Take Up Our Cross

 Once saved, every believer is confronted with a choice. To live for God and trust His Word OR to live for self and doubt His Word... to obey His voice as we journey through life OR to disobey the Word of the Lord and waste the short time we have on earth:
 We either live victoriously OR are defeated as we journey through life. We either take up our cross, become Christ's disciples, and lay up treasure in heaven OR we live a carnal, fleshly life which dishonors the Lord and results in our fleshly works being burned up - saved, yet as though by fire.
See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for the lessons that we can learn from the history of Your people. Help us to make the right choices as we continue along the path of life. We pray that by Your grace, we would choose to live  victorious lives that trusts Your Word, submits to Your will, and honors Your name in every eventuality of our lives. May we quickly confess our faults and choose life (to the saving of the soul) and not death. This we ask in Jesus' name, AMEN.