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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. Reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Will God bless you? It is always our joy to

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Speaker 1: come into your homes. We love you. We know God

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Speaker 1: has great things in store.

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Speaker 2: He rewards people that seek after him and I believe

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Speaker 2: that's you and you here as well. And if you're

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Speaker 2: ever in our area, come by and see us. I

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Speaker 2: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. But

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Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in today. I like to start with

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Speaker 2: something funny each week, and I heard about this eighty

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Speaker 2: five year old man. He was out fishing one day

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Speaker 2: and he heard this voice saying, pick me up. He

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Speaker 2: looked around, didn't see anybody, thought he was dreaming.

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Speaker 1: He heard it again, pick me up. He looked down

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Speaker 1: and saw a frog.

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Speaker 2: In an amazement, he said, are you talking to me?

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Speaker 2: The frog said yes, pick me up and kiss me

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Speaker 2: and I'll become a beautiful bride. He quickly picked the

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Speaker 2: frog up and put him in his front paw. The

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Speaker 2: frog said what do you do? And I said, kiss

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Speaker 2: me and I'll become a bride. The man looked at

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Speaker 2: him and said, no, thanks. At my age, I'd rather

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Speaker 2: have a talking frog.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hold up your bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do.

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Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 2: praying bold prayers. God's dream for your life is so

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Speaker 2: much bigger than your own. He wants to do extraordinary things,

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Speaker 2: and if we're going to see his favor, we have

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Speaker 2: to learn to pray bold prayers. A lot of times

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Speaker 2: we think we're not supposed to ask for too much.

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Speaker 2: After all, we don't want to be greedy, we don't

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Speaker 2: want to be selfish.

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Speaker 1: I have people tell me, Joel, if God wants me

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Speaker 1: to be blessed, he'll bless me. He's God. But that's

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Speaker 1: not the way it works.

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Speaker 2: God expects us to ask The scripture says you have

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Speaker 2: not because you ask not. If you're not asking for

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Speaker 2: God's favor, his blessings, his increase, then you're not releasing

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Speaker 2: your faith. And I know people that ask, but they

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Speaker 2: pray such small prayers. God, if you'll just give me

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Speaker 2: a fifty cent raise, you better be careful. That's probably

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Speaker 2: what you're gonna get. Is that really what you want? God,

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Speaker 2: I change my mind. Give me that twenty dollars raise.

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Speaker 1: That's more like it. God.

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Speaker 2: If you just help my marriage survive. God, if you'll

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Speaker 2: just help me to make ends meet this month, if

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Speaker 2: you'll just help my child to stay in school.

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Speaker 1: No, You've got to be bolder than that. There to pray.

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Speaker 2: God, I'm asking not to just supply my needs, but

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Speaker 2: that I'll have plenty left over so I can be

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Speaker 2: a blessing to others. God, I'm asking that my marriage

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Speaker 2: not just survive, but that we would be happier and

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Speaker 2: more fulfilled than ever before.

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Speaker 1: God.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking that my child not just stay in school

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Speaker 2: and barely graduate. God, you said my children would be

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Speaker 2: mighty in the land, So I'm asking that he would excel,

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Speaker 2: that he would become a leader and fulfill his God

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Speaker 1: Jesus put it.

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Speaker 2: This way, according to your faith, it will be done

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Speaker 2: unto you. That means if you pray little, you're going

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Speaker 2: to receive little. But if you can learn to pray

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Speaker 2: bold prayers and big prayers and expect big and believe big,

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Speaker 2: that allows God to do big things in your life.

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Speaker 2: And some of you have a dream deep down on

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Speaker 2: the inside, but you've never asked God for it. You

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Speaker 2: pray for everyone else. But you need to start asking

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Speaker 2: God for what He's put in you. It's not wrong

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Speaker 2: to ask. In fact, the Scripture says in Psalm two

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Speaker 2: verse ask of me, and I will give you the nations.

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Speaker 2: God is saying, ask me for big things. Ask me

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Speaker 2: for those hidden dreams that I've planted in your heart.

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Speaker 2: Ask me for those unborn promises that in the natural

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Speaker 2: don't look like it's ever gonna happen. Ask me for

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Speaker 2: that family member to be restored, even though you haven't

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Speaker 2: when it's just between you and God, dare to ask

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Speaker 2: him for your deepest hopes, your deepest dreams.

