Happy Monday!

What a weekend that was! Something like 30 people started following Jesus for the very first time… PASSION WAS AWAKENED for a multitude of others-young and old, people will never be the same again! So many people sacrificed and united to do something great for this community. Between Re-Up 09 and Sunday morning @ Destiny Family Center… for me, it was a weekend for the chronicles!

Last night, during the final worship set… I looked around at some of the people who have been SO loyal to my family and to our ministry… and I was TOUCHED in such a big way! Really, we have some of the best friends in the whole wide world! There is no greater gift.

This weekend also helped me to see how HUMBLE and LOVING our church family has become over the past six months. Challenge always provides an opportunity for BRINGING UP OUR BEST… when we chose to let it RISE!

Cassie Wade, a dear friend and member of our church… she came up to me last night just before I preached… and she gave me a hug and said, “I just wanted you to know how much Ricky and I love you… and we’re praying for you… you’re gonna do great tonight!” You see what I’m saying here! What’s CRAZY is this: Cassie’s comment was ONLY ONE of something like 30 comments I received JUST LIKE THAT!

Another thing I noticed this weekend… is how little drama we’ve had lately… and how it doesn’t appear that anyone in the entire ministry is striving for power or fighting for recognition. This makes for a PEACEFUL life! God has kept me alive for victories too glorious for comprehension… and for doing life with the best of his best!

So this morning, I say thank you to all the KIND people in my life… for all the KIND people in this world. I say thank you to all the FAITHFUL, LOYAL people in this world. I say thank you especially, to the people in MY LIFE who LOVE me like CRAZY… to the people who demonstrate this love in so MANY HEART FELT ways each and every week.

Life is good for me these days… I’ve been blessed with BEAUTIFUL friends and great helpers of the bold vision we’re setting out to accomplish. The fruitfulness of our synergetic efforts these days is PROFOUND enough to bring me to tears!

I simply cannot fathom what the future holds when I consider the QUALITY of people in my life! I’m praying for you all this morning… with a happy and PEACEFUL heart!

Romans 1:8-9 Let me say first that I THANK MY GOD through Jesus Christ for ALL of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world. God knows how OFTEN I pray for you. Day and night I bring YOU and YOUR NEEDS in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about his Son.

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make a Difference… ALL DAY LONG!