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One of the most important lessons I have learned about faith is that faith is decisive. As long as we are indecisive and waver back and forth nothing happens. But as soon as we make a firm decision to believe God things start happening. One of the best examples I have heard of this is Billy Graham. There is a story Billy Graham told about how early in his walk with God he was wavering on whether certain promises in the Bible were really true. People were questioning him about these promises, and he was wavering back and forth. He said he went out into a field one day and placed his Bible on a tree stump and DECIDED at that moment, that everything in the book was true. From that moment on he said... was when everything changed for him.
The way we receive salvation from God requires a firm decision to believe him and the process for receiving anything else from him is the same... It starts with a firm unwavering decision to believe him.
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One of my fitness mentors trained many athletes who won gold medals in the Olympics, and he used to repeatedly say..."We get what we tolerate."
I think what he meant by this is that we need to raise our standards of excellence and not tolerate less. Our standard is Christ, we are to be growing more like him and not settle for less. To set a higher standard means first getting clear on what our standards are and making a firm unwavering commitment to them, because as long as we are wavering back and forth nothing happens and we will settle for less. Faith is decisive.
But these firm unwavering standards must also be mixed with a gentle approach and a lot of grace. This is what God does for us. His standard never changes, and he will not tolerate less, but he gives us a whole lot of grace and is gentle with us to help us reach the standard.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us get clear on His standard for our lives and to firm up our commitment...
Today's communion is a time of gratitude and receiving some amazing promises God has made in Jeremiah chapters 31 and 32 about the New Covenant.
Jeremiah 31:33-34
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Jeremiah 32: 38-41
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. 40 I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from...
Lately we have been talking about the conversion or turning that happens in our bodies when we turn thoughts into action. We are also approaching the TURN of the year in the Feast of Purim(March 16-17), which is a reminder of how quickly God can turn the tables. In Purim the people were in an impossible situation, but God turned it around and gave them the upper hand.
As I was thinking about these things, I read Jeremiah 31 and the subtitle of the chapter is... The Lord Will Turn Mourning Into Joy.
Jeremiah 31;11-14 says, " For the Lord has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.
12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.
13 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the...
Yesterday we said that when we turn our thoughts into actions there is a conversion that happens from digital to analog that helps us to remember and not forget. For example, thinking about gratitude is not the same as writing it down or speaking it. And if we can physically express gratitude in 2-3 ways it is even more powerful because the Bible tells us that 2-3 testimonies or witnesses is how things are established.
In this process it's important that we understand how information is converted into both digital and analog formats. This is something I wrote about in my book Cracking Heaven's Code and have known for a while but in today's communion we are asking for God's help to truly understand how this works in our bodies and to help us practically apply and walk in this principle, because I truly believe this is the secret to how we reprogram the software of our bodies and restore them to Abundant Health.
It's also very interesting that God is bringing...
Here is this week's Yearly Cycle Update.
We recently entered into Lent, which is a reminder to abstain from our works and to allow God to do his work through us.
We are also approaching the Feast of Purim on March 16-17. The tradition on Purim is to fast during the daylight hours on March 16th and feast in the evening and through the next day as a reminder of how quickly God can take us from fasting to feasting. Purim is a reminder of the story of Queen Esther. There was a law written that was going to destroy God's people. In those days when a law was written it could not be undone but Esther petitioned the king to write a new law that put God's people in control and gave them mastery over their enemies.
This new law turned the tables, which is a reminder that Jesus is our table turner. He didn't come to abolish or get rid of the Old Covenant, but he gave us a New Covenant that overrides the old, puts us in control and gives us the upper hand.
...Earlier this week on our partner's Zoom call we discussed the importance of putting something physical with what we are doing. For example, writing down or speaking things we are grateful for is not the same as just thinking thoughts of gratitude. Thoughts on the inside are in a digital form, but when we physically express them into the world through speaking, writing, moving, action, etc there is a conversion that happens, and it turns into analog form that helps to us remember and not forget.
One of the words that came up on our Zoom call this week was a "witness," or a "testimony." When we physically express things into the world it creates a witness or testimony, and the Bible tells us that every fact must be established by the testimony of 2-3 witnesses. Which is why it is important to express things into the world in more than one way. For example, we have recently talked about combining communion, journaling, and physical exercise. Three things that...
I believe adaptability is a great expression of faith. We can be adaptable when life throws change at us and disrupts our plans because we are confident that God is with us, and He is going to work it all together for good. It's good to dream, plan, and be highly consistent but this must also be balanced with adaptability because things usually don't go exactly as we planned them.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that we have God with us and that when life throws new things and changes our way, we can trust that it didn't catch Him by surprise. And we are asking for his help to grow in our adaptability.
Today's Workout/Health Tip
One of the ways to make our bodies more adaptable is by working on our mobility. As we can move our bodies better it makes us more adaptable and resilient when life throws movements at us we weren't expecting. Part of the Daily Communion Workout is the mobility routine, which is designed to make our bodies more...
There was a time when I felt God showed me that since I had loved when I didn't feel like loving I was ready for covenant. In the New Covenant God has promised to do good for us continually. He had made a covenant commitment to do good for us and he is unwavering in this and will not break his commitment. I believe this is one of the most important things to understand. There are probably plenty of times when we miss it and God doesn't really feel like doing good for us at the moment, but he keeps his covenant commitment anyway. This is an amazing gift of grace, and we must learn to do the same.
We are supposed to love others the way God has loved us. And when we choose to love and do good for others even when we don't feel like it, we are keeping our part of the covenant.
In today's communion we are thanking God for his covenant commitment to us, and we are asking for his help to do good and love even when we don't feel it.
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I once heard a story from a fitness expert named Dan John. When he was a kid one of his teachers taught the importance of balancing our time between working, praying, and playing. Recently I was thinking about combining all three of these things as we go throughout the day. We can be washing the dishes, cleaning toilets, mowing the grass, doing our taxes, or whatever other work we need do to while praying and having fun. So much of this is found in the attitude that we do everything with. If we bring God through prayer and connection with him into whatever we are doing we will have more fun, because in his presence there is fullness of joy. Music is one of the easiest ways to make this happen.
In today's communion we are asking for God's help to turn our work into worship. To take the everyday work that we do and the things we need to get done and combine them with prayer and playing.
Today's Workout/Health Tip
Our workouts are one of the best times...
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