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Choose Life "This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Now choose life!" Deuteronomy 30:29 Everyday when we get up, we make a multitude of choices. One of the most important choices you or I can make in the details of everyday life with all it's difficulties and blessings, is whether we will choose life or death. It really comes down to this. Will I choose God's way of life, peace, obedience and walking in His Spirit or will I choose death, my own way of living, my own will and walking in the flesh. We need to be so careful to always walk in God's Spirit and not give in to our own fleshly tendencies. It makes a huge difference in our prayer lives. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective! And this is what breaking strongholds is all about. It's going God's way with God's thoughts and what He thinks about us instead of going the way of death and believing the enemy's lies. It's holding onto God's Word as our life and obeying it moment by moment in every detail. We need God's Spirit to help us choose life, and we need divine power to deal with strongholds in our life. Emotions won’t change overnight. There is a battle for our mind, and our thoughts can be destructive and pull us down. God is the truth, and Satan is the father of lies. His aim is to defeat us, and he attacks us through nagging thoughts, doubts, fears and reasonings. If the enemy can control our thoughts, he can control our actions. What are some ways that we can have victory over these destructive strongholds? How can we choose life and begin to walk free? Here are some practical ways to examine your beliefs, self-talk, emotions and behaviors. When something is bothering you and when you notice harmful, recurring patterns in your life, you must look at what you are believing, what you are feeling emotionally and how you are behaving. You will understand yourself better and gain God’s perspective of the problem when you do this. God wants us to think His thoughts. We must cast out these negative thought patterns (the life style of the dead) and take God's truth (the life style of the living) into our innermost being for the rest of our lives. Let’s look at how to discover and deal with strongholds. Jesus said in John 10:10, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full (abundant life)." Afliction_and_Belief.html

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