Classes are finally over!!

Hello everyone!   I just finished up my final class for the semester today.  It feels great!  However, now i have my Anatomy final tuesday and my Calculus final on wednesday as well as a take home final that is due tuesday for my Philosophy of Sport Class, so i am not quite done yet.  This weekend will be filled with plenty of studying and work i am sure.

In my last post i mentioned that we had a game on tuesday (Nov 30th) and then two on that weekend (Dec 3rd & 4th).  I did not dress in any of those games, however, i did get close to dressing in Saturdays game (the 4th).  The dress list was put up and i was an alternate for that game.  Meaning that if someone were unable to play i was the next choice to play.  So it just happened that on saturday morning we had our pre-game skate and one of our defenseman was not able to practice because of a previous injury.  So they were not sure if he was going to play or not, but he did end up playing that night.  But i did get closer that time.


I wanted to write last week because i received a great revelation from the Lord and i wanted to tell you all about it when it was fresh, but i was unable to until now.  Anyhow the Lord is still giving me more and more and His revelation continues to be fresh so i can still tell you about it now...    I was on Youtube one morning while i was eating breakfast and generally when i eat breakfast i search for Joseph Prince clips of his messages and watch them while i eat.  This morning (which i believe it was Nov 30th)  i found a message entitled, "Speak God's Language of Faith"  Joseph Prince was talking about the scripture in Mark 11:24 that says,

      "Therefore i say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."  

As i listened to Joseph Prince teach about this scripture, he referred to Kenneth Hagin who had gotten this word from the Lord as a young man stricken with a heart deformity of some sort.  Brother Hagin had prayed many times for his body, however, he realized that many times when he prayed he would feel his body and see if he had what he asked for.  He did not believe, he did not receive what he had asked for.  So the Lord so kindly led him to this scripture and then he just got it and he said, "Lord, this is the last time i am going to pray this" (i like that),  brother Hagin then went on to ask the Lord that he would be whole from the Crown of his head to the soles of his feet.  Right after he prayed he did not feel any bit different, however, he continued to say with his mouth, "I believe i have received, I believe i have received"...  It is amazing, you all can actually listen to the excerpt of the message right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuqU7TclRGE


So in the middle of listening to this message i just paused it and spoke to the Lord.  I said, "Lord i have prayed many times and went about looking for what i have asked for and not believing that i have received what i have asked for, so this is the last time i am going to ask this"  i said, "Lord i ask that Your ability would flow through me as i play this game, i ask for a double portion of what Kris Letang has"   Kris Letang is a professional hockey player who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins, i think he is one of the best Defenseman in the NHL and i really really enjoy watching him play, i asked for double of what Kris has from the one who made him, simple as that, just like Elisha asked for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah.  And i continue to say, "I believe i have received what i have asked for".

I just thought it was awesome, that the Lord would reveal that scripture to me and he says just believe you have what you ask for.  Dont look around at your circumstances to see if you have received, dont check your body, just believe you have received what you have asked for.  The Lord loves you so much that He wants to give you good things,  how would a loving God not want to give us good things?  He loves us sooooo much and He lavishes that love upon us and gives us good things.  Its awesome!


Now tomorrow (Saturday, Dec 11th)  we have our last game before winter break.  It happens to be a home game which is nice and currently i do not know whether or not i am playing.  Our coach said that he will put up the lineup when we all get to the rink tomorrow.  So i must go to the rink ready to play, i think i might finally get the chance to play.  The Lord has helped me so much this week and i have had very good practices.  Again the Lord was giving to me through Joseph Prince about Rest and how we must be diligent to enter into His rest.  It comes from Hebrews 4:1,  i have not listened to his whole message yet and i plan to finish it very soon, but the word Joseph is giving about resting in Him is awesome.  I could write all about what Joseph is teaching about but i will leave you all the opportunity to go and listen to it yourself.  (http://www.newcreation.org.sg/)  - this is Joseph Princes church website, you can stream the video of that message right on there.

