{"id":80,"date":"2017-11-11T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2017-11-11T08:48:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T13:48:02","slug":"choose-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/11\/choose-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"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.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(Deuteronomy 30:19<\/a>\u00a0NKJV)<\/p>\n

In this world, you can experience life and blessing, or you can deal with death and cursing. The decision in yours.<\/p>\n

The Bible tells us clearly it is our choice to receive either life or death, blessing or cursing. Then he tells us which one to choose. He said, \u201cChoose life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus said, \u201cThe thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly\u201d<\/strong> (John 10:10<\/strong><\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Every blessing God has provided for us in Jesus is contingent on our decision to receive it. When Jesus asked a sick man In John 5, will you be made well? \u00a0He had a choice. He could say yes, he could say no, but what he said was I can\u2019t. He said I have no one to put me in the pool. Jesus had to get the man\u2019s eyes off the circumstances and on to him. Then the man was healed.<\/p>\n

I do not know what challenge you may be facing today. You may be dealing with a health issue, a financial need, or the enemy may be trying to destroy your family. Remember that Jesus has already fought this battle for you. Now all you have to do is simply make the decision to win.<\/p>\n

My advice?\u00a0 Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.\u00a0 However, no one can make that decision for you.\u00a0 What you do with the gift of life that God has given you is really up to you.\u00a0 How you live your life will reveal your decision. Of all the decisions you have to make in life, none is more important than this.\u00a0 Life is short, precious, and sweet and you can choose how to live each day. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n

The choice is obvious, but the choice is still yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes we cannot control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond and that gives us actual power and control over a situation.<\/p>\n

Confession:<\/strong>\u00a0I choose today to receive Life. I choose to receive God\u2019s blessing. I am making the decision to walk in the light of life. I am making the decision to win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

May God\u2019s richest and best be yours,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lanier Martin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0(Deuteronomy 30:19\u00a0NKJV) In this world, you can experience life and blessing, or you can deal with death and cursing. The decision in yours.Continue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[22,23,20],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choices","tag-choice","tag-choose-life","tag-lanier-martin","no-thumb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9msdG-1i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laniermartin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}