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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. We

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

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Speaker 1: So God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. We love you.

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Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be

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Speaker 2: a part of one of our services. I promise you

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

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Speaker 2: for tuning in and thank you again for coming out today.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about these two men named Archie and Jack. They argued

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Speaker 2: their whole life as to whether Jesus was white or

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Speaker 2: whether he was black. Jack was certain he was black.

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Speaker 2: Archie was just as sure he was white. As fate

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Speaker 2: would have it. They both died on the same day.

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Speaker 2: Rushed to the pearly gates and said, Saint Peter, please

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Speaker 2: tell us. We've been arguing our whole life. Is Jesus

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Speaker 2: white or is he black? About that time Jesus walked

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Speaker 2: up and said, Buenos dias, all right, hold up your Bible,

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Speaker 2: say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: 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: bold prayers. A recent study showed that ninety percent of

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Speaker 2: people believe in the power of prayer. And we typically

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Speaker 2: pray over our food and ask God for wisdom, for strength,

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Speaker 2: and for health. And that's all good, but there's a

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Speaker 2: part we're missing out on. We can't reach our highest

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Speaker 2: potential just in our own ability. It's going to take

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Speaker 2: God's hand of favor opening the right doors, connecting us

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Speaker 2: to the right people, turning around what was meant for

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Speaker 2: our heart. And if that's going to happen, we have

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Speaker 2: to understand this principle of praying bold prayers. Too many

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Speaker 2: times we pray get by prayers. God help me to

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Speaker 2: get by this year. God help me to endure this sickness.

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Speaker 2: God keep my child out of trouble. There's nothing wrong

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Speaker 2: with that, but it's going to limit what God can do.

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Speaker 2: God is moved by our faith. If you ask small,

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Speaker 2: you're going to receive small. The scripture says, according to

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Speaker 2: your faith, it will be done unto you. A normal

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Speaker 2: prayer is God, help me to pay my bills. A

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Speaker 2: bold prayer is, God, help me to not only pay

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Speaker 2: my bills, but to have plenty left over so I

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Speaker 2: can be a blessing.

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Speaker 1: To someone else.

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Speaker 2: A normal prayer is God, keep my child out of trouble.

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Speaker 2: A bold prayer is God, let my child become a leader,

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Speaker 2: let him fulfill his destiny. A normal prayers God, help

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Speaker 2: me to endure this sickness. A bold prayer is, Father,

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Speaker 2: I want to thank you that I'm come and through

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Speaker 2: this sickness better off than I was before. If you're

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Speaker 2: going to see the surpassing greatness of God's favor, like

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Speaker 2: the Scripture talks about, you've got to go beyond praying

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Speaker 2: little prayers and ask God to do something big in

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Speaker 2: your life. If you can accomplish your dreams on your own,

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Speaker 2: then your dreams are too small. If you don't have

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Speaker 2: to stretch your faith, you don't really need God's help.

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Speaker 2: There should be something you're praying about. Something you're believing

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Speaker 2: for that goes beyond your natural ability. You can't make

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Speaker 2: it happen on your own. You don't have the connections,

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Speaker 2: the resources, the talent for.

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Speaker 1: It to come to pass.

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Speaker 2: It's going to take the most high God breathing in

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Speaker 2: That's the kind of prayers we should be praying bold prayers. Well,

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Speaker 2: you say, Joel, I have plenty. God has blessed me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's a selfish way to live.

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Speaker 2: If all of your needs are supplied, ask God for

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Speaker 2: more so you can support a single parent family that's struggling.

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Speaker 2: Ask God to bless your business so you can impact

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Speaker 2: you can advance His kingdom. Don't just think about me.

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Speaker 2: And God said in Psalm eighty one, open your mouth

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Speaker 2: wide is your mouth open? What are you asking for?

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Speaker 2: by prayers. However wide your mouth is open, that's what

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Speaker 2: God is going to fill. If you have a small

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Speaker 2: vision Joel, I come from the wrong family, had a

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Speaker 2: lot of bad breaks. I should have gone back to college.

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Speaker 2: Mouth is barely open. That's going to limit what God

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Speaker 1: It's not up to God. He has all power. Is

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Speaker 1: up to you.

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Speaker 2: If you'll open your mouth wider and start praying bold

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Speaker 2: or prayers asking God to bring your dreams to pass,

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Speaker 1: God's goodness in a new way.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to a college student and she was

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Speaker 2: about to take a very important final examine. She said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: would you pray that God will help me to make

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Speaker 1: And I kind of laugh like you did.

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Speaker 2: I said, why wouldn't we want to pray that God

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Speaker 2: will help you to make an ad? She said, Oh,

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Speaker 2: all I ever make in this subject are seas, And

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Speaker 2: that's what happens. We get conditioned in our mind. This

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Speaker 1: This is what I.

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Speaker 2: of talent. We're just looking at things in the natural.

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Speaker 2: We have to remember we serve a supernatural God. If

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Speaker 2: you'll open your mouth wider, God will fill it. We

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Speaker 2: She went home and studied, She prepared, She did her pardon.

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Speaker 2: A few weeks later, she came back beaming with joy,

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Speaker 2: holding those tests results. For the first time she met

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Speaker 2: of the rut and start praying bolder prayers, you're going.

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Speaker 1: To have some of these first times. For the first time.

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Speaker 2: You have an abundance, you're not struggling for the first time.

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Speaker 2: somebody in your life to love. You're not just talking

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Speaker 2: about the dream, you're living the dream. Take the limits

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Speaker 2: God wants to do something new in your life. He

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Speaker 2: wants to give you the secret petitions of your heart,

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Speaker 2: the things that you dream about. But you've never told

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Speaker 2: anyone you would love to start a business, love to

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Speaker 2: take a mission's trip, love to get married, love to

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Speaker 2: own your own home. But it seems so unlikely, so

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Speaker 2: far out of reach. If you told your friends, they'd

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Speaker 2: probably laughed. They wouldn't understand it's okay. You don't need

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Speaker 2: their approval. This is between you and Almighty God. In

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Speaker 2: to be bold and start asking for those hidden dreams,

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Speaker 2: for the promises God's placed on the inside. God doesn't

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Speaker 2: want you to go through life lonely, not fulfilled, never

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Speaker 1: When you ask.

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Speaker 2: Boldly, you're not being selfish, you're not being greedy.

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Speaker 1: You're releasing your faith.

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Speaker 2: You're saying God, I believe you're the all powerful creator

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Speaker 2: The scripture says, it is the Father's good pleasure to

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Speaker 2: to bring your dreams to pass.

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Speaker 1: Go beyond asking.

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Speaker 2: For your everyday needs and start asking God to do

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Speaker 2: something big, something that you cannot accomplish on your own.

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Speaker 1: Matthew two, when he Jesus was leaving the.

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Speaker 2: holler out, Jesus, have mercy on us. The people around

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Speaker 2: it's obvious what they needed. They were blind. Anybody could

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Speaker 2: they were believing. He wanted to know where their level.

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Speaker 1: Of faith was at. They could have said, Jesus, we

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Speaker 2: to live. No, these two men were bold. They weren't

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Speaker 2: They said, Lord, we want our sight. Don't you know,

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Speaker 2: if you've been blind your whole life, it takes boldness

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Speaker 2: says when Jesus saw their faith, he touched their eyes

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Speaker 2: Imagine Jesus standing before you today asking the same thing

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Speaker 2: that he asked these blind men, what do you want

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Speaker 2: me to do for you? How you respond is going

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Speaker 2: to determine what God does. Now, don't say God, I

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Speaker 2: just want to get by this year. Times are tough. God,

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Speaker 2: my family is so dysfunctional. Just try to help us

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Speaker 2: dare to say, God, I'm asking for a blessed, prosperous year. God,

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Speaker 2: I want to be free from this sickness. God, I

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Speaker 2: It's not enough to just think about it. It's not

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Speaker 2: enough to just hope for it. Something supernatural happens when

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Speaker 2: you ask, God releases favor when you ask, The angels

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Speaker 2: A friend of mine was sitting next to a young

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Speaker 2: man that grew up in a very poor village in

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Speaker 2: at twelve he became her caretaker. He would get up

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Speaker 2: at five o'clock in the morning and study for an hour.

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Speaker 1: He believed that he was a person.

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Speaker 2: That kind of bold prayer gets God's attention. I know

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Speaker 2: He threw that speech away and said, son, with God,

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Speaker 1: It even amazed the dead.

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Speaker 1: Listen. I'm a believer and not a doubter her.

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Speaker 2: You call it luck, a good break, a coincidence.

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Speaker 1: I call it the favor of God.

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Speaker 2: When you pray, it moves the hands that rule the world.

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Speaker 1: Open your mouth wide and God will feel it.

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Speaker 2: I learned this principle from my parents when I was

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Speaker 2: growing up. My mother would pray about anything. If the

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Speaker 2: car wouldn't start, she'd pray over the radiator in the house.

