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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE:  CHECK YOUR CHOICES

God is calling his children to come up higher in their faith walk. Every day is filled with choices. The world is full of distractions to pull our attention from Jesus. Every decision we make leads to a future decision. If the enemy tempts us into a bad decision, we may find ourselves making other bad choices because of the one. Every decision we make shapes our lives. This is why it is important to be consistent.

One example: The children of Israel had been worshipping other gods. Joshua stood boldly before them and told them they needed to settle the matter and choose one or the other, that worship of the one true God could not be mixed with gods of this earth.

Joshua 24:15-16 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;

Every day we must choose to serve God. We choose good or evil. We are faced with many small decisions. Do I read my Bible or stream Netflix? Do I pray or take a nap? We won’t be weakened if we choose occasionally to stream Netflix or take a nap. But do it consistently and we will grow weak. Being in the word gives us our strength. That is when our enemy attacks, when we are at our weakest.

Deut 11:26-27 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

These two verses summarize the point of this lesson today. We can have blessings or curses. If we obey God’s word, we will be blessed. If we chose other gods the false ones of the bible or idols we create ourselves we will not reap blessings. We reap what we sow.

DEUT 30: 14-18 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Choosing to follow the one true God, has benefits. He will prosper us and bless us in this life. But if we do not do that which is right in the sight of God. He will cut our days short and will not bless us. We have to choose life, that is the side of Christ.

Prov 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

All most human being have to rely on is there instincts and intuition when making a decision. However, as children of God, we can ask for his leading and for discernment. He will never lead us wrong. Our instincts and intuition will fail us. Leaning on our human friends can sometimes not be the best decision. They too are making choices by their instincts and intuition. Choices may seem right, but may turn out to be a broad way that the enemy painted to look perfect.  So, choose wisely one road leads to life everlasting. The other leads to eternal death. You have a choice to make today, I pray you choose life.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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