God

Dear God,

You have invaded my life!
You have taken control over my thoughts and my actions.
You are fighting my battles for me through the power of your Word.
You are my provider in all circumstances.
You amaze me every day.
You will take care of me!

I want to go deeper than I ever have before with you!
I want to keeping learning more about you.
I long for your desires to be my desires.
I long to live a life worthy of your calling.
I desire people to hear about the love you have for them and understand.
I will do anything for you!

You want all of me.
I want all of you.

Cory

USA!

Well, I guess I'll tell you what's going on?

First off, the past month has been amazing. God has been doing a work in my life that has just been blowing my mind. Hopefully as I share you can get the same understanding that I did. I want to talk about feeding your spiritual needs. To me, my spiritual needs outweigh my physical needs, or at least that's what I believed and thought was what I practiced. When I was listening to a sermon, I came to the realization that in order for us to feel healthy we need to have breakfast, and that it is important every day. If you want to have a healthy start, EAT BREAKFAST, right? If we are so keen to make sure our physical body is getting its nutrients, how often enough are we making sure our spiritual needs are getting met. Reading the Word of God is what feeds us spiritually, and if were not getting the Word of God everyday, it's safe to say that were suffering spiritually! I took it on myself to feed my spiritual needs before my physical body and I'm seeing the very work of God in my life like I've never seen before! I'm not even reading huge chunks of scripture, just verses, or chapters that mean something to me in this period of my life at this time. A question I have for you is how starved are you spiritually?

Well, it's Spring Break this week and with that I decided to make a trip down to Minot and visit my family and friends. I arrived safely in Minot last Saturday after an 11 hour drive. Even with being alone, the drive proved less difficult than I thought. I started the journey at 4:45 AM with 3 bottles of water, 3 energy drinks, 2 apples, an orange, two bags of Starburst, two Mars bars, a bag of fruit gummies, and a pack of gum. I didn't get through everything, but I just wanted to make sure that I would make it if I ever got stranded. The crazy thing about the drive is I could compare it to a three hour drive. It really didn't feel all that long and went rather quickly, and I was never exhausted at all.


This week so far has been relaxing and busy. Also, they have so much snow here, it's crazy. A lot of it has melted and they still have a ton! After coming from Calgary where I could see grass, this was so refreshing! I bought some new clothes as well, which is a whole other story (Seriously, I'm so blessed).

Well, I hope you take to heart what I had to share. It can be tough, but believe me, God's Word will change you and you won't regret it! One set of scripture I've been reading every day for the past bit is Romans 12. Just start with a light breakfast. Even if it's just Romans 12:2 everyday, it'll seriously only take a minute.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Getting Lost in God

I love how things get pass around. This is from Jason to Jacki to Alyssa to me, and now to you. I hope this speaks volumes as to where your relationship with God should be. God bless you as you continue to seek God and His plan for your life.

"Everyone longs to give them self completely
to someone - to have a deep, soul-relationship
with another, to be loved thoroughly, and
exclusively. But God, to a Christian says, “No,
not until you are satisfied, fulfilled and content
with living loved by Me is your satisfaction to be
found; until then you will not be capable of the
perfect human relationship that I have planned
for you. You will never be united with another until
you are united with Me, exclusive of anyone or
anything else, exclusive of any other desires or
longings. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing,
and allow Me to give you the most thrilling plan
existing - one that you cannot imagine. I want you
to have the best. Please allow Me to bring it to you…
you just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest
things - keep experiencing that satisfaction knowing
that I AM- keep learning and listening to the things
that I tell you… you must wait.

Do not be anxious. Do not worry. Do not look around
at things others have gotten or that I have given them.
Do not look at the things you think you want. You
just keeping looking off and away up to Me, or you will
miss what I have to show you. And then, when you are
ready, I will surprise you with a love far more wonderful
than any you would dream. You see, until you are ready
and until the one I have for you is ready, I am working even
this minute to have both of you ready at the same time…
Until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me and the
life I have prepared for you, you will not be able to
experience the love that exemplifies your relationship
with Me.. And thus is perfect LOVE.

And dear one, I want you to have this wonderful love,
I want you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship
with Me, and to enjoy materially and concretely The
everlasting union of the beauty and perfection and love
that I offer you with Myself. Know that I love you
eternally. I am God Almighty, believe and be satisfied."

First Speech

So I'm going to share my first speech that I shared with my public speaking class. Read if you wish.

William Arthur Ward, a prominent Christian writer, once wrote, "We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead." Who am I? It’s a question the plagues people from the early stages of life and for some into the later years of their life. It took time to come to this realization that my life’s calling was to be in service to God and in turn be in service to His people. When I was eight years old I walked up to my dad after a church service and told him I wanted to be a pastor. I remember feeling this pull on my heart that I was to be in ministry. That moment in history has governed and changed so many choices that I’ve made in my life.

My entire time on this earth has been a journey of discovering how this was going to happen and if being a pastor was something that God called me to be. In High School I was challenged to figure out my career in life, what was I going to become to the world? I was faced with decisions of whether or not I was going to be a graphic designer, or to study film, or perhaps become a computer programmer. I wasn’t going to take this decision lightly, so I decided to go to Bible College while I traveled in another part of this world. Though it has been a life time of learning, I believe my time spent at Hillsong College in Sydney, Australia from January to December of 2007 has been the most challenging and life changing period of my life. Through that time, I discovered just a glimpse of who I am in Christ. In order to become the greatest in His kingdom, I must become the least. Throughout my year there God was consistently speaking to me about my heart and where it stands with him. God wanted me to be a servant, a servant to Him and His people. While I was in Sydney, He presented opportunities before me that may have looked boring and mundane, but in doing these, it helped bring glory to His name. It took awhile for me to take a step down and be the least and it is still a challenge to me even today. How am I going to put others before myself? Each day I pray that God will give me an opportunity to glorify His name with the people around me by how I act, talk, and relate with others. It’s important to me for people to feel accepted and loved, especially in the community of Christ. We should be a community of believers that aren’t afraid to love and serve the least of these in our world.

Discovering who you are as a person I believe is one of the most important things that can be revealed to you in your life. Understanding the gifts, talents, and even the quirks that God made you with and the fact he wants you to excel in everything you do. It might take days, weeks, or even years just to find out the basics of who you are. The pursuit of finding out who you are, is a journey that will always be in progress, always changing, and ever exciting. In knowing who I am as a person, it has allowed me more freedom to live my life without worry or guilt than I could have ever possibly imagined.

Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I love the ending of one year and the starting of another. I also love the break in between semesters, which is much needed. I am however looking forward to starting the next semester though.

Speaking of school, my exams went well, they were spaced out throughout finals week so it allowed plenty of time to study and play Halo. Most of you who know me well know that I am a gamer at heart, but I like to keep it to a minimum because of my compulsive gaming habit. So I managed to do both without getting overly distracted from studying.

Well I'll keep this short after all it's Christmas! Woohoo! Love you all.