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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for being with us today. And if you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop by and be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny each week, and they're just a joke.

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Speaker 1: Don't be offended. I heard about this man. He was

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Speaker 1: sitting in a dark restaurant and he said to the

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Speaker 1: lady sitting next to him, would you like to hear

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Speaker 1: a blonde Joe? She said, well, before you tell me,

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Speaker 1: you should know that I'm blonde, six foot tall and

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Speaker 1: a professional bodybuilder. The lady next to me is blonde,

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Speaker 1: six foot two and a professional wrestler. And the lady

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Speaker 1: next to her is blonde, six foot five and the

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Speaker 1: kickboxing champion of the world. Now do you still want

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Speaker 1: to tell me? He thought about it a moment, said no,

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Speaker 1: not if I'm won't have to explain it three times.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need a ride home today, But anyway, say

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Speaker 1: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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

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

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Speaker 1: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: asking big. When God laid out the plan for your life,

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Speaker 1: he didn't just put what you need to get by

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Speaker 1: to survive, to endure. He put more than enough. He's

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Speaker 1: a god of abundance, and we see this all through

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Speaker 1: the scripture. When Jesus multiplied the little boy's lunch five

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Speaker 1: eight there were twelve baskets full left over. And what's

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Speaker 1: interesting is they had counted the people beforehand. Jesus knew

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Speaker 1: there would be no leftovers. On purpose, he made more

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Speaker 1: than enough. That's the God we serve. David said, my

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Speaker 1: cup runs over. He had an abundance, more than he needed.

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Speaker 1: And yes, we should thank God that our needs are supplied.

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Speaker 1: We should be grateful that we have enough. But don't

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Speaker 1: settle there. That's not your destiny. He is a more

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Speaker 1: than enough God. He wants you to have an abundance

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Speaker 1: so you can be a blessing to those around you.

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Speaker 1: And this is where the Israelites missed it. They had

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Speaker 1: been in slavery for so many years that they became

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Speaker 1: conditioned to not heaven enough to barely getting by. When

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Speaker 1: fro got upset with Moses, he told his foreman to

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Speaker 1: have the Israelites make the same amount of bricks without

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Speaker 1: the hay and straw being provided for them. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the Israelites prayed, God, please help us to make our quotas. God,

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Speaker 1: They prayed from a slave mentality, from a limited mindset.

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Speaker 1: Instead of asking to be free from their oppressors, they

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Speaker 1: what God promised them the land flowing with milk and honey,

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Speaker 1: they prayed that God would help them function better in

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Speaker 1: their dysfunction. Are you asking today to become a better slave.

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Speaker 1: Are you asking for the abundant, overflowing, more than enough

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Speaker 1: life that God has for you. God says you are

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Speaker 1: to reign in life, that you are blessed and you

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Speaker 1: cannot be cursed. That whatever you touch will prosper and succeed.

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Speaker 1: Don't pray to get by, to endure, dare to ask big,

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Speaker 1: ask for what God promised you. The medical report may

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Speaker 1: not look good, That's okay, there's another report. God. You

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Speaker 1: said you would restore health backing to me. You said

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Speaker 1: gone through a disappointment, a bad break. Don't pray, God

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Speaker 1: help me to deal with this loneliness. God, help me

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Speaker 1: Turn it around. God, you said you would give me

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Speaker 1: beauty for these ashes, joy for this morning, that you

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Speaker 1: your dream may look impossible. You don't see how it

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Speaker 1: for new levels, ask him for explosive blessings. Ask him

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Speaker 1: It was very expensive, and this grandmother didn't have the

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Speaker 1: extra funds. She could have prayed from a slave mentality.