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Speaker 1: It may seem.

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Speaker 2: Impossible but just be honest and say, God, I don't

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Speaker 2: dream to start my own business. God, I'm asking for

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Speaker 2: you to help. Or God, I'd love to go back

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Speaker 2: Dare to ask God for your greatest dreams, your greatest desires.

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Speaker 2: Some of you today you're settling for a lesser dream.

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Speaker 2: Deep down you have a desire to maybe write a book,

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Speaker 2: But it's been so long and you've been through so

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Speaker 2: many disappointments you don't see how it could ever happen.

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Speaker 2: Now you've lost your enthusiasm and you're praying what I

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Speaker 2: call these survival prayers. God help me to make it

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Speaker 2: through the day. God help me to put up with

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Speaker 1: God help me to not run over anybody when I

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Speaker 1: leave in traffic today. Now you've got to.

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Speaker 2: Get your fire back and start asking God once again

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Speaker 2: for the dreams and desires.

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Speaker 1: You've let go of. He can still bring them to pass.

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Speaker 1: And when you ask, you're releasing your faith.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says in Ephesians, God wants to do exceedingly

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Speaker 2: abundantly above all we can ask or think. My question

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Speaker 2: are you asking for enough? Are you putting your faith

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Speaker 2: out there so it's activating God's power? Or are you

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Speaker 2: just praying these barely get by prayers. I hear people say,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to bother God. He's got bigger things

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Speaker 2: to deal within me. No, this may surprise you, but

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Speaker 2: you are God's biggest deal. You are the affle of

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Speaker 2: his eye. You are his most prized possession.

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Speaker 1: He's longing to be good to you. Now.

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Speaker 2: I want you to have this new sense of boldness

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Speaker 2: to where you'll dare start asking God for bigger things.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine in heaven.

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Speaker 2: There's a huge warehouse filled with all these storerooms. As

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Speaker 2: you walk down the halls, you see door after door

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Speaker 1: Names on them, thousands and thousands of doors. You finally

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Speaker 2: You quickly stop and say to Saint Peter, what's in there?

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Speaker 1: He tries to downplay it all nothing. You don't want

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Speaker 2: After debating for a few minutes, you finally convince him

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Speaker 2: And in this room you see row after row of

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Speaker 1: That belong to you that have never been released.

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Speaker 2: Here's a box of favor God wanted me to have

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Speaker 2: last week, but I never ask. Here's a good break

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Speaker 2: God wanted me to have last month, but I forgot

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Speaker 1: Here's that book I always wanted to write, but I

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Speaker 1: Here's the healing that belonged to me.

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Speaker 2: Row after row of blessings, favor, good breaks, good ideas.

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Speaker 2: They all belong to you, but God never released them

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Speaker 2: because you never ask. I don't know about you, but

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure that my warehouse is completely empty.

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Speaker 1: I simply want all that belongs to me.

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Speaker 2: I want to become everything God's created me to be,

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Speaker 2: and I want to have everything God's intended for me

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Speaker 2: to have Some of you pastors watching, there's another compact

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Speaker 2: that you're hoping for. Keep asking, keep believing for big things.

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Speaker 2: Some of you, there's a business in your warehouse. The

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Speaker 2: good news is it's not too late. God can still

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Speaker 2: bring it to pass. Some of you there's a promotion.

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Speaker 2: Some of you single people, there's a husband or a

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Speaker 2: I see one guy, he's already asking.

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Speaker 1: I think of it this way. What if God had five.

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Speaker 2: Blessings in store for you last week, A good break,

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Speaker 2: on and on. But the problem is you never ask

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Speaker 1: So to speak.

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Speaker 2: Go up in your warehouse, and some of you are

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Speaker 2: so kind hearted and generous. You would do anything for

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Speaker 2: you never take time to ask God for your dreams,

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Speaker 2: for your desires. This course, it's good to help others,

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Speaker 2: but every morning, after you thank God for what he's done,

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Speaker 2: after you thank Him for his goodness in your life,

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Speaker 2: you should get in a habit of saying, God, I'm

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Speaker 2: asking for your favor today. I'm asking for supernatural opportunities God,

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Speaker 2: that you'd bring every dream, every desire, that you would

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Speaker 2: bring that to fulfillment. Dare to ask for big things.

