Donnie Wahlberg focused on faith as he celebrated his birthday earlier this week.
“To all who have wished me a Happy Birthday today — I thank you!” he captioned a recent Instagram post. “To my family, my friends and my dearest Blockheads — I love you! I’m so thankful for your kindness, and support, you have been so encouraging.”
Wahlberg continued, “Looking back over the past year of my life, the Lord has been renewing my mind, rebuilding my spirit, rearranging my priorities, recentering my focus, recharging my energy, reshaping my heart, refining my faith, restoring my joy and redeeming my life! I don’t know where I would be without Jesus, but I know where I will be with Him! All the glory is His! Thank you again and God bless you all!”
His post included a collection of video clips, including the moment he and his wife, Jenny McCarthy, got baptized.
As part of his birthday celebration, he and McCarthy attended a CeCe Winans concert.
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“Donnie’s birthday wish was to see @cecewinans,” she wrote under an Instagram video. “What a beautiful night of singing, worshiping and celebrating. What a gift @cecewinans is.”
Wahlberg has been speaking more openly about his Christian faith over the past few months. While appearing on “The George Janko Show” podcast, the actor explained he had “just been in a patch of realizing, ‘Okay, you have a lot of work to do. You have a lot of surrender still to go.’ You have to continue to build, or to let Him…rebuild.”
“I’m just working on my relationship and being someone who has always had to know the answers. I’m dealing with the fact that I don’t in a really big way,” he said. “I thought I was renewed a year ago…when I say a season, I’ve just been realizing sometimes you could feel the moments when you’re shining, and then you feel the moments when you’re not.”
While attending a Forrest Frank concert, Wahlberg was asked what his biggest accomplishment in life is so far.
“Of all the things I did in my life, just in the last year, I gave my life to Christ and that’s the most important thing of all the things I did,” the BLUE BLOODS star said. “So I’m a dad, and that’s important, and I raised my sons, and they’re good men, and I’m proud of a lot of things I did, but it doesn’t matter as much as giving my life to Jesus.”
As Wahlberg celebrates his latest birthday, the actor and singer is showing gratitude for his renewed relationship with God.
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