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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 said, 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, the 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.

I said, what do 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. He created universes. He spoke worlds into existence.

God's dream for your life is so much bigger than your own. We think if I could just pay my house off, that would be a dream come true. God says, that's too small.

I want to bless you so you not only pay your house off, but so you can help others pay their house off. Or we think if I could just get that promotion at work, be able to run my department. God says, that's too small. I want you to run that whole company.

Or if I could just overcome this illness, if I could just get back on my feet again, that would be so great. God says, that's too small. You're not only going to get back on your feet, you're going to run again. You're going to feel better than you've ever felt.

See, we think ordinary, God thinks extra ordinary. Whatever you're dreaming about, whatever you believe in for, God is saying, it's too small. He's going to supersize it.

He's an overflow, God. Ephesians says, God can do exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond what we think. Why don't you take the limits off of God? You may not see away, but God has a way.

One touch of God's favor can take you further than you could go on your own in a lifetime. God did not create you to live a little life. With little dreams, little goals, little passion, little influence, little house, God thinks big. He thinks abundance. He thinks expansive. He told the Israelites, I am bringing you into a wide land, a spacious land flowing with milk and honey.

God has something bigger, something better, something more rewarding in front of you. Don't get comfortable where you are. It's easy to say, well, Joel, God's blessed me. I'm happy, I'm healthy, I have no complaints. That's good. Always be grateful. Learn to be happy where you are, but don't settle where you are.

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