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I want to give you five prayers to pray
this week real quick and I that God can
speak to you and he can bless you if you
will release your faith for these five
things I almost felt like I wanted to
give advice to especially young people
and to college students and
businesspeople you know that listening
to me God has a plan for your life and
there are five things that I want to
give you today that are necessary for
that plan to be fulfilled that God has
for your life you might want to jot them
down you might want to pull out your
iPhone and take notes and really do it
don’t be don’t be checking your grocery
list really do it but I want to give you
quickly some thoughts and they all begin
with a P so that it would be easy for
you to remember how to pray this week
first thing I want you to pray about is
I want you to get God’s perspective on
your life and on what you’re facing
right now God’s perspective it’s what
the Prophet said to the servant when the
servant came running in to Elisha and he
said we’re surrounded by the Assyrians
they’re coming from every direction what
are we gonna do what are we gonna do and
he said God opened his eyes in other
words change his perspective he’s
looking at the enemy but God if you’ll
open his eyes he’ll see the big picture
he’ll get God’s perspective and when God
opened his eyes he looked at the same
situation but this time he saw the enemy
but he also saw a band of angels coming
down from the heels in Chariots of Fire
and he wasn’t surrounded by the
Assyrians God had the enemy surrounded
and was about to deliver them into their
hand you’re either looking at the enemy
or you’re looking at the angels you’re
looking at the problem or you’re looking
at the promises and one thing that we
need if we’re going to live a victorious
powerful life is the right perspective
you have to see what God sees No
what you’re going through don’t get your
eyes on the littleness of your problem
he’s working all things there’s a big
picture to every trial to every
challenge to every adversity we go
through there’s a big picture and he’s
working all things together for the good
to them that are called according to his
purpose perspective is important and
pray every day God showed me the big
picture show me and help me to keep
seeing the big perspective of what you
see not just the temporal situation that
is that is causing me to be fearful and
worried get God’s and see God’s
perspective number two be a person a
prayer if you want victory in your life
you got to constantly pray Lord open my
eyes and let me see the best and let me
see the good and let me see the bigness
of what your plan and purpose is for my
life secondly you got to be a person a
prayer be prayerful what other people
call a coincidence when we pray
coincidences happen when we don’t they
don’t happen would you repeat that after
me when we pray coincidences happen when
we don’t pray they don’t happen and
that’s why you need to take on the push
philosophy in your prayer life push
stands for pray until something happens
because when we pray coincidences happen
what a coincidence that I was needing
the car and somebody gives me a car or I
find a great deal on a car what a
coincidence has come to some people’s
lives and other people never have them
and I am convinced that I could stand up
here and tell you time after time after
time when I have prayed for the very
thing and God made it come into my life
be prayerful everybody say be prayerful
don’t quit praying pray until something
happens push don’t just pray a day don’t
just pray a week don’t just pray a month
but pray until something happens
gain God’s perspective see the big
picture see what God sees number two be
prayerful be a person of prayer and then
number three you have to you have to
develop your potential God has given
every one of you amazing potential but
that does not mean that you will reach
your potential there is a Japanese fish
called the koi KO I fish the koi fish is
an amazing fish because it is majorly
influenced by its environment let me
tell you what I mean
do you know that they can take a koi
fish and put it in a small fish tank and
that koi fish will not grow any bigger
than four inches but if you take that
same fish out of the fish tank and put
it in a larger fish tank it’ll grow
eight inches if you take it and put it
in a pond it’ll grow 18 inches even
though it stayed the same size as long
as it was in the smaller fish bowl and
if you take it out of the pond and put
it into a lake it will grow
42 inches the point is this it has every
koi fish has the potential to be 42
inches long but many of them only grow
to 4 inches because of the environment
that they are kept in and the same is
true for us we have enormous potential
but if you don’t ever get exposed to
greater things and ever get challenged
to greater things and if all you do is
