Ripple Effect

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. Deuteronomy 30:19

Recently I attended the baccalaureate service for my great niece Rylee held in Oklahoma at Jenks High School. The pastor from Guts Church Tulsa spoke and basically talked about choices in life and how all things have consequences. A ripple effect if you will.

Some of the choices we all face are choosing  friends, a spouse some day, job selection. Hopefully you make the choice to have Christian fellowship as a major priority in your life and not be a lone ranger thinking you don’t need ‘religion’ or a ‘brick and mortar building’.

Staying with people who love Jesus is so very important that is why finding a church home is crucial to living life successfully. It is hurtful and heart breaking  for parents when they have raised their now adult children or college bound children to love the Lord then they basically just blow off anything to do with Jesus, Christian friends, or fellowship. You are the sum of who you choose to associate with. For those struggling with hurt from children who basically have erased Jesus from their life, keep praying for them. For those college bound continue to lift up Jesus and pray for their associations in the future. Prayer is powerful. Life and death are in the power of the tongue it  says in  Proverbs 18:21. Believe in positive outcomes  and speak things out that are positive and give your concerns to the one who loves your children more than you do. 

PRAYER: Choices in life are so important. To hang out with the wrong crowd often takes you away from things of the Lord. Help me Lord to remember everything I say and do has an effect on someone. I pray for those who may have put you on the shelf and just aren't growing in Christ right now. I pray that those prodigals will return  to you. In Jesus' name. Amen.