Hope you are all doing fantastic! I mean just outrageous! You know what I am talking about. Life to the fullest because that is what He came to give us. If you are like me though, you often times do not walk in what He came to give you and allow circumstances, "stuff" to defeat you or cloud your vision. Dare to live outrageous today, no matter what your circumstances. Outrageous means radical, extremist, excessive, intense, severe, tremendous. Guess what? The opposite of that is insignificant, moderate, irrelevant, moderate and here's one, constrained. Sounds boring to me. However, day after day, I tend to live like this for whatever reason but when I see and read about the life of Jesus, I see none of that. I see such extremism, such intensity with such a radical tremendous love for the Father and for what His mission was about. You know, why He was sent here, for you and me. To restore you and me. Every moment, every hour that he breathed was done with such passion. You may not have always seen such fanfare but the intensity that everyday life was given was amazing. You know, he didn't come with all the hooplah but I know that He was sent with every bit of Outrageous love for you and me that could be imagined and He grew up with one aim and that was to do his Father's will and it was to restore you and I to fellowship with Him and why do we so wonder why Satan so fervently, intensely does everything he can to keep us from having that fellowship with our Saviour. He knows what it will bring about, just as Jesus did. It brings LIFE spirit-filled, God-filled life that brings, joy, peace, contentment in the midst of whatever we face. I mean WHATEVER! We may not see it all then, just as the disciples didn't when Jesus hung there on that cross, but when I can be in the midst of an awful time, I can remember "He came that I might have life and have it abundantly." Just think if they had remembered that when they were staring at Him dead on the cross, dead in the grave. I don't think they would have been all hiding up in some room. You know satan is there to use the circumstances, trials, just every day stuff of life to rob from me. For the word says he is a thief. The important thing is to stop the thief at the door and begin to praise The Life Giver and right there with all of those dry bones surrounding me, I can speak with the word of God and say "Life abundantly" . Jesus came just for that as it says in John 10:10. So....I say to you today that where it is dry, brittle, dead, discouraged whatever it may be that He was, is and will always be Life and no matter what Satan tries to put in your head begin to thank and praise Him that He loves you so much and if you can't see it in the midst of your darkness, He will bring life forth. WOO HOO!