After tomorrows game i have my two finals and one take home final and then i will be leaving here wednesday afternoon!  Wednesday on the way home i plan to stop off at the Ruths and stay over night there and get to spend some time with them.  Then thursday morning i plan to leave and get back home early in the day sometime.  I am really looking forward to being home and getting recharged a bit, as well as i am really looking forward to spending time with so many wonderful people!



Thank you all for reading, i appreciate it.  Much love to everyone of you, and i will be seeing some of you very soon!!

bye for now!

Trying to put it into words

Sorry for the delay here.  I was getting on a role of making a post every week but i got off of that just a little.  Hopefully i can get back into that routine.  


Since my last post we have played 4 games.  I still have not gotten to dress in any of the games.  Our current overall record is,  2-7-1.  So we are not having a successful season at all thus far.  I get discouraged at times, having not played a game yet thus far.  However, i was talking with the Lord last week after i found out i was not dressing for a game and i heard the Lord say to me Proverbs 3:5


⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
         And do not lean on your own understanding. 




When i read that i said, yes Lord i can do that.  However, that can seem hard at times, your flesh wants you to worry or try to have YOU figure it out but that is not what the Lord asks.  He says Trust in Him and DO NOT lean on your own understanding, no matter what you see.  Even as i write this i am encouraged by that scripture and i am thankful for the Lord reminding me of that truth.  


During this time when all i seem to be doing is practicing,  i need help from the Lord to continue to do everything as unto the Lord.  To practice with excellence, even if there is the thought that the coach might not play me even if i am practicing hard, i must continue to practice unto the Lord.  By the Grace of God i will continue to be the hardest working player on my team.  I so need His help and i am thankful for that, i think that that is a great thing, to know that i need Him.  


As i am writing this i am finding it difficult to find what to say.  In my walk with the Lord i believe it is so important just to be real.  Christians can many times be so fake and say things just because they know to say them.  I could run off a list of scriptures and say this or that but i feel somewhat discouraged right now.  I trust that the Lord will work this out for my good but i want to some action.  I want to hold the Lord to His word.  The Lord makes promises to His children in the bible and i will continue to hold Him to that Word.  Like Smith Wigglesworth once said,  "Lord you have promised it, now do it".  The promise that i have been meditating on today is,  "everything i put my hand to will prosper" ,  and "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me".  These things must be true, God said it!  Even though my current hockey situation does not line up with that, i choose to take God's word over the voice of my situation and i know He will turn this around.  He will cause me to be the head and not the tail, He has promised that.  


By the Grace of God i will be the best defenseman SUNY Cortland has ever had!  


This week we have a home game tuesday (tomorrow) that i already know i am not playing in.  Then we have two games this weekend on the road.  We play friday night and saturday night.  I will update you all after this weekends games.  




I wanted to mention a couple of things that i am requesting, believing from the Lord: 


That the ability of God would flow through me by the grace of God while i am     playing - The Lord is the best hockey player ever, and He lives in me.


That the Lord would give my coach divine ideas and wisdom as to how to lead our team effectively






Also we only have 2 weeks left of classes and then we have finals week after that.  So the semester is winding down and i am excited about that!  Really looking forward to this semester being over.  I do want to finish very well though and i really need to do well on my last couple tests in my Anatomy class in order to do well in that class.  So i need help with that as well.  




Thank you all for taking the time to read.  I really appreciate it.  Thank you for your prayers as well.  I shall write again soon!! 



Just read this on Joseph Princes Facebook page: 

"Grace is God seeing you not in your perfections, but in the perfections of His Son & beckoning you to come boldly to Him to find help."  

Another week down and I am still Victorious!

Another week is down. We had games tuesday and friday this week. Tuesday we played Hobart College, they are a top ranked national team and we tied that game, although i feel like we should of won because we played very well. Friday we played number 1 ranked Oswego. They are a darn good team, i am always impressed with how they play and we lost that game. Now our overall record is 2-3-1

I still did not get to dress in either of the games this week. That makes 6 games this season where i have not dressed still. However, my hope is still in God. My mum gave me this scripture a couple weeks ago and said this is what she heard from the Lord that He is doing:

¹⁹The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes my feet like hinds' feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]! - Hab 3:19 (amp)

And i was thinking about this scripture yesterday and i was like, "huh man the Lord is awesome because i really am making spiritual progress upon this place of suffering". It is not fun at all not getting to play, it stinks really. But man the Lord is causing me to make progress and make good progress. Its amazing.

