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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.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to

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Speaker 1: come into your homes, and if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 1: stop buy and be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: right here at Lakewood, so come on by when you can.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in, Thanks for coming out. I'd

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

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Speaker 1: this man. He called the church office and said, I

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Speaker 1: want to speak to the head hog at the trough.

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Speaker 1: The secretary was offended. She said, if you mean the pastor,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have to call him pastor, but you

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Speaker 1: may not call him the head hog at the trough.

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Speaker 1: He said, well fine, but not thinking about making a

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars donation to your church. She said, hang on,

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Speaker 1: poor kid, just walked in. 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. I'll boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God, bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about blessed. Indeed, most of

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Speaker 1: us believe that God has a good plan for our lives,

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Speaker 1: and we ask him to take care of us, to

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Speaker 1: protect us, to give us the food that we need.

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Speaker 1: And that's good. But God doesn't just want to do

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Speaker 1: the ordinary, just do what's common. He has some uncommon blessings,

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Speaker 1: some unprecedented favor. But here's the key. If you're going

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Speaker 1: to see the uncommon, you can't just pray common prayers.

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Speaker 1: You can't just ask for the ordinary. You have to

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Speaker 1: ask for dreams that look impossible, for increase that seems

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Speaker 1: out of reach, for favor to over come obstacles that

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Speaker 1: look too big. If you only pray small prayers, you're

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Speaker 1: going to see small results. If you only ask God

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Speaker 1: to supply your needs, it's going to limit what He

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Speaker 1: will do. And the scripture says you have not because

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Speaker 1: you ask not, how many of your prayers are going

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Speaker 1: unanswered because you never ask. You never had the boldness

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Speaker 1: where I can't go on my own. God open this

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Speaker 1: door that looks impossible. Heal me from this sickness that

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Speaker 1: seems permanent. Turn my child around. If God answered what

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Speaker 1: you're praying about, would it be big enough. One reason

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Speaker 1: we don't see God do big things is we only

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Speaker 1: ask for small things. If you're not asking for something

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Speaker 1: that you can't accomplish on your own, then you're not

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Speaker 1: asking big enough. If it's not something that's over your head,

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Speaker 1: you don't have the recesses, it's never happened in your family,

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Speaker 1: then you're not asking for the far and beyond favor

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Speaker 1: that God wants you to have. Don't be intimidated by

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Speaker 1: the size of your dream. God is the one that

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Speaker 1: put that in your heart. Those things he whispered to

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Speaker 1: you in the night you haven't told anyone about it

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Speaker 1: seems so unlikely. God wouldn't have spoken that to you

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Speaker 1: if he didn't have a way to bring it to pass.

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Speaker 1: All he needs is for you to come into agreement.

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Speaker 1: Dare to ask him, But sometimes we think it's selfish

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Speaker 1: convince us to only pray little prayers and believe for

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Speaker 1: small things. Don't fall into that trap. Our God is

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Speaker 1: an all powerful, awesome god. He is not offended when

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Speaker 1: you ask big things. He doesn't say, who do you

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Speaker 1: of people that need my help more than you. It's

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Speaker 1: just the opposite. That bold prayer gets his attention. That's

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Speaker 1: your faith being released. That's when he'll pour out blessings

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Speaker 1: you can't contain. He'll open doors bigger than you've ever imagined.

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Speaker 1: And yes, it's good to ask for our needs, but

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Speaker 1: how about asking God to bless you so you can

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Speaker 1: be a bigger blessing. It's not just about you, But

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Speaker 1: how about believing to build that orphanage, to pay that

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Speaker 1: your city, to advance the kingdom see. A normal prayer

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Speaker 1: my children fulfill their destinies. Normal prayers, God, help me

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Speaker 1: you ask and do not receive because you ask a miss.

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

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Speaker 1: When we just ask God to help us get by,

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Speaker 1: to help us endure, that's a weak prayer. God is

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Speaker 1: saying I created the universe. I flung stars into space,

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Speaker 1: When you come to me, ask for big things, knowing

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Speaker 1: that I'm a big God. Ask me for your dreams.

