{"id":6204,"date":"2018-04-02T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:54:45","slug":"choose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/choose-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CHOOSE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 Kings\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1492151970\">18:21<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cAnd Elijah came to all the people, and said, \u2018How long will you falter between two opinions? If the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is\u00a0God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.\u2019 But the people answered him not a word.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you fish or fowl? What do I mean by that question? I am really interested in knowing whether you have repented of your sins, trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ with all of your heart and had your name written in the Lamb\u2019s Book of life.<\/p>\n<p>There are many who know about Jesus and His saving work\u2014even have faith that He is the Savior of the world\u2014but have you been born again? To be born again is much more than believing about Jesus, it is inviting Him to be the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah was a faithful prophet of the Lord. He had the gumption to stand up against the wicked King Ahab and the 450 prophets of Baal. He challenged the people before he challenged the prophets of Baal. He wanted to know whether they stood for God or against Him.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Matthew\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1492151971\">12:30<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Luke\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1492151972\">11:23<\/span><\/strong>, we read the words of Jesus as He challenged the people of His day:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cHe that is not with Me is against Me.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>That leaves no middle ground for a namby-pamby relationship. If Jesus required a committed relationship then, He still requires it today!<\/p>\n<p>In response to Elijah\u2019s challenge the people remained silent. Their silence answered the question. In the same way our silence to the call to come to Jesus and be born again signifies our refusal to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Kings\u00a018:21 \u201cAnd Elijah came to all the people, and said, \u2018How long will you falter between two opinions? If the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is\u00a0God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.\u2019 But the people answered him not a word.\u201d Are you fish or fowl? What do I mean by that question? I am really interested in knowing whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}