It taught me to embrace the vision God has for my life; pray in accordance with the vision He’s given, His will expressed within His Word, and His past feats and faithfulness; and to take steps forward in audacious faith to see the vision accomplished.

One such vision God has given me is to pastor a vibrant, growing, and influential church.

I know that God wants His Kingdom to grow. I know that it’s not His will that any should perish. And I know that He has put a vision in my heart to be a part of His mission of seeking and saving the lost.

I know that God used a ragtag group of His followers to start a revolution that changed the world (Acts 1 and 2). I know that God is able to split a sea in half, make the sun stand still, and speak the cosmos into existence. And I know that God is abundantly able to do the seemingly impossible in the world today to fulfill the vision He has given to me, and to each and everyone of you.

Because God wants His Kingdom to grow, because He’s capable of doing all things, and because He has given me a vision; I am praying Sun Stand Still prayers that God will use me to advance His Kingdom through a growing, vibrant, and influential church that I pastor.

Because I am praying for what God is pleased in; I am stepping out in audacious faith to see this come to pass. I’m giving everything I’ve got to the church God has placed me in, expecting that He will do what is supernatural and what seems to be impossible to see this church become vibrant, growing, and healthy!

I am specifically praying that God would bless my church body with a new facility to worship in that will accommodate the growth that God is going to give us. I am praying for a facility at least double the size of what we have now and for one that has a more modern, non-traditional look compared to the building we currently have. I am also praying that the location is one in which tens of thousands of people drive by daily so our impact can be great and our facility easy to find.

This seems a little weird, but as I was reading Sun Stand Still I felt as though God was prompting me to ask Him for the facility that was most desirable for our church. I felt as if God was leading me to pray for the building I saw most fit. I was reluctant to think about such things let alone pray for them, but after all, this was the God who wants the vision He has given me to succeed and the God who is able to do abundantly great things.

So if money was not an issue (which it’s not for God), what place would I ask God for? What location is the best? What building has the most space and the most potential for remodeling? What places are even available now? Was this too crazy of a prayer to ask of God?! What if this prayer isn’t answered in the way I’m expecting? What if this is all in my mind?!

These were all valid questions, but I prayed for the place God led me to pray for! I even had a few back-up locations! So tomorrow, I’ll share with you the locations God laid on my heart.

So last night i had an extraordinarily vivid dream.

In the dream I opened up my laptop and went to the Fox News Website. At the same time I was watching tv. On tv was, again, the Fox New Channel. On tv they were reporting some kind of devastating fires in the Los Angeles area.

While I was watching that story on the news, the Fox News Website’s Home Page changed with a breaking news story. The entire Home Page was covered with a picture that looked exactly as the one does that I created for this post.

The television news changed to this story immediately after seeing the image on my computer. And although I didn’t read the story on the internet and I couldn’t hear the story on the television in my dream; I knoew what had happened for some strange reason.

There had been two devastating earthquales in the Los Angeles area. One was somewhere between Downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach. It registered as a 6.1 on the Rictor Scale. The other one was somewhere in the South-Central portion of Orange County South of Irvine and Lake Forest. It registered as a massive 8.1 on the Rictor Scale.

It was unclear if one of the quakes was an aftershock to the other, but it was believed that they were two seperate quakes that happened nearly simultaneiusly. All I know is that they were completely devastating and there was no news feeds coming out the area at the time I was watching. I had this very forboding feeling in the dream that there was a possibillity of part of Southern California breaking off into the Pacific Ocean.

Last week I had a dream that we were near Disneyland, but couldn’t continue our trip there because of massive riots and an enormous fire accompanied by explosions happening near the anaheim area.

I am in no way saying that I am a prophet or that the Lord gave me this dream. Sometimes dreams do have a tendancy to be a warning about a future event though- the story of Joseph anyone? I am just saying that it was a very weird and vivid dream that seemed as if it was something that was going to happen and I woke up fearful both times. I just decided to post it here on my blog in case something really did happen. That way there would be record and proof of it.

But I certainly hope none of these things happen. I guess all I can do is pray- and maybe that’s why I had the dream.