids anymore when they tell me you told us that last week. I just said, okay, if you say so,

I don't remember it. But if you say so, but I tell you. You know, when you don't remember things as good. It's great for movies because I can watch a movie and not see it for two months and go back watch it again, just like a brand new movie. You know what, You're gonna get old, and you better make your mind up now. I just made up my mind. I'm gonna be a funny old person. I'm I'm not gonna be cranky and crabby and hard to get along with. I just I just want to be funny, and my

kids think I'm hilarious. So I don't know what I was saying before I got off on that. See there you go, mm hmm, it's in there. It comes back. So how can you be a light in a dark world? You know? I think a lot of people they get they get real can when somebody says you need to witness, because we automatically think that means we got to back somebody into a corner and preach to him. When I wanted to be used of God, I didn't know yet that God wanted me to preach, and so I just

anything they asked us to do at church. I tried it. And one of the first things I did was it was in a season when passing out tracks was a big thing, and so our church would take a group of people on Saturday morning to downtown Saint Louis and pass out tracks. So I tried street preaching.

at something. You just keep trying on stuff till it fits. So I tried street ministry and didn't like that. I tried working in the nursery and me and are the kids like that? I got over that in two weeks. But when I finally got around to try to teach, I had led a girl to the Lord in the bathroom at work, and when we started to go back to our desks, the Lord simply said to me, what are you going to do with her? And I said, well, what do you want me to do with her? He said,

teach her. I don't know how to do that, he said, I do. Whoever says God's going to call you to do something, you know how to do. That's the fun part is stepping out blindly and watching God work through you. Why is He called the weak and the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, so we can't take the credit. I mean, I am the least likeliest person on the earth to be doing what I'm doing.

I mean, right, this message that I'm preaching here today will go around the world in one hundred and seven different languages. And that's that's amazing. It's amazing. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how I've written one hundred and fifty books. I thought one day, how did I do that? I don't know how I did that? And people say to me, how have you done all this? I don't know. I don't know. If you're willing, God

will use you. But don't don't get all torn up if the first thing you try doesn't work or the second thing doesn't work. You're not a failure until you quit trying. A man, be happy in your faith and rejoice and be glad hearted continually. One of the things we can do to be enlighten in a dark world is just smile. Seriously, just don't get out in the world and be a crank, be friendly. High How are you today, smile and be one of the very unusual

people that don't complain. You're complaining everywhere you go. Next time you feel like complaining about waiting in traffic, just be glad you're not one of the people that have no legs and can't even walk. The next time, you just for the ladies. The next time you want to complain about your husband, there's a lot of lonely people that will take him off your hands. Well, that's going over better than my thoughts. Maybe I better say something

to the men too. Own you. I mean, really, once your eyes are open to it, you see how ridiculous it is to complain. God does so much for us. And you know, part of the reason why there's so many divorces is people forget about the good stuff, and they laser in on the one or two things that aggravates them, and that's all they think about. One time, I was having a hard time with Dave over something, and God put on my heart to make two lists, one everything I liked about him and everything I didn't

like about him. And the list of stuff I liked was so much longer than the list of stuff that I didn't like. And that's usually what it comes down to, people will get divorced over a couple of little things that they don't like and forget about all the things that you love about them. The Bible says that love covers a multitude of sins. And I'll tell you something that will help you in your homes. Stop every time

somebody makes a mistake, telling them they did. We have lived in our home for twenty years, and for at least eighteen of those twenty years sometimes I'm slow. Eighteen of those twenty years. Every time Dave left his closet light on, which is all the time, I would say you left your closet light on? Again, I finally decided to shut up and just turn it off, because if I tell him you left your closet light on, you know what he says. Do you know what he says?

He says, I didn't leave it on. You must have turned it on. Now, why would I go to his closet and turn on the light. The man has three different kinds of hearing aids, and he won't wear any of them. He won't wear any of them, and he says that he's not hard at hearing that I'm mumble. Now, let me ask have you heard me mumble one time here today? But you know what, you know what I really love about Dave. He lets me do anything I want to just anything I want to do, he lets

me do it. Well, that's worth turning off a closet light and keeping your mouth shut. If I went home and said, you know, honey, I feel like I need to spend some time alone, I'm gonna I'm gonna just leave for a couple of weeks and spend some time with the Lord, he said, okay, okay, So see, look at the good things in people. Look at the good things about your job. Instead of complaining about your job, be glad you've got it. There's so many people that

don't even have a job. Amen. Let's appreciate everything good that God does for us, and let's just not complain about anything. Amen. How many of you if we pray together today, how many of you We'll just make a commitment to just try to tighten your belt just a little bit and then let's all stand up together. I really forgot to ask how they like to close services here, But I'm going to pray for you and then give it back to Stephens. Now this has been very serious

to me today. I never go anywhere and preach without feeling like I've got the word of the Lord. And so this is very simple. You're not going to forget it, but at the same time very profound. Don't it's just a little bit now, And don't do it because everybody else is doing it. You're only going to have to answer for yourself. You do what's right if everybody else in the world wants to do it wrong. Amen, Father, we love you so very much, and we're so appreciative

that you love us. And I want to thank you for reminding us that we need to pay attention to little things, because it is the little foxes that spoiled the vine. So we're all making a fresh commitment today to always be sure that we do what we say we're going to do, not harbor things like jealousy and petty things, a little hang on, little anger issues, but to just let that stuff go. Let it go and

help us to appreciate everything you do for us. And God, put a watch over our mouth lest we sin against you with our tongue by complaining. And let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our heart be acceptable in your sight in Jesus's name, Amen, thank you for having me today.