Instruments
Something I have been doing for several months is writing filters at the top of my journal every night. These filters are short phrases or sentences that help me keep important things top of mind and to navigate or make decisions by on a daily basis.
At the top of my journal I use 4 layers of filters to help me stay in rhythm with God. Here are the 4 layers I use...
1) The big picture vision I feel God has given me.
2) Yearly Reminder - Of the direction I feel God gave me for the year
3) Monthly Reminder - This usually comes from our Monthly Message.
4) Weekly Reminder - This comes from our Weekly Yearly Cycle updates.
As an example, here are the filters I wrote yesterday...
- Big Picture -Abundant Life Training Centers all over the world making the Body of Christ healthy and beautiful.
- 2022 the Year of the Beautiful Land
- July - Confidence through praising God
- Weekly - Stay synced up with God
I also use a 5th filter at the end of my journal that helps me plan the upcoming day. The filter I write every night is... Today I want to be doing what is right and best in God's eyes with peace, joy, and confidence in him. Then I plan out the day by listing what I KNOW to do.
As I was thinking about navigating with these filters, I was reminded that when we travel it's also important to account for the speed at which we are moving and how much fuel we have. In cars or airplanes we have dashboards with instruments that give us this information.
In today's communion we are asking for instruments to go along with our filters. We are asking God to help us create a dashboard of instruments we can use to track our speed, progress toward the vision, and indicate when we need to refuel.
Today's Health/Fitness Tip
One of the keys to great workouts is having high energy. One of the best energy boosters I have ever found is taking a song that resonates with you and putting it on repeat for 10-30 minutes. Our bodies love rhythm, which is one of the biggest keys to energy. Putting a song on repeat helps our bodies entrain with the rhythm of the music and it increases energy very quickly. This is also a form of meditation.
I am praying for you.
Daniel