God isn’t offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. God answers prayers, keeps His promises, performs miracles, and fulfills dreams. That is who He is. That is what He does. God is for you! (excerpts from Mark Batterson’s book “Circle Maker”) Life can be so heavy that we can stop dreaming. We can actually start to live in a spirit of fear or timidity… fearing what might come next. I understand… I have been there. When life seems to continue to pour out trials, one after another, we can start to believe that nothing good can happen again. Last year, when we had our “Dream Big” night with our family, we had no idea what this year would hold. We had our 2nd annual “Dream Big” Night 2015 a couple of weeks ago. We marveled at the way God had taken care of our Coco during and after her surgery… so thankful that she is healing and doing well now. We thanked God for the way He had answered some of our prayers…above and beyond what we had imagined. We are so grateful for the way He has worked in our lives and in our kid’s lives this year. However,we still have unanswered prayers. We still have roadblocks. We still have dreams that we all hold dear in our hearts…yet to be fulfilled. We still deal with disappointment…yet… we, again this year choose to believe… to remain confident of this: that we will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living… We will wait for the Lord, we will be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. (taken from Psalm 27:13 and 14)

“Dear Lord, please pour hope into our hearts. As we serve You, we refuse the hopelessness and despair that the enemy tries to intimidate us with. We have seen You work mightily before. May we see You do it again. May we see a mighty move of Your spirit in our churches, our families and in our ministries. May we see hope rise in our hearts. May we start to believe again that nothing is impossible with YOU! May our dreams start to match the dreams You for us. May we not live in less than Your Plan and Will for our lives. May we see You glorified. May we see souls rescued and saved. May we see our children following YOU…responding to YOU… may we see HARVEST AND REVIVAL… Praise be unto our Lord! The Lord is our strength and shield; our hearts trust in Him and we are helped. Our hearts will leap for joy and we will give thanks to Him!”