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Date: Mar 23, 2005

This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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                      Choose Life And Not Death

My Children, choose life and not death.  Choose health and not sickness.
For I say to you that many of My own have gone prematurely to the grave
as a result of not taking proper care of themselves.  And it saddens Me
and grieves My heart when this happens.  I want My children to obey Me
because they love Me, and yet so many of My own remain disobedient in
the area of their own health and bodies.

Many of My dear ones have walked in the sin of presumption in regard to
what they eat and what they drink.  They assume that the laws of health
that I have set in place do not apply to them simply because they are
Mine.

Child, being My servant does not make you exempt from My principles on
on taking proper care of your bodies.  Do not assume that I will preserve
your health and supernaturally heal you in order that you may continue to
indulge themselves in eating and drinking whatever you please.  Child,
if you willfully choose unhealthy eating and drinking and exercise habits,
you will surely reap in your physical body what you have sown into it.

My will for you is indeed health and wellness.  But you have to cooperate
with Me in order to walk in My will.  Have I ever said in My word that
I would bless gluttony or laziness?  Of course not!  I have made it clear
that these are things that I despise and find offensive.  And yet so many
of My children have gotten into the habit of eating much more than they
need, or of eating unhealthy foods that do not satisfy. And many of My
children have gotten lazy and do not exercise or take care of their
physical bodies.  Others willfully put harmful things into their bodies.
Child, that is not My will for you.

You are not your own, you have been bought with a great price.  I have
placed My Holy Spirit within you and you have become My living temples.
You are My possession and not your own.  And you therefore do not have
permission to treat My temple with contempt.

Honor Me in terms of how you care for My temple, for I indwell you. I
desire to make you a habitation of My glory.  Take care of your health
and of what you eat and drink in accord with the physical parameters
that I set in place when I created the human body.  Child, your body is
My temple, but it is still subject to the principles of My creation.  So, 
honor Me in this and take proper care of this temple.  It is your body and 
it is your choice, but it is My desire that you choose life and not death.