Stepping Into Your God Promised Future | Part 6 – It’s Your Choice!

Joshua 24:15 (NLT)
As for me and my family, we will serve the LORD!

Joshua 24:15 (NIV)
“If serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

You and I Choose — we will serve!

Serving the Lord is a great choice because –

God always keeps his !

Joshua 21:43-45 (NIV)
The LORD gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors … ⁴⁴ The LORD gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors … ⁴⁵ Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.

Genesis 12:1-3 (NLT)
The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. ² I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. ³ I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 13:14,15 (NLT)
The LORD said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. ¹⁵ I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.

Genesis 15:18 (NLT)
So the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—

Psalm 132:13-15 (TLB)

O Lord, you have chosen Jerusalem as your home: ¹⁴ “This is my permanent home where I shall live,” you said, “for I have always wanted it this way. ¹⁵ I will make this city prosperous and satisfy her poor with food.” (811 biblical references to Jerusalem!)

Recommended Book: Eye To Eye: facing the consequences of dividing Israel – by William Koenig

Psalm 12:6 (TLB)

The Lord’s promise is sure. He speaks no careless word; all he says is purest truth,

Serving the Lord is a great choice because –

God always for his own!

Deuteronomy 20:4 (TLB)

The Lord your God … will fight for you … and give you the victory!

Romans 8:31,34 (MSG)

With God on our side, how can we lose? ³⁴ …The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us.

Romans 8:37-39 (GW)

The one who loves us gives us overwhelming victory in all difficulties. ³⁸ I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces ³⁹ or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation.

[2] You and I Choose — we will serve!

Chair #1: Is the chair of commitment, we’re … !

Joshua 24:31 (NLT)
The people of Israel served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him—those who had personally experienced all that the LORD had done for Israel.

Chair #2: Chair of compromise, we’re … !

Judges 2:1-2 (NLT)

The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said to the Israelites, “I brought you out of Egypt into this land that I swore to give your ancestors, and I said I would never break my covenant with you. ² For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this?”

Chair #3: Chair of conflict, we’re …

Judges 2:10 (NLT)

After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel.

James 4:8,10 (MSG)
Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time … Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet.