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I like to start with something funny. I heard about this 85-year-old man. He was out fishing one morning and he heard this voice saying, pick me up.

He looked around, didn't see anybody. Thought he was dreaming. He heard it again, pick me up. He looked down and saw a frog.

He said, an amazement. Are you talking to me? The frog said, yes, pick me up and kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful bride.

The man quickly picked the frog up and put him in his front pocket. The frog said, hey, what are you doing? I said, kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful bride.

The man said, no thanks. At my age, I'd rather have a talking frog.

Hold your bibles up. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have.

I can do what it says I can do. Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus' name. God bless you.

I want to talk to you today about prepared blessings. When God laid out the plan for your life, he lined up the right people, the right breaks, the right opportunities.

He has blessings that have your name on them. There is promotion, contracts, a business, a spouse. He's already destined them to be yours.

If you will stay in faith and keep honoring God, one day you will come in to what already belongs to you. It's a prepared blessing.

This is what happened way back with Adam and Eve. In the book of Genesis, it talks about how the first five days God created the heavens, the earth, the sky, the land, the water.

When he finished the big things, he didn't stop there. He started on the small things, the details. God planted a garden. He put beautiful flowers in it, luscious fruit.

He designed these rivers to flow through it. He put precious treasures in the ground, onyx, gold, silver. He went to great lengths to make sure it was exactly like he wanted it, down to the smallest details.

When he got finished with it, he put the last touches on this magnificent garden. The scripture says, he took Adam whom he had just breathed life into and put him in the garden.

Notice Adam came in to a prepared blessing, something that God had already finished for him. He didn't get there and have to work night and day and constantly struggle.

Think, how am I going to survive? There were fruit trees all around. Crystal clear streams flowing right before him, provision everywhere he looked.

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