Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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God bless you. It's great to be with you today and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast,

our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit us in person. We'd love to have

you be a part of one of our services. I'd like to start with something funny. I heard about this

positive farmer and negative farmer. When it would rain, positive farmer, Lord, thank you for the rain, water in our crops.

Negative farmer, yeah, but if it keeps it up, it's going to rot the roots. When the sun came out,

positive farmer, Lord, thank you for the sunshine, giving our plants valuable nutrients. Negative

farmer, yeah, if it keeps it up, it's going to scorch the crops. One day they went bird hunting together in a boat

and positive farmer just got a new bird dog and he's so proud of him. Shot a bird, 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.

Said, what did you think? Negative farmer said, yeah, I should have known it. That dog can't even

swim. 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 pick up your mantle.

A mantle in the scripture was a coat or some type of covering.

It was symbolic of the blessing of God.

It represented his calling and authority to carry out his will.

The mantle enabled the person to do things they couldn't do on their own.

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