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Speaker 1: she had this boldness to ask Big. She said, God,

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Speaker 1: private school. But I know you own it all. You're

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Speaker 1: a God of abundance. God, I'm asking you to make

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Speaker 1: all paid up. She said that couldn't be. I have

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Speaker 1: Secretary turned the monitor around and said, no, ma'am, it

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Speaker 1: says right here. All three of these children's tuitions have

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Speaker 1: but all the way through the eighth grade. An anonymous

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Speaker 1: donor stepped up pre paid it for years to come. Friends,

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Speaker 1: God can make things happen that you could never make happen.

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Speaker 1: He's already placed abundance in your future. It's already lined

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Speaker 1: open that you could never open. My question is are

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Speaker 1: If you go through life only pray and barely get

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Speaker 1: by prayers, you'll miss the fullness of your destiny. But

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Speaker 1: when you get this in your spirit, that the God

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Speaker 1: who breathed life into you, the God who called you,

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Speaker 1: set you apart, crowned you with favor, is a more

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Speaker 1: be totally out of debt, so you can be a

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Speaker 1: blessing to others. Not to just see your child get

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Speaker 1: him to make his mark in this generation. Matthew, Chapter twenty.

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Speaker 1: Jesus was walking through a town and there were two

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Speaker 1: heard all the commotion, they started shouting, Jesus, have mercy

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Speaker 1: Seemed like a strange question. It's obvious what they needed.

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Speaker 1: They were blind. Why did Jesus ask them? He wanted

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Speaker 1: to see what they were believing. They could have said, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: just need a little better place to live. If they

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Speaker 1: When Jesus heard their bequest, he touched their eyes and

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Speaker 1: instantly they could see God is asking us the same thing.

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Speaker 1: He asked those two blind men, what is it that

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Speaker 1: answer is going to have a great impact on what

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Speaker 1: God does. Don't say, God, I just want to make

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Speaker 1: it through this year. Have you seen the price of oil? God,

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Speaker 1: That is going to limit your destiny. Do like these

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Speaker 1: blind men, dare to ask big God. I want to

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Speaker 1: own business. Ask for your dreams, ask for things that

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Speaker 1: even seem impossible. James, Chapter four. The scripture says you

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Speaker 1: That word a miss in the original language means sick, weak, miserable.

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Speaker 1: When we ask to become better slaves, that's a sick prayer.

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Speaker 1: it all. Don't come to me with a sick prayer,

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Speaker 1: god of more than enough. He's saying, ask me to

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Speaker 1: from that disease. Ask me to accelerate your goals. When

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Speaker 1: when he says, to the angels, go to work, release

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Speaker 1: I'm just praying that I'll make it through this tough times.

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Speaker 1: how to manage this addiction. Grandmother had it, Mother had it,

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Speaker 1: Now I do too. That's a weak prayer. Your attitude

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Speaker 1: should be God. This addiction keeps getting passed down in

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Speaker 1: my family line. But I believe this is a new day,

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Speaker 1: a better slave. Ask to be the difference maker. Ask

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Speaker 1: that's not just being hopeful, just being positive. That's your

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Speaker 1: faith being released. That's what allows God to do great things.

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Speaker 1: Or God, I don't have the funds for the building

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Speaker 1: project just yet, but Lord, I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: that opportunity is headed my way, that blessings are chasing

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Speaker 1: me down. No more sick prayers. Take the limits off

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Speaker 1: of God. Ask big. This is the year for God

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Speaker 1: to show out in your life, to accelerate his goodness

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Speaker 1: man did in the Scripture by the name of jay Bez.

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Speaker 1: His name literally means pain, sorrow, suffering. Every time someone

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Speaker 1: said hello, Ja Bez, they were saying hello trouble, Hello sorrow,

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Speaker 1: Hello pain. They were prophesying defeat and failure. You can

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Speaker 1: imagine how he could have let that keep him in mediocrity,

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Speaker 1: make him feel inferior, insecure. There was something different about Jabez,

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Speaker 1: despite his rough upbringing, despite what people labeled him. He

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Speaker 1: this boldness to ask big. Here's a man that was

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