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I don’t know what sucks more… Making fighting mistakes or making woodworking mistakes. A fighting mistake results in getting punched, or kicked in the face, or a limb broken… And woodworking mistakes take entire days to fix… Sometimes irreparable that ruin the entire piece that takes yet even more time and money…

I think the one that sucks more is whichever one is plaguing my life at the moment… Right now it is woodworking lol

I truly see today how our minds work… The best way I can describe it is by using the comparison of a boiling pot of stew lol…

What product you want as an end result is heavily influenced by what you put in that pot… Lets say you put in a spoiled piece of chicken… You cook the crap out of it, you know how to dress it up, you try real hard, and spice it up… It comes out tasting a little weird with a little bit of a weird texture, but heck, if you get lucky they might not suspect you were serving them spoiled food.. They just might think its your cooking haha. The bottom line is that it is still crap you’re putting into that pot, and what you put in, heavily influences what comes out… Even if you’re good at spicing it up and disguising it.

What you put into your mind is the same… You might have been raised well and know a lot of knowledge and have a good heart… And you can spend a week in the world and its possible no one will notice… Heck, it’s possible no one even notices the difference… But don’t be fooled. The people who are attuned to you, and especially you and God can tell…

When you’re stuffing your mind with MTV, rated R movies, angry music, and pornography your mind starts to change. Which makes your actions start to change, and everything in result. You will start swearing more, showing less affection to those you love, being dishonest, lusting more, and letting the real priorities slip for the more useless ones..

A good rule of thumb, that can generally describe how attuned your mind is, and how well inside you’re doing… Is by looking at what the products you’re putting into that boiling pot. To have a God honoring and satisfying life, you definitely want to be putting more God into your mind than the crap into your mind. For as much garbage is in the world and as much crap as we put in our minds, honestly I find it amazing that we can actually be as decent of people as we are haha. I honestly believe that if we even put half as much God into our minds as crap that our lives would dramatically change. We will start to see our relationships and attitudes change. Our lives will bare good fruit.

I challenge you guys today to put in some more God, and a little less crap into your minds and see what the end result turns out to be.

Sometimes it is not the frequency of the words spoken, but the quality of words taken by the heart.

It is not a mans actions that determine whether he succeeds or fails, but his own inner definition of success compared to who he is comparing to.

What makes a success? Is it a successful job? What does it mean to have a successful job? How successful is successful? Is it a pretty girl to hold? How pretty is pretty enough? Is pretty enough, just a figment of your hungry inner manhood for the next piece of variety? How many times has your definition of “pretty” changed? What is success? How can it be attained?

Is success perfection? Is success the absence of pain? Is success the admiration of others? Is success control of ones own life?

Phew.. So deep of questions… Some of them, we will spend our whole lives seeking for, even when we know the answer.

So often I find myself asking God “What should I DO now? Where should I go? What should I say? How can I fix?” Although this is a step above the typical response of the masses such as “God, you should do… God, why did you do? Why didn’t you go? God, can you do…”

The first step is to see our fault and that God is never changing, and never failing. If we fail, then how can it be God’s work if God doesn’t fail? If we fail, it is our own doing… The change must be in US. Not God. This is an important thing to see… And then when we finally do see it… We can get almost “stuck” in the process of “God what action should I take to correct such…”

Sometimes it is not about what we say or what we do or where we go or how we change our actions tomorrow… Sometimes it is how we can change our heart TODAY… When you get in an argument with your wife and ask God “what can I do next time to prevent this?” And God doesn’t respond.. Or maybe he does but you don’t hear him because it is not the answer you want… What if the answer is to calm down, walk in the other room, forgive, and love her TONIGHT, instead of fixing it tomorrow… The real change happens when we stop thinking the change happens in the actions of tomorrow, and realize it happens in the Heart of Now. So often we can not see past what we feel or what we think we should do.

The key to your happiness is not to change your life and sin less and be more successful tomorrow… The key to happiness is to stop all actions and look to the heart. Stop for a second and just marvel at all God’s gifts and wonders… His blessings to you of His son, Your life, and His Kingdom. What a wonderful moment in time this is right now. How beautiful this day is in all it’s confusion and pain. God is still alive and remains in spite of all else! The anchor holds in the life of the sinner. The anchor of God holds every wayward vessel at hearts reach. Stop doing, and see. Stop doing and feel. Stop changing tomorrow’s flaws and change today’s heart.

I have truly witnessed revival in the lives of other people. I have watched with my own eyes revival sweep across cities and states by the simple acts of “nobodies”… Revival is when one man or woman’s actions start chaining like a viral video and sweeps across the people and is carried from one person to the next… It is a beautiful thing. :) and it can never be triggered by the accomplishing of a goal… It is produced successful by the changing of a heart… The revival starts in a heart and carries to the body, to trigger the heart of another…

What an amazing thing it is to witness :) I leave you with this challenge… Next time you are stuck and are either wanting God, yourself, or another person to change an action… Try this first.. Shut up and think real hard. Humble yourself before The Lord. Change your attitude and change your heart. Be a light. And see what changes happen as the revival sweeps from your body to the next :)

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