Hello everybody. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. If you're joining us for the first time, or you've been listening every day for 10 years, we just want to say welcome, we love you, and we pray for you every day.

So we're continuing with this series called Daring Faith, The Key to Miracles.

And in this series, you're learning how to have a bold, unshakable faith that gives you courage to impact the world around you.

And if you're like me, you'd really like to be more bold and have more courage to share

your faith in Christ.

And now here's Rick with part one of a message called Daring to

Imagine. I want us to continue with part four of Daring Faith, the key to miracles. One of the

greatest gifts that God has given you is the gift of imagination. It is the ability to see things

in your mind, to think and to create with mental

pictures in your mind. God gave you this gift of imagination, and the reason you have this gift

is because God imagines. The Bible tells us that God imagined the entire universe, and it was

created. He thought it up before it became reality.

The Bible says God has imagined all of history. He's already seen it all happen, even before it's

happened, because he thought it up. He imagined it in advance. The Bible calls that God's

foreign knowledge. And you are most like your creator when you are being creative. Does that make

sense? You are most like your creator, God, when you are being creative. And God gave you the

ability to create with your imagination. And when you use your imagination for good and for God,

God smiles. Now, everything starts with imagination.

Nothing becomes reality unless first somebody thinks it up.

This building did not become a reality until somebody had to think it up in their mind first.

Every great business, every great company, every piece of art, every musical note,

somebody imagined it before it became reality. Nothing happens unless somebody imagines it.

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