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Speaker 5: at Lake World. Thanks so much for tuning in. Thank
Speaker 5: you again for coming out. I like to start with
Speaker 5: something funny. And I heard about this positive farmer and
Speaker 5: negative farmer. When it would rain, the positive farmer will say, Lord,
Speaker 5: thank you for water and our crops. The negative farmer say, yeah,
Speaker 5: but if it keeps this up, it's going to rock
Speaker 5: the roots. When the sun would come out, positive farmer, Lord,
Speaker 5: thank you for giving our plants valuable nutrients. Negative farmers, Yeah,
Speaker 5: but if it keeps.
Speaker 4: This up, it's going to scorch the crops.
Speaker 5: One day they were in a boat bird hunting together
Speaker 5: and the positive farmer just got a brand new bird dog,
Speaker 5: and he was so proud of him. He shot a bird.
Speaker 5: It fell in the water. Said to the negative farmer,
Speaker 5: watch this. The dog jumped out of the boat, ran
Speaker 5: on top of the water, picked up the bird, ran
Speaker 5: back on top of the water, put it in the boat.
Speaker 5: Said what do you think about that? Negative farmer said,
Speaker 5: I should have known it. That dog can't even swim.
Speaker 4: Hold up your bible, say it like you mean it.
Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says, I am,
Speaker 4: I have what it says.
Speaker 5: I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today,
Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly
Speaker 5: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I
Speaker 5: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about it's too small.
Speaker 5: We all have dreams and goals, and we do our
Speaker 5: best to stretch our faith and believe that one day,
Speaker 5: if we work hard enough and get the right breaks,
Speaker 5: meet the right people, we'll see that dream come to pass.
Speaker 5: In our mind, that would be big, a great accomplishment.
Speaker 4: But what's big to us is not big to God.
Speaker 5: He created universes, He spoke worlds into existence. In God's
Speaker 5: dream for your life is so much bigger than your own.
Speaker 5: We think, if I could just pay my house off,
Speaker 5: that would be a dream come true. God says that's
Speaker 5: too small. I want to bless you so you not
Speaker 5: only pay your house off, but so you can help
Speaker 5: others pay their houses off. Or we think if I
Speaker 5: could just get that promotion at work, be able to
Speaker 5: run my department.
Speaker 4: God says, that's too small. I want you to run
Speaker 4: that whole company. Or if I could just overcome this illness.
Speaker 5: If I could just get back on my feet again,
Speaker 5: that would be so great.
Speaker 4: God says, that's too small.
Speaker 5: You're not only going to get back on your feet,
Speaker 5: You're going to run again.
Speaker 4: You're going to feel better than you've ever felt.
Speaker 5: See, we think ordinary, God thinks extraordinary. Whatever you're dreaming about,
Speaker 5: whatever you're believing for, God is saying it's too small.
Speaker 5: He's going to supersize it. He's an overflow God. Ef
Speaker 5: Esian says, God can do exceedingly abundantly, above and beyond
Speaker 5: what we think.
Speaker 4: Why don't you take.
Speaker 5: The limits off of God. You may not see away,
Speaker 5: but God has a way. One touch of God's favor
Speaker 5: can take you further than you could go on your
Speaker 5: own in a lifetime. God did not create you to
Speaker 5: live a little life with little dreams, little goals, little passion,
Speaker 5: little influence, little house. God thinks big, He thinks abundance,
Speaker 5: He thinks expansive.
Speaker 4: He told the Israelites, I am bringing you into a.
Speaker 5: Wide land, a spacious land, flowing with milk and honey.
Speaker 5: God has something bigger, something better, something more rewarding in
Speaker 5: front of you.
Speaker 4: Don't get comfortable where you are.
Speaker 5: It's easy, they well Joel, God's blessed me. I'm happy,
Speaker 5: I'm healthy, I have no complaints.
Speaker 4: That's good. Always be grateful.
