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I like to start with something funny and I heard about these three men, a Baptist, a Catholic and a charismatic. They died on the same day and went to heaven.

St. Peter met them at the pearly gates and said, I'm sorry men, your rooms are not available yet.

Didn't know what to do with them. He decided to ask Satan if he would keep them for a little while and Satan reluctantly agreed.

A few hours later, Satan called back to Peter, you've got to come get these guys. The Baptist man is saving everyone. The Catholic man is forgiving everyone and the charismatic has already raised enough money for air conditioning.

See 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 healed through humility. We all have times where we know we're supposed to do something but it doesn't seem fair to forgive that person that did you wrong.

Be kind to a neighbor that's not treating you right, volunteer at the hospital even though nobody is saying thank you.

Everything on the inside will say I'm not forgiving them. It was their fault. They need to ask me for forgiveness.

I'm not working on that small project, serving in the nursery. I'm more qualified than that.

But if you're going to reach your highest potential, you have to humble yourself and do things you may not understand.

We see this in the scripture with Peter. He'd been out fishing all night and caught nothing.

Early the next morning as he was coming in about to put his boat away, Jesus said to him, launch out into the deep and you will catch a great haul of fish.

Peter could have said, Jesus, I love you but you're a teacher. You need to stick with your profession. I'm a fisherman. I have years of training.

He could have let pride talk him out of it. Thought I'm an expert. I know what I'm doing. Instead, he humbled himself and said, Jesus, if you say launch out, it doesn't make sense to me but I trust you.

You know what's best, so I'm going to take this step of faith. When he did, he caught so many fish that his net began to break.

His promotion was in his humility. When you swallow your pride and say, this may not make sense but I'm going to do what God's asking me to do.

I'm going to humble myself and be good to this person that did me wrong. I'm going to be my best at work even though nobody's giving me credit.

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