Choose L.I.F.E.

When life gets hard, most of us just try to survive it. We lower our expectations. We manage the pain. We tell ourselves, “If I can just make it through this season…” Survival becomes the goal.

But what if you stopped surviving… and started *choosing*? That question is the heartbeat of this new series: **Choose L.I.F.E.**

Deuteronomy 30:19 says it plainly: “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.” 

God didn’t say “endure life.” He said *choose* it. 

Choosing L.I.F.E. isn’t about pretending everything is fine. It’s not toxic positivity or spiritual denial.

It’s the decision to rise above your circumstances instead of being defined by them.

You can be in a hard place and still refuse to let that hard place become your identity. You can feel the weight of the battle and still decide that the battle will not write the final chapter of your story.

Rising doesn’t mean the pressure disappears overnight. It means you stop letting the pressure decide who you are. This is the first step in Living In Freedom Everyday: You stop settling for survival mode and you start choosing to rise.

Over the next four weeks we’re going to walk this out together: -

Part 1 Sunday, Aug 9** – Choosing to RISE

Part 2 Sunday, Aug 16 – Giants Fall When Sons Rise -

Part 3 Sunday, Aug 23 – “Little By Little” – Moving from Deliverance to Dominance -

Part 4 Sunday, Aug 30 – The Four Pillars of L.I.F.E.

If you’ve been in survival mode for a long time, hear this: You don’t have to stay there. You get to choose. And the God who set life before you is the same God who will empower you to walk in it.

Let’s rise. —

Pastor Bob