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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this elderly couple. They were having a terrible time with their memory.

They went to the doctor and he instructed them to start writing down everything they had been forgetting.

The next night they were watching television. The wife said, I sure would like a bowl of ice cream. The husband said, I'll go get it for you.

She said, honey, you know what the doctor said? You better write it down. He said, I'm just going into the kitchen. I'm not going to forget it.

A few minutes he came back, handed her a plate of bacon and eggs.

She shook her head and said, I should have known it. You forgot my toast.

Hold up your Bible. 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 choosing faith in spite of the facts. There are times in life when the facts are not our friend.

The facts will say, you can't get well, you saw the medical report. Or you can't accomplish your dreams. You don't have the training, the education, you don't know the right people.

You'll never break that addiction. You've had it too long. If you just focus on the facts, they'll keep you from your destiny.

The facts can talk you out of your dreams. The facts can convince you to settle for mediocrity. But I've learned that God is bigger than the facts.

You may not see away in the natural, but he's a supernatural God. He can do what medicine cannot do. He can promote you without the training. He can make rivers in a desert.

He's not limited by the laws of nature, science, finance. Don't let the facts fool you when you believe all things are possible.

When I was in my late teens, I was driving to lunch with some friends. We saw these two men coming out of a house carrying a television and a stereo. They were stealing it.

We knew the people that lived there. They were out of town. I pulled into a convenience store and called 911. The operator said, what's your emergency?

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