Live by Choice

Come on, let us live by CHOICE than by CHANCE

greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world.

God will grant us to be strengthen with might through His spirit in our inner man.

2Cor 4:16 therefore we do not lose heart even though our outward man is perishing yet the inward man is being renewed day by day

so as it says, outwardly we're dying, but what about the inner man?

2Cor 4:6 For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2Cor 4:7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

God puts this light into people who have problems..

2Cor 4:8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
2Cor 4:9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed

the outer man is afflicted, but the inner man is not crushed.
the outer man is perplexed, but the inner man is not driven to despair
the outer man is persecuted, but the inner man is not forsaken
the outer man is struck down, but the inner man is not destroyed

isn't that a nice thought?

"christians should be the best looking hospital patients" a christian is only sick on the outside (:

we don't just live by our outward man, we live by our inner man! (:

smile, understand that God is in control. He loves us too much and he has a great plan for our lives.

so as it says, outwardly we're dying, but what about the inner man?

1. Feed it (:

Whatever we feed lives, whatever we starve dies

we have a choice. Choose.

choose to let your inner man shine.

atmosphere can affect attitude.

the times you don't feel like going to church is the time you need it the most.

let me take you through an example...

1Sa 19:9 Then a harmful spirit from the LORD came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.

1Sa 19:23 And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

the spirit changes as the atmosphere changes. Saul was having a harmful spirit that wishes to kill David and then as he went there, he was prophesying all the way. cool?

we have a responsibility to feed our inner man.

if we strengthen our inner man, the inner man will strengthen us.

let us build up our inner man.

2. Faith (:
faith(fæth): seeing on the inside before you can see it on the outside.

HAVE FAITH IN GOD
"in Greek" have faith like God.

what is the God kind of faith? Anyone praying that you have received WILL receive it.

if we want to go against our feelings, it needs FAITH.

do not follow feelings, follow faith.
everything you're going through is external
even the doctor's report is external

we NEED faith. to not have faith is to go with what everyone else is going because that way is proven.

Mar 9:24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"

we need to believe that we have received.
if we can't visualize it on the inside, we can't see it on the outside.

3. Follow it (:
you will follow what you feed.

deny themselves.take up their cross and follow Me.

invest in the Spirit by faith.

Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

the spirit always wrestles with the flesh.

we will follow what we feed by faith

it takes denying ourselves and taking up the cross.

victory is not only the dying to, but to the living for.

did you know that many people do not experience breakthrough because they do not admit that they are wrong?

never be ashamed to know you're wrong, it just shows that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.