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Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 6: about this man. He called the church office and said,

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Speaker 4: To the head hog at the trough. The secretary was offended.

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Speaker 6: She said, if you mean the pastor, you're gonna have

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Speaker 6: the head hog at the trough.

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Speaker 4: He said, well, find but.

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Speaker 6: I was thinking about making a five thousand dollars donation

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Speaker 4: She said, hang on, poor kid, just walked in. Say

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Speaker 4: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 4: am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 6: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 6: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 6: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 6: the same. In Jesus' name, God, bless you. I want

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Speaker 6: to talk to you today about blessed. Indeed, most of

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Speaker 6: us believe that God has a good plan for our lives,

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Speaker 6: But God doesn't just want to do the ordinary, just

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Speaker 6: do what's common. He has some uncommon blessings, some unprecedented favor.

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Speaker 6: If you're going to see the uncommon, you can't just

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Speaker 6: pray common prayers. You can't just ask for the ordinary.

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Speaker 6: You have to ask for dreams that look impossible, for

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Speaker 6: If you only pray small prayers, you're going to see

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Speaker 6: small results. If you only ask God to supply your needs,

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Speaker 6: scripture says you have not because you ask not. How

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Speaker 6: many of your prayers are going unanswered.

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Speaker 4: Because you never ask.

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Speaker 6: You never had the bold to say, God, show out

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Speaker 6: this sickness that seems permanent.

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Speaker 6: If God answered what you're praying about, would it be

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Speaker 6: big enough. One reason we don't see God do big

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Speaker 6: Don't be intimidated by the size of your dream. God

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Speaker 4: All he needs is for you to come into agreement.

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Speaker 6: Dare to ask him, But sometimes we think it's selfish

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Speaker 4: It's not right to ask to pay my house off, to.

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Speaker 6: Own my own business, to meet someone really special. The

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Speaker 6: not offended when you ask for big things. He doesn't say,

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Speaker 6: who do you think you are? Don't you know there

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Speaker 6: are a lot of people that need my help more

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Speaker 6: than you. It's just the opposite that bold prayer gets

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Speaker 6: his attention. That's your faith being released. That's when he'll

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Speaker 6: pour out blessings you can't contain. He'll open doors bigger than.

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Speaker 6: And yes, it's good to ask for our needs, but

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Speaker 4: That's great. But how about asking God to bless you

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Speaker 4: so you can be a bigger blessing. It's not just.

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Speaker 6: About you, But how about believing to build that orphanage,

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Speaker 6: to pay that single mom's house off, to fund that

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Speaker 6: A normal prayer is God, help me pay my bills

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Speaker 6: this month. A bold prayer is God, bless me with

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Speaker 6: just keep my children out of trouble. A bold prayer

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Speaker 6: is God, let my children fulfill their destinies. Normal prayers, God,

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Speaker 6: manage this pain. A bold prayer, his Father, thank you

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Speaker 6: that I am free from this sickness. That by your stripes,

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Speaker 6: that I will walk and not fame. The scripture says

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Speaker 6: in James, you ask and do not receive because you

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Speaker 6: translation means weak, sick, miserable. When we just ask God

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Speaker 6: to help us get by, to help us endure, that's

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Speaker 6: a weak prayer.

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Speaker 4: God is saying I created the universe.

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Speaker 6: I flung stars into space, I opened blind eyes, I

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Speaker 6: brought dead people back to life. When you come to me,

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Speaker 6: ask for big things, knowing that I'm a big God.

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Speaker 6: Ask me for your dreams. Ask me to bring you

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Speaker 6: out of debt. Ask me to accelerate your goals.

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Speaker 4: Ask me to show out in your life.

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Speaker 6: When you ask big, God calls that a healthy prayer.

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Speaker 6: When you ask for what seems impossible, that's when angels

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Speaker 6: you'll come in to overflow into more than enough. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 6: this sounds good, but things are tough in my life.

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Speaker 6: I have a lot of obstacles. I'm just asking God

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Speaker 6: tell you respectfully. That's a sick prayer. That prayer needs medication.

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Speaker 6: Turn it around, Father, thank you that no weapon formed

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Speaker 4: Lord, I thank you that I'm not only.

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Speaker 6: was before. That's a bold prayer. That's what gets God's attention.

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Speaker 6: Maybe you're struggling with depression. You have to make sure

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Speaker 4: God, just help me to endure. Grandmother was depressed. Mother

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Speaker 6: Freedom begins when you start praying bold prayers. Father, thank

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Speaker 6: you that this depression is not permanent.

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Speaker 6: I want to thank you that generational curses are being

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Speaker 6: in faith, declaring God's greatness, that's when he'll bless you. Indeed,

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Speaker 6: he'll make things happen that you could never make happen.

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Speaker 6: Could it be that you're not seeing God's greatness because you're.

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Speaker 4: Only praying weak prayers. You're only asking for the ordinary,

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Speaker 6: He's moved when he hears you asking for things that

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Speaker 4: I know a lady. For over ten years, her son

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Speaker 6: Most people would have prayed, God, just get him out

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Speaker 4: But that's a normal prayer. This lady dared to pray

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Speaker 6: She said, God, I'm asking that you not only get

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Speaker 6: impact others, let him become a great leader. All the

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Speaker 6: but he heard me talking about how God has a

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Speaker 6: When he heard that, something came alive on the inside.