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Speaker 1: to accelerate your goals, ask me to show out in

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Speaker 1: your life. When you ask big, God calls that a

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Speaker 1: healthy prayer. When you ask for what seems impossible, that's

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Speaker 1: when angels go to work. That's when chains are broken.

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Speaker 1: That's when you'll come in to overflow into more than enough. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 1: tell you respectfully, that's a sick prayer. That prayer needs medication.

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Speaker 1: Turn it around. Father, thank you that no weapon formed

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Speaker 1: better than I was before. That's a bold prayer. That's

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Speaker 1: what gets God's attention. Maybe you're struggling with depression. You

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Speaker 1: have to make sure you don't pray depressing prayers. God

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Speaker 1: just help me to endure. Grandmother was depressed. Mother was depressed.

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Speaker 1: Break out of that box. Freedom begins when you start

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Speaker 1: praying bold prayers. Father, thank you that this depression is

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Speaker 1: not permanent. It is not how my story ends. May

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Speaker 1: you that generational curses are being broken and generational blessings

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Speaker 1: that's when he'll bless you. Indeed, he'll make things happen

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Speaker 1: that you could never make happen. Could it be that

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Speaker 1: you're not seeing God's greatness because you're only praying weak prayers.

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Speaker 1: moved by our faith. He's moved when he hears you

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Speaker 1: asking for things that seem too big, unlikely, things you

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Speaker 1: and that's fine. But that's a normal prayer. This lady

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Speaker 1: asking that you not only get his life straightened out,

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Speaker 1: become a great leader. All the circumstances said it would

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Speaker 1: came in, never planned to watch, but he heard me

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Speaker 1: talking about how God has a purpose for your life

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to keep you from your destiny. When he

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Speaker 1: heard that, something came alive on the inside. Strongholds were

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Speaker 1: broken in his mind. Two weeks later, he showed up

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Speaker 1: up and gave his life to Christ. I saw him afterwards.

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Speaker 1: He had tears running down his cheeks. He told how

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Speaker 1: his mother had prayed for him for years, how he

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Speaker 1: felt a love and a sense of purpose that he's

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Speaker 1: He helps other young people that are in his same situation.

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Speaker 1: God has done. But I wonder where this young man

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Speaker 1: would be if his mother had only prayed weak prayers,

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Speaker 1: just help him get by God, help him to not

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Speaker 1: be harmed. Maybe he wouldn't be free, Maybe he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be making such a difference. What am I saying? Pray

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Speaker 1: bold prayers over your children, bold prayers over your dreams,

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Speaker 1: isn't that kind of selfish, kind of greedy. No, that's

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Speaker 1: your faith being released. That's what's going to take you

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Speaker 1: in humility, but we've seen God open doors that haven't

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Speaker 1: opened for other ministries. Television networks that have a non

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Speaker 1: religion policy, they've never aired inspirational programming. Now they air

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Speaker 1: put us on. That's what happens when you pray bold prayers.

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Speaker 1: I pray every day God, let my children go further

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Speaker 1: in Psalms, open your mouth wide, and I will feel it.

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Speaker 1: The principle is, however wide your mouth is open, that's

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Speaker 1: how much God is going to fill. If you're praying

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Speaker 1: bold prayers, if you have a wide mouth, asking God

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Speaker 1: show out in your life. But if you have a

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Speaker 1: just help you get by. You're content with the status quo,

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Speaker 1: then you're going to see God's goodness in a limited way. Now,

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Speaker 1: he supplies our needs. I'm simply saying, don't stop there.

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Speaker 1: Open your mouth wider and ask him for your dreams.

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Speaker 1: big mouth. Young lady came down for prayer a while back.

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Speaker 1: She asked if I would pray that she would make

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Speaker 1: being odd. I said, why do you want to pray

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say, that's a sick prayer. That prayer

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Speaker 1: being answered for you? Not because God won't do it,

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Speaker 1: not because it's too difficult. But you never ask. You've

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