Change comes at a PRICE! aka Can't never Could, Could Never Would

As a pastor I hear many people talking about wanting to change their life. But Change comes at a HUGE PRICE. Change isn't a thought only but an action. It is venturing off into unchartered waters in your life. It is doing things that you don't like to do and feel you can't do. There are a LOT of things I don't like...but I am not happy with that. I don't feel that I sing very well...but for some tone deaf reason my worship leader thinks I can. I fight it all the way down but I know if I want my life to change I have to push through things I don't like. One of the things I stress at CIOC is never say you can't. If you get in a habit of saying, "I can't do that" you will fight that devil the REST OF YOUR LIFE. Any time something gets tough you will just say I CAN'T DO THAT. I laugh at David Ramey becauuse when he first started coming to CIOC I would ask for things in the music and he would respond I Can't do that...I fought with him all the time..but now he doesn't say he can't...he simply finds the strength within himself to do it. Trust me...you can be strong in one area of your life and a wimp in another area for long...your wimpyness will bleed over into every area of your life. For instance, I don't like being in a group of other pastors...no offense...but for some reason it makes me nervous and on edge...I HATE IT. Recently I was asked to be a part of a Pastor's Covenant Group. I accepted. The first couple of weeks were ok...but now it's getting personal...and I fight to go every week...but I get up every Thursday and make the trip to the resturant to eat and fellowship...WHY? Not because I am good at it or even like it but because I need to kick that attitude out of my life. Just today I signed up to be a part of another network of pastor's and will be meeting with guys that are SOOOOOOO different from me and my style...why do I put myself through so much TORMENT? Because I want to stretch myself beyond things I don't like. I don't want to say, "I am not good at that" or "I don't like that" to anything...now don't email me telling me of things you know I don't like...I am a work in progress..
Take life by the horns...don't say you can't or you suck or you're an old, fat man (that's for Heather) Simply get up and do it. If you have "gracefully" bowed out of something...gracefully bow back in and kick that mentality out of your life.
Remember It's Easier to say I Can't rather than to say I CAN but I Can't changes nothing, I Can will change your life.