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Here is today's communion meditation.
Our message for this year of 2023 is "God Saved the Best Until Now."
And our message for August is, " The Best Never Expires."
Luke 6:27-28 MSG says, "“To you who are ready for the truth, I say this: Love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer for that person. If someone slaps you in the face, stand there and take it. If someone grabs your shirt, giftwrap your best coat and make a present of it. If someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life. No more payback. Live generously."
Part of walking in God's best is learning to walk in love all the time, even when people push our buttons or do something unfair. This is supposed to bring out the best in us. We can do this because we trust that God will take of us, which frees us to live generously and walk in love all the...
Here is today's communion meditation.
The other day I had an address plugged into my GPS, but then decided to stop at a different location first. Since I was going in the wrong direction, every time I passed an opportunity to stop my GPS would recalculate and tell me to turn around. This happened over and over.
As this was happening I felt like God was showing me that when we get off track, he constantly speaks to us, telling us to turn around, but we often override his leading.
Jesus said that his sheep know his voice.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that God is constantly helping us stay on track and turn things around, and we are asking him to help us know his voice and be responsive to his leading.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
A great skill set we can develop is making quick adjustments and turning things around whenever we get off track.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
Our message for July is "Being Bold Leads to God's Best."
Romans 12:2 says, " Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
The world wants to conform us to the ways and pattern of how everyone else does things, but God's kingdom works differently, which means we must unlearn a lot of things while also having the boldness to do things in a different way.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us break free from the pattern of the world and to be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
God didn't intend for health and fitness to be a miserable thing, but the pattern of the world has twisted into something that is hard and overly complicated. Our minds must be renewed to doing things God's way.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
John 8:32-32 says, "To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Notice the progression in this verse. First, we hold fast to the teaching of Jesus, then we'll be disciplined, and then we'll know the truth, and the truth will set us free.
If we take the reciprocal of this verse, we learn that lies can bind us. When we build our lives on lies it causes us to frame the world with the wrong lens, and it takes us captive, but the truth sets free.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us know the truth so that we are set free, and to speak the truth in love to others so they can also be set free.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
The world has taught us all kinds of things about health and fitness that are not true. These things typically tell us that health and fitness...
Here is today's communion meditation.
This month our message is, "Being Bold Leads to God's Best.'
In the book of Daniel after the decree had been written that anyone praying to God would be thrown in the lion's den it says the following in Daniel 6:10:
"Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before."
Think about the boldness of Daniel, he still prayed with the window open. Windows allow for air, light, and vision. His vision was Jerusalem, he was waiting for his people to be restored to Jerusalem. When he was under pressure he prayed while keeping an eye on God and the vision.
He could be bold because he kept his eyes on God.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the boldness Daniel had to pray with the window open, and to apply...
Here is this week's Yearly Cycle update.
August is a time to refocus. Sometimes there is a tendency during the summer to get a little off-track, and August is a time to both expand and recommit to the vision. The deadline for the year ( Yom Kippur - Sept 24/25) is approaching, and as the deadline approaches you may experience two things... An increase in pressure and the feeling that time is moving slower.
As we refocus on God's plan the pressure and slower time gives us the ability to get more done before the deadline.
Here is our filter for this week... Refocus
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
This month our message is, "Being Bold Leads to God's Best.'
James 1:5-8 MSG says, "If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get his help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who “worry their prayers” are like wind-whipped waves. Don’t think you’re going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open."
If we don't know what we are doing or need help with something we can ask God boldly and believingly. And I like the next part, not giving it a second thought. We have to learn to pray and really turn things over to God, trusting that he's got it. Once we pray we have to watch our thought life and turn over to God the care of what we prayed for.
In today's communion we are asking God to understand how much he desires to...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Psalm 139:16 NLT says, "Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed."
This is an amazing thought... God wrote a book about each day of our life before we were ever born. He planned very moment. The Hebrew of the word "laid out," can also be translated as ordained, fashioned, and like molding pottery.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude for God's thoughts for our life, and we are asking him to help us step into and walk out the moments he has planned for us each day to the fullest.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
I think part of the plan for today is moving our body. We are meant to move with God each day... and it is supposed to be fun and enjoyable.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
Psalm 118:24 says, "This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
The Bible often stresses the importance of today, but it can be easy to think, "it's just another day."
But God has a plan for each one of our days, and our part is to rejoice and be glad in it.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand how this is the day he has made, and to help us make the most of TODAY.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Something I have been thinking about is that it's the reps we do with presence and joy that really produce the best results. But, it can be easy to go through the motions.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
Our message for July is... Being Bold Leads to God's Best.
Deuteronomy 30:19 says, "This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live."
But, how do we choose life...
Proverbs 18:21 says, "Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit."
We choose life with our mouth, and we can boldly choose to declare God's word over our life.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the choice he has given us, and to understand how to choose life and blessing with our mouth.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Over the next week pay attention to the words you use when speaking about your health and fitness. Anything you speak that is not the result you want, ask God to help you change your speech in this area.
I am praying for...
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