“I call Heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.”
Deuteronomy 30:19 (NKJV)

APRIL 9 - So you probably thought that life in ancient Israel was drab and colorless, without the flash of contemporary fabrics? Well…nothing could be farther from the truth! God’s children only needed to stretch
out their hands into nature, pleasantly encountering diverse choices for their garments and homes. Faces, clothing, walls—each were blank canvases of distinctive choice.

Different choices take you down different paths. Wrong choices take you down rock-ridden, destructive paths; right choices take you down delightful, melodious paths. You can wait for life to make your choices for you (most of which will be wrong), or you can intentionally choose to become who you were destined to become. Yes, that choice involves a great deal of change, which isn’t always as fun as the ancient Israeli color chart. Nevertheless, through it all, there is a pervading delight because of the promised outcome of such changes.

Once you become willing to do whatever it takes to win in life, nothing can hold you back—not overwhelming pressures, not spiteful criticisms, nor adverse circumstances, all of which are assigned to trap
you in the sticky mire of mediocrity. The fulfillment of your destiny rests as a blank canvas of choice awaiting the decision of your selective hands.

Daily Confession

Father, I thank You that You set before me life and death, blessing and cursing. I choose life that I and those I love may experience life as You desire it.

Audio Confession: Day 9

Family Scripture Reading

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Spiritual Checkup Pack - CD & Book

What is the ultimate prize that this world has to offer? The Nobel Peace Prize? An Oscar? A Super Bowl ring? A lucrative recording contract?

Certainly you can find all types of contests in which to compete and a host of valuable prizes to covet in today’s society. Are you equipped to win the prize and obtain the goal? In this package, Dr. Robb Thompson explains to you how to win the ultimate prize of life – the heart of your Heavenly Father.

Using illustrations from the lives of Biblical men and women, Dr. Thompson vividly portrays what it means to be a person after God’s own heart and how to do the necessary examining of your own heart in the process. He tackles the all-important topics of submission and covenant loyalty – scriptural concepts that are frequently shunned and swept under the collective rug in Christendom today.

As Dr. Thompson so succinctly asks, “What else do you have in life, if you don’t have the heart of the Father?” That’s a question only you can answer for yourself. Pursue the prize of your Father’s heart, and watch everything else in your life fall into place (Matthew 6:33).

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