I am the number one fan of the Anything is Possible Network…APN for short. One time, years ago, I was watching football with a friend of mine who lives out in the country. Way out. And like me, he is a big football fan, so he was really excited about his new giant satellite dish in the backyard (you remember these) and what it could do for him. “Tim, watch this,” he said. “Whenever I shift the dish, that’s what I pick up. I can watch games on the East Coast, in the Midwest, or anywhere.” Listen to that again: “Wherever I shift my dish, that’s what I pick up.” We theoretically have a dish like that in our hearts and in our heads. You could be picking up the I’m So Stupid Network or the It’s Too Hard Network or hundreds of other networks that are going to get you down when you pick them up. When you tune in to the APN, you are going to pick up something that is going to pick you up. What we focus on is what will inevitably dictate what our lives will look like.
One of my most intriguing friends is Duane Chapman, better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter. I was introduced to him many years ago, when he was a bounty hunter, but before he became famous and made famous mistakes. He was working in Hawaii and Denver, but he wasn’t happy. He knew there was more to life than what he had then. With Beth, his now wife, Dog and I began to spend quality time together. I talked to them a little about corners of life. A corner is a bend or a curve that you can’t see around. Sometimes your life just seems like it’s moving in a straight line…you’re ordering up the same thing every day, every week, every month. But if you shift your dish, you will come to a corner, and you never know what wonderful things may lie around that bend.
Dog had faith, and he turned that corner. Just around the corner, he was offered a show on A&E, which has had an eight season stretch and had become one the highest rated shows in the nation. He even had a best seller…his autobiography, ”You Can Run But You Can’t Hide” and then released his newest book, “Where Mercy is Shown, Mercy is Given“. I was at the his wedding to Beth (after living together for sixteen years, they had finally decided to get married) and we were out on the ocean in an outrigger canoe. The A&E people were there, celebrities were there, and hundreds of people lined up on the rocks on the shore, cheering for Dog and Beth yelling congratulations. Dog began to cry. “Can you imagine this?” he said through the tears. ” Look how far God has brought me.” If you shift your dish, good things are waiting just around the corner.
What are you focusing on? What is controlling your outcome in life?
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Hi Storey,
Yes I’m also addicted to ”Positive Pshycholgy” currently being re-programmed by the Creator of the Universe to set my satlle lite dish to Unimaginable Ideas.
I pray for World Peace in Jerusalem & all corner’s of the earth. I wan’t to see Revelation’s of Christ fullfilled in the depth’s of the Sea’s. I dream of rainbows of Color’s representing Freedom through out all the nation’s. ”Where ever there is light there is room for a kodak moment”.- TRuth
Please find time to check out the latest technology from the Promise Land!!!
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I love you in Yeshua,
TRuth
>You’re just now discovering these? I think they came out nerlay a year ago. I saw them on the shelves but couldn’t justify the $20 each that my comic store was charging despite how damn cool they are.
Great to hear about Dog, keep up the good work with the celebs Tim!
Matt
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Anna Posted on Wish I could have gone with you guys. I always want to look back at Hunter and then I aoslmt fall over. Typical me LOVE these pictures of the ride.
“CHOOSE LIFE”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdTJnKCG-S0
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Just about to listen cogrlatunations on joining the dog community but if that is the picture of the actual beast wow remember the 1978 movie of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers , with Donald Sutherland? Do you remember the dog in it that was half transformed and had a human face that is this dog!! Or maybe Gremlins!!
HI THERE
LOVED THE STORY
THANKS FOR ALWAYS USING THE MOST SIMPLISTIC STORIES AND SIMPLISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS.
REALLY LOVE THEM,MAKES LOADS OF SENSE!
KEEP EM UP!AWESOME STUFF!
Kathy Stallings – Matt & Stevi thanks for ptsoing this video from WISH UPON A WEDDING on your site. It is so touching it brought tears to my eyes. It is so wonderful for you guys and the talented participants to donate your time and gifts to make couples so happy during such a difficult time in their lives. I did not even know that this existed. God will bless you for paying it forward.
Hi Tim,
I love how you take people’s everyday life and surroundings and bring out the best in and to people. I recall seeing pictures of Dog & Beth’s wedding. I Love God, He’s no respector of persons. Well done to Dog on his book – look what the Lord has done!!
Shifting when God is in control everything will fall into place. Good teaching! Accomplishments are great bit by bit like chewing on food! Great! Life has more to offer. Every good and perfect gift is from above. Happiness is knowing Him in your soul. He will direct our paths Proverbs 3:5,6