1428. Don't Forget Your Creator — Ecclesiastes 12:1-7

1428.

Don't Forget Your Creator
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Today's Passage: Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
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Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the
New Living Testament (NLT).

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Invite God to join you in your reading. Ask Him for wisdom.
If there is anything in your spirit hindering you, confess it now.
He knows it. You are forgiven. 
Ask Him to help you embrace that truth to live it out.

a prayer:
Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you, Omnipotent God for insight.
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29th Strategy.
Called to Evaluate Our Choices
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• Enter your time with the LORD in prayer.
• Read the entire passage.
• Does the passage call for an evaluation of choices made? If so, stop and re-read that section one time.
• Continue through the entire passage.
• After reading the passage through one time, go back and re-read the section calling for an evaluation.
• Would the choices you are facing in your life today be similar to the choices in the passage.
• Write them down on a sticky note, or underline them in your bible.
• Whatever you are being prompted to evaluate, write it down. (This will be a great source of strength for years to come.)
• Take these choices to the LORD. Ask Him to give you clarity on how to move forward.
• Tell Him you desire to make wise choices and you know you need His guidance.
• Ask God to broaden your vision for the passage.
• Thank Him for His guidance and praise Him for His words.
• (I encourage you to write down what God shows you.)

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1. Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, "Life is not pleasant anymore."
2. Remember him before the lights of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky.
3. Remember him before your legs — the guards of your house — start to tremble; and before your shoulders — the strong men — stoop. Remember him before your teeth — your few remaining servants — stop grinding; and before your eyes — the women looking through the windows — see dimly.

4. Remember him before the door to life's opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint.

5. Remember him before you become fearful of failing and worry about danger in the street; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.

6. Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Don't wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well. 
7. For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 NLT

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