I continue to receive great revelation from the Lord through Joseph Prince's teachings. What the Lord is showing me right now is, I am Righteous through Jesus Christ. Once you receive a true revelation of your righteousness in Jesus it will change you forever. And its awesome that i did not earn this righteousness at all, it was a gift, therefore, i just receive that righteousness as you would any gift. And i also continue to speak that truth out loud, in the midst of mistakes i continue to proclaim, I AM RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE OF JESUS! I do not want this to just be head knowledge, so i ask the Lord that this truth would get down deep into my spirit and that is what He is doing. There is more revelation i am receiving but this is good for now i think.

I went in to talk with my coach about why i was not playing, I went in friday morning after i knew i was not playing friday night. He told me a couple of things he thought were missing in my game, mistakes i have been making. Honestly i did not see what he was saying, the "mistakes" he said i have been making in practice i tried to think back over practices and i honestly cannot remember making one of those mistakes repeatedly. Yes i do make mistakes in practice, we all do, but i do not make them continuously. So i was pretty mad after i talked with him. I went out on the ice for a pregame skate and i heard the Lord saying; "the reason i told you why you were not playing is still the reason" (the night before i had asked the Lord why i was not playing in this game friday, he said:

" there is still some fear left in your, i want you to be completely rooted deeply in the truths i am giving you before you play, so that NOTHING can shake you"

i am not saying i will be perfect before i am allowed to play, but the Lord still wants to deeply root me in this specific truth He is giving me before i play)

So i was very thankful for the Lord speaking to me in the midst of my "report" from my coach.

This upcoming week we have practice mon-thursday and then a game friday. I am really looking forward to an awesome week of practice, flowing in the grace of God abundantly. After our game friday we also have a game tuesday.

I will update next weekend after our game friday!

Love ya all, thanks for reading.

2010-2011 Season

Hello all! This is the start of a brand new season for me. I am looking forward to it thoroughly. There has been a lot going on in the last 2 months, i am sorry i have not updated the old blog until now. I will attempt to give you a summary of the last two months.

I got to school at the end of August, this semester i am living in the "Hockey House" still, which i am enjoying. However, next semeseter i will be living with a very nice family from my church up here. Their names are Dennis and Carol Forehand. They have a big house and they have offered me a room in their house for pretty much nothing, which i am very thankful for. They live about six minutes from the rink, so it wont be a bad drive back and forth to campus. I will move into their house sometime before christmas so when i get back from christmas break my stuff will already be all moved into my new room. When my parents come up to visit they always stay with Dennis and Carol, they are very nice and open up their house to my folks all the time. Carol and Dennis have six kids, all are older and mostly married (except one). One of her boys (Nate) is a very good friend of mine up here, we spend a lof of time together.

The school year has been going well thus far, i am doing well in the majority of my classes. I am currently having a little trouble in my Anatomy and Phisiology class, i am doing well on my lab practicals, however, i am not doing well on my lecture tests. So i have one more left in the semester so i need to do well on it! ha. Other than that school has been good.

The hockey season started last weekend. We played two home games last weekend and two home games this weekend. We won two of the games and lost two, so we are 2-2 right now. Which is not a bad start. I really like all the incoming freshman and i really like the direction of the team much better this year. I feel as though the whole attitude of the team is much much better this year.