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Speaker 2: Some of you have never once said, God, I'm asking

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Speaker 2: you to help me own my own home, free and clear,

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Speaker 1: If we're not careful, our mind.

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Speaker 2: Goes tilt, tilt, tilt, Joel, I never pay my house

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Speaker 2: Off's going to take me thirty years. No, you're praying

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Speaker 2: too small. You need to get a bigger vision. God,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking that i'd totally be out of debt my home,

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Speaker 1: We should pray things that stretch our faith.

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Speaker 2: If you can accomplish all your dreams in your own strength,

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Speaker 2: don't really need God's help. You need to ask for

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Speaker 2: things that are so big. You know it's gonna take

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Speaker 2: God's blessings. It's gonna take his favor to bring it

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Speaker 1: Pray things like, God, help me to not.

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Speaker 2: Only own my own home, but God, one day, I'd

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Speaker 2: love to be able to buy someone else a new home.

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Speaker 1: Till Joel, that's impossible. Do you know where I work.

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Speaker 1: If you believe all things are possible?

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Speaker 2: Or how about this, God, I'm asking that you would

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Speaker 2: help me to give away each year more than my

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Speaker 2: whole income is right now, Well, Joel, you're kind of

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Speaker 2: far out today. Listen, we serve a far out God.

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Speaker 2: One touch in his favor can take you to.

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Speaker 1: A new level.

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Speaker 2: God is longing to be good to you. But you've

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Speaker 2: got to be bold enough to ask for his goodness.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about being selfish. I'm not talking

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Speaker 2: about living me minded. If all you ever asked for

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Speaker 2: is yourself, that's out of balance. But I know people

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Speaker 2: But God, I know you're a good God. God, I

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Speaker 2: If you pray bold prayers, God will do bold things

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Speaker 2: you think that you'll never really be happy. Why don't

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Speaker 2: you be bold like Jabez and say, God, I know

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Speaker 2: it looks like it's over. It looks like my best

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Speaker 2: days are behind me.

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Speaker 1: But God, I.

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Speaker 2: Believe when one door closes, you always open up another door.

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Speaker 2: So God, I'm asking for you to bring somebody great

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Speaker 2: into my life, the right person for me, no matter

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Speaker 2: what's come against you. If you'll be bold enough to ask,

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Speaker 2: the rest of your life can be better than the

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Speaker 2: first part. When we get up each day and say,

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Speaker 2: like Jabez, God, bless me, indeed, enlarge my territory, we're

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Speaker 2: getting our mind going in the right direction. We're saying,

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Speaker 2: in effect, God, I know you love me. I know

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Speaker 2: you've got good things in store. So I'm asking today

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Speaker 2: for your favor, for your increase, for your blessings in

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Speaker 2: my life. That's not being selfish. That's showing God.

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Speaker 1: That you're depending on him.

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Speaker 2: And some of you are asking God to bless you,

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Speaker 2: but you need to add thee. Indeed, in other words,

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Speaker 2: you need to get a bigger vision. God, I'm asking

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Speaker 2: you to bless me in unusual ways, not average, not ordinary. God,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking for supernatural increase. I pray every day for

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Speaker 2: God's unprecedented favor. That's favor like we've never seen before.

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Speaker 2: Now I've learned, don't pray small prayers.

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Speaker 1: That sets the limits.

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Speaker 2: You may be living in a little apartment today, but

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Speaker 2: deep down, something on the inside says I'm made for

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Speaker 2: more than this. I'm supposed to own my own home,

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Speaker 2: dare to ask. Maybe you're struggling in your health and

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Speaker 2: you could easily learn to live with it, but down

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Speaker 2: in here something says, I'm supposed to be well. I'm

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Speaker 2: supposed to be free from this pain, dare to ask.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe you're working at a certain company. You got

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Speaker 2: a good job, but in your heart of hearts, you

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Speaker 2: know one day you're supposed to own your own business.

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Speaker 2: Don't settle where you are every day. Just say Father,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking for supernatural opportunities. God give me ways to

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Speaker 2: bring this dream to pass, and it may not happen overnight,

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Speaker 2: but stay in faith.