Speaker 5: Learn to be happy where you are, but don't settle
Speaker 5: where you are. God never performs his greatest victories in
Speaker 5: the past.
Speaker 4: They're always in the future.
Speaker 5: What God has done, the promotion, the good breaks the
Speaker 5: favor in God's mind.
Speaker 4: That was a small thing.
Speaker 5: You haven't touched the surface of what God has in store.
Speaker 5: He's going to open doors you never dreamed would open.
Speaker 5: He's going to bring talent out of you that you
Speaker 5: didn't know you had. You're going to see explosive blessings,
Speaker 5: blessings that thrust you to a new level. What you
Speaker 5: think is big right now that house. God blessed you
Speaker 5: with the scholarship, the promotion, the contract. One day you'll
Speaker 5: look back and realize that was a small thing. In
Speaker 5: the scripture, Joseph was falsely accused and put in prison.
Speaker 5: I can imagine him praying the year after year, God,
Speaker 5: please get me out of this prison. God, you know
Speaker 5: I didn't do anything wrong. That was his dream to
Speaker 5: one day be free. But God said, Joseph, that's too small.
Speaker 5: I'm not only going to bring you out to prison.
Speaker 5: I'm going to make you ruler over the whole nation.
Speaker 5: In a few years, when Joseph was in charge over
Speaker 5: all of Egypt. I'm sure there were nights he went
Speaker 5: outside and looked up at the stars and thought, God,
Speaker 5: I never dreamed you would put me here. I was
Speaker 5: just praying to get out of prison. But God, you
Speaker 5: supersized what I was dreaming about. He realized he was
Speaker 5: thinking way too small, Like Joseph, matter what you're praying about,
Speaker 5: whatever you're believing for, it may be big in your mind,
Speaker 5: but in God's mind, it's a small thing. God, just
Speaker 5: help me to pay my bills, help me to make
Speaker 5: it through this month.
Speaker 4: God says that's too small.
Speaker 5: He wants to bring you into overflow. He wants you
Speaker 5: to lend and not borrow. God, I'm so lonely. Just
Speaker 5: bring somebody into my life. I don't care at this point. God,
Speaker 5: I'll take anybody. No, you may have settled, but God
Speaker 5: didn't settle. He's going to bring somebody into your life
Speaker 5: greater than you imagine, that honors him. Somebody that loves you,
Speaker 5: that's fun, that's talented, it's well off, that's good looking.
Speaker 4: Throw that in there.
Speaker 7: Too.
Speaker 4: You gotta stir your faith up. The only way.
Speaker 5: This is going to help is if you let the
Speaker 5: seed take root. It's easy to think, Wow, this isn't
Speaker 5: for me today, Joe. You don't know my situation. I've
Speaker 5: been through a lot of disappointments. My dreams look impossible. No,
Speaker 5: don't talk yourself out of it. You don't have to
Speaker 5: figure it out.
Speaker 4: All you have to do is believe. Just say yes, God,
Speaker 4: this is for me.
Speaker 5: I believe your plans for me are bigger than I
Speaker 5: could imagine. That you have something amazing in my future.
Speaker 5: So I'm taking the limits off of you. When the
Speaker 5: Israelites were in slavery, they were forced to make bricks
Speaker 5: all day long. They were given quotas that were almost
Speaker 5: impossible to meet, and at one point fro got upset
Speaker 5: with them and had the supervisors take away all the
Speaker 5: straw they need for bricks. They had the same amount
Speaker 5: of quota, but they had to go find their own straw.
Speaker 5: No doubt, they prayed, God, please give us straw. God,
Speaker 5: you know these supervisors are gonna get upset. We're not
Speaker 5: going to make our quotas. They had been pushed down
Speaker 5: for so long. They had such a limited vision when
Speaker 5: they were praying for more straw. In effect, they were
Speaker 5: praying to become a better slave. God said, that's too small.
