5 Ways Guaranteed to Improve
The Quality of Your Life Each Day
Ge 2:15–17 (ESV) —
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Recognize your quality of life is determined by the quality of the choices you make each day.
Choice is a God-given right given to man in the very beginning. It has never been rescinded.
We live or die by the choices we make!
A life choice, is a positive one, and a death choice, is a minus one.
The ultimate quality of your life today was determined by the sum of the choices you
Therefore,
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Adam and Eve were given a choice of life or death. God did not interfere, even when they chose death.
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The choice they made that one day has affected all of us, even to this day.
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The choices of what is done in one second, one minute, one hour, in one day can alter what happens in one’s life for years.
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Your choices affect the quality of your life and the world around you.
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But your choices also affect the quality of life and destiny of your children and your children’s children.
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Each day is important! Don’t waste it!
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We may think it unfair that Adam and Eve chose our destiny, but God is giving each of us with every new day an opportunity to alter the choices made by Adam and Eve and others for us.
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We can break free of the chains of bondage brought about by our poor choices in the past or the choices made for us by others by choosing to honor him.
Joshua 24:14–15 (ESV): “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord,
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Serving other gods will mean an inferior life of bondage and lack.
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They served other gods in Egypt and, as a result, suffered in bondage.
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Understand that you can change your current state of life
too by making different choices today than you may have made in the past.
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Each day,
God gives everyone a new opportunity to choose a better quality of life by choosing to honor him.
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Dt 30:19–20 (ESV) —
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God gives you an opportunity to undo your errors of the past everyday.
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La 3:22–26 (KJV 1900) —
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You can choose life,
or you can reject life. Life only comes from God. The choice to serve anything other than God will have a negative effect on your life.
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Proverbs 1:29-31 (NIV): “Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
This morning was the beginning of the first day of the rest of your life.
Make it count !
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Today, when we woke up this morning, it was the beginning of the first day
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I want you to think about that statement. “When we woke this morning, it was the beginning of the first day of the rest of our lives.”
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What we do in this day, will affect the rest of our lives.
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We all have been given the same 24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds, and then the day ends.
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Success or failure in life will be determined by how we spend our seconds, minutes, and hours.
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Were they life-producing seconds, minutes, and hours?
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Or were they death-producing seconds, minutes, and hours?
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Or were they wasted seconds, minutes, and hours, attributable to neither life nor death?
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Not hot or cold, just lukewarm.
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No choice made, or silence means death!
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Your ultimate status in life is always determined by the choices you make each day.
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At the end of this day, it will be gone forever. We can never get it back.
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Will it have been a productive day?
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Will it have been a wasted day?
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Productive or wasted, it was a choice you made.
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If we rely upon our own ways to make it through each day, we will screw up because we are totally utterly incapable of deciding for ourselves which way we should go.
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Pr 16:25 (ESV) —
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How can we make this day a productive day for life and not death?
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There is only one way we can make this day, or any day, a positive, productive day!
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We must gain wisdom on how to use each second, each minute, and each hour of our day.
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How do we gain wisdom?
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Je 33:3 (ESV) —
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We must diligently call upon the name of the Lord to lead us, direct us, and guide us.
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The reverence of the Lord is wisdom.
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Proverbs 9:10 (NKJV): 10 “The
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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God for his guidance and wisdom to make the best choices throughout each day. -
Let us remember Point #1
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Recognize your quality of life is determined by the quality of the choices you make each day.
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God for his guidance and wisdom to make the best choices throughout each day.
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Ask God for His guidance
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David, a man after God’s own heart, knew he had to ask God to make his best decisions. He said:
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Ps 5:3 (NKJV) —
Ps 25:4–5 (NIV84) —
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I am going to list just a few scriptures to show you that God desires to lead you through each day so that you will have faith for a more abundant life and ask God for guidance and wisdom before making and decision.
