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Happy New Year!

Here is today's communion meditation. 

As we get started with 2022, we are going to start combining the spiritual and the physical on a new level. One of the reasons why communion is so powerful is because it combines spiritual principles, mixed with faith, and something physical that we do in the taking of the bread and juice. It unites us spirit, soul, and body. 

In our daily communion meditations, we are going to start taking the physical part of this to a new level with a daily workout that goes along with the communion meditations. But before I give you the workouts a little context is needed.

I view physical exercise as a physical expression of exercising our faith. And I have found that exercise is one of the best ways to practice applying our faith. God has given us a pipeline of living water on the inside of us that contains everything he has, but we must learn how to activate this and see it flowing in our lives, and physical exercises...

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Here is this week's Yearly Cycle update.

Last year I learned that the 12 Days of Christmas officially start on Christmas Day, which makes New Year's Day the 8th day of Christmas. This means that if Jesus was born on December 25th that New Year's Day would have been the day when he was circumcised and given his name. 

Circumcision is a reminder of our covenant and partnership with God. He has given us purpose and grace in Christ Jesus before time ever began. I believe he has written a book about each of our lives and tomorrow is the day to name the Year of 2022. What did God name the title of the chapter in your book for 2022. This is a good time to press in and seek him for this. 

For me personally and for the Abundant Life Blueprint the name that has come through for 2022 is the Year of the Beautiful Land. For the last couple of weeks, I have been seeing the phrase Beautiful Land over and over in the Bible as the way God described the promised land. God said th...

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Today's communion is a short review of important lessons I learned in 2021.

When we started the year of 2021, I felt like God was telling me it would be the Year of Greatness. But to be great at anything means a different relationship with practice. The best in any field practice with constant repetition. 

In January of 2021 God began to teach me about a pipeline of living water that is unlimited and inexhaustible. That in his grace he has given us everything he has... His Spirit, power, presence, love, joy, peace, health, energy, time, finances, purpose, and so much more. 

But this understanding of the pipeline of living water must be converted to see it practically flowing in our lives. It must be converted from the spiritual to the physical. Think of the food that we eat; it must be converted from food to energy that our body uses. This happens through breaking it down. 

God began to teach me that meditation and repetition is the key to this conversion, whic...

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Here is today's communion meditation.

What's going to determine if 2022 is going to be a year where we see growth and progress, or things stay the same or get worse? I think much of it has to do with our approach or the philosophy we take towards our goals. When the new year starts, most people are not going to take a graceful approach. They are going to go overboard in the first couple of weeks and be burned out by the time February hits. They may have spurts of progress through the year, but when it's all said and done, they won't be any better off at the end of the year. 

A graceful approach is one that relies and trusts in God's grace to make it all happen. This means putting God in the center of it as the source of our growth, progress, and increase. Then we must learn to take an approach that allows his grace to flow. Here are a couple of keys to a more graceful approach...

Start smaller and focus on building momentum over time.

Give yourself the grace of...

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Here is today's communion meditation.

In our daily communion videos, we talk about paying attention to how you're feeling throughout the day and making quick adjustments if you get off track. The other day my energy levels were feeling lower, and I could feel some heaviness on me, but I wasn't sure what was causing it, so I decided to take a few minutes to get still and connect with God. Within 2 minutes of getting still I was full of energy as God began to teach me some things. 

Immediately when I sat down John 1:16 came to mind...Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.

It is out of the fullness of Christ that we receive grace, and if we are going to give grace to others then we must also give from a place of fullness in Christ. Feeling a sense of completeness and fullness is an indicator that we are in Christ. 

The opposite of being full is to be hollow and immediately after John 1:16 came to mind a passage from Colossi...

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Back in 2018 in the time between Christmas and New Year's Day I felt God was nudging me to create a plan for the next year with him. When I finished the plan, my daughter was playing with a toy ice cream set she had received for Christmas. She said she needed to sell her ice cream, so I asked her how she sells her ice cream. Her answer repeatedly was..."61." 

Her answer didn't make sense but then I heard God speak to me on the inside saying... Go read Isaiah 61.

The title of Isaiah 61 is The Year of the Lord's Favor, and it is the passage of scripture that Jesus reads from the scroll when starting his ministry proclaiming freedom for the captives. 

Even though that next year didn't look exactly as I expected it did become a Miracle Year, the Year of the Lord's Favor. 

Every year since then I have taken this time between Christmas and New Year's Day to seek God for his plan for the upcoming year. God has a plan for our lives that is the best plan.

Here is the w...

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Here is today's communion meditation.

While playing baseball in college, we had one of the best hitting instructors around, and he used to constantly emphasize that if the beginning and the end of the baseball swing were in the correct place that everything in the middle usually works out. He was always talking about following through by finishing long and high, because a lot of power is lost by stopping at the point of contact, rather that following through.

In our walk with God our follow through is also important. When we turn things over to God in prayer and believe we receive from him, then we must follow through. From the point where we turn things over to him, we must keep believing and trusting in him rather than giving up quickly. In Numbers 23:19 it says that whatever God speaks or promises he fulfills and makes good on. He follows through. 

After praying and believing we can follow through by resting in God's love and loving others because we trust hi...

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Here is today's communion meditation.

Proverbs 25:11-12 in the MSG version says...

The right word at the right time is like a custom-made piece of jewelry,

And a wise friend’s timely reprimand is like a gold ring slipped on your finger.

One word from God can change the trajectory of our lives. Every year during this time of the year I begin seeking God about his word or direction for the next year. God has a unique word that is like a custom-made piece of jewelry for each of us. He knows how to give us the right word at the right time, and it is a perfect fit for our life.

These words from God may come by hearing something from him on the inside, they may come while reading the Bible, they may come through other people as God speaks through them. or it may be a combination of these. 

Today's communion is a time of gratitude that God knows how to give us the right word at the right time, and we are asking him what his unique word is for us at this time. We are...

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Here is today's communion meditation.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is a reminder that the true light has come into the world and out of his fullness we have all received grace upon grace. On this Christmas day let's take some time to meditate on John chapter 1.

Here is John 1:1-18...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made t...

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Here is this week's Yearly Cycle Update.

Christmas is a reminder of the day that a great light came into the world. A few years ago, I noticed in my journals that I was getting major insights on the 25th of every month and in my walk with God there have been several important things that have all happened on the 25th of the month. After seeking God about this the answer I received was, the 25th reminds us of the day light came into the world, and God likes to remember it every month. Hanukkah, also called the festival of lights also starts on the 25th of the month on the Hebrew calendar. 

As I was seeking God about our updates for this week the phrase a Great Light from Isaiah 9 kept coming to mind. Here is Isaiah 9:1-7

Isaiah 9

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future, he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jo...