Hosanna Restoration Church

Choose to give your heart! Choose to be delighted. Choose to stay on the right course. We make choices and God gives us strength, when we make the right choices!  Have you ever noticed how it gets easier and easier to follow wrong choices? At the same time, we seem to struggle with the right choices, and we are convinced it is just hard to do the right things.

Changing courses is a choice. It is a choice that God promises to guide and strengthen. He gives us keys to His kingdom. It starts with giving our heart to Him. It sounds simple and it really is. Like so many things with God it requires trust. We will get understanding as we go, by trusting that He is who He says He is and can do what He says He can, starts it all in motion.

He encourages us to take delight in following His ways. I think that it could just as well say to make your eyes delight in following His ways. Learn to rejoice when you turn your eyes away from your old ways and turn them to his. Every change of direction is a power move of God. Rejoice in every victory.

The more you make choices in God’s direction, the more you will experience His joy. The more you experience His Joy, the more determined you will be to keep your heart on the right course.

Life itself can be challenging. Of course, we all know that. As we go along in life, we begin to develop a sense of expectancy. Oftentimes, what we expect is far from what God has promised.

When people experience troubles, they can begin to declare their troubles and along with that troubles become their truth. We can get trapped doubting that anything will work out right. We can see a bump and it begins to look like a mountain. But God says we should delight in His ways. We need to stop and listen to ourselves. We need to recognize what we hear. We need to correct our course.

Be careful that you declare God’s goodness and God’s ability to help, rather than the enemy’s ability to destroy. God is able. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Isaiah said arise and shine for the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Even when it is cloudy, the sun is up there. Keep your heart on the right course!

It is so important that we stay built up on the promises of God. We always have an answer in our hearts when we choose to delight in the Lord. Joy always comes in the morning. I really think that we speed the joy of the Lord to the rescue.

Give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name! Make His deeds known among the people. God has done things for you! Speak of those things. Speak of your expectancy of His next move. Declare that you know that God is for you.

I always encourage people to keep from the trap of figuring out why? Instead focus on what God has planned. Remember His plans are good. His eyes are upon you. He will never let you down.

Of course, you have heard all of this before. Are you thinking that you have heard it before? Are you glad to be reminded? Or are you thinking, blah blah blah. We can choose to delight or to reject. That is the reason that God tells us to choose! What we choose determines whether we win or lose.