stay a small fish in a small bowl
instead of getting around people that
are smarter doing more of doing bigger
things stretching you causing you
reach and use your faith and equip
yourself you have enormous potential the
Bible puts it like this the same power
that raised Jesus from the dead dwells
in you
so don’t live in a fishbowl when God has
greater things for you do you know that
there was a there was a an ice factory
that caught on fire and yet they had to
call the firefighters to come put the
fire out even though they had at the ice
factory all the h2o that they needed the
problem was all of its assets were
frozen and I’m saying to you that you
have enormous potential but as long as
what you have is not being challenged
and it’s frozen and it’s not being
released you cannot be what God intended
you to be
everybody say God release my potential
release my potential you have huge
potential be prayerful then pray God
release my potential God keep
challenging me let me move from faith
under faith from victory under victory
don’t let me settle for a little
fishtank when you have greater things
from me and bigger things for me but
always be enlarging they always be
releasing my potential get God’s
perspective see the big picture be
prayerful I want you to believe for God
to release huge potential in you and
number four be positive when David saw
Goliath he had two possible reactions he
could have ran out and said he’s so big
I got a run for my life but instead he
ran out and he said he’s so big there’s
no way I can miss that big corn-fed
bigger headed fool I’m gonna take him
out with a rock
be positive be incredibly positive I’ll
tell you you’ll stand out in life if
bill and Sue have a problem and Bill and
Mary have a problem and Bill and Jack
have a problem and Bill and Sam have a
problem bill is the problem and anytime
I’ve learned this about negative people
if you see somebody hanging out with
negative people all the negative people
go to this person it’s because that
person is a negative person you can
count it you mark it down it’s always
true that’s alone you attract what you
are be positive positive things happen
don’t get down don’t get discouraged
don’t get depressed don’t get suicidal
don’t give up don’t it doesn’t matter
how life changes and what seasons happen
be positive be positive incredibly
positive then I want to say number 5
expect God’s provision expect your God’s
provision because God owns everything
say man I’m telling you when I started
out I didn’t have nothing I was broker
than the 10 commandments I didn’t have I
didn’t have anything but I have learned
that God owns it all there was a man in
an airport and he was waiting on his
flight and he had some time and it
wasn’t real hungry he just wanted a
little snack so he got him a cup of
coffee and bought him a little bag of of
little doughnuts and he started to sit
down he couldn’t find a table all the
tables were full and there was only one
table in the little area and he walked
over as many times you probably done
this if you’ve been on been in the
airport and it’s not uncommon for
somebody you don’t even know to be
sitting at one end of the table and and
you said at the other end and this guy
he walks over with his coffee sets it on
the table takes his coat off puts it on
the chair sets his bag down and sits
down in the chair takes the lid off
takes a sip
Coffee pulls out his newspaper reaches
over and grabs the bag of doughnuts and
takes a doughnut out it starts eating it
and sipping his coffee and all of a
sudden the guy on the other end of the
table reaches his hand across the table
into the man’s bag of doughnuts and
takes a doughnut and smiles and starts
eating one of the doughnuts well I have
never in my life can you believe the
audacity of this jerk eating my doughnut
so the man grabs the bag of the doughnut
and pulls it all the way to the edge and
turns his body to send a body posture
message as if to say you leave my
doughnuts alone and he straightens his
newspaper and reaches in and eats
another doughnut and all of a sudden the
man stands up stretches all the way
across the table grabs another doughnut
out smiles at the man and takes another
bite and starts eating another doughnut
he cannot believe in he really wants to
fight him and and say something to him
but he is pretty obvious the guy must
not all be there he is one banana short
of a fruit basket is something’s not
right with this felon he may be violent
so he holds his peace but he’s really
ticked and after the guy eats his second
doughnut he stands up and grabs his
stuff and and walks off to catch his
flight and the guy want you doughnut
thief he’s thinking what a jerk you are
and then he notices the time it’s time
for his flight so he stands up and puts
his coat on and starts to reach down to
pick up his bag and when he does on top
of his suitcase is his bag of doughnuts
