'Power of Choice' by Pastor Jeffrey Rahmat (JPCC)

"Since the tree of knowledge of good and evil introduced by God, man is given the power to choose. God did not force us to love Him with undivided heart, God does not force us to wake up the morning calm before and when we start the activity, etc. Even if people choose to follow God and mengasihiNya, is out of options that make ita own. God gives us' Power of Choice 'or the power to choose, He's such a good God, is not He?

Your choices determines your future

During our lives as human beings in this world, we will be confronted by choices

What you choose now, to determine your future, and also what you select in the past to determine what you are now

Do not want to choose, it is also an option.

There are some things that in deciding to make a choice:

1. Priority

If we prepare one priority, guess what? life, we can misunderstand. Ex .. If we still school [yayaya he's talking to me: P] we must put priority number 1 learn not play and yippee-ray, which is a top priority. If we have to work, when we receive a salary, our main priority, give back what became the property of God.

From the order of our priorities, we can know how to our future

2. Value

We will get something in accordance with the price that we would like to pay. Pastor Jeffrey love risible example, that when we go to a restaurant and read the menu to choose food that we want to eat, we do not choose based on what we would like stomach, but based on, something that is in the right hand, which Rp ... .... , 00 ... if there's fried chicken, what we still want to eat? I .. we choose not based on what we want, but what price we must pay. Right? Every choices we make, will end up with what we value thing, n God really into value, he would like to have our value of His Kingdom:)

3. How to Think

Therefore, we must change the way we think, because it determines pilihan2 us, including the way we think of ourselves [the self-esteem] if we have a low self-esteem, then our lives will be low

4. Input

What you get, what you heard, what you see even from this world, determine choices that we will make, because input determines your output .. we hear a lot of dirty things, things so good, it's out of it is a good .. faith arising from the hearing, therefore if we do not hear from things of God, what faith can arise?

5. Mood

Do not take a decision very mood we are in a mess .. When we want one thing only when the mood we are in a mess, the devil can play around there!


Mazm 37: 8 -> stop angry, hotheaded leave it, get angry! it will only bring on crime

6. Inventories / Availability

If we look again at clothing stores, we are forced to facing the blue color we want it green, but green is exhausted, so we are forced to choose the color blue .. Availability .. Things you want to feel him? because he's the last man standing! hahahahhaa ..

7. Who's there around you?

Proverbs 15: 22 -> the draft fails if there is no consideration, but realized that many advisors ..

Who's there around you? who's advice you hear? [see, that's what DATE / Cell Group are for you]

Proverbs 24: 26 -> only with the planning because you can fight and victory depends on a lot of advisors

Eve to hear more advice to eat demons from the tree of knowledge good and evil from the Lord so that eventually it fell into sin

sometimes we are too busy searching for purpose of God, and not become dependent again the same God, then it should be the Word of God should be the main priority .. Who's in arround You? our lives can change in seconds, depending on whom our friend, who's boyfriend ..

There are people that the service was always a group date to the cell suddenly lost, it can be searched, just changed, because he already has a boyfriend. See? boyfriend whom we greatly affect choices will take us.

so also, people I was into the ministry, can be changed into a ministry .. terngantung onto disekelilingmu ..

Dr.Robb Thompson is, each relationship both mEet bring consequences and negative postif

Romans 16:17-18 -> so I advise you, that ye be vigilant against them, contrary to the teaching you have received, I rupture and temptation, because it Avoid them, such as those people not serve Christ our Lord , But to serve their own stomach and words with their language and their sweet talking, they deceive the people's sincere hearts ..

sincerity of the good, but if simplicity is not equipped with the truth, honesty can be a tool sklent ..

Christianity is not about words, Christianity is about life, it's about action, how you live life ..

The future is a construct built with the Counsel you follow - Dr.Robb Thompson.