Duet 30:19 says, "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, you choose." I have found out that there are 7 keys (DECISIONS or CHOICES) that will bring you happiness and success.
1. Choose Obedience
Duet 28:1 says, "If you will harken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME ON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU!" This simple means doing what God has told you to do.
2. Choose Knowledge
Hos 4:6 says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." What we do not know can destroy us. God wants us to know. You have a right to the blessings of God. The Bible is an information manuel. It is literally the WINNERS DIGEST.
3. Choose Visualization
Joshua 1:8 & Psalms 1:1-3 says, "If you will meditate on what God has said, success and prosperity if yours." What ever happens in your mind will happen in time. (Prov 23:7) Whatever is good think on this. (Phil 4:8)
4. Choose Forgiveness
Forgiveness is available because of what Jesus did for us and forgiveness puts us in right standing with God. But, in Mark 11:25 Jesus said, "If you don't forgive others then God will not forgive you." Forgive not only other people but forgive yourself. This is just as important. There are people who have not forgiven themselves.
5. Choose Persistence
Galations 6:9 says, "Let us not grow weary in well doing for in due season WE SHALL REAP, IF WE FAINT NOT." Don't quit! At times you will feel like asking, why am I doing this anyway or you will feel like it's no use. Hang in there and don't quit!
6. Choose Sowing
Eph 6:8 says, "Whatever good thing I do for another, God is going to do for me." The blessing follows the blesser. Everything in this life is sowing and reaping, finances, love, mercy, forgiveness, etc, and every seed produces after it's own kind. What you make happen for others God will make happen for you.
7. Choose Praise
Psalms 22:3 says, "God inhabits the praises of His people. Psalms 16:11 says, "In His presence there is fullness of joy." And Nehemiah 1:8 says, "the joy of the Lord is our strength." When we begin to praise God something happens. I don't care how I feel, if you start saying, yes open your mouth and say God I love you, something loosens. Praise gets your mind off of you and onto God.
Jesus said, "I have come that YOU would have life and have it more abundantly." CHOOSE LIFE!
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