Take action right in the middle of your crisis: allow this challenge to increase your capacity - not make you shrink back, take a break, pull back! Enlarge now - that's the work of faith.

No matter what shake-up is happening in your world, you can counter it with the song of faith.

To reach our goal, we need three things: sacrifice, miracles and everyone. Nothing meaningful and great is ever built without sacrifice, without sacrifice there can be no miracle and everyone has to be involved.

Guest speaker Dave Olson: We have to get involved in life together - and each of us brings a unique flavor that makes a difference. Sometimes, ingredients even have to be crused to be tasted.

Guest speaker Pastor Chris Pringle brings an uplifting message about natural and spiritual sons and daughers and the blessings that will come from giving to God and his house.

If we see God as a friend, we set the parameters of the relationship as conditional. But our greatest relationship needs all require unconditional love, forgiveness and acceptance. How do you connect with God? As a friend or as your father?

Before we present our dreams to God to have him bless them, let's first make sure they are real and right.

The determination of your purpose - the thing "I must" do - doesn't come by scheming, planning or deciding - it comes by revelation. You don't work it out in a classroom and you don't choose it as a starry eyed kid or at a career vocation class. You find it on your journey out in the field like an explorer.

Gaps of seemingly little supernatural activity in our outward circumstances - as Jesus experienced between his birth and start of his ministry at age 30 - can be interpreted as barrenness; but during these times God is growing you bigger on the inside.

Jesus grew in wisdom and favor with God and men because he was obedient to his earthly parents and to His heavenly Father - let's seek for a commitment to grow in wisdom this year as we experience more supernatural activity around and working in and through our lives.