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Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 4: know God has great things in store. He rewards people

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Speaker 4: that seek after Him, and I believe that you and

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Speaker 4: right at home. But thanks for tuning in today. I

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Speaker 4: like to start with something funny each week. And I

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Speaker 4: heard about this eighty five year old man. He was

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Speaker 4: out fishing one day and he heard this voice saying,

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Speaker 4: pick me up. He looked around, didn't see anybody, thought

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Speaker 4: he was dreaming. He heard it again, pick me up.

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Speaker 4: He looked down and saw a frog. In amazement, he said,

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Speaker 4: are you talking to me? The frog said yes, pick

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Speaker 4: me up and kiss me, and I'll become a beautiful bride.

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Speaker 4: He quickly picked the frog up and put him in

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Speaker 4: his front pocket. The frog said what do you do,

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Speaker 4: and I said, kiss me and I'll become a bride.

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Speaker 4: The man looked at him and said, no, thanks. At

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Speaker 4: my age, I'd rather have a talking frog. All right.

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Speaker 4: Hold up your bible. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about praying bold prayers. God's

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Speaker 4: dream for your life is so much bigger than your own.

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Speaker 4: He wants to do extraordinary things, and if we're going

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Speaker 4: to see his favor, we have to learn to pray

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Speaker 4: bold prayers. A lot of times we think we're not

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Speaker 4: supposed to ask for too much. After all, we don't

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Speaker 4: want to be greedy, we don't want to be selfish.

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Speaker 4: I have people tell me, Joel, if God wants me

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Speaker 4: to be blessed, he'll bless me He's God. But that's

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Speaker 4: not the way it works. God expects us to ask.

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Speaker 4: The scripture says you have not because you ask not.

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Speaker 4: And if you're not asking for God's favor, his blessings,

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Speaker 4: know people that ask, but they pray such small prayers. God, God,

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Speaker 4: if you'll just give me a fifty cent raise, you

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Speaker 4: better be careful. That's probably what you're going to get.

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Speaker 4: Is that really what you want? God? I change my mind.

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Speaker 4: Give me that twenty dollars raise. That's more like it. God.

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Speaker 4: If you just help my marriage survive. God, if you'll

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Speaker 4: you'll just help my child to stay in school. No,

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Speaker 4: you've got to be bolder than that. There to pray. God,

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Speaker 4: I'm asking not to just supply my needs, but that

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Speaker 4: blessing to others. God, I'm asking that my marriage not

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Speaker 4: just survive, but that we would be happier and more

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Speaker 4: fulfilled than ever before. God, I'm asking that my child

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Speaker 4: not just stay in school and barely graduate. God, you

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Speaker 4: said my children would be mighty in the land, So

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Speaker 4: I'm asking that he would excel, that he would become

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Speaker 4: it this way, according to your faith, it will be

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Speaker 4: done under you. That means if you pray little, you're

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Speaker 4: going to receive little. But if you can learn to

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Speaker 4: pray bold prayers and big prayers, and expect big and

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Speaker 4: believe big, that allows God to do big things in

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Speaker 4: down on the inside, but you've never asked God for it.

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Speaker 4: You pray for everyone else, but you need to start

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Speaker 4: asking God for what he's put in you. It's not

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Speaker 4: wrong to ask, it's not selfish to ask. God expects

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Speaker 4: us to ask. In fact, the scripture says in Psalm two,

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Speaker 4: verse eight, ask of me, and I will give you

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Speaker 4: the nations. God is saying, ask me for big things.

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Speaker 4: Ask me for those hidden dreams that I've plant it

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Speaker 4: in the natural don't look like it's ever going to happen.

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Speaker 4: Ask me for that family member to be restored, even

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Speaker 4: dare to ask him for your deepest hopes, your deepest dreams.

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Speaker 4: It may seem impossible, but just be honest and say, God,

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Speaker 4: I don't see how this could ever happen. But I

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Speaker 4: have a dream to start my own business. God, I'm

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Speaker 4: asking for you to help. Or God, I'd love to

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Speaker 4: make a way. Dare to ask God for your greatest dreams,

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Speaker 4: your greatest desires. Some of you today you're settling for

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Speaker 4: been so long, and you've been through so many disappointments,

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Speaker 4: lost your enthusiasm and you're praying what I call these

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Speaker 4: survival prayers. God help me to make it through the day.

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Speaker 4: God help me to put up with these children. God

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Speaker 4: help me to deal with the boss. God help me

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Speaker 4: to not run over anybody when I leave in traffic today.

