Louis Vuitton Promises

A few years ago I had a series of God-dreams that funnily enough featured suitcases. I was travelling on different vehicles carrying my suitcases and God began to speak to me again about my future…

In suitcases we carry all our personal belongings and the things we need on life’s journey. God showed me that the suitcases represented the promises and plans he had for my life. In the dream he was giving me luxury designer suitcases. The very best; custom-made plans… The Louis Vuitton of promises! For those who are uninitiated in the fashion world, Louis Vuitton makes suitcases that are the top of the range and they are very, very expensive!*

2008 has been a bit of a Louis Vuitton year for me. Promises that I have carried in my heart for a very long time are starting to coming to pass and it has been amazing to watch. After farewelling a wonderful five-year-long season at Hillsong College, my ministry Awaken Your Dreams was birthed at the beginning of the year. We celebrated with a group of close friends and supporters at a launch party hosted by the newly formed AYD Board.

The year kicked off with a Young Adults camp by the beach with Bayside Church in Victoria. Feedback was encouraging as so many commented that they understood clearly how to hear the ‘sounds of God’ often for the first time. It was also wonderful to be able to minister across denominations during the year with the first of my seminars; The Other Side of the Conversation given at Grace Church (Church of Christ) in Nunawading, Melbourne.

The Awaken Your Dreams seminar was fully developed this year. As a half day workshop, it gives a biblical basis for hearing the voice of God through dreams and visions as well as guidelines for discernment and interpreting symbolic messages. One person asked, If God spoke so often to people in dreams in the Bible, how come I have never heard this before? Great question! We are missing out on one of God’s most powerful and creative methods of communication. He still speaks in dreams today. Within days of the seminar, I heard from three different attendees that they had just experienced supernatural dreams.

Of course the highlight of the year was my first overseas trip to Germany and Switzerland where I spoke in five different churches teaching seminars and preaching. I was doing my all-time favourite things - speaking on the topic I love and hiking in the Swiss Alps in between! It was a truly custom-made experience designed for me - the very best God gives.

When I was 21 years old, I prayed a radical prayer giving my life completely to God. At the time I feared that if I gave him everything, I would somehow lose out. My life would be a disappointment. How wrong I was! How unfounded my fears... God is a Louis Vuitton God. He gives the best. He already gave his best at Christmas time two thousand years ago. How will he not graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:32)

Thank you so much for all your love and support and friendship this year which means so much. May you know his very best this Christmas!

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things (Romans 8:32).

*This message is abridged from a new CD series to be released early in 2009.