He is REAL AND ABLE

Hey, I am sorry I have not blogged in over a week. I have been very busy. God is been awesome to me. He has helped with school. I have all high A's and one very High B. It is one percent from an A. God has helped me when I am at school when I am around people who disagree with my beliefs. Let me tell you something, I feel like taking my friends ( not realy they are aquantinces) and twist their arm. They are so blind. I can not stand how the can go through life without christ. Well, I guess that is where we come in a show them the truth. Oh by the way, last Saturday night I gave a speech on the topic of prayer at a catholic church. Needless to say I felt awkward because I was not catholic. Oh well. Anyway after I presented my story about prayer and which I related an event in my life that has occured I went to a Basketball team to play in the Pep Band. Go Knights! Well anyway, it was probally about an hour after I did my presentation, a student told me that my story was awesome. I was amazed because the Catholic Church is spiritually DEAD. I am not joking. Well I was glad that I had touched someone else heart besides my dad. Enough of that. I got a new CD. TOBY MAC: ALIVE AND TRANSPORTED. It is awesome. Also, I am very thankful for my church because youth group is where I have my true and real best human friends. (God is my first best friend ofcourse) I am glad that there are people that will listen to me when I need something. Thank you Zach. Today, I was talking to my Band instructor and I was telling him about Fine Arts Festival. I told him what I was doing and he was wondering what I was doing for my sermon. He was blown away by what I was doing. He told he would love to hear me do my sermon sometime. This was a great time for me to plant a seed in his heart. Even though he is Christian, he still needs more of Jesus. I will be turning sixteen in a few months! YEAH! Last week I gave the Atheists a note in which I told him that I would be praying for him and that God is standing at his heart whating. Well, I was not surprised when he ridiculed me. I told him that I do not care about the comments and that I will be praying for him infront of all of my peers. Today he made a comment and he said so Ben you can do what you want and pray for me but nothing is going to work. I just told him that I love you (as a friend) and that I will remain praying for him. At that same time the devil is telling me that it is a waste of my time but I have to remind myself of a verse. I Corithians 15:58, "Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain" Our work that we do might seem worthless but it is worth it. God is real and he is able to do anything.

Free time.

Hey, Anyone in the Youth group who is free this weekend and on monday, I would love to get together and hang out!

God is Good

God is so Good! This week he showed me how real he is. Even though I have stumbled spiritualy and the devil is trying to tell me that I am not a real christian because of a certain sin I did, God knows my hearts desires. I wish I could give God a big bear hug for everything he has done. This week he has protected my friendships when I was doing his work. He helped me pass my World History Test ( 95% on got on it) and gave me the strength to be a better person at home. I will strive to do everything for him just like Deryks message on Wed night. I feel like having youth group right know because I can't get over how awesome church is and how much I love the people and ofcourse God himself. Watch this video about evangilism linebacker. //www.tangle.com/flash/swf/video_player.swf I am going to start writing my sermon this weekend. I think Zach has given me some ideas on what to say. Please pray for me for spiritual strength. Thanks,

On the Spot Light (literally)

WOW! These past twenty-four hours have been crazy! It all started with WNL on Sunday. It was awesome how everyone did. I loved how the guys did crowed surfing in front of the Jonas Sisters. When I did my testimony, I felt at peace. It was the greatest moment I have ever felt because I am sharing my testimony with people I know. Well after church and the meeting( Oh by the way I am going on the Missions trip, I cannot believe how fast all the spots filled up) I had to go to Breese and work at a chicken dinner for my band. OH yeah, I was starving the whole time. I only had breakfest before going to the dinner. The chicken smelt very very good. Okay enough with that here is the reason why I am blogging about this. Well as you may know that Friday, God placed me before some Atheists. If not read my last blog. Well during that whole conversation on Friday, I had a friend name Andy. He is a person who always gets in trouble for being obnoxious. Anyway, I met his mother and she told me that she and her son Andy, were talkng about what had happened on Friday morning. She told me that he felt very concerned for Tad and wanted some advice on what to do. She told him that Me and Andy should get to together and pray for Tad and the others and be witnesses to him. I think this is awesome because I never knew that Andy was this way. Well after that conversation, I went back to work thinking that everything was going to go back to normal. Well, I ran into another lady and she recognize my name tag and said are you Ben Boyer. Well of course I told her yes. To come to find out that she is the mother of Tad ( the guy who is struggling with religion). Well we started talking , asking the normal question like where do you live and so forth. During this whole time God placed the burden on my heart to tell his mother what had happened on Friday morning. Well, I told her and she was very shocked to hear what I have said. But she said that God placed me here in this situation for a reason. I told her the best thing we could do is pray.The power of prayer works. She asked me if she could talk to her son, I told her it her dicision. After that conversation had happended Tad came to me twice and asked me to not tell anyone about his struggles with Christianity and not to tell his mother. At that time I felt very guilty, but I told his mom what just happened and she was shocked. Once again I told her that God is allowing this to happen for a certain reason and something good is going to come out of this. The last thing I told her was that I cared about her son I will be praying for him. God really did put me on the spot light yesterday.

