CURRENT MISSION

Currently i am Walking from Canada, all the way down to Mexico on a journey God has called me on to Minister to People on the Streets, Proclaiming the Love of God and how He has saved my life from multiple overdoses and freed me from my addictions!

ABOUT ME

Hey! My Name is Michael Joseph Benjamin Anctil, im 20 years old and from a small city called Kelowna, in British Columbi Canada. Im going to share a little about what im doing right now but before that i have to share a little about what got me here. 2005 was a really sticky year, one of the worst i have ever gone through. I moved out of my moms and in with this lady and her two kids, who needed a room-mate, in February. I was working full time at a Pet Store until i had an operation on my leg go bad. I had to have a large birthmark removed because of a high risk of cancer. My surgon didnt come talk to me after the operation; telling me how to take care of it, or even how the operation went, so i thaught that everything was cool because it was my first operation, until the whole insition burst open 2 weeks later because of a blood clot the size of apporximatly 2-3 golf balls. So this left me with a hole about the size of a soft ball, right to the muscle in my leg for over 3 months and took over 6 and a half months to heal. Shortly after my leg burst open i moved into my grandparents spare room, because complications at this ladies place. After about 2 months of being stuck in bed and a few months of getting bandages changed everyday, i couldnt take it at my family's anymore and wanted my freedom back. A friend had moved back into town not to long before and need a room-mate to watch his kids while he was doing buisness. This guy was like a brother to me growing up so i jumped on it right away. I knew when i moved into it that it was a huge Marijauna house, cause we were selling 175-200 pounds of marijuana ever week. I thaught i was in Heaven because i was getting paid to smoke it, package it and sell it. But about a week and a half after i moved in here i found out cocain and other hard drugs were being done in the house, cause i was a large party house, like almost every night, and there was a cocain dealer that lived on the corner of the street. I thaught it was no big deal as long as i didnt do any myself. Well Curiousity got to me and not even 2 minutes after trying the tiniest amount, i went back and finished everything on the plate. Within a month and a half i was staying up 3-4 days easy at a time on cocain. At this point though my only, older, brother Chris got into a severe motor bike accident. He was driving his street bike when a car pulled out infront of him and stopped. He had no where to go cause he was way to close so he hit both breaks out of panic, which cause the front break to overtake the back break, throwing him head first, over the handlebars and into the side of this car. His street bike then came rolling up behind him and sandwitched him into the car. His room-mate was driving his street bike behind him at the time, and after the ambulance picked my brother up he rushed over to my house and kicked the door in. I had just gone to sleep, two hours before after a 4 day bindge, so i was totally out of it and didnt grasp what he said. Everyone woke me up again 2 minutes later and i saw room-mate with tears in his eyes so i knew it was serious. We rushed over to the hospital, only to have the nurses not let us see Chris and wouldnt even let the doctors talk to us. We had to wait over 9 hours in the waiting room after i broke the news to my mom and grandparetns. When the doctors finally came to talk to us they said there was no way he would make it. They said that all his ribs were shattered, both lungs were punctured and collapsed, spleen burst, kidneys were slightly damaged, left elbow was completly shattered, pelvis fractured in 3 spots, left femer was broken and right knee broken. They said that it took them over 6 and a half hours to stop the bleeding, and that he went through over 8 times the amount of blood in his body through trandfusions, flat lined twice in the hospital and then they said he had brain damage from lack of oxigen to the brain, so they put him in a self induced comma, in intensive care where the machines were breathing for him 100%. At this point i hit rock bottom and didnt care in life any more. The stress of the drugs got to me, i hadnt been sober that long for a long time, the stress of the fact that my brother, the healthiest kid i knew was in the hospital on his death bed, and then old memories that my father committed suicide when i was a child all got to me. I rushed home to get as high as i possibly could. I ended up poisoning myself unintentionally on a 2 day straight mushroom high cause i ate almost 3 ounces in 2 days. Everything was alright from that but this is where things start to get crazy. A week and a half into my brother being into the hospital; the machines were still breathing for him a 100%, his head was swallen like a watermelon, and the doctors were stilling waiting for everything to fail. All of a sudden Chris started to breathe for himelf 40%, his lungs popped up, and his ribs started going back to where they were supposed to be, and the doctors wernt even opperating on him. The doctors were saying that, there was still a slim chance that he made it and if he did that he might be in a wheel chair for the rest of his life from brain damage or he might be in a wheel chair/rehab for a few years from all the broken bones. Well Chris was up and walking after 4 and a half weeks!!! After seeing all this; miracle after miracle, i still didnt acknowledge that it was God, cause at this point my 3-4 days staying up at a time getting high turned into 7-8 days at a time. I was just thinking that My brothers going to make it, i have to get out of the drugs im doing. But it was too hard, withdrawls, getting dope sick, and all my surrounding were drugs. I ended up overdoseing on exctasy one night on almost 21 pills of exctasy. I was frozen for almost 4 hours unable to move, but slowly everything came back so i was able to get up and rehydrate myself. I then messed up a 14 thousand dallar sale and almost got killed. After this i got back together with a old girlfriend which was a really bad idea at the time cause i was playing games with drugs and she was playing her own games. This led to me overdosing 2 more times. I was doing anywhere from 5-15 tabs of exctasy in a day mixing it with up to a ounce or more of mushrooms each day. And this was a everyday routine. Well i hit rock bottom again and turned to God out of anguish telling him " Give me some kind of a sign whether im waisting my time or not with this girl im going out with." This was the High that Changed my life.... Straight from God. I wasnt expecting an answer but the second those words came out of my mouth i had a spiritual awakening; I felt the power of God surge through my body, It felt like 50 pounds was taken off my back, it felt like i was re-newed. This was u nlike anything i had ever heard, or anything like i have ever been taught, and i was born and raised in a christian family and went to a chirstian school from preschool to grade 9. But this was different, this was REAL! At this very moment i KNEW,( And there is a huge difference from beliveing and knowing, check out my one blog To believe or To know ),That God was real, so i started asking God for help with all my addictions and problems. There were no withdrawls and i wasnt getting dope sick, within a month and a half i had my job back, my place back and all my animals back. I replaced all my getting high time with reading The Bible time, and God was teaching me all these cool parables that arnt even inside the Bible. I started recognizing Gods voice in everyday life and He staretd giving me visions and dreams, about things i was going to be doing in life and things that are going to be happening to this world soon. God has called me to walk from Canada to Mexico ministering to people on the streets, and thats what i am doing right now. Its been over a year since i left my hometown and has been an awesome experience. God ahs totally transformed my life and i have been so blessed to witness many other peoples lives be transformed after they turn to God for help. If your struggling right now with anything, it doesnt have to be addictions, but could be an abusive relationship, just anything for that matter, God is faithful and True and can help you with any problem. And please ignore the saying "God helps those who help themselves." Because God Helps those who let him help them! You have to reach out because we were given the gift of choice. And if your uncertain or even doubt that God exists then Ask God to reveal himself to you and He will, and in a way just for you. Trust me it will become the High that changes your life too!!!