Speaker 5: I don't want to make you a better slave. I
Speaker 5: want to bring you totally out of that bondage. I
Speaker 5: created you as the head and not the tail, the
Speaker 5: victor and not the victim. But too often, like them,
Speaker 5: we're praying to become a better slave. God, just help
Speaker 5: me to endure this sickness. God, just give me a
Speaker 5: roof over my head and I'll be happy. God, just
Speaker 5: help me to learn to live with my depression. No,
Speaker 5: it's not your depression.
Speaker 4: Quit praying to become a better slave. That's too small
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 5: God wants you to reign in life. You have seeds
Speaker 5: of greatness on the inside. You are destined to leave
Speaker 5: your mark on this generation.
Speaker 4: You have to enlarge your vision.
Speaker 5: What God has planned for you is not little to
Speaker 5: get by, to endure, to take the leftovers, to be
Speaker 5: second class. God has a big life for you. He's
Speaker 5: bringing you into a wide land, a place of abundance,
Speaker 5: something that you've never seen. He's not going to just
Speaker 5: make you a better slave. He's going to set you
Speaker 5: totally free, free from addictions, free from sickness, free from depression,
Speaker 5: free from poverty and lack.
Speaker 4: No matter what level you're at, no matter where you are,
Speaker 4: received this into your spirit. It's too small.
Speaker 5: God has something better, something bigger, more influence, more creativity,
Speaker 5: more connections, more resources. He's going to release a favor
Speaker 5: that's going to thrust you into a new level of
Speaker 5: your destiny. The reason you feel something igniting on the inside,
Speaker 5: that stirring in your spirit, is God's speaking to your destiny.
Speaker 4: That's your spirit bearing.
Speaker 5: Witness with the greatness God's placed in you. Isaiah forty nine.
Speaker 5: God was telling Isaiah about his future and all he
Speaker 5: had planned for him, how God knew him before he
Speaker 5: was formed in his mother's wound, how he would be
Speaker 5: a great prophet. Isaiah was so honored he said, yes, God,
Speaker 5: I'll do it.
Speaker 4: I'll help bring all of the Israel back together.
Speaker 5: God said in verse six, Isaiah, it's too small a thing.
Speaker 4: For you to just restore Israel.
Speaker 5: I will make you a light to the gentiles and
Speaker 5: help you bring salvation to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 5: Isaiah's vision was limited. He said, God, I'll do it.
Speaker 5: I'll help my own people no problem. That's awesome. God said,
Speaker 5: that's too small. I've got something bigger planned. I'm going
Speaker 5: to supersize what you're thinking about. I don't want you
Speaker 5: to just help the Jews. I want you to help
Speaker 5: all of the gentiles. In other words, Isaiah thought he
Speaker 5: could touch a nation. God was thinking nations sometimes, like Isaiah,
Speaker 5: our vision is limited. God, if I can just go
Speaker 5: as far as my parents, God, if you just help
Speaker 5: me get out of this old neighborhood, help me to
Speaker 5: make it to sales manager.
Speaker 4: God is saying to you what he said to Isaiah.
Speaker 5: What you have in mind is too small. Your plans,
Speaker 5: your goals, that's a part of it. But what God
Speaker 5: has planned for you, if he showed you right now,
Speaker 5: it would boggle your mind. The doors he's going to open,
Speaker 5: the places he's going to take you, the people you're
Speaker 5: going to impact, is going to be much greater than
Speaker 5: you imagine. It's too small a thing for you to
Speaker 5: just accomplish your own dreams. There are God decide, dreams
Speaker 5: you haven't even thought about. It's too small a thing
Speaker 5: for you to just go as far as your parents.
Speaker 4: God is a progressive God.
Speaker 5: He wants you to go further, He's already designed you
Speaker 5: to supersede previous generations. Don't put it on autopilot. Well
Speaker 5: I'm doing good enough. Good enough is not your destiny.