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Speaker 1: One scripture says to.

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Speaker 2: Ask and keep on asking, knock and keep on knocking.

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Speaker 2: If we have to ask for twenty or thirty years,

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Speaker 2: we should keep asking, keep believing, keep hoping on in faith.

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Speaker 2: I love the story of a friend of mine. His

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Speaker 2: mother became pregnant with him at seventeen. She was white,

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Speaker 2: the father was black. This was in Iowa in the

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Speaker 2: early nineteen seventies. The parents of this teenage girl strongly

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Speaker 2: encouraged her to have an abortion. In fact, they gave

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Speaker 2: her an ultimatum either abort the baby or be kicked

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Speaker 2: out of our home.

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Speaker 1: She chose to have the little baby.

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Speaker 2: She ended up in San Diego, eight months pregnant, alone

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Speaker 2: and confused.

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Speaker 1: Battling a drug addiction.

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Speaker 2: One day on the street, a lady talked to her

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Speaker 2: about God's love and forgiveness, and that day she made

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Speaker 2: a decision for Christ.

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Speaker 1: The lady gave her a Bible.

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Speaker 2: That young lady, as she was flipping through it, saw

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Speaker 2: the name Israel time and time again. She thought to herself,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna name my baby Israel. She didn't know much

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Speaker 2: about God, she didn't know how to pray, but she said,

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Speaker 2: in effect, God, I'm committing my little baby to you.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to use him to do great things.

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Speaker 2: That little boy grew up with an incredible musical gift.

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Speaker 2: He could play practically any instrument, he could.

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Speaker 1: Write songs, he could arrange music. As he got older,

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Speaker 1: he began writing.

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Speaker 2: Worship songs and songs that declare God's goodness. And he

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Speaker 2: started his own band and supernatural doors.

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Speaker 1: Begin to open. Today. We all know him and love him.

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Speaker 2: But Israel Hoton is one of the great worship leaders,

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Speaker 2: great songwriters of our time. In fact, Israel just one,

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Speaker 2: not his first Grammy, but his second Grammy Award. That's

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Speaker 2: what happens when you pray bold prayer. You think about it.

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Speaker 2: Israel could have become a statistic He could have just

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Speaker 2: floundered around, never found his purpose. But I believe because

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Speaker 2: this mother dared pray a bold prayer, it helped set

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Speaker 2: the course for his life. Friends, God wants to bless you, Indeed,

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Speaker 2: he wants to enlarge your territory. My question today is

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Speaker 2: will you be bold enough to ask every morning asks

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Speaker 2: for more influence. Ask God to help you be a

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Speaker 2: bigger blessing. Ask him to bring your dreams and desires

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Speaker 2: to pass. That's not being selfish. We have not because

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Speaker 2: you ask not. Don't let another one of your blessings

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Speaker 2: go up to that storeroom. In fact, make a decision

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Speaker 2: with me that you're going to go back and get

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Speaker 2: everything that belongs to you, the dreams you've given up on,

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Speaker 2: the promises you've let go of. Why don't you start

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Speaker 2: asking once again. If you'll learn to pray these bold

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Speaker 2: prayers and ask God for big things, that's your faith

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Speaker 2: being released. And that's when God will pour out his

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Speaker 2: blessings in favor. You'll rise higher and higher. And I

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Speaker 2: believe and declare you'll see every dream, every desire come

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Speaker 2: to pass.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church,

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Speaker 2: keep God in first place. He's going to take your

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Speaker 2: places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year. Time to see the impossible become possible.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year. Life setbacks are about to become

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Speaker 3: God's setups for new opportunity. It's a new year cherished

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Speaker 3: dreams will become unexpected reality.

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Speaker 2: The start of the new year is the perfect time

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Speaker 2: to reset your focus, release disappointments of the past, and

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Speaker 2: get ready for the new things God has in store.

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Speaker 2: Every January, we create a new three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: five day devotional calendar.

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Speaker 2: Each day is filled with inspiration, scripture, and uplifting declarations.

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Speaker 1: To fuel your faith.

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Speaker 2: When you begin to day thanking God for what He's done,

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Speaker 2: speaking victory over your future, you're positioning yourself for a blessed,

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Speaker 2: favor filled year. Amazing things happen when you keep God

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