theme

so i have noticed something, there seems to be a theme thats going around... its one of hunger for god, one of seeking for him...

the story of the women with the issue of blood has also come up, basically there were heaps of people who were bumping jesus, but she went and touched him. she stood out and touched jesus while all those around were merely bumping into him...

tonight we had a church service with arise church from wellington who are on a week long tour touring the north island going to a new church every day... ps john cameron spoke about crossing the jordan river in our lives, which man its amazing how it all follows the same theme of being hungry for god.

to be hungry for god we have to step out in faith like the israelites had to step out in faith and cross the jordan river to gain gods blessing for them.

gods awesome when he uses many different people to speak the same message.

basically ill leave you with this, be hungry because hunger is the enemy of comfort and if you are comfortable then you are not moving in what god has for your life.

god bless
thomas

i have decided

i have decided that i will join with something that is bigger than me, something that calls me to what god has for my life, something that can enable me to bless others through what i do even if i have to pay a price.

right now i am sitting on my laptop after church on sunday the 22 june 08, it is 1:08pm

it has just been a very hard and long weekend but well worth it. on friday and saturday we had a womens conference up at church and i was on media as well as being the stage tech for the band. i was up there from tuesday the week before getting things ready, setting up the stage, the risers, running leads, sound checking, making sure everything on the computer worked etc. on thursday i went up at 10am, i didnt leave til 11pm. on friday i went up at 10am and didnt get home til 12, and yesterday i went up at 8am and didnt get home til 1am... i dont even want to add that up, but i am blessed to be able to do that because i was able to bless over 450 women and was able to deal with 2 influential speakers (being maree de jong from life church, and julia a'bell from hillsong).

i rejoice in the fact that this conference has impacted so many people and that the impact from this conference will go further into the community and impact others. like a ripple from a stone in a body of water.

i saw this video on friday and i am 100% certain that seeing this gave me the strength and ambition to get through the weekend, and now i sense that it will help me to get through the tough times in my life with more conviction that god is awesome and that nothing is impossible.

[edit 26/9/08: decided to remove the video for copyright reasons and in light of other occurrences]

god bless
thomas

easter camp

apparantly god called me to michigan? hah

yeah well nah thats not the case long story and personal joke on that...

um well ima just copy and paste what i spoke in church yesterday sweet?

"Hey ya, well I’m Thomas and last night while I was sitting at home Julia asked me if I would like to share with all of you today about what I enjoyed about and what God did for me at Easter / Queens / Fresh It Up Camp this year. I don’t think anyone knows what it’s called.

Initially what went through my mind was heck no, I mean I’m terrified enough to even be standing on a stage with a group of people let alone being the centre of attention. But at camp during a powerful time of prayer on Sunday night Craig Clark, who was one of the guest speakers at the camp came over and prayed for me. And what he prophesied scared me just the same as what Julia had asked last night. 

He said that I had the gift of speech over my life and that I would reveal old things in new ways to people, and well that I would one day preach to people. Who would have thought that a week later? Ok so I was standing there absolutely terrified, cause I’ve never been confident in being in the public eye, but everything else he said over me was so real that it broke me, broke who, or what, I thought I was in God. It gave me a greater conviction as to what my plans, or should I say Gods plans for my future were. 

Nadia Clark shared a message on Saturday night about everyone being a sound that has to be heard, just like in a band, like our band here, without the bass guitar playing the music sounds empty, I may be bias in that fact but hey bass for life!

When your sound is missing; the world, your friends, your family is missing out. Ill finish with this scripture that Nadia used during the Saturday night session.

2 Corinthians 2:12 “Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me”

He went, stepped out in faith, and found that God had opened a door for him.

Which to me emphasis that faith without works is dead, and that I need to step out in what has been prophesied over me cause then, God will open the doors in my life."

Hope you enjoyed that or was blessed like some of the congregation at church were... 

Peace