I’ll wait on you
he thought the man was taking from him
when really the man was sharing because
the donuts were not his he had all the
doughnuts and he was sharing his
doughnuts with a smile with a jerk now I
want to make the point here it is God
owns all the doughnuts what do you mean
you won’t one out of my 10 doughnuts God
owns we look at God like he’s some kind
of freak and saying give me 1 out of 10
I give you 10 doughnuts every week all I
want in return is one doughnut God come
on say it with me God owns all the
doughnuts if he wants to he can take all
the doughnuts off your plate and just
walk away but he’s a good god and he
keeps blessing you and blessing you and
you eat five six seven eight nine
doughnuts and then you say that’s too
much to give to the one who owns them
all you eat and eat and eat and all you
have is the crumbs off the Krispy Kreme
and when the offering bag comes by you
do like that when God owns it all he
owns it all we’re supposed to give him
all of our time all of our talent all of
our treasure what does that mean that
means that that we’re just stewards of
it and Lord I put you first in these
areas of my life
what I’m saying to you that it’s more
than mouth service that if you want him
to be your provider if you will put God
first he will bless your life and all of
these things will follow you there are
five questions that you need to ask if
you want to know if Jesus is first in
your life if you want to know if he’s
first in your
no no playing games this morning we all
say he’s first I love him if he is not
first in these areas of your life he is
not first in your life and let’s use the
word first F IR s T is he first in your
finances four out of the scripture said
for where a man’s Treasury is there his
heart will be is he first in your
finances don’t say he’s first if he’s
not first in your finances do you honor
him with the tithe do you honor him with
your giving do you honor him this is not
a commercial this is not a preacher
asking for your money this is the Word
of God
16 out of 38 parables that Jesus taught
dealt with money dealt with stewardship
dealt with what you do with your
resources because he understood the love
of money is the root of all evil and the
tenth commandment is thou shalt not
covet which is another word for covet is
materialism there’s nothing wrong with
having things but God does not want you
to worship things he wants you to put
him first and we are stewards of
everything that he gives us he owns all
the donuts is he first in your the I the
elf is finance is he first in your
interest in your interest the I in first
I mean what are you interested in what
what what preoccupies your whole week
what what are you what kind of books and
magazines and stuff and how much time do
you spend is he a major part of your
interest if he’s not a major part of
your interest if you don’t have interest
in him all week long he’s not first in
your life if you if you’ve got eight
hours for Facebook and in seven hours
for this in three hours for that and all
of these interests that we have but
somehow Jesus gets lost
the trunk he’s first in your finances
he’s first in your interest he’s first
in your relationships the R stands for
relationships in the in the letters of
first is he first in your relationship
is he first do you put him first do you
just date anybody you won’t and it has
nothing to do you say with your
spiritual life that is not making Jesus
first be not unequally yoked with
unbelievers and if he’s not first in
your relationship he’s not first in your
life well I’m going to flirt to convert
and that he’s a heathen but but I
believe I can just flirt and convert and
he’ll get saved that’s not what the
Bible teaches I don’t care how many
muscles he has I don’t care how good she
looks I don’t care how rich they are I
don’t care how pretty they are if they
don’t love Jesus Christ you have no
business being with them first in your
finances first in your interest first in
your relationships first the S stands
for in your schedule what’s your
schedule like what’s your day like if
he’s not in your day if he’s not in your
schedule if there’s no prayer time if
there’s no Bible reading if there’s no
feeding of your spirit if there’s
nothing that hardly acknowledges God all
week long all you are is a it is a true
Christian you you have him in the car in
the trunk and you pull him out happy
hour every Sunday morning I’m telling
you that he will affect your schedule
every day there ought to be a prayer
place every day there ought to be time
spending the word did you know that if
you read the Bible 15 minutes a day you
can read the entire Bible through every
year it doesn’t take huge amounts of
time but it’s just scheduling it in and
saying
I must read the Bible and I must pray
these are important things and if you’ll
do it if you’ll read the word the word
will read you and dusty Bibles lead the