So A LOT has happened hockey wise over the last week and i will not be able to go into all the details. Basically, we have played those four games thus far, however, i have not dressed for a single game yet. Last weekend they put up the dress list for the game and i was not on it and i was extremely upset. However, later that night after work i needed to meet with my Father personally. I was so distraught and i needed Him and thankful we have a Father who hears us and comforts us. So after some very excellent encouragement from my mother, i set aside time to meet with the Lord. As i was spending time with the Lord, the Lord urged me to listen/watch a video podcast of Joseph Prince. I had downloaded the message a couple days earlier and i knew the Lord wanted me to watch it right then. So i did and it was amazing! It was such a delivering word, the title of the message was called "boast of Gods love for you, not your love for Him". It would take me to long to give you every detail of the sermon, but what i received from it was that its not right for me to boast of my love for the Lord, that does not bring me to a closeness with God. However, i have the opportunity to boast of the fact that He loves me so much and all that based upon Jesus, not based upon anything i can do. I cannot earn His love, just like i cannot loose His love. Its amazing and it is a freeing position to be in.

I recived that from the Lord last weekend and i did well not dressing in those two games, then this weekend i had an opportunity to go deeper in that truth by not playing again this weekend. I did pray with my pastor up here last month concerning the upcoming season. We agreed together and asked the Lord that this would be my best season thus far. My best season. So i am expecting that and even though i have not dressed in four games thus far i am looking forward to see how the Lord will cause this to be my best season!

We have a game tuesday this week and then one on friday. I will update agian after those two games! Hope you were encouraged and thanks for taking the time to read!

The last couple of months...

Hello everyone,

The Hockey season has been over for over a month now, however, i find that there are other things going on in my life that i am able to share with my readers. School has been going well since i last wrote. I am doing well in all my classes. Some i have to work harder in than others, but that is just how it goes sometimes. I continue to find favor with my professors as the word says believers do. Just the other day i met with my advisor to setup my schedule for the fall, my advisor is also a professor that i had back in the fall for my Kinesiology class. After we talked for a while she offered me an opportunity to do an independent study. Basically she wants to create a Teacher Assistant (TA) position for me for her Intro to Kinesiology class. The class goes M, W, Friday and fridays she has them as optional classes. So what she wants me to do is, come in on fridays and lead a discussion with the students and that is pretty much all i will have to do. She said it would be worth 3 credits! Amazing! She also said that it is an open offer, so if it does not work out for this Fall, i will be able to do it in the Spring or whenever. I was pretty happy about it.

Last weekend one of the guys on the team wanted to come to church with me. I went over to pick him up at his house on sunday and he had overslept and he didn't end up coming with me. So this past sunday he really wanted to come and i went to pick him up sunday morning. His name is Marcus, and he is from Sweden. He came with me and he really enjoyed it. We went over to some peoples house from the church afterwards and ate a big dinner with them. They have a huge family so the place was packed. But marcus really liked it, it reminded him of being at home. So i was very thankful for that opportunity and that he was able to come. I think he will come back with me again.

Over the last couple of months i have been thinking about my summer and what i would do with this summer. I had several ideas, but like i always want each summer, i want more opportunity to be on the ice. So about a month ago i got an email from a sports camp in Maine, that wanted me to come and be a camp counselor for the summer, they wanted someone to be the hockey instructor. So i looked around all over their website and tried to do some research on them. I found out some things, but i needed more information. So i emailed the guy back and he still has not emailed me with more info. However, i realized that i really liked the idea of being a camp counselor. Not necessarily at this camp though. So i did some research online and i found this camp called "Pro Ambitions Hockey Camp". It is a camp run by a guy who used to play for the Pittsburgh Penguins. As far as i can tell it looks like he runs camps in a ton of different states. All the way from California to Massachusetts. So i emailed him about the possibility of being a camp counselor for some camps. I was thinking for the camps he holds in the Massachusetts area, so that i could live with Mike and nancy again. He emailed me back, but he did so just to say he would contact me again soon so we could talk more. So i am waiting to hear back from him again. I really would like to do this, it would give me an opportunity to be on the ice everyday and i could really improve, as well as have the opportunity to help young kids as well. I continue to commit my way to the Lord and i expect Him to lead me to where He wants me to go. If i should come home again in the summer, that would be great as well. I would just desire the Lord to provide a way i can get on the ice every single day.

Thats all i will write for now. I will attempt to keep you guys better updated throughout the spring. Love you all!