Speaker 5: It's too small a thing for you to just get
Speaker 5: out of debt. That's one part, But the next part
Speaker 5: is to be blessed with such abundance.
Speaker 4: That you can be a blessing to others.
Speaker 5: The scripture says God will take you from glory to glory.
Speaker 5: My encouragement, don't get stuck in this glory.
Speaker 4: There's another glory coming.
Speaker 5: If you'll keep honoring God, living with expectancy, his blessings
Speaker 5: will chase you down. The right people will show up.
Speaker 5: Doors will open for you that you never dreamed would open.
Speaker 5: God will bring talent out that you didn't know you had.
Speaker 5: He'll get you to where you're supposed to be. In
Speaker 5: nineteen thirty eight, there was a seventeen year old boy
Speaker 5: selling popcorn in the Isis Theater in Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker 5: A dropout of high school from a very poor family,
Speaker 5: didn't look like he had much of a future. His
Speaker 5: plan was to just keep working in the theater. He
Speaker 5: was glad to even have a job. But God in
Speaker 5: his Mercy looked down from the heavens and said, it's
Speaker 5: too small a thing for John Osteen to spend his
Speaker 5: life working in the theater. I've put seeds of greatness
Speaker 5: in him. I've destined him to leave his mark on
Speaker 5: his generation. At seventeen, my father gave his life to
Speaker 5: Christ and became a minister. On Mother's Day nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 5: he started Lakewood Church in a Rundown feed store.
Speaker 4: With ninety members.
Speaker 5: He was happy, fulfilling his purpose, faithfully ministering to those
Speaker 5: ninety people a week after week. But again God said,
Speaker 5: that's too small a thing. I've destined you to touch nations.
Speaker 5: My father started not only traveling overseas ministering, but people
Speaker 5: from around the world begin to come to Lakewood. At
Speaker 5: one conference, there were one hundred and fifty nations represented.
Speaker 5: But as a seventeen year old boy, my father thought
Speaker 5: he'd hit the lottery. When he got the job at
Speaker 5: the theater.
Speaker 4: He was thrilled. But God loves you too much to.
Speaker 5: Let you stay in mediocrity. God can see what you
Speaker 5: can't see. He sees potential, gifts, talents. He's already lined
Speaker 5: up an incredible life for you and it's easy to
Speaker 5: get satisfied and on Joel, I've reached my limits. This
Speaker 5: is as good as it gets you. Now, God is
Speaker 5: saying it's too small. I've got more in store. Don't
Speaker 5: put your stakes down. You wouldn't be alive unless God
Speaker 5: had something amazing in your future. Think about David as
Speaker 5: a shepherd boy. He was out in the fields taking
Speaker 5: care of his father sheep day in and day out,
Speaker 5: feeding them, protecting them, fighting off the wild animals.
Speaker 4: He was faithful, he didn't slack off. He just kept
Speaker 4: being his best.
Speaker 5: God said David, this is too small a thing for you.
Speaker 5: It's part of your destiny, but it's not the end
Speaker 5: of your destiny. He went out and defeated Goliath, became
Speaker 5: a national hero. King Saul asked him to come work
Speaker 5: in the palace, a dream come true.
Speaker 4: I'm sure David thought, this is it. This is fantastic.
Speaker 4: I've made it.
Speaker 5: But God did not create us to reach one level
Speaker 5: and stop. When we think, oh God, thank you, I've
Speaker 5: accomplished my dreams, God says, I appreciate your thanks, but
Speaker 5: I'm not finished with you. It's too small a thing
Speaker 5: for you to stay there. I've got something bigger in
Speaker 5: our mind, it could be huge. Just got the promotion,
Speaker 5: just moved into the compact center, just met the person
Speaker 5: of my dream.
Speaker 4: God did more than I can ask or thing. The
Speaker 4: whole time.
Speaker 5: God's in the heaven saying, you haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you're happy. But that's a small thing.
