Speaker 1: Hey, thanks again for being with us today. Always my
Speaker 1: honor to be able to share God's word with you
Speaker 1: and hopefully inspire you and encourage you. If you're enjoying
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Speaker 1: But know that we love you. It's gold to be
Speaker 1: a blessed day for you. Well, God bless you. It's
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Speaker 1: for tuning in and thank you again for coming out today.
Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny and I heard
Speaker 1: about this old country farmer. He was taking his nephew
Speaker 1: camping for the first time. His nephew had five degrees
Speaker 1: was one of the smartest men alive. They set up
Speaker 1: their tent and quickly fell asleep. In the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, the farmer woke up. His nephew said, look up,
Speaker 1: what are you see, neph You said, I see millions
Speaker 1: of stars. Farmer said, I know that, but what does
Speaker 1: it tell you? He said, astronomically? It tells me they're
Speaker 1: millions of galaxies. Meteorologically, it tells me it's going to
Speaker 1: be a beautiful day. Theologically it tells me God is
Speaker 1: a great creator. What does it tell you? The old
Speaker 1: farmer shook his head, said, it tells me somebody stole
Speaker 1: our tent. Hold up your bible. Say it like you
Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it
Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.
Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about praying God
Speaker 1: sized prayers. How you pray will determine what kind of
Speaker 1: life you live. If you only pray small, ordinary, get
Speaker 1: by prayers, most likely you will live a small, ordinary,
Speaker 1: get by life. But when you have a boldness to
Speaker 1: ask God for big things, you ask him to open
Speaker 1: doors that would normally not open. You ask him to
Speaker 1: take you further than anyone in your family. When you
Speaker 1: pray God sized prayers, you will see the greatness of
Speaker 1: God's power all through the scripture, we see this principle.
Speaker 1: Elisha prayed that it wouldn't rain. For three and a
Speaker 1: half years, there was no rain. Joshua Wall prayed for
Speaker 1: more daylight. God stopped the sun. One prophet prayed for protection.
Speaker 1: The enemies standing right in front of him didn't recognize him.
Speaker 1: God made him invisible. The common denominator is they ask
Speaker 1: for the unthinkable. When was the last time you asked
Speaker 1: God to do something impossible, something out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1: One reason we don't see God do great things is
Speaker 1: we only ask for small things. Most people pray over
Speaker 1: their food, pray for protection, pray for wisdom. That's all good,
Speaker 1: but it's limiting what God can do. There should be
Speaker 1: something you're praying about, something that you're asking for that
Speaker 1: seems far out. You can't accomplish it in your own strength.
Speaker 1: The phrase I hear in my spirit is dare to
Speaker 1: ask Your dreams may look impossible. You don't have the
Speaker 1: funding the connections. God is saying, I dare you to
Speaker 1: ask me to bring it to pass. I dare you
Speaker 1: to ask me to show you a flood of my favor.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we pray God, child's off course,
Speaker 1: if you'll just turn him around, and that's good. But
Speaker 1: that's an ordinary prayer. Ordinary prayers get ordinary results. God
Speaker 1: meets us at the level of our faith. If you
Speaker 1: ask small, you're going to receive small. A God size
Speaker 1: prayer is God, I'm asking you to not only turn
Speaker 1: my child around, but use him in a great way.
Speaker 1: Let him make a difference with his life. An ordinary
Speaker 1: prayer is God, help me to get by this month.
Speaker 1: God help me to pay my rent. And there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. But a God size prayer is God,
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to increase me in such a way
Speaker 1: that I cannot only pay my house off, but help
Speaker 1: pay somebody else's house off. An ordinary prayer is God,
Speaker 1: just take me as far as my parents. God, help
Speaker 1: me at least not to lose any ground. But a
Speaker 1: God size prayer is God, help me to take our
Speaker 1: family to a new level. Let me set a new standard.
Speaker 1: When people look back one hundred years from now, God,
Speaker 1: let them say it was that man that woman that
Speaker 1: made a real difference. But I wonder how many of
Speaker 1: your prayers are not being answered simply because you're not
Speaker 1: asking well, Joel, God's God. If he wants to bless me,
Speaker 1: he'll bless me. It says in James four to two,
Speaker 1: you have not because you ask not. If you're not
Speaker 1: asking big, you are shortchanging yourself. You will never reach
Speaker 1: the fullness of your potential if you only pray small prayer.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not talking about just making a wish list
Speaker 1: and praying every whim. I'm talking about asking God for
Speaker 1: what He's already promised you. The scripture says, when you
Speaker 1: walk in God's ways, you will lend and not borrow.
