Jason and I just talked on the phone in shock that we have surpassed our goal of $20,000, 25 days SHY of the end of our Kickstarter campaign.  It begs the question, “Was our faith too small?”  Well…  it’s me I’m referring to, so more than likely…  yes, in planning our Kickstarter campaign, my faith was ENTIRELY too small!!!

In order to do a KS campaign…  you have to put a goal that you fill is attainable, because if you don’t meet the goal…  you get nothing…  and you’re campaign is then a waste of time.  We felt like 33Miles, with the last 6+ years and the fantastic fans we have, would prayerfully get $20,000 at best, and we felt like it would take all 35 days to get there…  boy, were we wrong.

We feel the need to be completely open and honest and keep you as informed as possible because you are such a vital part of this process.

$20,000 is the rock bottom minimum we need to record a great album, as well as create and send all of you your Kickstarter rewards.  We really did not expect the incredible response we’ve had.  However…  there is still the marketing campaign, hiring an independent radio promoter to get songs on air, new imaging and photos, among other things.  We STILL need your help in getting the word out, we STILL need funds in order to make this album be a success on the backside, and we COVET your prayers…  so PLEASE continue to press on in helping us.

KNOW THIS THOUGH!!!  If we don’t see another penny…  God has already been more merciful and gracious through you, His people, than we ever expected.  Thank you for your generosity.  We pray an abundance returned to you 100 fold.

I’m gonna let you into my head for just a moment…  this has been one of the hardest years of my life.  Last night I prayed on my couch asking God, if 33Miles is to continue, that He would help us surpass our goal…  and if we didn’t…  I was going to take that as Him saying it was time for us to move on.  Apparently…  we are to continue on.

You have been such an encouragement to us.  Thank you….

Chris/33Miles

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/33miles/33miles-the-worship-project

This is the place to go and donate and to direct your family and friends to. There are all different kinds of incentives when you give from autographed pics and copies of the record, to phone calls from us, Skype guitar lessons, to even concert events! We cannot do this without your help. If you or anyone you know has been touched by the ministry and music of 33Miles please help us spread the word!!! We have 35 days beginning today,4/16/12, to raise our goal of 20,000! If we do not hit our goal we don’t get ANY of the funds and your card will not be charged. Please prayerfully consider how you can be a part of what we believe to be an important project for 33Miles. We need our fans to Tweet, Facebook, and encourage the people around you simply by word-of-mouth as much as possible during the next 35 days!!! We serve a great God and we believe it’s possible! Thank you for praying for us, supporting us, and believing in us and the Message we carry! You all mean so much to both Chris and myself. In the next 35 days would you join us? PRAY-GIVE-SHARE!!! Let’s do this together!!! Thanks and God Bless!

Jason

3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh… 7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

We all have reasons to put confidence in our flesh… it may be talents, abilities, upbringing, money, family power, pride in the name you carry, etc… but none of that matters if we are true children of God. The identity of Christ is so eternal and AWESOME that nothing can hold a candle next to Him. Paul was a man worth boasting about, but his hope was that it would all be forgotten and his identity would be in Jesus Christ alone. What does it mean for my identity to be in Christ alone? What does my life look like when it’s in Christ alone? What do my words sound like? What do my thoughts think like? What does it mean to “know the power of His resurrection” to “share in His sufferings” to “become like His in His death that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead”? I want to know. I want to be this kind of “Christian”.

Many of my days are spent worrying about taking care of my family, being an amazing guitarist/songwriter/artist, beating and being better than the other guy, climbing the success ladder, resenting where I am and where I’m not, envying other’s successes, physically being in shape to look the part and be appealing to others… I have a perverse tongue, I curse often, I think God awful thoughts, I take pride in my cold and heartless sarcasm, I am rude, I think too highly of myself, I don’t take care of the poor like I am called to, I live by fear more than I do faith… I could go on. This may disappoint you…. but the truth is that nobody is more disappointed in me, than myself, but the point is… I struggle and yearn to cease all powers of flesh so that all my identity and strength and life and being is totally found in Christ Jesus alone. No other Scripture shoves me more towards Christ than this one found in Philippians. I’m so thankful for it… and pray that God will bring it to life in me… and my prayer today is that He’ll do the same for you

Until then, I echo Paul in saying… “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.”

Blessings…

LWood

Track List:
01. Thanks You
02. Arms That Hold The Universe
03. One Life To Live
04. What Could Be Better
05. Hold On

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Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.1John 2:15

Once my truth rolled off the tongue I heard His TRUTH – “This is not who you are, Jason. Your identity is not found in these ‘THINGS’ that you and the world you live in call success. It is found in me and I am more than enough.”

He’s more than enough for you too!

Chris

Psalm 139

English Standard Version (ESV)

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

139 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.

19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
20 They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!