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Isaiah 58:11 (ESV): And
Is 30:21 (NKJV) —
Ps 32:8 (ESV) —
Is 48:17 (ESV) —
Jn 16:13 (ESV) —
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Ask God for his wisdom as your daily bread.
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God’s Wisdom is your daily Bread. Feed me lord!
If we do not ask, we will not receive it. Asking is praying!
Mt 4:4 (ESV) —
Jas 1:5 (ESV) —
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God will daily give you wisdom, if you ask and will listen to hear it.
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Je 9:23–24 (NKJV) —
Your best
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Since it
is God’s will for us to have the best in this life - as evidenced in the creation - and in the world to come, a rich, eternal life - we should call on him. We should pray and ask so that we do not waste any second, minute or hour of our precious life making poor choices.
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Pr 4:7 (NKJV) —
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When Solomon sought wisdom from God, God gave him more than just wisdom.
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1 Ki 3:13 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days. 14 And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
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Prosperity will come with wise choices.
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He will do the same for you. Wisdom is the principal thing to make the choices to have a quality life.
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The first
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It is a great honor and privilege to be able to ask the creator of the universe, and he will take the time to lead us every minute of our day. What great love this reveals.
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We have been warned not to rely upon our own ways, but to seek God‘s ways.
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Isaiah 2:22 (ESV): Stop regarding man
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It is so sad, that so many of us make choices to get an education in the world education but failed to get an education in the word.
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A way that seems right to a man
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Asking in prayer is the highest form of faith. Prayer acknowledges God's sovereignty over all things, and God rewards faith.
Heb 11:6 (ESV) —
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Some of you might say it’s too late for me to walk in the will of God, but I say to you it is never too late! Even if you have gone astray all of your life, God knew you would, but God still has a plan for you if you just call on him, he will reveal it.
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He can restore all of the years that the locust has eaten (Joel 2:25). He will take your life where you are now and give you a new life. God can change your name from Jacob to Israel.
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Remember the thief on the cross? David said
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Ps 23:3 (ESV) —
Ps 31:3 (ESV) —
Isaiah 48:11 (ESV):
Recognize your quality of life is determined by the quality of the choices you make each day.
Ask God for his guidance and wisdom to make the best choices throughout each day.
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Be still and wait on the Lord; then start your day.
Habakkuk 2:1–3 (ESV): 2 I will take my stand at my watchpost
and station myself on the tower,
2 And the Lord answered me:
3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
Is 40:31 (ESV) —
Recognize your quality of life is determined by the quality of the choices you make each day.
Ask God for his guidance and wisdom to make the best choices throughout each day.
Be still and wait on the Lord; then start your day.
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Listen for
his voice and obey his wisdom in your choices for that day.
Pr 3:5–6 (ESV) —
Job 36:11 (NKJV): If they obey and serve Him, They shall
Is 1:19–20 (NKJV) —
Matthew 7:24–25 (ESV): 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
Recognize your quality of life is determined by the quality of the choices you make each day.
Ask God for his guidance and wisdom to make the best choices throughout each day.
Be still and wait on the Lord; then start your day.
Listen for his voice and obey his wisdom in your choices for that day.
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Ponder on and appreciate what it means to be a child of God every day.
Every 86,400 second, every 14,400 minute, and every 24 hours of the day.
Your destiny and heritage
Ro 8:28–30 (NKJV) —
Ro 8:37 (NKJV) —
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Summary: if you practice these 5 things each day, you will see the quality of your life improving here and now, here a little there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept, then you will be securing a rich inheritance in the world to come.
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Recognize your quality of life is determined by the quality of the choices you make each day.
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Ask God for his guidance and wisdom to make the best choices throughout each day.
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Be still and wait on the Lord; then start your day.
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Listen for his voice and obey his wisdom in your choices for that day.
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Ponder on and appreciate what it means to be a child of God every day.
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La 3:22–26 (KJV 1900) —
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