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Thanks for tuning in today. I like to get started with something funny. I heard about this kindergarten teacher. She was trying to explain to her students about self-esteem.

She said to her class, anyone who feels like your dumb, please stand up. She didn't think anybody would stand. She'd make the point how no one is dumb.

But about that time little Johnny stood up. She thought, oh no, now what am I going to say? She said, now Johnny, do you really feel like your dumb? He said, no ma'am, I just hate to see you standing there all by yourself.

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 how Sunday is coming. As we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, I think about how when they crucified Jesus on that Friday, it was the darkest, most painful, discouraging day of his life.

In fact, it was so bad earlier he had sweat, great drops of blood. It looked like it was over. It looked like his enemies had gotten the best of him, but God had other plans.

They put him in the grave on Friday celebrating their victory, but Sunday morning was a different story. The grave could not hold him. Death couldn't contain him. The forces of darkness couldn't stop him. On the third day, he came out of the grave and he said, I was dead, but now I am alive forever more.

One principle that the resurrection teaches us is that God will always finish what he started. No matter how dark it looks, no matter how long it's been, no matter how many people are trying to push us down, if we will stay in faith, God will always take us from Friday to Sunday. He will complete what he starts.

You may feel like it's Friday in your life right now. You have some major obstacles in your path. You don't see how you could ever accomplish your dreams or how you could be well, how that legal situation would ever resolve.

The negative thoughts are telling you it's over, just accepted. It's never going to get any better. It may feel like Friday, but my encouragement is Sunday is coming. God is a faithful God. That promise he put in your heart that you're going to be well, that you're coming out of death, that your family will be restored, that you're going to have a supernatural year. God has every intention of bringing that promise to pass.

He's called the author and the finisher of our faith. God will never start something that he cannot finish. When God put the dream in your heart, a dream to write a book, a dream to start a business, a dream to be in ministry, the good news is God already has a completion date. God can already see it done.

You may not see how it can happen. Maybe taking a long time. All the odds are against you, but if you'll just keep believing, keep praying, keep being your best, then God promises he's going to finish what he started.

He's going to take you from Friday to Sunday. That means your children may have served God when they were younger, but now they've gotten off course. They're not doing what's right.

Well, God is saying, get ready. They're coming back. It may be today, maybe next month, maybe next year, but it will happen. God finishes what he starts.

Maybe you have a dream to get out of debt, to pay off your house, to be free from that burden of lack, but it looks like it's impossible.

Business is slow, the economy's down, you've gone as far as your education allows, but God is saying, I'm not limited by those things. I've got resurrection power.

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