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Joel Osteen
February 21, 2023 30m 35s

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:34.640 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.679 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:38.399 the ministry. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.880 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.440 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.480 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:51.720 your life. Well, God bless you, and thanks for being 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.400 with us today. And if you're ever in our area, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.440 please stop buying be a part of one of our services. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.920 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.560 I like to start with something funny each week, and 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.400 they're just a joke. Don't be offended. I heard about 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:06.080 this man. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.799 He was sitting in a dark restaurant, and he said 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.000 to the lady sitting next to him, would you like 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.720 to hear a blonde joke? She said, well, before you 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.800 tell me, you should know that I'm blonde, six foot 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.400 tall and a professional bodybuilder. The lady next to me 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.600 is blonde, six foot two and a professional wrestler. And 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.919 the lady next to her is blonde, six foot five 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.440 and the kickboxing champion of the world. 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:31.840 Now do you still want to tell me? 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.480 He thought about it a moment, said no, not if 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.679 I'm gonna have to explain it three times. I'm gonna 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.080 need a ride home today. But anyway, say it like 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.760 you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.240 it says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.240 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.040 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.000 confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.880 will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.040 I want to talk to you today about asking big 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.440 When God laid out the plan for your life, he 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.200 didn't just put what you need to get by to survive, 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.240 to endure. He put more than enough. He's a god 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.240 of abundance. And we see this all through the scripture. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.640 When Jesus multiplied the little boy's lunch five loges of 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.080 bread and two fish after thousands of people eight there 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:31.200 were twelve baskets full left over. And what's interesting is 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.600 they had counted the people beforehand. Jesus knew how many 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.320 were in the crowd that day. If he wanted to 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.080 be exact, he could have made it where there would 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:42.160 be no leftovers. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.160 On purpose, he made more than enough. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.800 That's the God we serve. David said, my cup runs over. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.840 He had an abundance, more than he needed. And yes, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.280 we should thank God that our needs are supplied. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.480 We should be grateful that we have enough. But don't 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.360 settle there. That's not your destiny. He is a more 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.320 than enough god. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.000 He wants you to have an abundance so you can 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.000 be a blessing to those around you. And this is 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.040 where the Israelites missed it. They had been in slavery 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.640 for so many years that they became conditioned to not 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.040 heaven enough to barely getting by. When Froh got upset 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.000 with Moses, he told his foreman to have the Israelites 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.800 make the same amount of bricks without the hay and 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.440 straw being provided for them. I'm sure the Israelites prayed, God, 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.960 please help us to make our quotas. God, please help 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.080 us to find these supplies that we need. They prayed 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:45.200 from a slave mentality, from a limited mindset. Instead of 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.839 asking to be free from their oppressors, they were asking 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.919 to become better slaves. Instead of praying for what God 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.200 promised them, the land flowing with milk and honey, they 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.919 prayed that God would help them function bet her in 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:06.200 their dysfunction. Are you asking today to become a better slave? 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.720 Are you asking for the abundant, overflowing, more than enough. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.159 Life that God has for you. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.039 God says you are to reign in life, that you 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.080 are blessed and you cannot be cursed, That whatever you 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.880 touch will prosper and succeed. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.479 Don't pray to get by to endure. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:28.080 Dare to ask big, ask for what God promised you. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.680 The medical report may not look good, That's okay. There's 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.080 another report. God, you said you would restore health back 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.919 into me. You said the number of my days you 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.440 will fulfill. Maybe you've gone through a disappointment, a bad break. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.240 Don't pray God help me to deal with this loneliness. God, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:48.919 help me to put up with this depression. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.080 That's a slave mentality. Turn it around. God, you said 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:54.000 you would give. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.960 Me beauty for these ashes, joy for this morning, that 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.760 you would pay me back double for this unfair situation. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.040 Or your dream may look impossible. You don't see how 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:04.800 it could work out. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.440 God, you said your blessings would chase me down, that 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.039 I'm surrounded by favor, that goodness and mercy are following me, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.960 that you would give me the desires of my heart. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.159 Take the limits off of God and ask big. Not 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.919 from a slave mentality, not a limited mindset. Don't ask 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.039 God to help you function better in your dysfunction. Ask 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.680 him for your dreams, Ask him for new levels, ask 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.240 him for explosive blessings. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.880 Ask him to propel you into your purpose. This is 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.159 what a lady I know did. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.919 She has four small grandchildren that she ended up having 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.839 to raise. She wasn't planning on it. Something happened with 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.640 her daughter, and at first she was a little discouraged, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.520 not knowing how it was going to work out. Three 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.040 of these children were in private schools. It was very expensive, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.839 and this grandmother didn't have the extra funds. She could 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.679 have prayed from a slave mentality, God is not fair, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.440 I'll never be able to really provide for my grandchildren. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:06.880 Just help us to survive. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.760 Instead, she had this boldness to ask big. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.200 She said, God, I don't have the funds to keep 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.120 my grandchildren in private school. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.080 But I know you own it all. You're a God 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:19.840 of abundance. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.480 God, I'm asking you to make a way, even though 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.800 I don't see how it could ever happen. She owed 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.800 a small amount for them to finish that first year. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.600 She went up to the school to pay, and the 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.480 secretary called up her records on the computer and said, no, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.600 you don't owe anything. Everything's all paid up. She said, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.960 that couldn't be. I have the notice right here. This 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.720 says that I owe this amount. Secretary turned the monitor 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.600 around and said, no, ma'am, it says right here. All 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.720 three of these children's tuitions have been paid, not only 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.960 for the rest of this year, but all the way 0:07:54.960 --> 0:08:01.240 through the eighth grade. An anonymous donor stepped up, pre 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.160 paid it for years to come. Friends, God can make 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.560 things happen that you could never make happen. He's already 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.400 placed abundance in your future. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:11.960 It's already lined. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.920 Up the right people, the breaks you need, doors to 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.520 open that you could never open. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.840 My question is are you asking big. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.239 Or are you letting your circumstances how you were raised, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:24.760 what somebody said. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:25.560 Talk you out of it. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.160 If you go through life only pray and barely get 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.240 by prayers, you'll miss the fullness. 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:32.520 Of your destiny. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.320 But when you get this in your spirit, that the 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.079 God who breathed life into you, the God who called you, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.559 set you apart, crowned you with favor, is a more 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.880 than enough God, and abundant God and overflowing God, then 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.800 you'll have this boldness to ask for big things. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.560 Not to just manage the addiction, but. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.120 To be free from the addiction. Not to just pay 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.760 your bills, but to be totally out of debt, so 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.320 you can be a blessing to us. Not to just 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.719 see your child get back on the right course, but 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.040 that God would use. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.600 Him to make his mark in this generation. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.920 Matthew Chapter twenty, Jesus was walking through a town and 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.160 there were two blind men on the side of the road. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.160 When they heard all the commotion, they started shouting, Jesus, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:19.280 have mercy on us. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.160 Jesus walked over to them and said, what is it 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.480 that you want me to do for you? Seemed like 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.200 a strange question. It's obvious what they needed. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.240 They were blind. Why did Jesus ask them? He wanted 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.360 to see what they were believing. They could have said, Jesus, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.679 we just need some help out here. We're blind. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.880 We just need a little better place to live. If 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.400 they would have asked from a limited mentality. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.680 It would have kept them in defeat. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.800 Instead, they asked big. They said, Lord, we want to see. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:52.760 We want our. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.520 Eyes to be open. They were saying, we know you 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.640 can do the impossible. When Jesus heard their bequest, he 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.680 touched their eyes and instantly they could see. God is 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.760 asking us the same thing. He asked those two blind. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.080 Men, what is it that you want me to do 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:09.520 for you? 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.760 Now, how you answer is going to have a great 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.959 impact on what God does. Don't say, God, I just 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.160 want to make it through this year. Have you seen 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.520 the price of oil? God, my family is so dysfunctional. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.600 Just help us to survive. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.000 God, I don't like my job. Just help me to 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.800 endure it. That is going to limit your destiny. Do 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.280 like these blind men, dare to ask Big God. I 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.120 want to be free from this addiction. God, I want 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.200 to meet the right person. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:36.800 God. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.400 I want to see my whole family serve you. God, 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.720 I want to start my own business. Ask for your dreams, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.559 ask for things that even seem impossible. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:47.320 James, Chapter four. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.559 The scripture says, you ask and do not receive because 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.640 you ask a miss. That word a miss in the 0:10:54.679 --> 0:11:00.360 original language means sick, weak, miserable. When we asked to 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.800 become better slaves, that's a sick prayer. When we ask 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.880 to get by, to endure, to barely make it, that's 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.720 a weak prayer. That's asking a miss. God is saying 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.880 I created the whole universe. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:15.240 I own it all. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.440 Don't come to me with a sick prayer, a weak 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.000 prayer asking me to help you live better in mediocrity, 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.520 endure the trouble, survive another month. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.080 No, when you come to me, ask Big, knowing that 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.920 I'm a God of more than enough. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.320 He's saying, ask me to show out in your life, 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.040 ask me to heal you. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:37.880 From that disease. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.480 Ask me to accelerate your goals. When you ask big. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.160 God calls that a healthy prayer. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.600 That's when he says, to the angels, go to work, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.080 release my favor, loose those chains, open up some new doors. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.800 Well, Joel, I'm just praying that I'll make it through 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.160 this tough times. Business is really slow. Can I say 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.960 this respectfully. That's a sick prayer. That prayer has the flow. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:01.839 That prayer is the prayers. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.560 But I'm just praying that I'll learn how to manage 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.880 this addiction. Grandmother had it, mother had it, Now I 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.800 do too. That's a weak prayer. Your attitude should be God. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.400 This addiction keeps getting passed. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.680 Down in my family line. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.400 But I believe this is a new day that You've 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.800 raised me up to put a stop to it. That 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.360 I will be the one to break the generational curse 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.560 and start the generational blessing. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.200 Don't ask to become a better slave. Ask to be 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.319 the difference maker. Ask to set a new standard. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.320 When you say, God, help me to get that scholarship 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.440 so I can go to college, that's not just being hopeful, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.040 just being positive. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.280 That's your faith being released. That's what allows God. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.760 To do great things, or God, I don't have the 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.080 funds for the building project just yet. But Lord, I 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.960 want to thank you that opportunity is headed my way, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.080 that blessings are chasing me down. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.959 No more sick prayers. Take the limits off of God. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.120 Ask big. This is the year for God to show. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.880 Out in your life, to accelerate his goodness, to. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.840 Propel you into your destiny. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.600 This is what a man did in the Scripture by 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:19.560 the name of jay Bez. His name literally means pain, sorrow, suffering. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.559 Every time someone said hello Jabz, they were saying hello trouble, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.760 Hello sorrow, Hello pain. They were prophesying defeat and failure. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.719 You can imagine how he could have let that keep 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:36.120 him in mediocrity, make him feel inferior, insecure. There was 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.320 something different about Jabez, despite his rough upbringing, despite what 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.000 people labeled him. He looked up to the heavens and said, God, 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.520 I'm asking you to bless me. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.320 Indeed, he could have just said God, bless me. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.800 That would have been okay, but he had this boldness 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.120 to ask big. Here's a man that was supposed to 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:02.040 have trouble, heartache, lived a pro defeated, but he shook 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.440 off the slave mentality his attitude. It doesn't matter what 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.200 people said about me, doesn't matter what my circumstances look like. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.160 I know who I am, a child of the most 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:13.760 tied God. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:19.920 He went on to say, God, enlarge my territories. He 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.360 was saying, God, help me to go beyond the norm. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.320 Let me see abundance, let me see more of your favor. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.560 I'm sure thoughts told him, Jabez, God's not gonna bless you. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.400 You come from the wrong family. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.880 Your own parents labeled you sorrow, pain, trouble. But people 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.520 don't determine your destiny. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:39.120 God does. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.640 The scripture says God granted. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.520 Jabez his requests. God blessed him. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.720 Indeed, like Jabez, you may have plenty of reasons to 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.480 settle where you are. What you didn't get, what people said, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.960 how impossible it looks. The odds may be against you. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.760 But the good news is God is for you. He 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.160 is more powerful than any force that's trying to stop you. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.120 He knows how to make up for what you didn't get. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.240 He can thrust you further than you ever imagine. But 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.320 you have to do like Jabez and pray bold prayers, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.880 ask in spite of what the circumstances look like. Ask 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.920 in spite of what people are telling you. Ask in 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:23.880 spite of what. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.720 The enemy keeps whispering in your ear. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.360 Jabez could have prayed a weak, sick prayer, thought, God, 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.160 I've had some bad breaks, had a rough upbringing. God, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.920 I'm just asking you to help me to survive. If 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:37.840 he would have done that, we wouldn't be talking about 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.960 him today. If you're going to beat the odds, stand 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.080 out in the crowd, if you're going to reach your 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.480 highest potential, you have to learn this principle to ask 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.760 big God said in Psalm Too from the message translation, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.080 you're my son, and today is your birthday. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.960 What do you want nations as a present? Continence as 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.360 a prize. You can command them all to dance for you. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.040 Notice how big God thinks, what do you want nations 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.120 as a present. Sometimes we're praying for a three dollars 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.760 an hour raise. God's talking about giving you nations. We're 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.480 praying for a promotion. God's got a business for you 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.120 to own. We're praying to pay our bills. God's planning 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.000 on blessing you so you can pay other people's bills. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.400 We're looking at the five loaves, two fish. God's thinking 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:30.200 about the twelve baskets full left over? What does that mean? Today? 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.240 Is your birthday? On your birthday, more. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.560 Than any other time, you feel entitled to ask for 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.120 something out of the ordinary. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:39.880 Normally, you don't want. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.160 Anybody to go out of the way for you, But 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.480 on your birthday, you think, Okay, I'm gonna ask for 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.080 that favor. I'm gonna ask for that new outfit, for 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.560 that set of golf clubs. You know, over time, as 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.560 we get older, our enthusiasm may go down a little. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.880 But think back to when you were a child. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.320 You knew that was your special day and you had 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.040 a bowldness to ask for what you really wanted. A 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.080 few months ago, a little boy came up to me 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.560 out in the hallway. It's about five years old, and 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.160 I see him here all the time. He came running 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.680 up so excited, said, it's my birthday today. I gave 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.040 him a big hug and told him happy birthday, and 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.399 I walked about five steps away and came back and 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.400 grabbed my leg and set it again. It's my birthday, 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.760 but I know you just told me five seconds ago, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:27.240 and we. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:28.879 Hugged and did it all again. Like it was the 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:29.520 first time. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.560 This happened again and again and again. I could hardly 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.960 get through the hallway. About the seventh time he came 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.440 up and grabbed my leg. This time, instead of telling 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.800 me it was his birthday, he looked up and said, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:44.360 what are you gonna get me. 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:45.120 For my birthday? 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.920 The reason he kept coming back is because he felt 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.600 entitled to a present. He knew it was his special day. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:59.000 God is saying, when you pray, act like it's your birthday. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.080 Come to me with a boldness. Ask me for what 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:07.320 you really want. Don't be shy, don't hold back. Tell 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.040 me your dreams, tell me what you're believing for. Ask 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.440 for the secret things I've placed in your heart. When 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.800 our son Jonathan was a little boy, he liked Power Rangers. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.399 He never asked for that much, but on his sixth birthday, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.119 he said, Dad, I want that new Power Ranger that 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.560 I saw on television, you know, a little action figure. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.440 We went up to the toy store but they were out. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:30.680 We drove to. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.159 Another one and they didn't have it, and another and 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.960 another and another. Normally I would have given up, but 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:37.960 it was his birthday. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.480 I didn't want to disappoint him. Finally we found it, 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:42.600 like an hour away. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.320 Took half the day to get this little fourteen dollar 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:47.200 action figure. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.399 But as a father, I didn't mind going out of 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:50.800 my way. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.240 You know, as parents, you'll do anything for your children, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.320 especially on their birthday. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.679 How much more were your heavenly father make things happen 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:02.080 for you? 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.800 Ask him for your dreams, ask him to turn that 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.919 child around, ask him for you healing. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.639 You're not inconveniencing God, but. 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.280 Joel, God's got bigger things to deal with in me. No, 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.000 you are God's biggest deal. You're the apple of his eyes. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.800 You're his most prized possession. Just like I ran all 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.920 over the city to find that action figure to give 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:24.560 my son what. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.760 He was dreaming about on his birthday. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.480 God will move heaven and earth to bring about his 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.160 destiny in your life. 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:33.320 There to ask big. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:38.080 Too often, instead of approaching God like it's our birthday, 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.200 believing that he'll do something special, we do just the opposite. Joel, 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.600 I can't ask for what I really want. That wouldn't 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.240 be right, that'd be greedy, that'd be selfish. The scripture says, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.480 it is the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.920 Nothing makes God any happier than for him to see 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.480 you step up to who you were created to be. 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.480 It says to today is your birthday. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:02.400 What do you want? 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.400 Notice today is always in the present. When you get 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.480 up tomorrow morning, God is saying, today is your birthday. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.320 Two weeks from now, today is your birthday. Seven years 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.560 from now, today is your birthday. Every morning when you 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.919 get up, Just imagine God saying, happy birthday, son, Happy 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.080 birthday daughter. Why does he do this so you'll have 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.639 the boldness to ask for things that you wouldn't normally 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.879 ask for it. When I received word that the Compact 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.679 Center was coming available, something ignited on the inside. 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:35.760 I knew it was. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.960 Supposed to be ours, but every voice said it's never 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.439 going to happen. It's too big. Joel, you don't deserve it. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.840 Who do you think you are to even ask for it? 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.639 Instead of believing those lies, I did what I'm asking 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.919 you to do. I went to God like it was 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.040 my birthday. I said, God, I know this is far 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.800 out Normally I'd never asked for it, But God, I 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.320 believe you put this in our path is the part 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.320 of my destiny. So God, I'm asking you to make 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:04.680 a way, even though I. 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:05.879 Don't see away. 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.160 What's interesting, all of the big things I've ever asked for, 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.080 I've never once felt like God has said, Joel, you 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.240 got a lot of nerve, man, what are you doing 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:17.000 ask for him for that? 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:18.199 Just the opposite. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.120 Down here, I can feel God whispering, Joel. I love 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.920 the fact that you dare to ask big. I love 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.160 the fact that you believe that I can do the impossible. 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.040 And of course you know, everything I've asked for hasn't 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.720 come to pass. But the point is, if you'll go 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:38.800 to God with childlike faith, believing that it's your birthday, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.600 asking for things that you wouldn't normally ask for, there 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.879 will be times that you see God show out in 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.800 your life in ways greater than you ever imagine. This 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:54.000 is what Solomon did in Psalm seventy two. He prayed 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.320 what seemed to be a very self centered prayer. He 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:00.440 asked God to make him well known, that his fame 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.800 would spread throughout the land, that wealth and honor of 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.840 other nations would be brought to him, that kings and 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.000 queens would bow down before him. You would think God 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.360 would say, Solomon, what's wrong with you? 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:14.080 I'm not gonna make you famous. 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.439 I'm not gonna give you this honor, wealth, influence. 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:21.360 You need to learn some humility. But God didn't rebuke him. 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.040 God didn't tell him he was selfish and greedy. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:28.520 God did exactly what he asked for. Solomon became one 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.440 of the most famous people of his day. The Queen, 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.639 if she became, bowed down before him, brought him gold 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:35.440 and silver. 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:36.880 Here's the key. 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:42.040 The reason God answered that bold prayer is because Solomon 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.280 went on to say, God, if you'll make my name famous, 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:49.760 if you'll give me influence and wealth, then I will 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:52.800 use it to help the widows, to take care of 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:56.080 the orphans, to bring justice to the oppress, to give 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:57.280 a voice to those that. 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:58.480 Don't have any voice. 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:02.119 He asked big, not just so he would look impressive, 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.359 drive the fanciest chariot, live in the biggest palace. It 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.440 was so he could lift the fallen, restore the broken, 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:13.360 help the hrding to advance God's kingdom. God has no 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:19.240 problem giving you influence, honor, wealth, even fame, as long 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:23.520 as your dream in some way is connected to helping others, 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.359 to making this world a better place. And God is 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:30.280 raising up a new generation of Solomon's people that have 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:34.479 the boldness to say, God, make me famous in my field. 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:37.400 Let my gifts and talents stand out. 