LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL A GIFT TO BE CELEBRATED!

CHOOSE LIFE-AND GOOD HEALTH, TOO!

3,000 years ago

Deuteronomy 30:6, NKJV ..so that you may love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Deuteronomy 30:11-14, NIV Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask,...

Deuteronomy 30:11-14, NIV ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?’

Deuteronomy 30:11-14, NIV Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask,‘Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?

Deuteronomy 30:11-14, NIV No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

Deuteronomy 30:19, NIV This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.

Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. Deuteronomy 30:19, NIV Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

Roald Amundsen Robert Falcon Scott

Roald Amundsen

Robert Falcon Scott

Choices

Daniel 12:1, NKJV Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

The Ministry of Healing, page 142. E. G. White “The world needs today what it needed nineteen hundred years ago—a revelation of Christ.”

The Ministry of Healing, page 142. E. G. White “A great work of reform is demanded, and it is only through the grace of Christ that the work of restoration, physical, mental, and spiritual, can be accomplished.”

Matthew 23:37, NIV ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together,...

Matthew 23:37, NIV ...as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.’

Adequate sleep (7 to 8 hours per night) No eating between meals 6928 Adults - Alameda County, California (1972) Adequate sleep (7 to 8 hours per night) No eating between meals A nutritious daily breakfast The maintenance of the recommended weight

Regular physical activity The nonuse of tobacco 6928 Adults - Alameda County, California (1972) Regular physical activity The nonuse of tobacco A reduction in the use of alcoholic beverages

Nine-year follow-up 5.5 % of men and 5.3 % of women

3 of the 7 habits 20 % of the men 12.3 % of the women

FIRST: get the facts and weigh them SECOND: don’t make choices in the midst of highly stressful situations

THIRD: watch out for the distortion your emotional state can bring to decision-making

FOURTH: don’t assume things FIFTH: beware of wishful thinking.

SIXTH: be careful where you get your health advice

SEVENTH: trust in intelligence EIGHTH: choose to do what you can do

NINTH: ask the Lord for the guidance you need in order to make the right decisions

John 10:10, NKJV ‘I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly,...’

Spirituality

Deuteronomy 30:19, NIV This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.

Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. Deuteronomy 30:19, NIV Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL A GIFT TO BE CELEBRATED!