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John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson.

John, we're in 1st Samuel 16.7.

Do you remember this story?

Oh, yeah. It's a great one.

This is where Samuel, the prophet, is looking for the new king.

He's looking at all these boys who look like kings,

but none of them are the ones the Lord wants. Then they find this young, is he, isn't he a shepherd,

John? Yeah, he's out with his sheep. We got one more over there. Yeah, we didn't bring him up. He

doesn't look the part. And the prophet Samuel basically learns the lesson from the

Lord, I look on the heart. Man looks on the outward appearance. I look on the heart. Okay, I want to tell you

about a little six-year-old boy, that you would look at maybe a six-year-old boy, John, and think

that's not a person who's going to change lives, but he does. January 1998,

six-year-old boy Ryan Hurljack was sitting in his first grade classroom in Ontario.

His teacher said something pretty simple. She said, you know, there's people in Africa who are sick

and dying because they don't have clean water. This struck this little boy. Apparently,

John, he was, it was pretty upset. He went and talked to his teacher about it. He decided he was

going to do something about it. He thought it would take about $70 to drill a well. So he did

extra chores and he saved up and got $70 and he was going to bring it to whoever, I don't know how

he gets a hold of people who build wells. And they said, oh, I'm so sorry. The real cost is about $2,000.

Now, John, I think he might say, well, that is way too big, way too much. Kind of like a David and

Goliath, too, story. I think what the Lord sees in Ryan,

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