Speaker 1: With long life. God will satisfy you. As for me
Speaker 1: and my house, we will serve the Lord. There are
Speaker 1: hundreds of promises that you have every right to pray
Speaker 1: and ask God to bring to pass. Plus, there are
Speaker 1: specific dreams desires that God's placed in your heart. They
Speaker 1: didn't just randomly show up. The creator of the universe
Speaker 1: put them in you. They are a part of your
Speaker 1: divine destiny. In Psalms that talks about the secret petitions
Speaker 1: of our heart, the hidden dreams that you haven't told
Speaker 1: anybody about. One way you know that from God is
Speaker 1: they're so big you cannot accomplish them on your own.
Speaker 1: God does this on purpose so that it will take faith. Faith.
Speaker 1: Faith is what pleases God. Faith is what allows him
Speaker 1: to do the impossible. So God will put something big. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't have all the talent, the education, the connections,
Speaker 1: the confidence. God will even allow certain obstacles that we
Speaker 1: can't overcome on our own. We can do one of
Speaker 1: two things. We can think, well, too bad didn't work
Speaker 1: out for me. I don't have the connections, or I
Speaker 1: couldn't get the financing, or the medical report doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: We can talk ourselves out of it. Or we can
Speaker 1: say God, I can't do this in my own strength,
Speaker 1: but I know you are all powerful. There's no limit
Speaker 1: to you. So God, I'm asking you to make a way,
Speaker 1: even though I don't see away. This is what David
Speaker 1: did first Chronicle seventeen. God gave him the promise that
Speaker 1: one of his descendants would always be on the throne.
Speaker 1: He would have this lasting dynasty. David could have said, God,
Speaker 1: I'm just a shepherd boy. I was out tending my
Speaker 1: father's sheep. I don't have formal, true education experience. No,
Speaker 1: David understood this principle. Even though it looked far out,
Speaker 1: he didn't dismiss it. He said in verse twenty three, God,
Speaker 1: do as you have promised let one of my descendants
Speaker 1: always be on the throne. Imagine the nerve David had
Speaker 1: to ask for something so big. Verse twenty five gives
Speaker 1: us the key. He said, God, I have been bold
Speaker 1: enough to pray this prayer because you have spoken it
Speaker 1: over me. In other words, God, I'm asking you to
Speaker 1: do something amazing, not because I have all the talent,
Speaker 1: education connections, but because you have promised it. Now, what
Speaker 1: God has promised you, the dream He's placed in your heart,
Speaker 1: may look impossible. But if you'll just dare, do like
Speaker 1: David and say, God, you promised it. Now, I'm bold
Speaker 1: enough to ask you for it. When you do, don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if thoughts come saying it's never gonna have happen.
Speaker 1: You don't have the talent, you come from the wrong family,
Speaker 1: you made too many mistakes. The enemy gets stirred up
Speaker 1: when you start asking God for big things. He'll leave
Speaker 1: you alone as long as you pray small, ordinary prayers.
Speaker 1: But when you start praying God decizes prayers, you start
Speaker 1: asking God to take you where you've never been before.
Speaker 1: That's when those thoughts will bombard your mind, saying who
Speaker 1: do you think you are? Just smile and tell him
Speaker 1: A child of a most High God. I read about
Speaker 1: this seven year old girl named Jamie. She lived on
Speaker 1: a farm with her family, and they had a cow
Speaker 1: that was about to give birth, and her father had
Speaker 1: already told the family that they weren't going to keep
Speaker 1: any more cows. Every time one was born, they'd either
Speaker 1: sell it or give it away. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: little Jamie really wanted to keep this cow a desire
Speaker 1: of her heart. She started pleading and pleading with their father, Daddy,
Speaker 1: please let me keep it, Daddy, please, making an exception.
Speaker 1: After a couple of weeks, she wore her father down.
Speaker 1: He said, Jamie, I'll make a deal with you. If
Speaker 1: the calf is born black, then you can keep him.