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:41.600 Let my work be so excellent, so inspiring, that people 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.000 all around me know who I am. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:44.840 Not for my. 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:48.480 Glory, but so I can use my influence to advance 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:55.720 your kingdom. Whatever field you're in, medicine, seals, construction, accounting, teaching, 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:59.000 I dare you to pray, God make me famous in 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:02.679 my field, let me shine, give me influence. 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:03.920 If you're an. 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:09.159 Architect, God give me ideas, creativity, designs that stand out. 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:13.080 Then use your influence to design the boy's home, design 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:13.919 the orphanage. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:16.800 You're a mechanic, God make me famous. 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.399 Let me be so skilled, have so much expertise that 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:23.200 people come to me to see how it's done. Then 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.919 use your influence to fix the single mom's car, to 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:29.120 mentor other young men, teach them how to do it. 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:32.840 You're in the medical profession, God make me famous. Let 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:37.960 me develop procedures that benefit mankind. Then use that influence 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:39.560 to help those that can't afford it. 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:42.240 There's no limit to what God. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.920 Would do for you if you'll use what He's given 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:49.119 you to help others. One time I was playing basketball 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:51.359 with some friends and I had to leave early to 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:52.680 go to a doctor's appointment. 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:54.400 A teammate of mine. 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:56.520 Works in the medical field, and he asked me who 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.439 I was going to see. I said, doctor Price, a 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:02.200 friend of mine. He kind of looked up and said 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:06.200 the doctor Price. I said, no, just doctor Price. I've 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.520 known him for thirty years. He said, is it the 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:11.000 doctor Price that's in infectious medicine? 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:12.200 I said, yes, that's him. 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:16.000 He said, all man, he's the best. He's famous. People 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:18.920 come to see him from all over. I thought, man, 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:22.280 I should start treating him better. But you know what 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:26.720 doctor Price does with his quote, fame, his wealth, his influence. 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:30.520 He uses it to help needy people in third world countries. 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:33.480 Every time you turn around, he and his family are 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:37.400 coming back from Africa. The organization that he started has 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:41.359 donated over a billion dollars worth of medical supplies. They 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:45.880 vaccinated millions of children. A few years back, Tom Shoes 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:50.440 gave him a million pairs of children's shoes. Doctor Price 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:53.440 never dreamed he would be where he is today. God 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:57.479 made him famous, not TMZ famous, famous in his field. 0:25:58.320 --> 0:25:59.800 I wonder what would happen. 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:04.359 If you would dare pray, God, make me famous, God 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:06.840 make me to stand out, so I can make a 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:10.000 big difference in this world. There's a young man that 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:13.760 attends here named Troy. He comes from a single parent family, 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:17.000 and his mother has brought him and his brother to 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:19.080 church since they were a little child. 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:22.439 From the time he was a little boy, he's always 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:24.000 had a dream to go to college. 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:27.760 In the natural didn't seem like this single mom would 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:31.160 be able to afford that all the odds were against them. 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:35.200 But through prayer, hard work, God's favor good grades, both 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:41.040 he and his brother received scholarships. Troy's was to Georgetown University, 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:44.520 not only a scholarship for his undergraduate work, but for 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:50.280 his master's degree and his doctorate degree. He's studying political science. 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:54.159 His goal is to one day become the Secretary of 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:58.879 State of US like Solomon. He's prayed, God, give me influence, 0:26:59.160 --> 0:27:01.600 give me not toarrie, so I can make the world 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.560 a better place. A while back, I was driving on 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:07.800 the freeway. I saw this billboard from a junior college. 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.720 It's a picture of Troy. If the captain reads me, 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:18.520 Troy our future Secretary of say, friends, God can make things. 0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:20.520 Happen that you could never make happen. 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:24.879 He'll make you famous so you can use your influence 0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:27.360 not only to reach your goals, so. 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:30.520 You can help others along the way. Now do your part. 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:34.280 No more sick prayers, no more weak prayers. Get rid 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:37.760 of that slave mentality. Go to God like it's your birthday. 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.320 Ask him for your dreams like jbz dare to say, 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:45.760 God bless me. Indeed, if you'll do this, I believe 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:49.359 and declare like Solomon, God is going to give you 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:54.520 more influence, more resources, more notoriety. You're going to accomplish 0:27:54.520 --> 0:27:58.320 your dreams, rise higher than you ever thought possible, and. 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:00.679 Become everything God he needed you to be. 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:03.840 In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:08.080 am in today? We never like to close our broadcast 0:28:08.280 --> 0:28:11.280 without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:12.000 of your life. 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:16.639 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:21.720 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 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