You have a choice to make

A Sermon
Delivered on Wednesday Evening, May 7^th 2025, by
Evangelist PAUL ACQUAH,
Live on MZ Radio London, London UK.

Life is filled with choices – some simple, others profound. But among all the choices we face, none is more critical than the one that determines our faith, future, and freedom. Will you believe what God has declared in His Word, or will you surrender to the temporary reality of your circumstances? In a world full of conflicting voices, God’s Word stands as the unshakable truth, offering healing, hope, and redemption. The Bible declares that you are forgiven. You are healed. You are deeply loved. But it’s not enough to hear it. You have tochoose to believe it. You have to make it personal. So, will you trust in God’s promises, even when your situation says otherwise? Will you let His Word be the final authority in your life? In today’s message titled “You Have a Choice to Make,” Evangelist Paul Acquah shares on the incredible power that comes when you choose to believe what God has said.

Be blessed as you listen!

I choose to believe what God has said. Psalm 103 says: Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name! ² Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: ³ Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,

Psalm 107 says, He sent His word and healed them, Anddelivered them from their destructions. 1 Peter 2:24 talking is about Jesus: who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose ^[a]stripes you were healed.

Isaiah 53:5 Again talking about Jesus: But He was wounded^[k]for our transgressions,
He was ^[l]bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes^[m] we are healed.

Even if you have been diagnosed with  so called  incurabledisease and the doctor has given you a death sentence. You can choose to not believe what the doctor said about his diagnosis and his result of imminent death, and to choose the promises of God, the peace of God, by his stripes I was healed.  You can choose to disbelieve the doctor’s report, something that is very real, yes you are  dying,  all the symptoms are  real but you can  choose to not believe the conclusion of the doctor.  You are not disbelieving that you have problems but you can  choose not to believe  in terms of the conclusion. You can choose a different conclusion. You will live and not die

Choose to believe the promises of God. ²³ For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. ²⁴ Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. (Mark 11:23-24). In the name of Jesus I can have what I say.  I am healed and I am not sick and there’re a lot of people that just won’t go to that much effort.  There’re people that  come to my meetings and they want me to pray for them for healing and if they get healed  Hallelujah they believe it. But if it doesn’t happen they walk out and say  that’s  the kind of thing  I expected.  I didn’t really think anything was going to happen. That’s about all the effort that a lot of people put into it . “Let the sick say I am healed” This is  a call to faith and a belief in God’s healing power, even when facing sickness. It’s a spiritual declaration of healing and a way to express hope and trust in God’s provision. 

I choose to believe what God has said in his word. By his stripes we were healed. Let the sick say I’m healed. Let the weak say I’m strong.  Can you say that? the reason I can say that is because I have had a foundation of God’s word in my life.  I’m strong in the word, I  have spent years in the word of God and so that foundation of the promises of God gives me the peace to be able to disbelieve negative reports and negative conclusions and to believe the truth of  God’s word. I want to give you an example of this.  When the children of Israel were led the first time to the promised land, the Lord instructed them and said I want you to go out and look at the land that I have given you.  He said that very specifically, Ihave given you this land, send 12 spies into the land to check it out. 

Many of us know this story.  12 spies went into the land and they came back and 10 of the spies had a very negative report and the great majority of the people chose to believe the negative report but two of the spies chose to not believe the negative report. We have these verses in numbers 13 32 -33.   ³² And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants,  and they went on to say and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature or giants as we come to know at a different point in verse 33

There we saw the ^[h]giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like^[i] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

So, this was the bad report and the people began to wail and gnash their teeth. The people chose to believe the bad report.  But the two of the spies chose to disbelieve the bad report.  They had been there; they had seen and they had heard the promise of God.  This is the land I have given you and so in numbers 13: 30 we get their response . ³⁰ Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” ³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 

“Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” That was the good report. that was the man of faith.  There were two men of faith that came back and reported, and they weren’t believing this negative report.  Though we know the people eventually believed the negative report and it was 40 years later that those two spies, Caleb and Joshua entered the land.  They were the only two that got to enter the land.  All that generation of those men that were fearful died, but the two finally entered. They chose to disbelieve in that bad report. We walk by faith not by sight. 

They didn’t let what they saw with their eyes overcome what the Lord had spoken to them.  This is very important.  We are so often confronted daily especially if you’re in tune with social media, with the news, with movies, anything that we are surrounded by right now. In our nations we’re surrounded by negative reports.  we are surrounded by doubt, by unbelief, we’re surrounded by fear, we’re surrounded by criticism, we’re surrounded by all kinds of negative words.  We are daily confronted with the need to choose what we are going to believe.  Things are being embedded in us continually: traditions, values, beliefs, or even experiences that have become deeply embedded in people’s lives.

Every word, every news report, every visual thing we see on TV of terrible events and every lie from our communities, every fight that we see, all of the violence, all of the things that’re going on are all opportunities for us to believe the bad report or to disbelieve the bad report.  We can be in faith in the negative or we can be an unbelief in the negative and that’s a choice that we get to make. It’s a choice that we have to make every day.