Speaker 1: But if he's brown or spotted, like the rest of
Speaker 1: our cattle, we're gonna give him away. She agreed. Well,
Speaker 1: little Jamie didn't know any better. She started praying and
Speaker 1: praying every night before she went to bed. God, I'm
Speaker 1: asking that this cow will be born black and that
Speaker 1: there won't be any doubt that he belongs to me. Now,
Speaker 1: most of us adults, we never pray anything like that.
Speaker 1: That's far out, that's kind of radical. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I've learned. Radical faith gets radical results. A couple
Speaker 1: of weeks later, the little calf was born. It was
Speaker 1: not only solid black, but right between his eyes do
Speaker 1: you see it? There was a big jay. Her name
Speaker 1: was Jamie. It's like God stamped at j He was saying,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure everybody knows this ca belongs to
Speaker 1: little Jamie? What am I saying? When you pray God
Speaker 1: sized prayers, God will show up in a big way.
Speaker 1: He'll give you the desires of your heart. Are there
Speaker 1: dreams that you've talked to yourself out of problems you'll
Speaker 1: convince you'll never overcome. Why don't you do like little
Speaker 1: Jamie take the limits off of God? What if the
Speaker 1: only reason it's not happening is because you're not asking?
Speaker 1: Jesus said in Luke twelve thirty two. It is the
Speaker 1: Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. God wants
Speaker 1: to give you the desires of your heart. But you
Speaker 1: have to have the faith of a little child and
Speaker 1: be willing to ask. As a father, who would I
Speaker 1: rather bless than my own children? Who would I rather
Speaker 1: see increase and do great things? Nobody more than my
Speaker 1: own children? It's the same way with our heavenly father.
Speaker 1: It gives him pleasure to give you the kingdom. It
Speaker 1: brings a smile to his face. But what if my
Speaker 1: children never ask, and they acted like they were bothering me,
Speaker 1: they were intimidated. That would make me feel badly. I'd say,
Speaker 1: come on, step up to the plate. I'm your father.
Speaker 1: I want to be good to you. Some of you
Speaker 1: today need to step up to the plate. Quit asking small,
Speaker 1: Quit acting like you're bothering God. Quit praying weak barely
Speaker 1: get by prayers. Your father owns it all. He created
Speaker 1: the whole universe, and if you're going to see the
Speaker 1: fullness of what he has in store, you got to
Speaker 1: learn to ask big. I pray every day, God take
Speaker 1: our ministry where no ministry's ever gone before. I pray God,
Speaker 1: let our children supersede anything Victoria or I have ever done.
Speaker 1: There are prayers that I pray in private. Never told
Speaker 1: anybody in the world the secret dreams of my heart.
Speaker 1: If I told you, you say, Joel, are you kidding?
Speaker 1: Do you really think that's gonna happen? The truth is
Speaker 1: they may not all come to pass, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going to let my lack of asking keep me from
Speaker 1: reaching my highest potential. I don't want to get to
Speaker 1: heaven and God say, Joe, I had all this for you, favor,
Speaker 1: good breaks, divine connections, but you never ask. You stayed
Speaker 1: in the safe zone. I wanted you in the faith zone.
Speaker 1: You prayed ordinary prayers. I wanted you to pray God
Speaker 1: size prayers. And I believe one reason that I've seen
Speaker 1: God's favor is I have learned to ask big. When
Speaker 1: my father went to be with the Lord nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: I had never ministered before. There was a bold prayer
Speaker 1: to say, God, I'm asking you to help me not
Speaker 1: only maintain what my parents have built, but helped me
Speaker 1: to take it much further. When I walked into a
Speaker 1: jewelry store and saw victim Or for the first time,
Speaker 1: it was a bold prayer to say, God, let her
Speaker 1: see how good looking I really am. I'm only kidding.
Speaker 1: I didn't pray that, but I sure thought about it.
Speaker 1: It was a bold prayer to say, God give us
Speaker 1: the Compact Center where the Rockets used to play basketball.
Speaker 1: When I look back over my life, I wonder what
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened had I not prayed these Bowld prayers.
Speaker 1: Maybe I wouldn't have met Victoria, maybe I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: up here, Maybe we wouldn't have this facility, says in
Speaker 1: Psalm thirty one. God has blessings stored up for those
Speaker 1: who honor him. Because you honor God. There are blessings
Speaker 1: right now that have your name on them, stored up houses, businesses, ministries, books, movies, children, ideas.
