The Choice Driven Life

Procrastination is a killer.
When yu choose to kill time, you begin to kill those gifts and callings which God has placed within your life. The living Bible paraphrase of Ecclesiastes 11:4 reads: If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.
The first step in overcoming procrastination is to eliminate all excuses and [...]

“No one, regardless of how shrewd or well-advised he is, can stand against the Lord.”Prov.21:30
No chance….there is no substitute for God, nor can we compete against Him. He knows what is right, what is best and what will work. The sooner we accept Him as the final authority and begin to structure our lives, business [...]

God never asks you for how much you have in the bank when He tells you what He wants you to do in your life. He doesn’t look at where you are. He looks at where you are going. Besides, God knows that He’s with you and that, with Him on your side, you can [...]

“He that rules his spirit is greater than he that takes a city.” Prov.16:32
Ruling our spirit is managing our behavior or emtions. Behavior is directly affected by our emotions. We are spirit, soul and body. The body reacts to the emotions or disturbances of our soul. That is why the Proverb says, “He that rules [...]

Written by Larry Ollison, Ph.D
A few weeks ago I met an elderly gentleman who had lost his left arm when he was a young man. Because of this he had lived his entire life not being able to do everything that others could do. His life had literally been handicapped. When I asked him how [...]

And set a deadline! In Habakkuk 2:2 the Lord tells the prophet, ..write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that reads it. This is the most important key here to goal-setting revealed here in this scripture.
First, the vision must be written down. When you keep the vision in your [...]

God is not a respecter of persons; if you know somebody who God has blessed beyond your own thinking. He will do it for you. But, you have to change your thinking. Remember the vision of this blog:

Choose Your Thoughts, for they become Words
Choose Your Words, for they become Actions
Choose Your Actions, [...]

“Punishment that hurts chases evil from the heart.” Prov.20:30
Chastisement… Webster says it is the punishment or discipline given to bring correction to that which is wrong or evil. We could also say that chastisement is the art of eliminating the evil to preserve the good. This should tell us what motives us in doing the [...]

Maybe you are like many others and as I at one time in my life that you have trouble to read God’s Word every day. I am going to give you 10 reasons to read the Bible that should inspire you.

To know where you are going.
You can’t foresee the future of exactly where you are [...]

The news stunned just about everyone.  Michael Jackson was only 50-years-old, and the cause of death was believed to have been cardiac arrest. Here’s the truth. Death and dying is a part of life. I hate it. But Michael Jackson’s passing is an opportunity to refocus AND reset our own lives. We must purpose in [...]