Do we really want to change?

Do we really want to change? When we reach the point where we realize that our own efforts are getting us nowhere, we accept the conclusion that we can’t change ourselves. The next question to ask is, “Do we really want our lives to be different?” God usually does very little in our lives until we get honest with Him. He knows if we’re asking Him for deliverance when we really don’t want it. Often, we have an investment in our problems. We’ve spent years becoming comfortably adjusted to our situation. Keeping our sin has its benefits: we get a certain amount of sympathy, it allows us to escape responsibilities and provides a form of excitement. Often we’d rather rearrange out thinking to accommodate our sin than tackle a seemingly impossible problem. If change isn’t happening in out lives, we may need to admit that we don’t really want it.

Quote by Steve Gallagher

Being attacked by the Devil

This has been as extremely difficult week for me. I am continuously being attacked my the devil. I know that my sudden life change is what our Pastor would consider shaking hell. I am officially a threat to satan’s kingdom. But I will persevere. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21. So anyways you may recall a video that I put out on You Tube about a month or so back, about our last experience with Tires Plus. As you may or may not know, you can comment of You Tube videos. Last week I had 2 comments on my Tires Plus Blog. The gist of both comments lead me to believe that they were both employees of Tires Plus and defending there jobs, and lets just say that didn’t have anything good to say about me. Some of the words they sued were retard, dumb a**, Einstein, (in a sarcastic way), and quite a few other words that I won’t repeat. For out of the heart comes evil ideas, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. Matthew 15:19. I have since pulled that blog from You Tube, but not because of them or their comments, but more on that a little later in this blog. I also had 3 incidents at work that were quite similar, but I won’t go into detail about them because of the excessively strict blogging policy that I had to sign. By the time Sunday morning came, I was feeling let down. But during praise and worship we sang Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone), the new version by Steven Curtis Chapman. I’ve heard this song a million times, we sing it in church quite a bit. But this particular time when I sang the chorus, God spoke to me, this is the Chorus.

My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, Amazing grace

My chains are gone, I’ve been set free. It doesn’t matter what other people think about me, but doesn’t matter if people accept me for who I am. Because of Jesus’ love for me, my chains are gone, and I have been set free. If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed. John 8:36. These people attacking me have nothing against me. It wasn’t them that were attacking me. It was the devil attacking me through them. And I forgive all of them. I have no hard feeling. God laid something else on my heart that morning as I was driving home from church, thinking about the sermon. I felt led to do an extreme make over of MitchellBoxeth.com. So I deleted all of my blogs from You Tube, as well as MitchellBoxeth.com. This website will no longer be a website about me, but a website about the Love of Christ Jesus. My mission is to win the lost at any cost. It’s time for a life change, and this is it. For you are my safe refuge, a fortress where my enemies cannot reach me. Psalm 61:3

Prayer and Accountability

I have spent the last couple of weeks, trying to figure out how to do this blog. I didn’t know if I wanted to do it by video or written. I have been trying to figure out how to say what I want to say. Well now that I have your attention, let’s get started, but rest assured this isn’t going to be anything bad, or even anything surprising, it’s just a life update, and yes Jane is on board with all of it, and a part of every decision that I make. On Friday October 2nd and Saturday October 3rd, I attended a Men’s event at my church. In short, it changed my life. The point of this weekend was to learn how to live a pure life. Pure in everything you do, meaning getting rid of all the garbage, and unnecessary baggage. In essence, to get closer to God. I have been trying to do this in my own life for years, and have never figured out how to do it. I would pray regularly for God to change me, help me to be a better person, help me to not gossip, help me to be the real deal, help me to not just go through the motions, which I was doing by the way. I learned two very important things over this weekend. First, I learned how important is it to dig down deep inside so that you can humbly and earnestly confess and repent ALL of your sins to God. All of your sin, no matter mow big or how small. The second is daily reading of the bible, and prayer, first thing in the morning, to jump start your day. If you spend time with God every morning to start your day, than later on in the day when you are faced with a temptation, you have your daily time with God to think before you act. I can’t just expect God to magically make me a better person, without my doing anything. I have to meet God half way, If I don’t make time for him, how can I expect him to help me to overcome any trials. You see, I leaned that I am very selfish, not on purpose, it’s just the human nature. The bible teaches unselfish unconditional love, and that is what I want, to love other before I love myself. The other part of that is you can’t just read the bible for 5 minutes in the morning, and pray for 5 more minutes, and your good to go for the day. No, it doesn’t work that way. My commitment as of October 4th is this. A minimum of 2 hours a day in the word, or a combination of reading the bible, devotions, and reading christian material, and I also committed to a minimum of one hour each day for prayer. Wow, 3 hours a day, that’s a lot. Give 10% of your time to God. People always find time to do the things that they want to do, and they pencil God in if they have the time. Well guess what, that is backwards thinking. You need to make time for God, and everything else comes secondary. Anything that you put before God, anything that comes before God in your life is an idle. The first commandment is, You shall have no other God’s before me. So, I am getting rid of my idles. I gave up TV and canceled my cable, and sold, yes sold my 65” HD TV. We brought the 27” TV from the bedroom, down to the living room, and are now getting 12 channels with our digital converter box, and indoor antenna. TV was not an idle in my life, but the garbage that is on TV is noting but a distraction, and a non stop advertisement of a godless world. I gave away my Nintendo Wii, no more video games. I also deleted all of the games that I downloaded onto my iPhone that I considered an idles. I even went as far as deleting a few people from my Facebook, and stopping following a few people on Twitter. So after 2 in a half weeks of doing these things daily, where had it gotten me? I feel like a new person, I can put my hands up in the air and yell I am free, and mean it, it is the most amazing feeling in the world. I am still as on fire for God today as I was the day I came home from the Men’s weekend. I can not even begin to tell you how much I needed that life changing wake up call. I am not yet no where near where I want to be, but I am certainly on the right track.