Speaker 1: They have your name on them. God wants to release them.
Speaker 1: He's just waiting for you to ask. Will you have
Speaker 1: a boldness to ask for things that even seem impossible.
Speaker 1: It's good to ask for our needs, but I'm encouraging
Speaker 1: you today. Ask for your dreams, as for your goals,
Speaker 1: ask for the secret petitions of your heart. I heard
Speaker 1: a story about a young mother. She and her family
Speaker 1: moved to New York City back in the nineteen sixties
Speaker 1: from Puerto Rico. They were very poor and they lived
Speaker 1: in a rough neighborhood in government housing. Drugs, gangs, violence
Speaker 1: all around. At the age of nine, her young son, Victor,
Speaker 1: was recruited by a game. Everybody he knew, all of
Speaker 1: his friends were in games. By the time he was twelve,
Speaker 1: he was hooked on heroin. It had already been arrested,
Speaker 1: involved in robbing, stealing, killing, all kinds of things that
Speaker 1: weren't good. His mother was so heartbroken. She couldn't control
Speaker 1: her son. She was a very small woman. She only
Speaker 1: spoke Spanish, but she was very feisty. One thing this
Speaker 1: mother knew how to do was pray. And every day,
Speaker 1: seven days a week, and twice on Sundays, she would
Speaker 1: go up to the little storefront church there in the
Speaker 1: projects with her sister and they would pray for her son, Victor.
Speaker 1: She didn't just pray for God to keep him out
Speaker 1: of trouble. This mother knew how to pray God size prayers.
Speaker 1: She said, God, I'm asking you to make my son
Speaker 1: a minister, use him to touch people all over the world.
Speaker 1: Twelve years old, Victor would come home at three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning, totally stoned. This mother would be in
Speaker 1: the kitchen waiting for him with her arms held open.
Speaker 1: She'd give him a hug and say, Victor, God's hand
Speaker 1: is on your life. You have a destiny to fulfill.
Speaker 1: God is not only going to save you, He's going
Speaker 1: to make you a minister. She spoke faith into him.
Speaker 1: The more she prayed, it seemed like the worse he got.
Speaker 1: His teacher at school told the mother, your son is
Speaker 1: going to end up in the electric chair. She let
Speaker 1: those words go in one ear and out the other.
Speaker 1: She kept praying month after month. Didn't look like anything
Speaker 1: was happening. But what she couldn't see is while she
Speaker 1: was praying, God was moving on a young man in
Speaker 1: another state by the name of David Wilkerson, calling him
Speaker 1: to come to the roughest streets in New York and
Speaker 1: share the good news. One day, Victor ran into this
Speaker 1: new young street preacher. Right there on the corner. God
Speaker 1: touched Victor's heart. He knelt down, gave his life to Christ.
Speaker 1: God set him free from the drugs, from the gains
Speaker 1: from the violence. Today, Victor Torres is not only clean
Speaker 1: and sober, but he's the pastor of a great church
Speaker 1: in Virginia. They have amazing outreaches to drug addicts, to
Speaker 1: gang members. He goes all over the world telling what
Speaker 1: God has done for him. But I thought about where
Speaker 1: would Victor be if this mother had not dared to
Speaker 1: pray these God sized prayers. Maybe David Wilkerson would have
Speaker 1: never shown up. Maybe it being the penitentiary even dead.
Speaker 1: But when it looked impossible, when the odds were against her,
Speaker 1: every voice told her you're wasting your time. Your son's
Speaker 1: too far gone. He's never going to amount to anything.
Speaker 1: She dug her heels in and said, God, you said,
Speaker 1: as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. God,
Speaker 1: you promised it, and like David, I'm bold enough to
Speaker 1: ask you to bring it to pass. See, most people
Speaker 1: would have prayed an ordinary prayer, something like God, just
Speaker 1: help my child to not get in any more trouble.
Speaker 1: But when you know how to pray these God sized prayers,
Speaker 1: your children, your relatives, they don't have a chance. God
Speaker 1: will move heaven and earth to bring that promise to pass.
Speaker 1: Now you may have some sody in your life that
Speaker 1: you are about to write off, somebody like Victory, where
Speaker 1: they're making bad decisions, look like they'll never straighten up.