Speaker 5: God's idea of big is much different than our idea
Speaker 5: of big. David not only ended up serving the king,
Speaker 5: he became the king. He thought, God, Wow, you've amazed
Speaker 5: me with your goodness. God said, still, it's too small
Speaker 5: a thing, David. I'm going to put one of your
Speaker 5: descendants on the throne for the next one thousand generations.
Speaker 5: What am I saying, where you are in God's eyes
Speaker 5: is a small thing. Whatever level you're at, God has
Speaker 5: something in your future so much bigger, better, more rewarding.
Speaker 5: God loves you too much to let you stay where
Speaker 5: you are. He's going to keep pushing you, stretching you,
Speaker 5: even at times, making you uncomfortable, to get you into
Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny. When I was in high school,
Speaker 5: during the summers, I would work at Lakewood in the
Speaker 5: mail room, packaging my father's books, filling the orders and
Speaker 5: shipping them out. God said, Joe, that's fine for now,
Speaker 5: but that's too small a thing for you to stay here.
Speaker 5: After college, I came back and started the television ministry
Speaker 5: at Lakewood. I loved cameras, lighting, editing, anything that had
Speaker 5: to do with production. For seventeen years behind the scenes,
Speaker 5: I was very fulfilled, travel.
Speaker 4: The world with my parents.
Speaker 5: Did my best to make the Lakewood broadcast look as
Speaker 5: good as possible.
Speaker 4: I thought that's how I would spend my life.
Speaker 5: But when my father went to be with the Lord
Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety nine, I knew I was supposed to
Speaker 5: step up and pasture the church. I felt it so strongly,
Speaker 5: but I had never ministered before. One of the first
Speaker 5: things I did was cancel my dad's national television broadcast.
Speaker 5: I thought, I'm not going to get on television. I
Speaker 5: don't know how to minister, know what he's gonna listen
Speaker 5: to me. I would be embarrassed. I told Victoria what
Speaker 5: I'd done that night. She said, Joe, you need to
Speaker 5: call that man and get the airtime back.
Speaker 4: People are going to be watching all over the world
Speaker 4: to see what happens to Lakewood.
Speaker 5: She talked me into keeping that airtime over the next
Speaker 5: few months. I couldn't believe it. People actually listened to
Speaker 5: what I was saying. I knew there was a God
Speaker 5: of miracles. We never dreamed that the church would grow.
Speaker 5: There were about six thousand people coming at that time,
Speaker 5: and I thought, if we could just maintain what my
Speaker 5: parents had built, that would be big. But God's big
Speaker 5: is much different than our big. The scripture says God's
Speaker 5: thoughts are higher than our thoughts. My big was to maintain.
Speaker 5: God's big was to multiply. My big was to hold on.
Speaker 5: God's big was to propel forward. Our big is to
Speaker 5: pay our bills. God's big is to be debt free
Speaker 5: and have plenty left over. Our big is to get
Speaker 5: that promotion. God's big is to own your own company.
Speaker 5: Our big is to just make it through the illness.
Speaker 5: God's big is to come out better than you were before.
Speaker 5: When my father went to be with the Lord, we
Speaker 5: had an eight thousand seat auditorium. Was a large church
Speaker 5: even then. But God said that's too small. I've got
Speaker 5: a compact center in store, I've got Yankee stadiums to
Speaker 5: fill out, I've got books to publish, I've got world
Speaker 5: leaders to me all through my life, just when I
Speaker 5: thought I'd reached my limits, God would come along and say,
Speaker 5: that's good, but it's too small.
Speaker 4: I'm asking you to.
Speaker 5: Stir your faith out, get ready to go where you've
Speaker 5: never been. God told the Israelites you have not passed
Speaker 5: this way before.
Speaker 4: There are new mountains to climb.
Speaker 5: There are new opportunities coming.
Speaker 4: Your way, and where you are may be big.
Speaker 5: In your mind, you feel blessed you've reached a certain level.
