I wish I didn't have to go to the stupid meeting. I always say the wrong thing. I'm just gonna embarrass myself again.

I used to be nervous about going to meetings, but now I actually look forward to them. God always gives me the right thing to say.

I heard he was an arrogant jerk. My buddy says he's full of himself and he's impossible to be around.

You know what? I'm gonna give him a chance. You never know until you get to know someone. He may be really a nice guy.

You want me to help him? Are you kidding me? I could barely help myself. Let's let someone else.

Wow. I'd be honored to reach out to him. I know I'm not perfect, but I remember when I needed the same thing.

And a buddy reached out to me. Count me in.

It's exceeding at the big things. There's a lot to do with the little things. Words matter. Small things. Big difference.

Well, thank you to all of you at all of our churches for joining together today to celebrate the goodness of God, to worship together and to hear God's word.

All of our network churches and those of you at church online, we love you all very, very much.

Today, we're in part three of a four-part message series called Small Things Big Difference.

And I just want to say, as we enter into this message, that I honestly believe that as we look at what some would call a really small principle,

that some of you, if you apply this, you'll look back at your life years from now and see a tremendous difference because of what God does in your life today.

And I honestly believe that is absolutely and completely a very real possibility that when you make some small changes, you'll see a big difference.

In fact, that is our key thought for this message series so often. You look at people who have things you don't have.

They've accomplished things that you have accomplished and you wonder, what big things are they doing that I'm not doing?

And our key thought for this series, if you're taking notes, is it's not always the big things, but it's often the small things that no one sees that result in the big things that everyone wants.

Let me say it again because this is such an important principle we have to understand that it's often the small things in our lives that no one else sees that makes all the big difference in the things that everyone else wants.

In fact, we talked about a well-known quote last week, we dealt with our thoughts, why our thoughts matter so much because our thoughts influence our words, our words influence our actions, our actions become our habits and our habits create a destiny.

It's a small thing that impacts our life in a big way.

The day what I want to do is I want to talk to you about the power of your words. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and the word became flesh.

Whenever God created the world, he did it with the spoken word. Our words are incredibly powerful. In fact, Solomon said this about our words in Proverbs 18-21.

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