Psalm 62:1

"My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him."

It's amazing how the right scripture at the right time can bring everything to an amazing re-focusing in your life. I've been crazy busy with work literally working 12-16 hour days easy. I've been using it as an excuse and my devotion time has been suffering. I've been so tired, so worn out and couldn't put a finger on why.
"MY SOUL FINDS REST IN GOD ALONE"
The truth is I'm warn out and tired because I haven't been eating, I've let my my sword sit and get dull. In turn I've been suffering because of it, getting weaker and weaker. I know that I don't "have" to spend time with God, but I choose to I want to, because the truth is "MY SOUL FINDS REST IN GOD ALONE" My strength comes from God.

Psalm 28:7
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I find my STRENGTH in God alone, I can't rely on my own strengths they will fail every time, it is in His word and in His presence that I am rejuvenated and my strength comes from him!

Psalm 119:103
"How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!"

Blessings friends!

Sleep? Whats that??

So, I've been very busy....

Christmas was great, was nice to be able to spoil the kids once again and get spoiled by friends and family. I got some great gifts this year. I'm not very big on Christmas, I'm not a 100% why but I'm not. I'm learning to be for my kids sake. So they get to have all the fun with it when the get old ;-)

Work has been crazy busy lately its hard to keep up, I'm not complaining at all just very busy. It's been great cause after the Euro-can announcement things seemed to really grind to a halt for about a month or so. So we were and are able to catch up on things that got missed and didn't have to skimp out over the holidays. Granted we didn't go nearly as crazy as we did last year but we still spent to much money :-P

Things don't show any sign of slowing anytime soon either so thats cool. I'm gonna have to take to napping when I can so I can get some sorta sleep happening. New Years is quickly approaching and I'll be DJ'ing again this year, HUGE party its actually a lot of fun to DJ. Anyways I figured since I haven't updated for a little while I better, not like anyone would notice it seems none of you are updating either. Wednesday were having dinner guests, and I offered to cook for it so I'll be making a dish I made actually quite sometime ago now but here's the rough recipe;

**1 Onion ~ diced
**Couple of garlic cloves crushed
some oil in the pan to saute the garlic and onion
**Lots fresh mushrooms sliced and sauted then added to the onions and garlic
**9 boneless chicken breasts. (First I'll bbq'd them with sweet chilli sauce, seasoning salt, coarse pepper.) Then I'll cut them into bite sized pieces.
**Red and Yellow and Orange peppers diced up. Then I added the chicken and peppers to the pan and **Cream then some **Dry white wine
Then I'll add some more of the **Sweet chili sauce to the mix and let simmer for about 15 mins or more

Christy will be making a fresh green salad to go with it and we'll be having fresh Brownies and Ice Cream for desert.

So ya, looking forward to that we have some friends in for out of town that we want to hang out with so we figured after the great meal they fed us when we visited them in Vancouver that we would do the same here :-D

G'nite all I'm off to bed before midnight lol

Blessings

Christmas is coming...

So Christmas is coming, I haven't done any shopping which is TOTALLY normal haha. I did get a the new iPhone even though Steph didn't give me any inside advice :-P It should be here any day HOPEFULLY... My phone died like I said in my previous post so I need something to fill that void.

Work has been ok, not great but good enough. I need to get more sleep but that's totally self inflicted.. I was pretty excited to start blogging again but I seem to have lost that motivation, it comes and goes I suppose.. Like most of you though I have noticed that it's been dead around the land of Blog.

Anyone have exciting Christmas plans or are you guys just staying home??

Does anyone leave Christmas shopping till Christmas eve like me?

Anyways I'm still DJ'ing lots this season and Jenny was the only one who thought of a DJ name for me, so you win the prize! Pick some tunes I'll rip you a good disc.

Ok well I'm out for now later!

I need a new phone...

To iPhone or not to iPhone...

I could just get a new blackberry..

My current phone is broken :( The mobile network turns itself off, the battery drains instead of charges when plugged in...

I'm Back!

Hey everyone, sorry to leave you hanging for so long I had other things to do that required I pay full attention to them. Long week, or two whatever it's been.. I really felt God calling me to share the word on a Sunday morning and with Mike&Moe being away I offered to fill a need if one should arise. Turned out there was a spot that I could be used so I got to my studying, I had already felt the Spirit leading me in a direction so I just spent some time in prayer and hit the books.

Well Sunday's gone and past and God showed up thankfully, cause if I had it would've been terrible haha. I just wanted to share a little of what I shared on Sunday here for my friends and blog fans.

Matthew 22:37-39
“And he said to him, “You should love the Lord your God with all your heart (kardia – inner self)and with all your soul (psyche – your animate self) and with all your mind (dianoia – understanding). This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

Let’s take a deeper look at what Jesus is saying; each one of these overlaps the other, even in the Greek; the Kardia, Psyche and Dianoia all reflect one another. It’s with all of your heart, all of your soul and all of your mind. There is no exclusivity here; were to love God with all of our being our whole person, with everything that we are. Together these three demand our love for God to come from our whole person. It’s his first and greatest commandment. It requires us to lay down our selfishness, our motives and to give it all to him! I love how Deuteronomy says it

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Isn’t that so incredible, WITH ALL YOUR HEART, ALL YOUR SOUL and ALL YOUR MIGHT! It’s so important that we need to always keep these words on our heart; we need to teach them to our kids and meditate on them day and night, to bind them to our hands a reminder like a sticky note on your fridge or mirror in your bathroom, and it needs to be always on our mind. Were to love God with everything we are. With all our might!