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Speaker 6: Two weeks later, he showed up at a service at Lakewood.

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Speaker 6: At the end, he stood up and gave his life

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Speaker 6: a sense of purpose that he's never felt before. Today

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Speaker 6: Well, Joe Ain't that kind of selfish, kind of greedy.

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Speaker 4: Now I say this in humility, but we've seen God

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Speaker 6: Television networks that have a non religion policy, they've never

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Speaker 4: If you're praying bold prayers, if you have a.

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Speaker 6: But if you have a small mouth, you're asking God

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Speaker 4: This is the one time where it's good to have

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Speaker 6: My question, how wide is your mouth open? Are you

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Speaker 6: You are not inconveniencing God by asking big. It's not

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Speaker 6: The reason you need to ask is because there's an

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Speaker 4: You can't reach your potential.

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Speaker 6: Pray in small prayers, believing for the ordinary, accepting the

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Speaker 6: status quo. God is counting on you to tap into

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Speaker 4: This takes bold prayers. This takes people that will take

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Speaker 6: God, people that are not intimidated at the size of

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Speaker 6: their dream. Now, maybe you've been praying for God to

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Speaker 6: bless you. That's good, but I'm asking you to add

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Speaker 6: the Indeed, God bless me in unusual ways. God, do

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Speaker 6: something uncommon in my life. Show out, God, I'm asking

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Speaker 6: for your unprecedented favor. In the Scripture, Elisha served the

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Speaker 6: prophet Elijah for many years. He was faithful to take

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Speaker 6: Elijah was about to be taken to heaven, he asked

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Speaker 6: Elisha what he wanted.

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Speaker 4: You would think Elisha would.

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Speaker 6: Ask for something ordinary, something normal, maybe for some time off,

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Speaker 6: maybe for a monetary gift. No, Elisha understood this principle.

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Speaker 6: He knew how to pray bold prayers. He said, Elijah,

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Speaker 6: I want a double portion of your spirit. He was saying,

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Speaker 6: I want to do twice the miracles. I want to

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Speaker 6: have twice, the anointing twice, the favor twice, the influence twice,

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Speaker 6: the resources. Elijah could have thought, boy, you need more humility.

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Speaker 6: You need to go back and ask again for something

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Speaker 6: more common.

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Speaker 4: No, Elijah loved his boldness.

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Speaker 6: He said, in effect, you keep serving me, and you're

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Speaker 6: going to have exactly what you said. Not long after that,

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Speaker 6: Elijah was taken to heaven in a whirlwind. Just like

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Speaker 6: God promised, Elisha received a double portion of his spirit.

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Speaker 6: He performed twice as many miracles as Elijah. This would

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Speaker 6: have never happened if he had not said, God bless me.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, the indeed is to go places you can't go

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Speaker 4: on your own.

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Speaker 6: You may be doing fine where you are. That's great,

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Speaker 6: but that's not your final destination. God has more in store,

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Speaker 6: greater opportunities, more influence. Don't get stuck because you're not asking.

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Speaker 6: James Chapter five says Elijah was human as we are.

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Speaker 6: Yet when he prayed that it wouldn't rain, no rain fell.

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Speaker 4: For three and a half years.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes we look at the people in the Bible and

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Speaker 6: we see them as superhuman. They had so much more

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Speaker 6: faith than us. God favored them because they were so special.

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Speaker 6: But this scripture says Elijah was human. Well, of course

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Speaker 6: we know he was human. He was in an alien

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Speaker 6: God was saying this to show us that Elijah was

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Speaker 6: just a normal person. He didn't necessarily feel special. He

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Speaker 6: didn't walk around with a supernatural glow. The reason we're

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Speaker 6: talking about him is he dared to pray bold prayers.

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Speaker 6: He dared to ask God for what looked impossible. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 6: I'm not in ministry. I'm not in leadership. I don't

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Speaker 6: have a lot of influence. You're right where Elijah was.

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Speaker 6: Quit discounting yourself. Quit thinking you can't ask for something big,

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Speaker 6: you don't have enough faith. The requirement is are you human?

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Speaker 6: Since you are, God says you can ask for things

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Speaker 6: that seem impossible. Now, no more weak prayers, no more

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Speaker 6: sick prayers. Start opening your mouth wide and God is

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Speaker 6: going to fill it.

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Speaker 4: Every day.

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Speaker 6: Lord, bless me indeed, Now just bless me and be indeed.

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Speaker 6: Put the exclamation point on it. That's saying, God, bless

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Speaker 6: me with abundance.

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Speaker 4: God, bless me.

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Speaker 6: With overflow, so I can be a bigger blessing. If

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Speaker 6: you'll do this, I believe and declare, Like with Jabez,

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Speaker 6: God is about to enlarge your territory. He's about to

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Speaker 6: do something you've never seen, unprecedented favor, breakthroughs, opportunities, healing

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Speaker 6: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's.

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Speaker 4: Name, and if you receive it, can you say him

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Speaker 4: in today?

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Speaker 6: But I'd like to give you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 6: Jesus the.

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Speaker 4: Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,

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

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Speaker 4: make you my Lord and save you.

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Speaker 6: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 6: speak a blessing over you.

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