5 Keys To Pursue Your Destiny With Passion

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Life's Greatest Gift

What is life's greatest gift? It is our free will to make our own choices. Did you know that you have been given this free will to make your own choices, the power of choice? The gift of free will is one thing that characterizes God as a Father. He gives us His guidelines for life in His Word and then allows us to make our own choices. We have the power to choose a life of blessings or curses. Our future is completely in our hands Deut. 30:15-19.

There is power in choice. God can't and won't make us do anything, and the devil certainly can't force us into anything we don't willingly agree to. For this reason, the responsibility for the direction of our lives is in our hands. Choose to follow God's will for your life!

Let me start off with an article written by Rabbi Daniel Lapin (great man of God and a great teacher).

He called it "PRIME CHOICE".

Why do some people succeed in life while others fail? You know the answer. For the most part, folks fail because they did not do what they should have done back when they needed to do it. They may also not be doing what they should be doing right now.

Here's the Question: If Life And Death Are The Choices Before Us, Who In His Right Mind Would Choose Death?



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See, we all know the road to success. Do what you must do when you must do it. Not what you want to do. Not when you get around to it. Do what you must do when you must do it and the world is yours.

For some people it may mean adopting then keeping to a healthy diet from this moment. For others it could mean doing whatever it takes right now to protect and nurture a marriage. It could mean taking immediate and necessary steps to rid oneself of an addiction. For many it means finding a job, finding a second job or starting a business--today!

This is all really very simple. Do what you need to do when you need to do it. Unfortunately, however, this simple but true formula leaves us utterly baffled by a perplexing puzzle. If the road to success is so well marked, why do so many of us fail at so many of the things we consider truly important?

It takes another question to best illustrate ancient Jewish wisdom's explanation for why so many of us fail at doing precisely what we know so well we ought to do.

Read this verse: I call heaven and earth today to bear witness for you that I have placed before you life and death, blessing and curse; and you shall choose life...(Deuteronomy 30:19)

Here's the question: If life and death are the choices before us, who in his right mind would choose death? What sane individual would choose curse over blessing? Why should God need to sagely recommend that we choose life and blessing? Who would do otherwise?

In reality, we face these choices many times each day. Frequently the wrong path is the more appealing one.



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God has put us in a world with not only physical gravity but also spiritual gravity. Yes, it takes far more effort to climb up the stairs than down. It takes far more effort to lift a weight than it takes to drop it. It takes far more fuel for an airplane to attain cruising altitude after takeoff than it takes for the same aircraft to descend back to earth prior to landing.

Similarly, it is far harder to keep to a diet than it is to let oneself go. It is far harder to stick to a project that needs doing than to abandon it for an evening's entertainment. It is harder to keep a marriage going than to walk away and it is harder to do one's work when it needs to be done than it is to make excuses.

Yes, most of us know what we ought to do. The problem is that God built a system of spiritual gravity that resists our every attempt to improve ourselves and our lives. We should be happy about this for the same reason that weightlifters and athletes are happy that gravity exists. Without it, everyone would be able to bench-press four hundred pounds and run a four minute mile, but these bogus accomplishments would achieve nothing. In His kindness, God gives us opportunities to confront spiritual and moral challenges allowing us to grow and thrive.

Knowing the secret to success is far different from traveling that path. Rarely do the divergent paths of life or death confront us head on. Instead, we make choices during countless, seemingly unimportant, daily moments. Being aware that small actions lead to a critical finish line makes it easier to steadily move in the right direction. Choose life!

Thought Tools by Rabbi Daniel Lapin



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Our life is driven by our choices whether we like that or not. We will meet our choices down the road and it all starts in our mind.

Get Your Thoughts Under Control and Your Life Will Change

Ok, you didn't have a choice to begin your life. You couldn't pick your parents or the situation you grew up in. But the moment you realize that your past doesn't have to dictate your future ? that you are a new creation ? you start taking possession of your destiny.

Every time you let go of those old limitations and realize your position in Christ, you are propelling yourself toward your destiny. Every time you ask God to guide your steps and choose to follow His Word, you are giving yourself divine tools for living, tools that will help you to move away from what harms you and toward what is in God's good plan for your life.

You can make the best choice right now and take all the limits off, take the lid off your life, uncover it by renewing your thoughts about you and your life. It is a choice that you have to make; you must engage your will. You are the only one that can do that. There is nothing or nobody else that can do that for you. Even God, regardless of how much He loves you will NOT do it for you.

Many people might think that He will some day, but believe me He will NOT. He has given us a free will to choose. I really believe that I am speaking to some of you who are reading this and you need to receive a revelation about the fact that God has given you and me a free will and we



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