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I like to start with something funny, and I heard about this man.

He was the mayor of a small town.

He was in a parade riding down Main Street and afloat with his wife.

While he was waving at all the people, he spotted his wife's former boyfriend in the crowd.

He owned the local gas station.

He whispered in her ear, aren't you glad you didn't marry him? You'd be working at a gas station. He whispered in her ear, aren't you glad?

You didn't marry him?

You'd be working at a gas station.

She whispered back, no, if I would have married him, he would be the mayor.

That's the way you need to see yourself.

As favored, influential, as a mighty child of God.

Come on, 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.

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