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I like to get started each week with something kind of funny and I heard about this woman that surprised a burglar in her kitchen one night.

She was alone and unarmed and she didn't really know what to do. She thought she would just shout a scripture verse at him.

And so she shouted out, Acts 238. The burglar suddenly froze in his tracks. The police soon arrived and they were amazed at how a woman with no weapon could do this.

They asked the burglar, what was it about that scripture verse that had such an effect on you? He said scripture, what scripture?

I thought she said she had an axe in 238. All right. Hold your Bible up. 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 have boldly confessed 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 reaching your highest potential. It is easy to get stuck in life where we think we have reached our limits.

We have gone as far in our careers we can go. We will never be any more talented, never rise any higher. But that is very untrue.

As long as you are breathing you have potential that you have not yet tapped into. There are gifts and talents that you have not yet discovered.

You can go further in your career, you can rise higher than you are. There is a hidden treasure that is buried on the inside.

When God created you, he not only breathed his life into you, but he deposited a part of himself into you. He put in you everything you need to fulfill your destiny.

On the inside right now you have seeds of greatness just waiting to take root and blossom.

If we are going to tap into this hidden treasure we have to have a pioneering spirit. You can go where no one in your family has ever gone.

You can accomplish things that you want thought were impossible. You have talent and ability that has not yet come out to the full.

My challenge to you today is don't die with the treasure still buried. Your gift to yourself and your gift to this world is to release the treasure that has been locked up on the inside.

And I found that God always puts bigger things in our spirit than we think we can accomplish in our own ability. That is how He stretches us.

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