Battling with Atheists

WOW! I am spirtually worn out! This morning God put up against some Atheist. Have ever encountered some and had a conversation about faith? Well here is what happened. One of my friends asked me if I could tutor him during 1st period Study Hall. I am like okay. When I was ready, I went over to him and saw that he had an Atheist book that a friend of his reccomened for him. Oh by the way, this student is a Freshmen and the person that influenced him is a Junior. I asked him what is that book? He said what I thought it was. Well, his other friend who is a freshmen is really good friends with the guy who is a Junior and an Atheist. Well, I could not just stand there and let him read that horrible book. I started telling him why that book is wrong. Then we got into the discusion (and I don't know how) about why did God have the Israelites take over the Promise Land by kicking them off of their land. Well that went down hill. Then the Atheist came over and took full advantaged and joined the arguement. I could tell that my friend Tad, is in alot of trouble spiritually. He has allowed a Junior to twist his thoughts about Christ and he is trying to convert him to Atheisum. I could tell that he is very confused. We go on the topic about morall vaules and pre-marriage sex. I said, " How would you feel if your wife slept with someone and you saved your virginity for her" He kept trying to cover up the question by changing the question. But he finally answered the question he said it to please the Atheists. Then I asked the Holy Spirit to give the right words to say and then I asked my friend Tad, to step aside and let me talk to him in private. I told him how much I cared about him and his relationship with God. He told that is very confused and does not know what to do. He told me that he went to a catholic Priest and asked him some question, but he did not help besides basicly you are going to Hell if you fix yourself. During this whole time while I was trying to talk with him, Satan knew that God was using me and was trying to help him, so the Atheists comes over and starts saying things like read the Bible and make the inteligent decission. So I invited Tad (freshmen) to go to Youth group with me. But he said I don't know. The Atheist told me to read a book about some atheist and get informed. I do not want to read it because honestly I do not want to hear what they have to say and will make me even dougbt God even more. I told him it would be a waist of my time and it would not convert me. But at the same time I was trying to protect myself. I told the Atheists he should come to Youth group and talk to pastor marc. Of course he refused. I even told Tad the same thing and he was doubtfull So then the bell rung and he had to leave. During the whole morning I had these thoughts from the Atheists and was proccesing the info. I began unfortunatly to doubt Christ. I feel really horrible about this. I then went to the bathroom not to go, but to pray. I prayed and asked for strength and guidance. He reminded me some of the amazing miracles that have happened in my life. After school, I ran into Tad and asked how he was doing, of course he said yes. He told he was going to spend the afternoon with Matt ( Atheist). Later on , Tad's friend Adam ran into and told that he heard that something happened. I told him everything. He said that ever since they have started High School together Tad has changed his moralls. He said that he went through Grade school together and he was very religious. So what I am trying to say that, PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING:
TAD (freshmen)
Joey ( freshmen)
Matt (junior, and the Atheist)
Finaly for me. I need strength to not doubt and the words to say to them when I encounter them.

In His Hands

WOW!! Last night was AWESOME! I knew that God was going to do something amazing last night. I can not wait to see what is going to happen on Sunday. Even though we did have a little short turn out, God knew what he was doing long before it happened. God truely helped me last night when I had to give my testimony. I was very nervous but, He gave me strength and comfort. Everybody did an oustanding job.Go Powerless team. But( Daniel Scaggs is not powerless, he could whip all of our buts) God is doing amazing things in our Youth Group. I hope to see all the newcomers from last night to start coming to youth group. Have you ever been in suspense and VERY nervous at the same time? Well, it is one of the best feelings you could ever feel. I felt totaly covered in HIS Spirit. IT WAS AWESOME! I wish we had Youth Group everyday. Church is AWESOME! If anyone has specific prayers or special needs, I will be there 100% to back you up with help. Oh yah I almost forgot. I received an e-mail this morning from a person from England. YAh I know to delete but the curiosity of what it said made me read it. This letter said that I am a person that is like 57 years old with cancer. She said she was searching online because she is wanting to give her deceised husband's mission money. She said she hoped to find someone that would to God's will and use the money for good. WOW! I better get going I have Class.

Update

Hey! Two more days until WNL!! I am so excited for this event. I can not wait to see what is going to happen. Well, I have made a new goal for myself. I have decided to read the WHOLE entire Bible and do a book report on it for school. I think I will be doing an Apocalyptic theme. I started reading it yesterday and I am half way through Exodus. I have a long way to go. I am amazed of how much stuff I know about the Bible when I read. But I bet there will be alot more to learn about. School is going good. I was just given the recoginition for student of the quater. Yeah. Well, it is all fine and dandy but I really don't care. I do not need to be recognize for my efferts. They will be recognize in heaven. What did you think about the SuperBowl? Go Stealers!!! Oh well. I really dont't care. Well I better get back to my daily walk with Christ. Pray for WNL.