Speaker 1: Keep praying, Keep asking God not only to bring them back,
Speaker 1: but to do something great with their life. I found
Speaker 1: when somebody is living radically the wrong kind of life
Speaker 1: and God touches them, they will live radically the right
Speaker 1: kind of life. God will use them to do amazing things.
Speaker 1: Like this, Mother, we have the promise as for me
Speaker 1: and my house. We will serve the Lord says in Psalms,
Speaker 1: the seed of the righteous. That's your children, your grandchildren
Speaker 1: will be mighty in the land. Not addicted, defeated, mediocre, No, mighty,
Speaker 1: powerful history makers. Now, don't pray small prayers over your children.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter what they are or aren't doing. Right now,
Speaker 1: pray bold prayers. God. I'm asked that my child be
Speaker 1: mighty in the land. God, let them be history makers.
Speaker 1: Let them leave a legacy of faith that will be
Speaker 1: seen for generations to come. Dare to ask big. I
Speaker 1: prayed for a college student right here at the altar
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, and she just finished her master's degree,
Speaker 1: and she studied medical research. She was a scientist. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why I said it, but I prayed God,
Speaker 1: let her find the cure for cancer, let her do
Speaker 1: something astounding with her life. Well, Joel, what if it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. What if it does happen, You have not
Speaker 1: because you ask not. God is saying, ask me for
Speaker 1: big things. I created the universe, I flung the stars
Speaker 1: into space. Don't ask me for a two dollars raise.
Speaker 1: Don't ask me to just keep your children out of trouble.
Speaker 1: Don't ask me to just help you make it through life.
Speaker 1: Ask me for compact centers. Ask me for cows with
Speaker 1: your initial on it. Ask me to turn drug addicts around.
Speaker 1: Ask me for children who will become history makers. Ask
Speaker 1: me to part red seas, to bring water out of
Speaker 1: a rock, to show your floods of my favor. God
Speaker 1: is saying, I dare you to ask. I dare you
Speaker 1: to stretch your faith. I dare you to take the
Speaker 1: limits off of me. I dare you to pray God's
Speaker 1: size prayers. A couple of weeks ago, we were in
Speaker 1: the airport parking lot late one Friday night. We just
Speaker 1: returned home from a night of hope in another state.
Speaker 1: It's about two o'clock in the morning. When we got
Speaker 1: to our cars, my mother's battery was dead. Something must
Speaker 1: have been left on, and my brother Paul and I
Speaker 1: and my friend Johnny got the battery cables and we
Speaker 1: drove my car up there and put the cables on
Speaker 1: my mom's car. Her lights came on, but the car
Speaker 1: wouldn't start, the engine wouldn't turn over, it all, not
Speaker 1: one sound. A mechanic came out from the air to
Speaker 1: help us, and he worked and worked, but he couldn't
Speaker 1: get anything going. Johnny was reading the owner's manual. It's
Speaker 1: like we were missing something. The engine would not turn over,
Speaker 1: freezing cold out there. After about thirty minutes of trying
Speaker 1: everything we possibly could, Paul said to my mom, Mother,
Speaker 1: the car's not going to start. Why don't you just
Speaker 1: ride with me and we'll come back tomorrow and get
Speaker 1: it well. My mother was not about to leave the
Speaker 1: airport without having her car. She said, no, Paul, I've
Speaker 1: got two funerals to officiate tomorrow. I have to have
Speaker 1: my car. It was two thirty in the morning. I
Speaker 1: was tired, it was freezing. I said, Mother, take my car.
Speaker 1: I'll ride home with Paul. You can drive it right now.
Speaker 1: She said, Joel, I don't want your car. I want
Speaker 1: my car. Let's go try again. We went over and
Speaker 1: worked another fifteen minutes, doing everything we could. Still the
Speaker 1: engine never turned over one time. I said, Mother, we
Speaker 1: could be here all night. The car is not going
Speaker 1: to start. We might as well go home. She said,
Speaker 1: give me the keys. She had that look in her
Speaker 1: eyes like, do not mess with me. I don't know
Speaker 1: if she's mad at me or mad at the devil.
