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Open your Bibles, if you would, to the Gospel of John chapter 12.

It'll take me a few minutes to get there, but I'll read something to you first.

A wife asked her husband to go to the supermarket, said, get a carton of milk, and if they have avocados, get six.

A short time later, the husband came back with six cartons of milk.

The wife is surprised and asked why.

Why did you get six cartons of milk?

He said they had avocados.

We'll prayerfully meditate while you ponder what I just read.

The good news is it can only go up from there.

There's only one way to go.

We're going to improve.

All right.

All right. It's funny how people believe that we're

It's funny how people believe that we're designed, but they don't believe in a designer.

And yet we have been very intricately designed for many, many things.

One in particular is we are actually designed to hear from God.

It's in our nature as a believer to have faith,

but it's our nature as a human being to hear from God.

People will say, well, I just don't hear God speak.

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