Wow, it has been a really really long time since i have updated this thing.  Finally got a myspace, but i don't kno how much I am going to use it... but  yea life has deffinately taken a few turns, that I guess most of you already know about.  But today I was thinking about alot of things while skipping lunch and spending some time in the library with my Bible.  About how if we don't trust God in the good times, then how are can we say that we will trust Him in the bad? And who is to say that things can't get worse, or better for that matter? Or how about the fact that if we don't trust God, then we have no faith, and if we have no faith we have nothing....?  If we have no faith, then we have no hope, and with out hope we give up and simply die.  Like I have said before, I don't have drama in my life, I have Adventure.  And at the end of every adventure there is a good ending, no matter how bad it seems right now.  But the greatest part about an adventure is that all of the characters find out who they really are, and many times make magnificent changes for the better.  Whether life with God is considered a journey, a battle, a race, or an advennture, one thing is for certain;  we must go through the good and the bad no matter how bad or how good it gets.  It is like spiritual surgery, peeling away the disease that we were born with and slowly, yet painfully, healing us.

Well, thats my shpeel.  If any one at all read it, or at least acknowledged that I did something on xanga... could you please leave  a comment and let me know that you are there? I really don't think any one reads these anymore, and this is kind of a test run to see what all I can get away with saying.... hehe. ;)

Watch over us dear Father!

Watch over us, and give us strength.

I pray that You would pour down Your blessing on our school and our ministry.

Pave the way oh God.

Start changing the hearts of students, teachers and administrators now.

Thank You Jesus for all that You have already done!

What a wonderful surprise of your glory and might!

Come down and dwell in us Father.

Come and consume us with Your Fire, Savior.

That we can't help but shine for You.

Pour down and cover us with Your glory to give us courage and strength.

Let us be bold.

Let us be brave.

Let us stand firm and never back down.

And let it be known through out the land that we have done all of this in YOUR name, and to YOUR glory!

Oh great and glorious day!

The day that Zion comes down to earth and makes it's dwelling. 

Draw me closer, Father.

Draw me nearer, Savior.

Whisper in my ear all about You.

Take my down to the very depths of Your being untill I have drowned.

I want to know all of You, Jesus.

I want to be all that You were.

Consume me with Your raging fire untill I have died.

My oldself must die.

I don't want to be me anymore, Jesus.

All I want is You.

I want no part of myself,

For You are so much more.

I want no piece of myself,

For You are far greater.

I want no iota of myself,

For You are the most wonderful thing in all of the universe.

Come and fill me Holy Spirit.

Come and fill this vessel with Your glory.

Drown out myself, and flush it away and out to sea.

May I be overflowing only with You and Your love.

Not my will, Father. But Your will be done.

My life is not mine anylonger.

It really never was...

But I surrender to You all of my life.

All of my joys.

All of my sorrows.

All of my choices.

All of my dreams.

All of my heartaches.

I give it all to You, oh God, to do with what You will.

Not because I don't care any more, or that I am looking to You to answer all of the problems.

But simply because I love You so much that I desire noting else.

ok, so here is the deal.  This year's Aquire the Fire tour is called "Branded by God; the mark of a warrior." sounds awsome doesn't it?! It's coming to Cleveland on November 3-4.  It's awsome, if you haven't gone to Aqire the Fire b4, you need to.  I kno my youth group is going, so if your parents are worried about adults or where ur staying, tell them it's all taken care of and u'll get more info later.  Right now if ur interested go to http://www.battlecry.com/pages/atf_tour_dates.php?stats_promoid=63&stats_smarttile=&stats_promoreferer=pages/atf_bands.php  for more info, and to buy tickets.  The sooner you get them the less they cost.  So.... I am totally getting a ton of kids who want to do Matchbox to come to this, cuz it's perfect for what the club is all about, and to get kids pumped for the year.

(yea joe, this is ur que to get the ss group going to this. haha)

so let me kno what u think, and if u have any questions.

ok, so every one needs to check out the Matchbox Yahoo Group, prayer group;

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MatchboxMinistries

and.... i would have u check out the myspace, but myspace is soooo incedibly complicated and dumb, that i'm still in the process of that one. Hence, why I have a xanga....

While you're at it check out this one;

www.impactmyculture.org

it's pretty cool, and has good stuff u shud know about... like LIFE 2007, and some AQT stuff i think, and concerts and what not.