{"id":603,"date":"2009-11-04T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=603"},"modified":"2009-11-04T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:57:04","slug":"our-choices-determine-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/603\/our-choices-determine-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Choices Determine Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I listened to a Meeting CD this past Sunday.\u00a0 I grabbed one at random in my garage when I was leaving.\u00a0 The title was\u201cYour choices determine your future.\u201d\u00a0 I felt as though it was going to be good.\u00a0 It was!\u00a0 Here are some things that really touched me that you preached in that meeting:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>&#8220;We are right now the result of the decisions we have made.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;After Adam made his decision, after the deed was done, he had no more choice.\u00a0 You&#8217;re going to reap what you sow, whether you want the results of your choices or not.\u00a0 Our choices determine our future.\u00a0 Adam lost his happy life; he ate sorrow the rest of his life.\u00a0 But there was nothing he could do about it.\u00a0 He had no more input.\u00a0 God&#8217;s judgment had come; the decision was made.\u00a0 Our part is to act; God&#8217;s part is to determine the result.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Then, in your sermon, you asked a question, John.\u00a0 You asked, <em>&#8220;Do you have any good thing in your life that you want to keep?\u201d\u00a0 Do you really want to keep your blessings?\u00a0 The key is to live as if you want to keep them.\u00a0 You have to have thankfulness for what God has giving you: health, wealth, people in your life, etc.\u00a0 Treat those people like you value them because things can change, and will change.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Don\u2019t play around with your blessings.\u00a0 You may wake up one day and they could be gone, and there\u2019s no more getting them back.\u00a0 Value them!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>&#8220;It\u2019s your choice.\u00a0 But after you make the choice, then what?\u00a0 You have no say-so, no input into deciding the results.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This was just the first 4 tracks of the Cd.\u00a0 It made me consider the times, today.\u00a0 God is so good!\u00a0 Let\u2019s choose God first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Paul<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hey John, I listened to a Meeting CD this past Sunday.\u00a0 I grabbed one at random in my garage when I was leaving.\u00a0 The title was\u201cYour choices determine your future.\u201d\u00a0 I felt as though it was going to be good.\u00a0 It was!\u00a0 Here are some things that really touched me that you preached in [&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-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}