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I like to start with something funny. I heard about this five-year-old boy named Tommy.

He was his grandmother's birthday. After wishing her a happy birthday, he said, grandmother, how old are you?

She said, Tommy, I'm 39 and holding. He thought about it a moment to grandmother. How old would you be if you let go?

Hold up your bivoules. Say it like you mean it. This is my bivoules. 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 it's a simple thing. We all face situations that look impossible.

It's easy to get discourses and think about how it's never going to work out. But we need to keep the right perspective. God already has the solution.

Nothing you're facing is a surprise to God. It may look complicated to you, but to him it's a simple thing. It's no big deal. He spoke worlds into existence.

He flung stars into space. He knows how to get you to your destiny. Think about David when he faced Goliath, a huge giant. Nearly twice his size, it looked impossible.

Goliath was the Navy seal of that day. The biggest, strongest, most experienced. David was a teenager taking care of his father's sheep. He didn't have any military training.

But it's interesting. God didn't need the latest weapon for David. He didn't need a full set of armor, years of training, troops back in him up. All God needed was a slingshot.

A simple thing. That slingshot helped David to not only defeat Goliath, but it eventually put him on the throne of Israel.

When four lepers were surrounded by an army, locked outside their city's gates. They didn't have a chance. All the odds were against them.

They had nothing to lose, so they started walking toward the enemy's camp. God calls the sound of their footsteps to be multiplied, to where it sounded like a huge army was approaching.

When the enemy heard it, they panicked and took off running. Those lepers not only saved their lives, they saved the entire city of Samaria.

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