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I'd like to start with something funny. I heard about this man that was very stingy with his money.

Just before his death, he made his wife promise him that she would have him buried with the $50,000 he had saved.

The wife reluctantly agreed. At the funeral, before they closed the casket, she snuck in this small wooden box.

Her friend said, surely you didn't just bury the money, did you? The wife said, of course I did. I'm a Christian. I can't lie.

She said, you mean you just buried $50,000? The wife said, yes I did. I wrote a check.

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 just do it. Sometimes God asks us to do things that don't make sense.

Doesn't seem logical. Doesn't fit into our budget. Doesn't line up with our schedule. God you want me to go back to college. I'm 40 years old.

God you want me to give them a gift. I was saving those funds for my own dreams. God you want me to leave this secure position that I've had for years and start my own business.

Too often we over-analyze it. We debate it. Look at it only in the natural. We end up making excuses. Talking ourselves out of it. That couldn't be God.

But if you're going to reach your highest potential you have to have bold obedience. That means you obey even when you don't understand it.

You just do it even when it doesn't make sense. That's what faith is all about. If you can understand everything you have the time, the money, it's all lined up. That doesn't really take any faith.

God will ask you to do things that seem far out. Unusual, not practical. With every act of obedience there is a blessing attached to it.

When you do what you know down in here God wants you to do. A blessing will follow. God rewards obedience.

One time Jesus made mud and put it on a blind man's eyes. He told him to go wash it off in the pool of saloon. Jesus could have just as easily healed the blind man on the spot.

He could have opened his eyes right then and there and sent him on his way. But obedience activates God's power. He put the ball back in the blind man's court.

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