P.S. The picture is of a group of people from my church up here. We went to a hockey game in Syracuse a couple weeks ago. Just so you know

As promised a much faster update

Hello all,

I am very glad that i am giving you all another update so quickly. It usually does not work out that way. But the sad news is, our season is now officially over. We lost both games that we played this past weekend that i said we needed to win in order to make the playoffs. I had the opportunity to play in the game friday night and i felt as though i did not play very well overall. I thought that i did not have a very good 1st and 2nd period, but i did feel as though i played much better in the 3rd. In the 1st and 2nd period, i was playing all nervous and i was not playing in joy and i did not like that at all. But i was helped to settle down and play a much better 3rd period. We lost the game on friday night, which meant we were out of the playoffs. Then we had another game saturday night and i figured i would play in it again, in order to gain more experience and all that, but sadly i did not play in that game. I was pretty disappointed at first, i really really wanted to play in that game and i really wanted to score a goal (since i did not score any goals this season). But as i went to the Lord for help i was comforted. I found help in Psalm 42, i love when the psalmist asks himself "why are you cast down oh my inner self?" or "why are you in despair oh my soul? Hope in God!" Also as i called my mom to tell her i was not playing i also received help from her. To keep standing on the rock, to keep pressing on, to not give up. To keep trusting in my God who knows and understands every circumstance in my life. So for that encouragement i was very thankful.

Also carol sent me a text of some scriptures i can be speaking throughout the game in order to keep my mind directed toward the Lord. This one was just perfect for yesterday, "Thou hast deal well with thy servant according to thy word" - Ps 119: 65 That scripture was just perfect for me. My situations and experience was telling me that the Lord had not dealt well with me, that this past season was just so so, and not so great. But that is not true, and i still need help to get a greater picture of this past season. But i am thankful for this scripture to start with, that i can confess with my mouth that the Lord has dealt well with me, His servant.

Now that the season is over i will have a little bit more time on my hands. Generally my afternoons were filled with practice and weight lifting. But now i will have my afternoons free. However my plan is to diligently workout in the afternoons and to try to get on the ice whenever i can. Eventually the rink here will melt the ice down and i wont be able to skate, but i might be able to drive to Ithaca which is about 25 minutes away sometimes. Another plan that i had was, i might drive to Scranton Pa, which is only about an hour and a half away. The Pittsburgh Penguins power skating coach who i have skated with before has his headquarters out in Scranton and i might call him to see if i could skate with him some weekends.

I started the first half of this blog about a week ago, so now it is Friday the 26th and i am sitting up at 7:45 am writing this blog. Wednesday night we received a TON of snow and we had some classes cancelled on thursday and now this morning 2 of my classes were cancelled, both which i happened to have a test in. So i was kind of happy about that because i was not ready for those tests yet. I did not study enough last night at all.

This past week has been interesting, and it has been very busy. Even though this was my first week without practice in the afternoons, it still felt as though i was just as busy. Only because in all 5 of my classes, 4 of them decided to have a test or quiz thursday and friday and then in my 5th class we had a paper due friday. So you can imagine that i had my hands full. Other things have happened this week, and my conclusion is, my God is faithful to me, His servant. I have experienced the gentle kindness of the Lord in several ways over the past couple of days. I believe His kindness is evident in our lives daily, but this week in particular i was overwhelmed by the kindness of the Lord to work out situations on my behalf. As i laid in my bed at night i was truly able to say, Yes Lord you have been faithful to me today, and i was extremely thankful for that.

As i continue to progress deeper into my relationship with the Lord each and everyday He continues to reveal Himself to me in a greater way. One thing my pastor up here says, "the Word of God says, "My sheep hear my voice", and i am His sheep therefore i always hear His voice." I truly love the simplicity of it, so as i have considered this truth i have gone deeper into that FACT, that i do hear His voice daily, and that He is leading and guiding me every single day. In addition, a couple times this week i have just been walking around or have been in my private times with the Lord and i just talk with God. I ask Him questions and He responds, it seems right to me to be able to talk with your Heavenly father in that way. And i am excited to go deeper into that, more and more conversations with my God. We are His sheep, we DO hear His voice. Will you listen?

