“Life Is Controlled By Decisions”
“Today I am giving you a choice. You can choose life and success or death and disaster.”
Brian writes:
Life is controlled by decisions!
Decisions made today create experiences in your tomorrow. After a decision has been made, whether it was a good one or a bad one, something soon is about to happen. No matter what your experiences in life were, the “Will of God” was mapped out before the event happened. The bible says, in Deuteronomy 30: 15, “See, I have set before thee this day, LIFE AND GOOD, AND DEATH AND EVIL”. Some experiences operate in victory, while others travail in defeat.
If anyone wants to experience goodness and prosperity, a wise decision must be made in the present. If you do things that will stray the body from health, you have chosen the plan of death and evil. For example, one day, I decided to use drugs. I soon became addicted to them. Yet, I Did Not Know that an addiction was from the work of evil. After using drugs for more than ten years, I Did Not Know a curse was living inside my brain. My usage with drugs had gotten out of control.
At times, even while using drugs, I wanted to be freed from them, but it was hard making that event be successful. While using drugs one day, my heart stopped beating for 11 minutes, and I went into a coma. When my heart stopped beating for 11 minutes, I actually experienced death. When I first began using drugs, I Did Not Know I had chosen the plan of death and evil.
Drug usage isn’t the only activity that drives evil and death into people’s lives. The Bible says, (Romans 6: 23), for the wages of sin is death. While I was using drugs, I was committing sin, too. When my heart stopped beating for 11 minutes, it was because of the wages of sin. Death was my payment, but God had mercy on me one more time.
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May 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Dear Brian:
Your heart wrenching message resonates the eternal truth of “…Choose life and not death!” (2 Kings 18:32).
It is so very needed in this ‘liberal’ world today.
One unfortunately very common case in point:
Recently, a college son of my client yielded to the temptation of “Just try it, you’ll like it,” and started to smoke pot.
Despite his mother’s pleas, he argues that the pot relaxes him.
The mother stopped giving him extra pocket money.
He uses the gas money for driving to school and lunch money to satiate the habit.
One could imagine how he continues to spirally deteriorate physically, mentally, intellectually…from being a fit, loving son, bright student with graduate scholarships in sight to being a disoriented dope with out of control violent tendencies or complete withdrawal from the world around him.
Needless to say, he is spiritually barren.
His devoted mother is so decimated that she has not been able to work. The pain of facing foreclosure of her million-dollar house, she said, is nothing, comparing with his son’s choice of self-destruction.
I hope that your much needed message of salvation will reach far and wide.
Thank you.
May GOD ALL MIGHTY Bless you inestimably and infinitely;
GODSPEED, always and forevermore!
Mary Sun.