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Thanks so much for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. I like to start with something funny.

And I heard about this positive farmer and negative farmer. When it would rain, the positive farmer would say,

Lord, thank you for watering our crops.

The negative farmer say, yeah, but if it keeps this up, it's going to rot the roots.

When the sun would come out, positive farmer, Lord, thank you for giving our plants valuable nutrients.

Negative farmers, yeah, but if it keeps this up, it's going to scorch the crops.

One day they were in a boat bird hunting together, and the positive farmer just got a brand

new bird dog. He was so proud of him. He shot a bird. It fell in the water. Said to the negative

farmer, watch this. The dog jumped out of the boat, ran on top of the water,

picked up the bird, ran back on top of the water, put it in the boat. He said, what did you think

about that? Negative farmer said, I should have known it. That dog can't even swim. Hold up your

Bible. Say 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

it's too small. We all have dreams and goals. We do our best to stretch our faith and believe that

one day if we work hard enough and get the right breaks, meet the right people, we'll see that

dream come to pass.

In our mind, that would be big, a great accomplishment.

But what's big to us is not big to God.

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