That wasn't the entire message but was definitely one of the key points. I also wanted to tell you all that the book I finished by Timothy Keller - The Reason For God. IS A MUST READ Seriously hands down one of the best books I've read this year (aside from my bible, which I'm currently reading Hebrews right now goooooood stuff!)
Anyways thanks for reading, thanks for your comments and know that I pray for you!

Blessings!

Robin Mark - Fortress

Verse 1

I have found a Fortress in the Living God
I have made the Sov'reign Lord my refuge
And my voice will tell of all His saving grace
Though the depths of which
No man could measure
In the days of plenty in the days of want
I will put my trust in You alone
For there's no heart greater than the Father's heart
And there's no love sweeter than the Son's

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah to my King
Hallelujah hallelujah Jesus Christ my ev'rything
(REPEAT)

Verse 2

That this love pursued us is a mystery
For the heart is base and You are holy
Yet the streams of mercy that flow over me
Will afford me grace to stand in glory
Where with men and angels
Where with slaves and kings
I will sing my praise to You alone
For there's no heart greater than the Father's heart
And there's no love sweeter than the Son's

So it Begins!

Well the season is finally upon me where I burn the candle at both ends... Why you ask well I DJ on the side for fun.. I've always loved music and what better job then getting paid to do what you love. It's a great gig I don't have to book, I don't really have to deal with the clients AND I don't have to chase people down to pay me. Sight&Sound does it all for me and drops a nice chunk of change in my pocket.


No I don't use turn tables although I'd love to give it a try and see how it is. I just thought it was a cool pic. So here's the catch I don't have a DJ name and I figure that every DJ needs a "DJ name" right? Apparently according to some of my friends who've heard me DJ I do have a DJ voice ha-ha whatever that is. So anyways fire me some thoughts all will be considered and maybe there will even be a cool prize or something.

Prize ideas? I've got TONNES of music I could rip you a couple discs.

Motivation...

I'm having a really hard time getting motivated for work lately, usually a sign that I need a day off but I dunno I think its more than that. Not sure what but something. I totally still love what I do and where/how I'm doing it but I just dunno... Maybe I'm not getting enough sleep. I'm going to try and go to bed earlier. That's hard though cause I'm a night owl by nature, I love the peacefulness of the night... Everyone's asleep the phone (usually) doesn't ring and I can just chill out. Problem is I usually end up working :P

Blessings!

Great Time!

Tonight we had some friends over for dinner and had a great time my darling wife made another incredible meal. Was just a great night over all. Now I've got an uber full belly and will just chill-ax for the rest of the night.

Thanks for coming to dinner Kroeker's - Blessings to your family!!!

On the menu;
Butter Chicken
Garlic Nan
Steamed Broccoli
Veggie platter
&
Banana splits

Life on Mars

OK, I don't normally post this kinda thing... I guess I don't normally post any normal thing haha...

I just finished watching a TV series called Life on Mars... Seemed different, caught my interest and was a sufficient time waster for when I just needed background noise during work stuffs. Well I'm thinking I want to talk about it but I don't want to wreck it for anyone else that is watching it. Let's just say I had no clue where it was going or what was going to happen...

If nobody is reading this is watching the show. OR if you are reading this and you have seen it, I'll take it from there.

ha-ha cheesy post :P

Philippians 4:13

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" NKJ

Grandparents

My Grandparents are visiting right now, which is great. I love spending time with them and it seems we don't get to do it very often, even though we live way closer then we used to we still only see them every couple months or so. When I was a kid I lived in the same town as them practically, I would go out to their farm with my Mom and hang out with them it was a blast. My Grandma always tells stories of how I'd come over and take her out on dates to McDonalds or something like that. Or going on road trips thats where I gave her the nick name Nana-Rap cause every time I had club or rap music on when she was driving she would tap her gas foot. The cool thing too is that they really love the grandkids, and my kids really love them. It's awesome to have great grandparents around. They are a huge blessing. This year they asked me if I would like to marry them when they renew their vows, of course I said yes I'd be honored but it doesn't look like its going to happen now we were going to try and get my Dad's side of the family all up in this area so we could do it but Grandma hasn't been doing so good heath wise. I think they just want to do a little thing now but we'll see.

Anyways I guess this post is just to honor them. To let them know that I love them both very much and am Thankful for the role they've played in mine and my family's lives. Thanks for being you Grandma and Grandpa!! Love ya!

Ghost Blog

So did I pick the wrong time to come back to the "Land of Blog" cause nobody seems to update anymore, commenting is scarce :P You'd think if I was blogging the rest of the blogging population would follow suit haha.


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Crotch Rocket now or Harley later?

