Hello my friends welcome back it's time for the morning mindset I hope you are

ready I hope I am ready to get my mind aligned with the truth of God that's

what matters in this six minutes that we're together is that we hear how God

thinks about the world around us and about our place in it and that we align

ourselves with that way of thinking before we get started I want to say hello to

some special people who've reached out to me I'm so thankful that people reach out to me

there's been Cara and Mariska and Corey and Tony and many many others who

reach out to me fairly often just to say hi to say to praying for me and to

give me prayer requests if you would like to reach out to me and let me know

something about your life and how I could be praying for you I would love that

you can reach me at carryca re y at carry green dot com and if you don't see

that reply within about a week check your spam folder maybe that's where I

wound up all right today we are going to be talking about the broader impact of

our lives are you familiar with the concept of the ripple effect what people

use that phrase to describe is when you drop a pebble into a pond you see these

ripples start from where that pebble hit the water

and they start out small but they spread don't they think it wider and broader and

sometimes bigger until finally the inertia of that pebble is not enough to keep

the weight going and it dissipates but you see that idea of a ripple effect

is meaning a small thing has a broader impact

and speaking about the broader impact of our lives did you know that the

scripture has something to say about that let's read in Proverbs 11

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