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I like to start with something funny each week. I heard about this 85-year-old man. He was out fishing one day.

He heard this voice saying, pick me up. He looked all around. Didn't see anything. Thought he was dreaming.

He heard it again. Pick me up. He looked down and saw a frog on the ground. He said, an amazement. Are you talking to me?

The frog said, yes. Pick me up and kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. He quickly picked the frog up and put him in his front pocket.

The frog said, hey, what are you doing? I said, kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. The man said, no thanks. At my age, I'd rather have a talking frog.

All right. 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 sensing the good things God has in store. When God laid out the plans for our lives, he lined up the right people, the right breaks and the right opportunities.

The scripture talks about how time and chance will come together for every person. That means there are moments of favor that God has already released into your future.

If you could pull back the curtain and see your whole life, you would see how God has already lined up the right breaks to come across your path.

He's already arranged certain people to be good to you. He's already picked out the right husband or wife for you and your children. He's already lined up solutions to problems you haven't even had.

God has it already released into your future. These moments of favor, moments of blessing, moments of increase, they will help you overcome obstacles, accomplish goals and even thrust you years ahead.

But so often when we look in our future, we don't see how will ever rise higher. How will ever fulfill our destiny? How our child will ever get back on the right track? The problem is we're only looking at it in the natural.

But the scripture says here in 2 Corinthians, we have to walk by faith and not by sight. In other words, we have to believe it before we're ever going to see it.

If you can see it, you don't need any faith. But when it looks impossible and it seems like you've reached your limits and you don't see how your health could ever improve, instead of just going by what you see, if you will listen down in here, in your heart, you will hear God saying, I have a way.

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