procrastination is not good, procrastination, meaning just putting things off that need to be done right now. In our age group, if you’re procrastinating right now with your health, if you’re still thinking about WEB RADIO TODAY disease-fighting and fitness model, not doing anything yet, even if you don’t have a disease right now, actually, especially if you don’t have a disease right now,

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the current state of your health, especially if it’s good, that makes it easier to put any kind of decision about getting healthy, staying healthy, makes it so much easier to put it off. But you can’t do that. In our age group, the stats are working against us.

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Please, everybody, get involved with your health. Work on your diet and exercise. Make sure that your attitude is right. Put the arts, music into your life so that you can be sure that you’re getting the most out of every day. Enjoy your family and friends. Boredom, not getting on with your life. When you get older, it can take you out,

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and if you feel stress, do everything you can to lower that stress level, things like guided positive imagery and meditation and learn about your older body.

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Learn about what diseases you might be susceptible to and how to prevent them and then how to tame name them if you get them.

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Then as we talk about this faith element, firing up your faith, finding faith, making sure that Jesus is in your life, I don’t want to sound like a salesman trying to close the sale too quickly, but with Jesus, getting Him into your life, getting Jesus into your life, now we’re really talking about life and death, and not just earthly death, we’re talking about death forever and ever   and ever,

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and ever, and that means that every day, every hour, every minute and second that you procrastinate about your faith, you’re rolling the dice on your eternal life.

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  Jesus said this in the ninth chapter of Luke in verse 61, this guy is saying to Jesus, “I’m ready to follow you, master, but first, excuse me for a while. First, I need to get some things straightened out at home.”

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Jesus, He answers this guy in verse 62. He says, “No procrastination. No backward looks.” Jesus says, “You can’t put God’s kingdom on hold until tomorrow. Seize the day.”

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Please, everybody, seize the day. Seize the day right now.

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It’s the devil who’s telling you that you have plenty of time, “Take some time, think all this over. You don’t need to rush on this.” Jesus, He’ll be here when you’re ready, but there’s no guarantee that you’re going to be here.  

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You don’t know what the next minute holds. You know nothing. You know anything about the future. You really don’t have any time. Yesterday, it might’ve been a good day, okay? Things are looking good today and tomorrow is looking pretty good. Fact is, you don’t even know if there’ll be a tomorrow for you.

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Don’t put off Jesus. He’s calling you today. If you’re already a Christian, perhaps like I was, you’ve strayed away from Jesus, you’re backsliding. You continue to backslide.

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Right now, just drop to your knees and ask Him for help and forgiveness. He will, of course, forgive you and He will welcome you home.

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  If you don’t know, Jesus, I’ll tell you something: He knows you. He already loves you. He knows

everything good and bad that you have ever done and that hasn’t stopped Him from loving you and He