You already have everything you need inside you, you just need to open up that treasure chest and take it.
when one of my my boys my oldest son
when he lost his first teeth I’ll never
forget it he was turning five and he had
been waiting on those suckers to fall
out I mean he had just been wiggling
that thing trying to get it loose
because he could not wait because we had
told him that when this tooth falls out
there will be a tooth fairy that will
come in the middle of the night she will
exchange that tooth for a treasure so he
could not wait and on the day that it
fell out
he was so unbelievably excited I have
never seen that boy go to bed fast ever
in his life so to this day but he ran to
his dad and he went to sleep but he
tried to go to sleep every 60 seconds he
would look under the pillow to see if
anything had happened finally he fell
asleep in about 3 o’clock in the morning
no no he fell asleep earlier but about 3
o’clock in the morning the 250 pound 6
foot 3 to that I sleep next to every
night he got up went upstairs and
exchanged the tooth for a treasure I
knew exactly when Jackson got up in the
morning I knew it cuz I just heard chaos
upstairs he was so excited because there
was something under his pillow he
bounded down the stairs and he ran into
our room and he had his two fists
clenched closed he said mom the Tooth
Fairy came and he opened up his first
hand it was a package of gummy bears he
was so excited then he opened up the
other hand and it was $5.00 exactly
what happened to dimes and nickels
so my husband could see the stunned
expression on my face
cuz you know when mama ain’t happy
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so after Jackson ran off my husband said
babe don’t worry he said do you remember
last month was Jackson’s fifth birthday
I said yeah he said remember we always
have our family over on the kids
birthdays I mean and last month when
they all came they all brought cards
with them and in those cards were
five-dollar bills for his fifth birthday
he said you remember we took almost $5
bills we put them in the birthday drawer
well this morning at 3 a.m. I went right
over to that birthday drawer got one of
those $5 bills out and put it inside
that’s a good financial stewardship
right there is what that is but here’s
the thing
I watched my boy get so excited about
treasure that he really already had
y’all know what this weekend’s been
about about reminding you about treasure
you already have the responsibility you
and I have now is to go home from this
place open up the drawer of God
strengthening spirit on the inside of us
and live like the beautiful treasured
women that we are you don’t have
anything new my friend it’s just you’re
gonna release what God has already given
you the moment you came to knowing this
Savior amen
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