Speaker 1: But she got in that car and started praying. And
Speaker 1: when my mother really means business, she prays loud. She
Speaker 1: doesn't need a microphone. She makes sure that God will
Speaker 1: hear her. I looked over. My mother was praying over
Speaker 1: the steering wheel, praying over the radio, casting the devil
Speaker 1: out of the engine. She knows no shame when I
Speaker 1: was growing up. When I was growing up, my mother
Speaker 1: would pray over the dishwasher if it broke, she'd pray
Speaker 1: over the lawnmower. And I'm over there with some of
Speaker 1: my friends, getting a kick out of it, kind of laughing,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, we hear the car crank
Speaker 1: right up. That engine didn't struggle, it didn't turn over
Speaker 1: and over. It immediately cranked up. My mother read that
Speaker 1: engine so loud she had to have that pedal on
Speaker 1: the floor. It sounded like it was going to explode.
Speaker 1: We ran for cover. My mother put it in gear
Speaker 1: and she started driving around in circles in that parking lot,
Speaker 1: eighty years old, doing donuts. Three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: I thought, dear God, we're gonna get arrested out here.
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, mother, you are grounded when she
Speaker 1: finally drove off, she didn't wave goodbye to us, she
Speaker 1: didn't say thank you for at least trying. She didn't
Speaker 1: blow us a kiss. She just left us standing there
Speaker 1: in her dusk. When you face situations in your everyday
Speaker 1: life that seem impossible, God says, I dare you to pray.
Speaker 1: I dare you to ask me for that car to start, Joel.
Speaker 1: God's got bigger things to deal with and me getting
Speaker 1: my car started. Let me tell you are God's biggest deal.
Speaker 1: You are the apple of his eye. Too often we
Speaker 1: limit God. We have a small view of who he is.
Speaker 1: We think God is up there, somewhere, far away, running
Speaker 1: the universe. I can't bother him with this small problem.
Speaker 1: I can only pray if I have some kind of
Speaker 1: major catastrophe. Listen, God knows the number of hair on
Speaker 1: your head. He knows your words before you speak. In
Speaker 1: You are not inconveniencing God by asking him to help
Speaker 1: you in your everyday life. God wants to be good
Speaker 1: to you. He wants to show you his favor in
Speaker 1: a new way. He's saying today, I dare you to
Speaker 1: ask heard a story about a small congregation in the
Speaker 1: foothills of the Smoky Mountains. They had just built a
Speaker 1: new sanctuary on land given to them by one of
Speaker 1: their members. A month before they were to move in
Speaker 1: the building, inspector informed them that their parking lot was
Speaker 1: too small. Unless they doubled the amount of parking spaces,
Speaker 1: they would not be able to occupy the building. The
Speaker 1: problem was they had used all the land to build on.
Speaker 1: The only property they had left was behind the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: It was a big mountain, had a huge hill on it.
Speaker 1: The next Sunday, pastor told the congregation there would be
Speaker 1: a special prayer meeting that night to ask God to
Speaker 1: somehow make a way that they could move in to
Speaker 1: their new sanctuary on time. Twenty four people showed up.
Speaker 1: They prayed and prayed, and after an hour the pastor announced,
Speaker 1: God has never let us down in the past, and
Speaker 1: he's not going to let us down this time. We're
Speaker 1: going to move into our sanctuary on schedule. The next morning,
Speaker 1: ten o'clock, there was a knock on the pastor's door.
Speaker 1: It was a construction foreman. He said, excuse me, reverend,
Speaker 1: We're building a shopping center one county over and we
Speaker 1: need some filled dirt. If you will sell us the
Speaker 1: dirt behind your new sanctuary. We'll not only pay you
Speaker 1: for it, but we'll pave all the areas where we
Speaker 1: dig up that little church. God there parking lot for free,
Speaker 1: and they moved in right on schedule. What am I
Speaker 1: saying today? When you pray God sized prayers, God will
Speaker 1: show up in a big way. Some of you are
Speaker 1: not seeing God do great things because you're only asking
Speaker 1: for small things. God is saying, ask me to open
Speaker 1: doors that seem impossible. Ask me for that business you've
Speaker 1: been dreaming about. Ask me to give you the secret
Speaker 1: petitions of your heart. God. I have this boldness like
Speaker 1: David and say God, you promised it. I see it
Speaker 1: in the scripture. Now I will be bold enough to ask.
Speaker 1: Remember there are blessings stored up for you right now
Speaker 1: with your name on them. And if you'll learn how
Speaker 1: to pray God sized prayers, then like Victor's mom, you
Speaker 1: will see your children become mighty in the land. Like
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