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Speaker 4: Now you've got to get your fire back and start

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Speaker 4: asking God once again for the dreams and desires you've

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Speaker 4: let go of. He can still bring them to pass.

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Speaker 4: When you ask, you're releasing your faith, the scripture says

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Speaker 4: in Ephesians, God wants to do exceedingly abundantly above all

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Speaker 4: we can ask or think. My question to you today

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Speaker 4: it's activating God's power? Or are you just praying these

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Speaker 4: barely get by prayers. I hear people say I don't

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Speaker 4: want to bother God. He's got bigger things to deal

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Speaker 4: within me. Now this may surprise you. But you are

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Speaker 4: God's biggest deal. You are the affle of his eye.

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Speaker 4: You are his most prized possession. He's longing to be

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Speaker 4: I want you to have this new sense of boldness

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Speaker 4: to where you'll dare start asking God for bigger things.

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Speaker 4: I can imagine in heaven there's a huge warehouse filled

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Speaker 4: with all these storerooms. As you walk down the halls,

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Speaker 4: you see door after door with different names on them,

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Speaker 4: thousands and thousands of doors. You finally come to a

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Speaker 4: door with your name that gets your attention. You quickly

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Speaker 4: stop and say to Saint Peter, what's in there? He

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Speaker 4: tries to downplay at all nothing. You don't want to

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Speaker 4: on it. After debating for a few minutes, you finally

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Speaker 4: quickly realize these are blessings that belong to you that

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Speaker 4: have never been released. Here's a box of favor God

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Speaker 4: the business I wanted to start. Here's the healing that

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Speaker 4: belonged to me. Row after row of blessings, favor, good breaks,

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Speaker 4: good ideas. They all belong to you, but God never

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Speaker 4: released them because you never ask. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 4: for me to have. Some of you pastors watching, there's

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Speaker 4: that facility that you're hoping for. Keep asking, keep believing

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Speaker 4: for big things. Some of you, there's a business in

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Speaker 4: God can still bring it to pass. Some of you,

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Speaker 4: there's a promotion. Some of you single people, there's a

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Speaker 4: I've got your attention. I see one guy, he's already asking.

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Speaker 4: I think of it this way. What if God had

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Speaker 4: five blessings in store for you last week, A good break,

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Speaker 4: on and on. But the problem is you never ask

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Speaker 4: those blessings. So to speak, go up in your warehouse

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Speaker 4: and some of you are so kind hearted and generous,

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Speaker 4: you would do anything for your family and friends. You're

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Speaker 4: always praying for others, but you never take time to

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Speaker 4: ask God for your dreams, for your desires. This course,

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Speaker 4: it's good to help others, but every morning, after you

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Speaker 4: thank God for what he's done, after you thank Him

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Speaker 4: for his goodness in your life, you should get in

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Speaker 4: a habit of saying, God, I'm asking for your favor today.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking for supernatural opportunities. God, that you'd bring every dream,

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Speaker 4: every desire, that you would bring that to fulfillment. Dare

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Speaker 4: to ask for big things. Some of you have never

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Speaker 4: once said God, I'm asking you to help me own

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Speaker 4: If we're not careful, our mind goes tell till tell Joel,

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Speaker 4: You've got to get your fire back. Some of you

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Speaker 4: have made mistakes, poor choices. You feel like you're washed

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Speaker 4: is saying, if you'll ask, I'll give you a new beginning.

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Speaker 4: If you'll ask, I'll give you a fresh new start.

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Speaker 4: Or maybe you've been hurt in a relationship, somebody did

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Speaker 4: that you'll never really be happy. Why don't you be

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Speaker 4: bold like Jabez and say God, I know it looks

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Speaker 4: you always open up another door. So God, I'm asking

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Speaker 4: right person for me, no matter what's come against you.

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Speaker 4: If you'll be bold enough to ask, the rest of

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Speaker 4: your life can be better than the first part. When

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Speaker 4: we get up each day and say, like Jabez, God,

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Speaker 4: bless me, indeed, enlarge my territory, we're getting our mind

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Speaker 4: going in the right direction. We're saying, in effect, God,

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Speaker 4: I know you love me. I know You've got good

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Speaker 4: things in store. So I'm asking today for your favor,

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Speaker 4: for your increase, for your blessings in my life. That's

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Speaker 4: not being selfish. That's showing God that you're depending on him.

