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As the American dream goes, we can do anything we set our minds to accomplish. There is no limit to what we can accomplish when we combine ingenuity, imagination, and innovation with skill and hard work. . . In direct contradiction to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for God. In the process he powerfully demonstrates his ability to provide everything his people need in ways they never could have mustered up or imagined. –from Radical by David Platt