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Thanks for watching today. I like to get started with something funny each week.

A pastor decided to skip church one Sunday and go play golf. He told his assistant he wasn't feeling well and drove to a golf course in the next city where no one would know him.

He teed off on the first hole and suddenly the wind picked up the ball, carried it an extra hundred yards and blew it right into the hole for a 420 yard hole in one.

And angel said to God, what did you do that for? God smiled and said, who's he going to tell?

Hold up your bivoules. Say it like you mean it. Ready? 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 conceiving the good things God has in store. You cannot give birth to something if you don't first conceive it.

I believe that God is always trying to plant new seeds in our heart. Seeds of hope. Seeds of increase. Seeds of change.

But if the condition of our heart is not right, even though the seed is there, we still will not conceive it. And by conceive I mean you've got to make room for it in your thinking. You've got to believe you can rise higher.

Believe you can accomplish your dreams. Believe the marriage can be restored. Believe you can live a healthy life. The seed has to take root. Conception is the very first step.

It will not come to pass on the outside until you conceive it on the inside. And every one of us should be pregnant with our dreams.

We should be pregnant with the good things of God. The too many people today are going around stuck in a rut. They think they've reached their limits in life. They don't believe for anything good. They don't expect things to change.

And then they wonder why nothing gets better. It's because their thinking is limited. You cannot give birth to a baby if you don't first conceive it. You've got to make room for it in your own mind.

You need to look out through your eyes of faith and see that come into pass. And Jesus said here in Matthew 9 verse 17,

You cannot put new wine in old wine skins. And back in those days the wine skins were made out of leather. And when the leather would get old it would become hard and stiff and it couldn't expand anymore.

And so if you put the new wine in there it would burst and of course you'd lose that wine. And one thing Jesus was saying through this passage is you cannot have a new life with old thinking.

And many times just like an old wine skin we get stuck in our ways. We get set in our attitudes. We get set in our thinking.

And here God is trying to pull out the new wine. He's trying to give us a new beginning to increase us to promote us. But the real question is, are we willing to get rid of our old wine skins?

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