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Speaker 2: I would hear her casting the devil out of the dishwasher.

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Speaker 1: She knew no shame. She'd pray over the vacuum cleaner.

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Speaker 2: In one sense, those things didn't really matter. But when

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Speaker 2: she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 1: That did matter.

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Speaker 2: She used that same boldness to ask God to do

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Speaker 2: what medical science could not do, and today, more than

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Speaker 2: thirty years later, she's still alive in healthy Could it

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Speaker 2: be Could it be that you're missing out on God's

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Speaker 2: best because you're not asking. I think it's too big,

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Speaker 2: not practical, not reasonable. The scripture says you have not

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Speaker 2: because you asked not start praying bolder prayers. When I

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Speaker 2: was younger, our family knew a gentleman by the name

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Speaker 2: of Casey. He moved houses for a living, and he

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Speaker 2: was an unusual man.

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Speaker 1: He would believe God for anything.

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Speaker 2: And one day he and his crew were driving down

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Speaker 2: the road and they had this big house on the

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Speaker 2: back of their huge platform. It took weeks of preparation.

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Speaker 2: They had to get permits and raise the power lines

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Speaker 2: and shut down streets.

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Speaker 1: It was a big, big deal, and they.

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Speaker 2: Had traveled several hours down these country roads. Finally made

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Speaker 2: it to their destination, but just when he was about

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Speaker 2: to unload, Casey realized he had forgotten his main chain.

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Speaker 2: Without this chain, they couldn't finish. The nearest town was

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Speaker 2: several hours away, and they waited that long they would

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Speaker 2: run out of daylight. But Casey understood this principle. He

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Speaker 2: knew how to pray bold prayers. He called his crew

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Speaker 2: together and said, men, we're gonna pray and ask God

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Speaker 2: to give us a chain.

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Speaker 1: They begin to laugh.

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Speaker 2: They said, Casey, come on, now, we're out here in

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Speaker 2: the middle of nowhere. What do you think God's gonna

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Speaker 2: rain down a chain from heaven. He said, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: but at least we're gonna ask. He said, God, I've

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Speaker 2: committed my life and my business to you. Now I'm

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Speaker 2: asking you to, somehow, some way give us a chain

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Speaker 2: so we don't have to waste a day and come

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Speaker 2: back out here tomorrow. They were standing on the side

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Speaker 2: of this country road and just right in front of

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Speaker 2: them there was a sharp curve in the road. About

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes later, as they were contemplating what to do next,

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Speaker 2: this old beat up pickup truck came barreling down the road,

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Speaker 2: going much faster than it should.

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Speaker 1: It had its tailgate down.

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Speaker 2: When it took that sharp curve in the road, A

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Speaker 2: huge chain slung out of the back of.

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Speaker 1: The bed, slid across the road, curled.

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Speaker 2: Upright at Casey's feet. He picked up his chain, and

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Speaker 2: here's my chain. Men, let's go to work. The scripture says,

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Speaker 2: is there anything too hard for the Lord? Let's take

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Speaker 2: the limits off of God. Let's start praying bold or prayers.

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Speaker 2: Start asking God for unusual things, not just your everyday needs.

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Speaker 2: Dare to ask God to bring your dreams to pass.

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Speaker 2: Ask Him for the hidden petitions of your heart.

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Speaker 1: Ask him.

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Speaker 2: Even when it looks impossible, God is saying, what do

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Speaker 2: you want me to do for you? Some of you

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Speaker 2: are asking for a sea. God's saying, start asking me

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Speaker 2: for an a. Have a bigger vision. Stretch your faith.

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Speaker 2: That's what allows God to do amazing things. If you'll

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Speaker 2: pray these bold prayers like Casey, you're gonna see God

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Speaker 2: show up and make a way when it looks like

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Speaker 2: there is no way. Like that Asian woman, You're gonna

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Speaker 2: see the surpassing greatness of God's favor. Like Elisha, You're

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Speaker 2: gonna see a double portion. You're gonna accomplish more than

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Speaker 2: you thought possible. Now, I believe and declare you will

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Speaker 2: fulfill your God given destiny. Twenty twelve is gonna be

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Speaker 2: an amazing year of faith, favor, and victory for you.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Do you receive it today? Amen? I

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Speaker 1: know you do.

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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 1: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 1: He's going to take your places you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Fear can be a powerful force, and we'll try to

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Speaker 2: through the valley, I will not fear, you too can

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