dirty lives and if you’ll read this book
it’ll clean you it’ll cleanse you it’ll
sanctify you it’ll set you free it’ll
help you it’ll strengthen you and you
may not need that word that you read
that morning you it may mean are that
night when you go to bed and you open it
up it may mean nothing to you you just
read it but the next day at about three
o’clock when all hell’s breaking loose
and the Holy Spirit of remind you of the
very words you read last night no weapon
formed against you shall prosper and
suddenly a confidence comes because
you’ve had him in your schedule and then
lastly boy this may be the biggest test
of whether or not God is first in your
life the T in the word first stands for
is he first in your trouble what do you
do in trouble comes do you turn to a
bottle do you turn to appeal do you turn
to screaming do you turn to anger do you
turn to depression do you turn to fear
and worry and anxiety the real sign that
Jesus is first in your life you you meet
someone who he’s first and it’s not that
they’re exempt from trouble but when
trouble comes they know who to run to I
will lift up my heat my eyes unto the
hills from which cometh my help I’ll run
and cling to him in trouble my first
salt is not the bank my first thought is
not the doctor my first thought
it’s not this or that my first thought
is Jesus who do you run to in trouble
that’s a real sign of whether or not
he’s first and if he’s first then you
get his perspective you’ll see what he
sees if he’s first you’ll be prayerful
if he’s first you realize that you have
huge potential if he’s first you’ll be
positive
and if he’s first you will see his
miraculous provision because he owns all
the donuts
and when he’s first he will bless you in
ways that will astound you so I’m
speaking that over your life and I’m
telling you pray this this week God make
me positive God let me see from your
perspective
let me see what my natural eye is not
focusing on let me see what you see God
show me things show me Lord show me how
to be prayerful let me be prayerful this
week let me be positive let me be Oh God
see that provision that I know you have
I’m telling you if you’ll pray it God
can do it I don’t believe any of you are
here by accident today I believe today
can be the most significant day as it
was in the first service in many
people’s lives if you will turn your
life over to Jesus Christ if you will
make him first if you will say Lord you
don’t deserve a second place a back seat
a trunk or out on the side of the road
hitchhiking but I want you to be my
sovereign Lord I will put you first in
my life I’m telling you if you’ll do
that you’ll see the potential and the
miracle that God has for your life if
you believe that say man I want to pray
with you today as you are watching this
program I don’t believe it’s by chance I
believe in Kingdom connections I believe
that God can can know what you’re going
through and send a preacher into your
life to speak a message that speaks to
that situation in your life and I
believe why you’ve been listening today
that God has done that in your life so
why not open up your heart why not why
not just start all over today and give
your life completely to Jesus Christ
sell out maybe you never prayed that
prayer I want to pray with you right
where you are
you can experience the power and
presence of Jesus Christ he always comes
where he’s invited so open up and invite
him pray this prayer say Lord Jesus I
give you my life I surrender everything
to you forgive me cleanse me of my sins
through your precious blood I receive it
by faith I believe in you I believe you
died and rose again and I believe you’ve
come to live in me today with me you’ll
never leave me
you’ll never forsake me in Jesus name
that’s a powerful name in Jesus name and
I speak healing and health over your
body today if you’re sick just be healed
by the stripes of Jesus Christ amen life
has a way of weighing us down we want to
live in life’s full of hope and joy but
the problems we face often lead only the
hopelessness but we can overcome God
offers a promise instead of a problem
all we have to do is pray in faith and
watch as he opens our eyes to his
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ago God led me to come and begin a
church here in Orange County free chapel
Orange County we’ve seen that church
explode and now thousands of people call
free chapel home I’m standing in the
Bren Center at the University of
California and Irv
right here in Orange County and we are
believing that God is going to give us a
harvest in this room as a matter of fact
on September the 21st at 6:00 p.m. we’re
coming together as a church family all
of our services and all of our people
are coming but we’re opening up free of
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my friend is we’re hoping multi Grammy
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