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Speaker 4: And some of you are asking God to bless you,

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Speaker 4: but you need to add the indeed. In other words,

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Speaker 4: you need to get a bigger vision. God, I'm asking

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Speaker 4: you to bless me in unusual ways, not average, not ordinary. God,

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Speaker 4: I'm asking for supernatural increase. I pray every day for

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Speaker 4: God's unprecedented favor. That's favor like we've never seen before.

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Speaker 4: Now I've learned. Don't pray small prayers that sets the limits.

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Speaker 4: You may be living in a little apartment today, but

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Speaker 4: deep down, something on the inside says, I'm made for

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Speaker 4: more than this. I'm supposed to own my own home.

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Speaker 4: Dare to ask. Maybe you're struggling in your health and

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Speaker 4: you could easily learn to live with it, but down

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Speaker 4: in here something says, I'm supposed to be well. I'm

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Speaker 4: supposed to be free from this pain, dare to ask.

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Speaker 4: Or maybe you're working at a certain company. You got

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Speaker 4: a good job, but in your heart of hearts, you

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Speaker 4: know one day you're supposed to own your own business.

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Speaker 4: Don't settle where you are every day. Just say, Father,

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Speaker 4: I'm asking for super natural opportunities. God give me ways

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Speaker 4: to bring this dream to pass. And it may not

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Speaker 4: happen overnight. But stay in faith. One scripture says to

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Speaker 4: ask and keep on asking, knock and keep on knocking.

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Speaker 4: If we have to ask for twenty or thirty years,

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Speaker 4: we should keep asking, keep believing, keep hoping on in faith.

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Speaker 4: I love the story of a friend of mine. His

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Speaker 4: mother became pregnant with him at seventeen. She was white,

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Speaker 4: the father was black. This was in Iowa, in the

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Speaker 4: early nineteen seventies. The parents of this teenage girl strongly

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Speaker 4: encouraged her to have an abortion. In fact, they gave

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Speaker 4: her an ultimatum either abort the baby or be kicked

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Speaker 4: out of our home. She chose to have the little baby.

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Speaker 4: She ended up in San Diego eight months pregnant, alone

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Speaker 4: and confused, battling a drug addiction. One day on the street,

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Speaker 4: and that day she made a decision for Christ. The

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Speaker 4: lady gave her a Bible. That young lady, as she

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Speaker 4: was flipping through it, saw the name Israel time and

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Speaker 4: time again. She thought to herself, I'm gonna name my

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Speaker 4: baby Israel. She didn't know much about God, she didn't

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Speaker 4: know how to pray, but she said, in effect, God,

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Speaker 4: I'm committing my little baby to you. I'm asking you

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Speaker 4: to use him to do great things. That little boy

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Speaker 4: grew up with an incredible musical gift. He could play

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Speaker 4: practically any instrument, he could write songs, he could arrange music.

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Speaker 4: As he got older, he began writing worship songs and

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Speaker 4: songs that declare God's goodness, and he started his own

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Speaker 4: band and supernatural doors begin to open today. We all

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Speaker 4: know him and love him. But Israel Hoton is one

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Speaker 4: of the great worship leaders, great songwriters of our time.

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Speaker 4: In fact, Israel just one, not his first Grammy, but

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Speaker 4: his second Grammy. That's what happens when you pray bold prayers.

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Speaker 4: You think about it. Israel could have become a statistic

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Speaker 4: He could have just floundered around, never found his purpose.

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Speaker 4: But I believe because this mother dared pray a bold prayer,

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Speaker 4: it helped set the course for his life. Friends, God

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Speaker 4: wants to bless you. Indeed, he wants to enlarge your territory.

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Speaker 4: My question today is will you be bold enough to

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Speaker 4: ask every morning, ask for more influence, Ask God to

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Speaker 4: help you be a bigger blessing, Ask him to bring

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Speaker 4: your dreams and desires to pass. That's not being selfish.

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Speaker 4: We have not because you ask not. Don't let another

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Speaker 4: one of your blessings go up to that storeroom. In fact,

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Speaker 4: make a decision with me that you're going to go

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Speaker 4: back and get everything that belongs to you. The dreams

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Speaker 4: you've given up on, the promises you've let go of.

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Speaker 4: Why don't you start asking once again? If you'll learn

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Speaker 4: to pray these bold prayers and ask God for big things.

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Speaker 4: That's your faith being released, and that's when God will

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Speaker 4: pour out his blessings in favor. You'll rise higher and higher,

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Speaker 4: and I believe and declare you'll see every dream, every

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Speaker 4: desire come to pass. Amen. Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 4: And we never like to close our broadcast without giving

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Speaker 4: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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