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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

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 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 has to be a miserable ...

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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 this un...

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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

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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 help us, and to ask him boldly and believingly withou...

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 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

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 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

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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 you.

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Here is today's communion meditation.

 Our message for July is... Being Bold Leads to God's Best.

Recently I switched things up and started reading my morning Proverb from the MSG version, because sometimes reading different translations can provide some good insights. 

Proverbs 22:17-18 MSG says,

"Listen carefully to my wisdom; take to heart what I can teach you.

You’ll treasure its sweetness deep within, you’ll give it bold expression in your speech."

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, and when we treasure the sweetness of God's word deep within us, eventually we'll speak it boldly. 

In today's communion we are asking God to help us listen carefully to him and treasure his word within us so that we speak it boldly. 

Today's Health and Fitness Tip

Stretching before bed is a great habit that helps you feel great when waking up.

Psalm 3:5 MSG says, "I stretch myself out. I sleep. Then I’m up again—rested, tall and steady."

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Here is today's communion meditation.

 Our message for July is... Being Bold Leads to God's Best.

1 John 5:13-15 MSG says, " My purpose in writing is simply this: that you who believe in God’s Son will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have eternal life, the reality and not the illusion. And how bold and free we then become in his presence, freely asking according to his will, sure that he’s listening. And if we’re confident that he’s listening, we know that what we’ve asked for is as good as ours."

In the Old Testament great precaution had to be taken to come into the presence of God. But because of what Jesus did, we can come into God's presence boldly and freely. 

In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the gift that we have of being able to boldly and freely come into his presence, and that he hears us, and answers our prayers 

Today's Health and Fitness Tip

Getting our body free is an important part of fitness, because our...