Emetabba:

Some days I am still shaking my head…

How can we be here?

…there is no way this will really happen

Just another closed door…

Just another stalled effort.

But we have come so far…

And yet…we have such a ways to go.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and ease as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13

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I have dreamed of this moment…

Almost ten years I have begged God.

I never dreamed it would have looked this way…but isn’t that how God works?

Soon, I will tell you our story.

Many are asking what happened to us? What happened to our effort? What happened to DRF and the pushing and the driving forward?

But God…

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31

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I sat in tears today…

I struggled to stay in the lines of the boxes through the tears…

so honored…

so humbled…

so undeserving.

Only God…

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

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Please pray for the steps ahead.

Ready yourself…we will need you.

I do not believe God will call you all to join us…He is specific on who He calls into battle and along for His work.

But I do believe He is readying His army.

Pray specifically if it will be you.

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Revelation 12:11

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Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. Psalm 130:5

Father lead us.

you receive the glory.

Amen