Speaker 5: But in God's mind, that's too small to stay. Whatever
Speaker 5: you're dreaming about, God's going to supersize it. He's going
Speaker 5: to do more than.
Speaker 4: You can ask or think. The real question is are
Speaker 4: you ready? Are you in agreement?
Speaker 5: There's about to be a downpour of God's favor, an
Speaker 5: abundance of brains like a flood. It's going to thrust
Speaker 5: you where you could not go on your own. That's
Speaker 5: what happened to a friend of mine, a Lakewood member.
Speaker 5: He grew up in a small town in Kentucky, very poor,
Speaker 5: didn't look like he would go far in life, but
Speaker 5: this young man had a dream to help others. As
Speaker 5: a ten year old boy, he saw a program on
Speaker 5: television about children that didn't have food or clothing, and
Speaker 5: back then, for fifteen dollars a month you could sponsor
Speaker 5: a child. He was so moved he started mowing lawns
Speaker 5: in the neighborhood to raise the money to support a child.
Speaker 4: Nobody asked him to do it. He didn't tell his parents.
Speaker 5: He just took this step of faith and supporting one
Speaker 5: child was good.
Speaker 4: But God said that's too small for you.
Speaker 5: I've got something bigger, and against all odds, he was
Speaker 5: able to go to medical school. During the summer, he
Speaker 5: would take missions trips overseas to help treat and care
Speaker 5: for needy children. God his medical degree started his practice.
Speaker 5: In the spare time, he would call the suppliers and
Speaker 5: tell them what he was doing overseas. They started giving
Speaker 5: him big crates of medicines vaccines that he.
Speaker 4: Could ship over to the children. It began to explode.
Speaker 5: One company gave him a million pairs of children's hues.
Speaker 5: In the last few years, our friend doctor Todd Price,
Speaker 5: he has helped vaccinate free of charge charge, over fifty
Speaker 5: million children. Not only that, he has donated medicine supplies vaccines.
Speaker 4: Totaling over one billion dollars.
Speaker 5: As a young boy, he thought it was a big
Speaker 5: deal to sponsor one child fifteen bucks. Friends, God knows
Speaker 5: how to supersize your dream.
Speaker 4: What you're believing for. It may be big to you,
Speaker 4: but it's not big to God.
Speaker 5: Now a billion dollars later, God is still staying to him,
Speaker 5: that's too small for you.
Speaker 4: I've got something bigger. What am I saying?
Speaker 5: No matter where you are, you haven't touched the surface
Speaker 5: of what God has in store. Why don't you take
Speaker 5: the limits off of him? Well, Joel, this would never
Speaker 5: happen for me. I don't have the connections. You may not,
Speaker 5: but God does You have friends in high places? Well,
Speaker 5: I come from the wrong family. We never get any
Speaker 5: good breaks. No, you come from the right family. You're
Speaker 5: a child of the most high God. Eavenly Father owns
Speaker 5: it all. He makes streets out of gold. Start taking
Speaker 5: steps of faith. Do what you can and God will
Speaker 5: do what you can't. Do the natural and God will
Speaker 5: do the supernatural. He'll bring the right people, He'll give
Speaker 5: you the right breaks. He'll cause things to fall into place.
Speaker 5: There's a young lady in the scripture named Ruth. Her
Speaker 5: husband was killed in a battle. She and her mother
Speaker 5: in law, Naomi, moved to another city. Every morning, Ruth
Speaker 5: would go out into the fields and pick up the
Speaker 5: leftover wheat that the workers had missed. That's how they survived.
Speaker 5: They were sustained that way. It was fine for a season,
Speaker 5: but God had something better. The owner of that field,
Speaker 5: a man named Boaz, noticed Ruth.
Speaker 4: He liked her.