PHILOSOPHY

"Love your neighbor as you do yourself." The reason i live my life is becuase it is no longer my life but the life in which Christ has given to me. And i think that if God has touched you in any way then you should reach out and touch others even if its just one other person.

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

so far i am very new to this and am traveling walking from Canada to Mexico, but i would be more then happy to volunteer or do od jobs for people who lend there couch.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet

Interessen

Serving God, Reading my Bible, Making friends with all people.

• animals
• pets
• birds
• folklore
• dining
• walking
• partying
• flying
• news
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• cycling
• golf
• volunteering

Musik, Filme und Bücher

The Holy Bible!

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and just let my Heavenly Father take control of my life!

Lehren, lernen, teilen

God speaks to me through metaphores and wild life and revelations in scriptures.... heres one Imagine the life of a Spider and how when a baby its web is very spread apart and weak. This is of course because of its lack of experience.
Most of the food that flies into the web has a tendency to break it down because of the webs lack of strength. Also the Birds cant see it very well so they fly right threw, tearing down anything that was built. Sometimes this leads to the spider giving up, causing death.
But if the spider doesnt give up but perseveres, it learns more through the discipline of continueing in re-building. Therfore it catches alot more food, causing alot more growth, creating a much stronger, thicker web which the birds can now see so avoid.
And even as this now mature spider and web get hit by severe weather, knocking it down, it only rises again to build things New, Fresh and Stronger.

........ Now check this out ........

We are that very Spider. When we are new to our walk with Christ, our web, " Relationship " with God is very weak and spread apart because of our lack of knowledge and experience.
Most of the food, " Messages," that we recieve has a tendancy to break down our New Relationship with God, because either the message is to hard to understand or takes too much discipline to stick. And the Birds, " Demons, trials or temptations," cant really see our relationship with God so flies right threw and breaks what was just built. This sometimes leads us to giving up on God completly, causing Death. But if we do not give up, but persevere, we learn that discipline really gains knowledge as in Proverbs 12:1: " Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid." and also Proverbs 3:11,12: " My son, do not despise the Lords discipline and do not resent His rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those He loves as a Father the Son he delights in."
All this produces strength, in our relationship with God, therfore we grow in maturity, even through trials.... James 1:2-4: " Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything."
So now we can understand Gods Word alot more and our Demons, who once tormented us, see God working in our lives so avoid us and flee. And even as this now mature " Spider " and " Web," get hit by severe weather, " Tradition, or Stumblings," it teaers down that which is weak and builds things New and Fresh making things Stronger in Christ.
Proverbs 24:16: " For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again..."

( Written by: The Holy Spirit ... All Honor and Praise to THE Most High God!!! )