{"id":4397,"date":"2014-04-18T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2014-04-18T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:26:59","slug":"our-choices-determine-our-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4397\/our-choices-determine-our-future-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our choices determine our future."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I found this old email I sent to you back in Nov. 2009. It came to mind as I was walking in my door from work. All the events since 2009 sure make it a lot more real to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Paul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>From<\/strong>: Paul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong> Sent<\/strong>: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:42 PM<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong> To:<\/strong> John Clark<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong> Subject<\/strong>: Our choices determine our future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey John,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> I listened to your sermon from Sunday. The title was called, <strong>\u201cYour choices determine your future.\u201d<\/strong> I felt as though it was going to be good. It was! Here are some things that really touched me that you preached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">(<em>1) Our lives, right now, are the result of the decisions we have made in the past.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> (2) After Adam made his decision, after the deed was done, he had no more choice. He could only reap what he had sown. You are going to reap what you have sown!<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> (3) Whether we want it this way or not, our choices determine our future. Adam lost his happy life. He ate sorrow the rest of his time on earth. He had no choice about that because he had made the wrong choice.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> (4). You then asked a question John, you asked, \u201cDo you have any good thing in your life that you want to keep?\u201d &#8220;Do you really want to keep your blessings?&#8221; The key is to live like you want to keep them. You have to have thankfulness for what God has giving you &#8211; health, wealth, the people in your life &#8211; treat those people and things like you value them because things can change, and will change.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> (5). God told Adam, &#8220;In the day you eat thereof, you will die.&#8221; Adam didn\u2019t believe it, and he didn&#8217;t value his happy life, so God gave him another one.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> (6). Don\u2019t play around with your blessings. You may wake up one day to find them gone, and there may not be a way to get them back. Value them!<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> (7). God has blessed us with the freedom to make choices, but once our choice has been made and the deed done, the results are entirely up to God.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You have no say-so in that. We have to take advantage of the opportunity to make the right choices!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> This was just the first four tracks of the cd. It made me consider the times, today. God is so good! Let\u2019s choose God first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Paul<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pastor John, I found this old email I sent to you back in Nov. 2009. It came to mind as I was walking in my door from work. All the events since 2009 sure make it a lot more real to me. Paul &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; From: Paul Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:42 PM To: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}