I also wanted to share with you guys something really cool that happened last week. After our game saturday (our last one of the season) we were riding the bus back home, and after about an hour into the ride i decided to go the back of the bus and sit back there with some of the older guys. I was sitting there for just a little bit and then a couple of the guys started asking me questions about the Lord, and they were asking me about things i can and can't do in my life as a result of being a christian. ha. They also took the opportunity to ask me what i thought about certain subjects in life. It was really fun, i basically had the attention of about 6 to 8 guys who were listening to all i had to say and i think i spoke with them about the Lord for about 45 minutes or so. I believe the conversation started with them asking me about sex and marriage and how i was waiting till marriage (seems to be a hot topic among them, ha). But as i tell them things they are always amazed that i can do that, wait for that long, but its not me, it is the grace of God in my life and it is my desire to be pleasing to the Lord in everything i do.

One of the guys on the team grew up and went to a catholic high school, and he was saying to me that he feels that anything too extreme is wrong. He talked about Catholicism and how he felt it was too extreme, i agreed with him in this matter, but i said too; "sometimes there are things that i do that might SEEM extreme in order to please the Lord, and i would not count that as wrong, just because it could seem extreme." I also took the opportunity to tell him (with everyone else listening of course) about how one of my problems with Catholicism is its all about what YOU can do for God, about how YOU have to do this or that for Him, in order to please Him. But then i started tell him about Jesus and how He came in order to fulfill the law and He came down and died for us, simply because He loved us, not because of anything we did to deserve it. He came and died for EVERY SINGLE one of us, even when we hated Him. That is true love! I was very thankful that the Lord gave me that particular truth to speak, because i do believe it is a freeing truth for my friend on the team. The Love of Jesus is always freeing, knowing that we did nothing to deserve it and we cant ever do anything to deserve it. It is a FREE gift from God.

So i was extremely thankful for the opportunity to share all these things with the guys on the team, i believe it was helpful to all who heard and to me as well. That is all i have for now, i will attempt to write again in the near future. Thank you all who continue to read, i love you all. Continue to go on every single day with our great savior!

Love,

Adam

Only Believe!

So i am sorry again for the extra long delay this time. My apologies... I will try to do better! ha.

So i will try to cover the gap from my last post (November) until now.

Around november the semester was winding down, i ended up doing pretty well in my 1st semester, getting a 3.26 Gpa. I had some trouble in my one history class early on and ended up with a C in the class, so that brought my Gpa down a bit. But i plan to not have any C's this semester and do even better than before.

As for hockey, over the course of the months i have gone back and forth being in and out of the line up. There have been times where i have consistently played 2 or 3 games in a row, but typically it has been, dress for 1 game then sit out the next one, then dress for the following game. So it has been up in down in that sense.

I have gone and talked to my coach a couple different times over the course of the months and early in January when i last talked to him he said things like this: He thought i needed to be more physical, have more poise with the puck, and make a better first past. But he did say he can tell i am working hard and he was not upset with how i am playing. But in order to play more consistently he feels i need to work on those issues. And as i would think about it i can agree with him. I definitely want to have more poise with the puck, its a great thing to watch a player to has poise with the puck. He doesn't panic and make a dumb decision with it and it is truly a help to your team. Also being able to make a great first pass out of the zone is crucial, being a defenseman you need to be able to pass the puck out of the zone onto your teammates tape. If you mess that pass up you could easily turn the puck over to the other team and have them coming right back against you. I have read different scouts talk about NHL defenseman and say how they make excellent first passes, so it is a very important thing.

So in practices and in games i have been trying to work on being more poised with the puck and also i have been trying to be more aggressive. Especially in my defensive zone.

As i write this entry i dont feel very energetic, i feel tired, physically and spiritually almost. I have a bit of a stuffed up nose and have been battling some attacks against my physical body. BUT i am very thankful that i have a great healer, and i am and have been coming to the healer for healing. So i am thankful He is working in my body, even right now as i am typing.

