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Well, here's Chip with today's message, God's dream for your life.

I want you to know that every parent has a dream for your child. I want you to think back if you're a parent, if not just listen and think about this is what your parents were thinking.

Every parent, I want you to go back to that firstborn. You didn't have any kids and your wife was pregnant or you were were the wife, and you are pregnant.

And you thought about all the things that went through your mind about what this little boy

or what this little girl might be like, and the dreams and the thoughts and the hopes and the

aspirations.

And what I want to tell you is that God has a dream for his children, but what we do is we get that sort of theological over there, and somehow we think he's more like the transcendent force out there someday, some way, and there's rules and standard to live up to.

And so for you to capture the emotion of how God feels, I want to share a very brief

and personal story about when I understood how deeply God plants desires and dreams for us,

for our kids. It was our firstborn for Teresa and myself. We were to banquet. Middle of the banquet, Teresa says, Chip, it is time.

I said, Teresa, let's go.

You know, you don't know what you're doing.

The contractions had been in about three hours.

We go home, get things set up.

We go to Baylor Hospital.

For the next 27 hours, Teresa and I will be together.

It's a long labor.

There's complications.

For a number of reasons they can't take the baby,

they find out something's wrong.

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