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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks again for being with us today. Always my

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Speaker 1: honor to be able to share God's word with you

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Speaker 1: and hopefully inspire you and encourage you. If you're enjoying

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Speaker 1: pass it along. Let's inspire some other people as well.

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Speaker 1: But know that we love you. It's gold to be

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Speaker 1: a blessed day for you. Well, God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: a joy to come into your homes. 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. But thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in and thank you again for coming out today.

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this old country farmer. He was taking his nephew

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Speaker 1: camping for the first time. His nephew had five degrees

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Speaker 1: was one of the smartest men alive. They set up

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Speaker 1: their tent and quickly fell asleep. In the middle of

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Speaker 1: the night, the farmer woke up. His nephew said, look up,

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Speaker 1: what are you see, neph You said, I see millions

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Speaker 1: of stars. Farmer said, I know that, but what does

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Speaker 1: it tell you? He said, astronomically? It tells me they're

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Speaker 1: millions of galaxies. Meteorologically, it tells me it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a beautiful day. Theologically it tells me God is

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Speaker 1: a great creator. What does it tell you? The old

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Speaker 1: farmer shook his head, said, it tells me somebody stole

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Speaker 1: our tent. Hold up your bible. Say it like you

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

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Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about praying God

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Speaker 1: sized prayers. How you pray will determine what kind of

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Speaker 1: life you live. If you only pray small, ordinary, get

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Speaker 1: by prayers, most likely you will live a small, ordinary,

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Speaker 1: get by life. But when you have a boldness to

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Speaker 1: ask God for big things, you ask him to open

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Speaker 1: doors that would normally not open. You ask him to

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Speaker 1: take you further than anyone in your family. When you

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Speaker 1: pray God sized prayers, you will see the greatness of

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Speaker 1: God's power all through the scripture, we see this principle.

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Speaker 1: Elisha prayed that it wouldn't rain. For three and a

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Speaker 1: half years, there was no rain. Joshua Wall prayed for

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Speaker 1: more daylight. God stopped the sun. One prophet prayed for protection.

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Speaker 1: The enemies standing right in front of him didn't recognize him.

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Speaker 1: God made him invisible. The common denominator is they ask

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Speaker 1: for the unthinkable. When was the last time you asked

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Speaker 1: One reason we don't see God do great things is

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Speaker 1: we only ask for small things. Most people pray over

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Speaker 1: their food, pray for protection, pray for wisdom. That's all good,

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Speaker 1: but it's limiting what God can do. There should be

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Speaker 1: something you're praying about, something that you're asking for that

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Speaker 1: The phrase I hear in my spirit is dare to

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Speaker 1: ask Your dreams may look impossible. You don't have the

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Speaker 1: ask me to bring it to pass. I dare you

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Speaker 1: to ask me to show you a flood of my favor.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times we pray God, child's off course,

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Speaker 1: that's an ordinary prayer. Ordinary prayers get ordinary results. God

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Speaker 1: When people look back one hundred years from now, God,

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Speaker 1: your prayers are not being answered simply because you're not

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Speaker 1: With long life. God will satisfy you. As for me

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Speaker 1: they're so big you cannot accomplish them on your own.

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Speaker 1: God does this on purpose so that it will take faith. Faith.

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Speaker 1: Faith is what pleases God. Faith is what allows him

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Speaker 1: to do the impossible. So God will put something big. Well,

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Speaker 1: you don't have all the talent, the education, the connections,

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Speaker 1: David understood this principle. Even though it looked far out,

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Speaker 1: But when you start praying God decizes prayers, you start

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Speaker 1: That's when those thoughts will bombard your mind, saying who

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Speaker 1: A child of a most High God. I read about

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Speaker 1: this seven year old girl named Jamie. She lived on

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Speaker 1: most of us adults, we never pray anything like that.

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Speaker 1: That's far out, that's kind of radical. Do you know

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Speaker 1: what I've learned. Radical faith gets radical results. A couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks later, the little calf was born. It was

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Speaker 1: you see it? There was a big jay. Her name

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Speaker 1: little Jamie? What am I saying? When you pray God

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Speaker 1: dreams that you've talked to yourself out of problems you'll

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Speaker 1: convince you'll never overcome. Why don't you do like little

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Speaker 1: Jamie take the limits off of God? What if the

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Speaker 1: Jesus said in Luke twelve thirty two. It is the

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Speaker 1: Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. God wants

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Speaker 1: Quit acting like you're bothering God. Quit praying weak barely

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Speaker 1: fullness of what he has in store, you got to

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Speaker 1: learn to ask big. I pray every day, God take

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Speaker 1: our ministry where no ministry's ever gone before. I pray God,

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Speaker 1: let our children supersede anything Victoria or I have ever done.

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Speaker 1: There are prayers that I pray in private. Never told

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Speaker 1: If I told you, you say, Joel, are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: they may not all come to pass, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: heaven and God say, Joe, I had all this for you, favor,

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Speaker 1: in the safe zone. I wanted you in the faith zone.

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Speaker 1: You prayed ordinary prayers. I wanted you to pray God

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