Speaker 5: He told his workers to leave handfuls of wheat on
Speaker 5: purpose for Ruth. Now, when she went out in the morning,
Speaker 5: she didn't have to work nearly as hard. The wheat
Speaker 5: was right there in her path. And she could have
Speaker 5: lived that way the rest of her life. But this
Speaker 5: shows us the heart of God. God said, Ruth, that's
Speaker 5: too small a thing for you. I've got something bigger
Speaker 5: in store. One day, Boaz, that owner, introduced himself to Ruth.
Speaker 5: Long story short, they fell in love and got married.
Speaker 5: From that point on, Ruth never had to go pick
Speaker 5: up the leftovers again. She came into an explosive blessing.
Speaker 5: She went from working in the field to owning the field.
Speaker 5: That's God's dream for you, to bring you into overflow,
Speaker 5: to where you have more than enough.
Speaker 4: And here's the key. Ruth was content picking up the leftover.
Speaker 4: She didn't complain.
Speaker 5: She was faithful where she was, but she didn't settle
Speaker 5: where she was.
Speaker 4: Deep down, she knew.
Speaker 5: God had something bigger. That's sustained she and Naomi for
Speaker 5: a season. But God doesn't want you to live off
Speaker 5: the left, dovers. He didn't create you to constantly struggle.
Speaker 5: He created you to live an abundant life. You have
Speaker 5: royalty in your veins. You may be there for a season,
Speaker 5: but don't let it become permanent in your thinking.
Speaker 4: That's too small for you.
Speaker 5: You have greatness on the inside.
Speaker 4: You have the favor of God.
Speaker 5: The forces that are for you are greater than the
Speaker 5: forces that are against you. Now, do like Ruth, do
Speaker 5: like doctor Price, Keep helping others, keep being your best.
Speaker 4: You're not only going to come into.
Speaker 5: Your hands fools on purpose, but you're going to see
Speaker 5: these explosive blessings where you go from working at a
Speaker 5: company to own in your company, from teaching at the
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Speaker 5: to helping millions of children. Have a big vision. Make
Speaker 5: room for God to do something new. One thing I've
Speaker 5: learned is you cannot outdream God. God thinks big, He
Speaker 5: thinks overflow, he thinks more than enough. Whatever you're dreaming about,
Speaker 5: you need to get ready. God's gonna supercize it. Deuteronomy
Speaker 5: one eleven is my prayer for you. May the Lord,
Speaker 5: God of your fathers make you a thousand times more
Speaker 5: than you are.
Speaker 4: Can you receive it?
Speaker 5: A thousand times more creativity, a thousand times more influence,
Speaker 5: a thousand times more resources. We think, God, if you'll
Speaker 5: just give me that dollar twenty an hour raise, I'll
Speaker 5: be happy.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 5: If you just keep my children out of jail, that's
Speaker 5: too small. God wants your children to be mighty in
Speaker 5: the land. He wants you to set a new standard
Speaker 5: for your family. I mentioned that my dad started Lakewood
Speaker 5: with ninety people in nineteen fifty nine. If you added
Speaker 5: up everyone that came through the year to Lakewood now,
Speaker 5: it'd be over ninety thousand. That's a thousand times more.
Speaker 5: Back then I could and comprehend it. But now I've
Speaker 5: learned to take the limits off of God. You may
Speaker 5: not see away, but God has a way. The scripture
Speaker 5: talks about how God will give you houses that you.
Speaker 4: Didn't have to build. You'll reap from vineyards that you
Speaker 4: didn't plant.
Speaker 5: God knows how to line up your handfuls on purpose. Now,
Speaker 5: don't go around praying to become a better slave. God
Speaker 5: wants to bring you totally out. He's not thinking addition,
Speaker 5: he's thinking multiplication. And if you'll keep honoring God, I
Speaker 5: believe and declare you're going to come in to explosive blessings.
Speaker 5: God is bringing you into a wide land, a place
Speaker 5: of abundance a thousand times more than you are in Jesus's.
Speaker 4: Name, if you receive it, can you say him in today?
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