What You're Not Changing, You're Choosing!

The core message emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility and the power of choice in overcoming life's challenges. It stresses that indecision and inaction are still choices that can keep individuals bound in undesirable circumstances. The podcast encourages listeners to confront toxic relationships, forgive, and heed God's call to break cycles, renew their minds, and walk in freedom. Key scriptures such as Deuteronomy 30:19 and Romans 12:2 are highlighted to underline the importance of choosing transformation and not conforming to the world. Ultimately, the episode inspires its audience to choose growth, truth, obedience, healing, and freedom in their spiritual journey.

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Introduction: The Power of Choice

 Welcome to the Ministering Angel Podcast, where you'll deepen your connection with Jesus Christ. Whether new or returning this podcast is your guide to unlocking potential and overcoming challenges. Ronald, along with various hosts, shares divine messages that inspire strength, wisdom, and resilience.

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 Life is a series of decisions. Whether we realize it or not, every day we are making choices, through action, inaction, acceptance, resistance, faith, or fear. And many of us, without even knowing it, are choosing lives we don’t want to live simply because we refuse to confront what needs to change.

That’s the hard truth:
What you’re not changing, you’re choosing.

Understanding Ownership and Responsibility

This isn’t about blame. This is about ownership. It’s about stepping into the authority God gave you and refusing to let circumstances, past trauma, or fear of the unknown keep you bound. The moment you become aware that something in your life is misaligned with God’s best for you, and yet you choose to leave it unchallenged, unaddressed, or unhealed, you are choosing it. Silence is still a response. Indecision is still a decision. And staying stuck is still a form of submission.

Recognizing God's Guidance

Too often, we claim to be waiting on God when, in truth, He’s waiting on us. He’s already given us His Word. He’s already spoken through conviction, confirmation, or the quiet nudge in our spirit. He’s already opened doors or shined light on the dysfunction, the cycle, the thought pattern. But instead of moving forward, we settle into delay, disguise it as discernment, and hide behind the false comfort of "I just need to pray about it more."

But if you already know what needs to be done, praying without action becomes disobedience dressed as devotion.

Real-Life Examples of Choices

What does this look like in real life?

If you won’t confront the toxic relationship, you are choosing dysfunction.

If you refuse to forgive, you are choosing bitterness.

If you ignore the call of God on your life, you are choosing delay.

If you won’t let go of the offense, you are choosing the wound over your healing.

If you refuse to shift your mindset, you are choosing stagnation.

The Enemy's Strategy and Transformation

The enemy loves to see believers passive. He doesn’t mind if you go to church, as long as you stay stuck. He doesn’t fear a Christian who sings, shouts, or serves, if that Christian won’t take authority and walk in truth. It’s not until you confront the cycles, question your patterns, and submit your life for transformation that you become a threat.

Because transformation is warfare. Change is a confrontation. Growth is not passive, and healing isn’t always pretty. But they are necessary.

The Discomfort of Change vs. Staying Stuck

Change is uncomfortable, but so is staying stuck.

Growth hurts, but regret cuts deeper.

And this is where most of us find ourselves, caught between the discomfort of change and the misery of staying the same. But we must remember, comfort is not the same as peace. Familiarity is not the same as freedom. Just because you’ve learned to function in the dysfunction doesn’t mean you’re whole.

God's Desire for Wholeness and Freedom

God wants you whole.

He wants you free.

He wants you transformed.

And He has already given you the power to walk in that.

“I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life…” — Deuteronomy 30:19

God gives us the invitation, but He won’t override our will. He will reveal, convict, guide, speak, open doors, close them, stretch you, prune you, and even wrestle with you. But He will not force you. The power to change begins with choice.

So ask yourself:

What am I allowing to remain in my life simply because it’s familiar?

What am I calling “God’s will” that’s really just my unwillingness to act?

What have I tolerated for so long that I’ve forgotten it’s not normal, not healthy, not godly?

We cannot be both surrendered and stubborn. We cannot say “Thy will be done” and then cling to what God is trying to remove. You cannot step into the new if you're still holding hands with what God called you out of.

You must choose.

The Power to Break Cycles and Renew Your Mind

And that is the power God gave you:

The power to break cycles.

The power to renew your mind.

The power to walk in freedom.

Break the cycle.

Your family history doesn’t have to be your future. The habits you learned don’t have to be your legacy. The trauma you experienced doesn’t get to be your identity. In Christ, you are a new creation. But you must choose to live like it.

Renew your mind.

Your thoughts shape your life. The way you think affects how you live, how you pray, how you respond, and how you see God. Romans 12:2 commands us not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. That means your mind is not fixed, it can be trained, healed, sharpened, and shifted by the Word of God. But again, it starts with choice.

Walking in Freedom and Authority

Walk in freedom.

You are not called to survive in bondage. You are not created to manage your chains. You are called to be free. Galatians 5:1 says, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” If Christ has already set you free, then why are you still sitting in the prison with the door wide open?

You don’t need permission to be free, you already have the authority.

You don’t need validation to grow, you’ve already been chosen.

You don’t need all the answers to move, you just need to obey.

God won’t force what you won’t choose.

He loves you too much to override your will.

He gave you the authority, but He won’t walk it out for you.

He gave you the truth, but He won’t believe it for you.

You have power.

You have choice.

So choose wisely.

Choose growth.

Choose truth.

Choose obedience.

Choose healing.

Choose freedom.

Conclusion: Choose Wisely

Because the longer you delay change, the deeper your roots grow in the very thing you were called to overcome. And the more you excuse the thing God wants to remove, the more you reinforce the lie that you're powerless.

You are not powerless.

You are not stuck.

You are not helpless.

You are called.

You are equipped.

You are responsible.

What you’re not changing, you’re choosing.

And today is the perfect day to choose something different.

 Thank you for joining the Ministering Angel Podcast. Stay connected, stay inspired, and continue growing in faith. Until next time, be blessed and keep shining your light.