Friday, November 15, 2024

Nov 15 2024 … We Get To Choose

Nov 15 2024 … We Get To Choose     


Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   

… Please take time to hearth group Big Tent Revival, with music and lyrics, singing Choose Life, calling for Christians to choose life and follow the Lord all the way to His glory.          

 


  

Reference Passage: …  Deuteronomy 30:20 [NLT] …  

20 You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the Lord, you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

… Mose lays out God’s choice to God’s people … to obey and follow Him into God’s promised land or to disobey and never see the promised land.         


Reference Passage: …  Deuteronomy 30:11-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… Moses lays out God’s promise to give His chosen people life  … IF …they choose to surrender their lives to follow the Lord.

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Reference Passage: … Joshua 24:15 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

… Joshua shows that God’s people can choose whether they will obey and follow God’s commands; but Joshua and his family chooses to follow The Lord and find life.                


Reference Passage: … Psalms 139:13-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK   

  King David sings of God knowing, before time began, what route we will choose in life..  


Reference Passage: … John 10:10 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK  

… lays out the choice we must choose to walk in life, following His way to life or the road to death laid out by Satan.                                               


Reference Passage: … Romans 6:23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  

  The Apostle Paul lays out the choice we have … to chose death in our own sin or life by surrendering to follow Christ.  We get to choose!  


Reference Passage: … 2Peter 3:9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  

  The Apostle Peter shows that God is patient to let any/all choose to repent and follow the Lord  … all the way to glory … OR NOT!   


My Devotional JournalToday’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Karen Pimpo  -  AT THIS LINK  -  relates a story about Nathan, … a young man who was raised in a Christian home but wandered from his faith as a young man.   But Nathan gives witness to God giving him the choice to follow the Lord, testifying … “God brought me back to Himself when I didn’t deserve it.”  And that’s the choice we all have, isn’t it?  As depicted in the photo above, we can choose to live in sin or choose life by following the Lord.   


Oh how I pray that all reading here with me have made THE CHOICE to find eternal life by following Christ and leaving behind the death that comes from following our sin nature.  Common!! Go with me to CHOOSE LIFE!                                 


My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to follow You, Lord, all the way to Your glory.                       

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... .Again, I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me choose Your way, Lord, all the way to eternal life.       … Amen


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