I had intentionally asked my wife in the beginning years of our marriage if I could buy a motorcycle. Knowing that she wouldn't go for it I said OK well either I buy a Crotch-Rocket now OR a Harley Davidson "later" Of course she said Harley later and I don't know if you noticed or not but I'm not exactly a little bike kinda guy ha-ha. So every so ofter I gently remind her that I'm getting my Harley.

Well being the big kid that I so can be, I decided to stop by the Harley shop in Smithers. Turns out I happen to know a few of the guys that work there (from drag racing) One of them says to me you should sit on them get a feel.... I respond with a "no thanks, to tempting" and then tell him about the deal I struck with the wife. He then says "It's OK you won't break nothing then you get to feel them out" So I think to my self no harm in sitting on one right...... WRONG :P I jumped on a couple bikes and could tell they weren't for me right away, something just wasn't right didn't feel right.... Then finally I sit on one and the guy being the great sales man that he is says "thats the one isn't it" and I had to agree, I say to him "with some minor tweaks it definitely could be" so I sit on it a little longer and feel it out a bit more.. Sure did feel great.

Anyways it made me want to speed up this process of Harley later. I've got a buddy who is willing to sell an old bike that he's not riding anymore so I can get licensed and then I want to start saving some pennies and start that process all over again.

Here's a pic of the bike that I really liked.... :D

Ludwig Van Beethoven

I wish I could play this... Amazing and its not even his best, I could listen to this for hours. Something about it calms me, I love it... music is such an amazing thing.

Romans 5: 1-2

"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God"

Justify or Justified or Justification ; God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God

Grace ; The free and unmerited favor or beneficence (gift) of God

Obtained ; To gain possession of

Unmerited ; Not deserved

We have been given this free gift by the sacrifice Jesus made, willingly laying down his life to pay for our sins. Romans 5:8 says "while we were still sinners" He - JESUS laid down his life so that his blood would blot out our transgressions (sin) being reconciled (having our sins paid for) unto God.

I'd say that give us MUCH to be thankful for! What about you?

"Today"

Today I choose to follow You
Today I choose to give my 'yes' to You
Today I choose to hear your voice and live
Today I choose to follow You

As for me and my house we will serve You
As for me and my house we will spend our lives on You

Today I choose to follow You
Today I choose to give my 'yes' to You
Today I choose to hear your voice and live
Today I choose to follow You

Wonderful counselor, everlasting father
Eternal King, Lord of Hosts, willingly we follow...
Today : Brian Doerksen
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We did that song at church today and its been on my heart all day, great song! We choose to follow, choose to give our "yes" choose to hear and live!! I love that its all choice, not a "have" to We sure do serve an awesome God. As for me and my house <-- That's a cry of my heart for sure!!

I'm thankful for my family, amazing wife who yearns after the heart of God, wants so badly to be in the presence of our Lord. Two precious gifts from God, that I will continually lay down at the feet of Jesus and stand in the gap for, and the rest of the family who covers us with prayer and love. Also all my friends who help keep me in check and push me to be a better person!

Blessings!!

Psalm 18:2

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;
my God is my rock, in whom I find protection.
He is my shield, the power that saves me,
and my place of safety.

A New Look

Hey everyone just a quick post for the new look let me know what you think!

I've added a few of the blogs I follow. Please don't be offended if I didn't add yours I just added some of the ones I remembered off the top of my head. If you'd like me to link your blog post a comment or just become a follower.

I was reading in Galatians 5 today and thought I'd post something fun.


Blessings!

Time For a Life Change!!!!

Well yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life. My wife and I keep talkin about diets and getting healthy... I've never been one to diet, never really needed to (you'll understand in a min)

I'm not a huge eater, I enjoy food but don't need it I know its hard to believe cause I'm a "large" man :P but I've always been big when I was 17 I weighed 220lbs I know I'll probably always be big but I don't care about that. What I want to be is healthy. I don't care about the weight, I know that will come with being healthy. For a long time I've been dealing with different injuries that have been some what dehabilitating a few years ago after I broke my arm I tore and ripped and broke everything in my left ankle except for the bone, the doctor said it would have been better to break the ankle then I could have casted it up and been on my marry way. Last year 7years after the first time it happened. Yes it happened a few times, once you do it, apparently it will never be the same. Anyways last year just before the winter I believe God supernaturally healed my ankle, infact yesterday I remembered that, and we were out the family and I and Tom tossing a football all afternoon and then we went for a walk I in my sandhals, this is something that COULD not happen my ankle would swell up and kill me within the first 5 mins but we walked for about 30 mins with the kids and NO PAIN. Anyways now there`s nothing holding me back!!! Praise the Lord.

So I`m making a life change. I want to be healthy I want to encourage my family to be healthy and stay active, I`ve ALWAYS loved the outdoors and hiking and tossin the pig skin around or playing some baseball or BEACH VOLLEYBALL :D thats what I`m going to be doing, maybe head back into the gym and everything.. I deffinatley want to spend more time outside though. Anyways your encouragement is appreciated. Your prayers are needed. If you want to join Christy or I for a walk or hike or something let us know, I know we`ll need that push sometimes cause its kicking the lazy habit thats the hardest.

Anyways are you shocked I`m updating haha

Blessings