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I like to start with something funny and one day this young man was talking to God and he said, God, what's a million years like to you?

God said, Son, to me a million years is like one second. He said, Well, God, what's a million dollars like to you?

He said, Son, a million dollars to me is like one penny to you. He thought about it a moment. Finally, he got up his courage. He said, God, would you give me a penny? God said, Sure, just a second.

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 the Valley of blessing. We all go through difficult times in life and things that we don't understand.

When we are in the Valley, it's easy to get discouraged and think that it will never get better. Too often, we lose our passion.

But the Scripture talks about the Valley of blessing. That seems like a contradiction. We think, I can't be in the Valley and be blessed. In the Valley, I'm discouraged dealing with this health issue.

These people at work won't treat me right. We see the Valley as being negative. As soon as I get out of this situation, I'll have a better attitude.

But I've learned God doesn't always remove the Valley. He'll bless you in the Valley. David said, God prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

He doesn't say, God will remove all my enemies, eliminate everything that's bothering me, then prepare the table. No, in the midst of the trouble. In the midst of the adversity, he prepares the table.

He doesn't have to deliver you from it. He can deliver you in it. One time in the Scripture, Isaac was in a great famine. Nobody's crops could grow.

Land was dry and hard. No water. But he went out and planted his fields. In the same year, he received a 100-fold return.

God didn't have to deliver him from the famine. He blessed him in the midst of the famine. You may be in a Valley right now, fighting a battle in your health, in your finances, in a legal situation.

God knows how to turn that battlefield into your blessing field. Don't complain about the Valley. There's a blessing in that Valley.

It wasn't sent to harm you. It was sent to increase you. You need to get ready. It's not going to stay a Valley of defeat. It's about to turn to a Valley of victory.

What you think is a Valley of disappointment, loss, heartache. God is going to turn to a Valley of new beginnings, a Valley of greater fulfillment.

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