Thank You!

Hi There folks!

Well, thanks for the comments and e-amils on last nights blog. Totally all make sense, I love FEEDBACK!

Anyway, a little story, I was at TNB rehearsal tonight and on the way I looked in my book bag, and there was a birthday card! Signed by a few friends from Fredericton and filled to the side with inspiring lyrics that all mean something very valuable to me, I don't know, but I think that is the best birthday present yet! Thanks guys, it means the world.

So, I think in tonight's blog I just want to share some verses that were in this card, some of them I think I may have blogged before. But hey, this is God speaking directly to YOU! I think you can hear it again :)

Jeremiah 29:13 ---

When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed." God's Decree. "I'll turn things around for you. I'll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you"—God's Decree—"bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.

Psalms 42:1-3 ---

I want to drink God,
deep draughts of God.
I'm thirsty for God-alive.

Galations 5: 19-23 ---

It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.

This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

^22-23But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

^23-24Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.

Psalms 27: 7-14 ----

^7-9 Listen, God, I'm calling at the top of my lungs:
"Be good to me! Answer me!"
When my heart whispered, "Seek God,"
my whole being replied,
"I'm seeking him!"
Don't hide from me now!

^9-10 You've always been right there for me;
don't turn your back on me now.
Don't throw me out, don't abandon me;
you've always kept the door open.
My father and mother walked out and left me,
but God took me in.

^11-12 Point me down your highway, God;
direct me along a well-lighted street;
show my enemies whose side you're on.
Don't throw me to the dogs,
those liars who are out to get me,
filling the air with their threats.

^13-14 I'm sure now I'll see God's goodness
in the exuberant earth.
Stay with God!
Take heart. Don't quit.
I'll say it again:
Stay with God.

There is so much more jam packed into this card, I can't say enough how much I love it.

Stay with me God, if I make it through this, I can make it through even tougher times, I will grow stronger, encourage me, give me some good feeling power, energize my soul! Show me your love,

Colton