This weekend coming up we have 2 big games. Basically if we win them both we will be in the playoffs, if we loose even 1 of them, then we are out. So we must win. I feel as though there are guys on the team with attitudes that are just not good, i have heard some of them joke about how we stink, and how we cant win, and so on and so on. And when i hear them speak like that i am continually reminded of the scripture found in Prov 23:7 "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." And also the fact that they say with their mouth we stink or we cant win, they have having a wrong confession. So i have been asking the Lord that this week, my expectation and my attitudes would rub off on these guys, and i would be an influence on them, instead of their negativity being an influence on the team.

Back in early January when i had to come back up for hockey, but i did not start school right away, i had a lot more time on my hands. So i started to hang out with some younger people from my church, which was really fun. I normally dont have time to see them during the week, but over the break i would go out and hang out with them for like 4 hours on a thursday night and i loved it. I also took the opportunity to go meet with my pastor one night to talk with him. I told him i wanted to talk with him specifically about the mind. I believed that something that was hindering me on the ice was my mind, how i would continually be thinking so much about things while playing, and a lot of the time it was negative things. So he told me to come over whenever and we could chat. I initially asked him on a sunday after a meeting, and later that week on tuesday i went over to his house. It was a GREAT time! We spoke for a while about the mind, he gave me a teaching he had done about the mind and about having a positive confession. So i am still working on reading the teaching, but when he summarized it for me then he was talking about how i need to use my mouth to have the right confession. If i do that my mind will line up with the truth coming out of my mouth. He encouraged me to make a list, a confession list and to work with it and continually speak those truths. After that we just talked for another hour about his history and the experiences he has had with the Lord and the adventures the Lord has taken him on. It was a lot of fun.

I want to give you a couple of examples from my confession list that i have from the Lord:

1. The peace of God rules and reigns in my heart and mind, therefore i always perform well when the pressure is on.

2. God says to fear not, for He is with me, therefore i am never afraid to make a mistake or fail. I trust in Him. (Is 41:10. 2 Tim 1:7)

3. I am a man filled up with the Holy Spirit, filled with power (ability, efficiency, and might), therefore i do not lack ability to play hockey at this level or any higher level. He has given me the ability, in abundance.

4. I have been given the mind of christ, therefore i am the smartest hockey player there is.

Those are just a couple of examples from my list. And i can say that this truth has really helped me on the ice. And just in my daily life as well. There are other area's in my life where what i am thinking does not line up with what God says, so i change my confession to be what He says. I really love it.

Another truth the Lord has been so graciously helping me with is, "Simply Believe Him". Hence the title of my blog"Only believe!" This comes from many of the teachings from Smith Wigglesworth. My dear brother, Alex Da Costa gave me a Smith Wigglesworth Devotional 2 summers ago and i did not read it much at first, but lately i have been keeping up with the entries each day and it has been a great help to me. I love hearing Smith's faith talking in his entries, it was obvious to see how this man read what God said and just simply believed it to be true. He did not consider or look at human nature, or the "impossibilities" of the situation, but he stood firmly on the Word of God. This is an example from one of his entries from the other day, "I laid my hands upon her in the name of Jesus, believing in my heart that i could say what i wanted and it would be done." When i read this the other day i was like WOW, what a great expectation to have. Other scriptures that the Lord has been using Smith Wigglesworth to show me are ones from the Gospels, where Jesus is saying "Whatever things you ask for, believe you have them when you ask, and you will have them." - (Mark 11:24) And this one, "Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." (Mark 9:23)

I am very thankful the Lord is helping me with this and that i get to go deeper and deeper into this revelation each day. Another thing Smith has said a couple different times is, (paraphrased) "If you are not going on from Glory to Glory every single day, then you are backsliding." Basically if you are not going on into a deeper relationship with our great Lord every single day, then you have not progressed that day. I love that, that we need to go on with God, today. We cant rely on the fact that we went on with him yesterday or the day before, but we have to go deeper today, keep walking with Him in a deeper way today.

Just something else to think about.

Okay so thats all for now. Gotta get some sleep. I will try my hardest to update the blog very soon again in order to keep you all up to date.

Thank you so much for all of you that do continue to read my blog and for those that continually lift me up in prayer. I am very thankful for that. I love you all!