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I like to start with something funny. 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 would say, 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 farmer, yeah. But if it keeps this up, it's going to scorch the crops.

One day they were bird hunting together in a boat. Positive farmer just got a brand new bird dog. He is so proud of him.

He shot a bird, fell in the water, said to his negative farmer, watch this. The dog jumped out of the boat, ran on top of the water, picked the bird up, ran back on top of the water, put it in the boat.

They said, what do you think about that? Negative farmer said, shouldn't 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 seeing to the promise. All of us have things we are believing for. Dreams we want to accomplish. Problems we are hoping will turn around.

We know God put the promise in our heart but we don't see how it can happen. Maybe the medical report is not good. Child is off course. We don't have the funds we need. It doesn't seem possible.

This is the way the Israelites felt in Numbers 21. They were in the desert. It was hot. They were tired and thirsty. But all they could see was more sand, more rocks, more bareness.

And just when they thought they were done, they came to this place where there was an old well. I can imagine they were excited.

They were thinking finally we are going to get some water. They rushed over to it but the well was dry. They looked down it and could see it hadn't been used in years.

Field with dirt, rocks, all kinds of debris. It was another disappointment. But God told Moses together the people around and he was going to give them water.

God gave them the promise. Water is coming in the desert. Things are about to turn around. I'm going to do something out of the ordinary.

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