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Here is today's communion meditation.
Today we start the 40 Days of Teshuva, which are the 40 days that lead up to the Day of Atonement. In the Jewish culture the Day of Atonement was considered the holiest day of the year, because it was the one day of the year when the High Priest could enter the holy of holies to make atonement for the sins of the people.
This time of year is a reminder that Jesus is our great High Priest.
Hebrews 4:15-16 says "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that we have a great high priest in Jesus.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Keep going for walks with God.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
Lately we have been talking about walking in the fullness of everything God has for us.
John 10:10 says, " The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
Jesus came so that we can have "zoe," life, which is the life of God or said another way, life connected to God, and have it to the full.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us walk in the fullness of the zoe life Jesus came to bring us.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
When we increase our mobility it increases the amount of light in our body, so make sure to keep training your ability to move like a little kid.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
1 Peter 2:9 says, "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."
This is an amazing promise for us! We are God's special or treasured possession, and he has called us into his wonderful light.
Lately the phrase "his wonderful light," keeps coming up to me. Walking in the light is truly a wonderful place to be.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude for this amazing promise, and we are asking God to help us walk in the fullness of this promise.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
When we increase our mobility it increases the amount of light in our body, so make sure to keep training your ability to move like a little kid.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
John 1:16-17 says, "From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.…"
We have fullness in Christ, whenever we are feeling unfulfilled it is because we are out of position because we are out of the fullness. When we are in his fullness we receive grace upon grace, think of it like one wave right behind another.
Jesus was also full of grace and truth. These two things are a pair... grace and truth go together, because they are Jesus.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us stay consistently in the fullness of Christ.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Execute your workouts from a place of fullness.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
John 21:25 says, " Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written."
This is pretty amazing to think about! How could Jesus do so many things in such a short amount of time? God has ordained or written about every moment of our day, and I think Jesus walked in the fullness of every moment God wrote about him.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us walk in the fullness of every moment he wrote about us.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Make the most of every rep in your workout. If you are doing 8 reps, think of it as one rep 8 times. This causes us to get more present in each rep.
Daniel
Here is today's communion meditation.
Yesterday we talked about John 4:35 which says, "Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest."
In the next verse John 4:36 it says, "Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together."
One of the themes in the Bible is that when God blesses people can have so much harvest that they will still be harvesting when it's time to sow.
One of the blessings for obedience to God in Leviticus 26:5 is "Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land."
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand how his blessing can cause us to both sow and reap at the same time, and to walk in this consistent...
Here is today's communion meditation.
There are a lot of Bible verses about lifting up our eyes. When we lift up our eyes we become more present and aware of all of the amazing opportunities God is bringing our way, but we often miss those opportunities because our eyes are down.
Here are a few verses to meditate on today:
Genesis 13:14, "And God said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes and look from the place where you [are] to the north, and to the south, and to the east and to the west."
John 4:35 "Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest."
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the importance of lifting up our eyes and to apply this consistently.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Everything is connected to the head. Where you are looking when doing an exercise makes a difference. Lifting up ...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Lately the topic of "lift up your head," keeps coming up and the Bible has a lot to say about this phrase.
Here are some verses to meditate on today.
But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head. Psalm 3:3
And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; - Psalm 27:6
Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, O ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in! Psalm 24;7
The Hebrew word used for "lift up," in these verses can also be translated as offering. There is a connection between lifting up our heads, an offering, and God's glory coming in.
And Jesus said in Luke 21:28 when the end time signs are taking place to, "straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand what he is trying to teach us about lifting up...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Matthew 22:36:40 says, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Everything hangs on or depends on love, and faith works through love.
As I was thinking above this, I was reminded of Colossians 2:19 which says, "They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow."
God is love, and he is the head, and everything depends on and connects to the head. When we stay connected to him, by walking in love, everything grows effortlessly and beautifully.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand...
Here is today's communion meditation.
In the book of Ezra, the Jewish people are working to restore the temple of God. And in Ezra 6:14 it says, "So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah."
So if the people continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah... what did they preach?
The book of Haggai is all about putting God first. The people were working on their own houses instead of God's and all of their work wasn't amounting to much. Haggai 1:9-10 says, "“Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops."
We are told in the New Testament that when we seek first the kingdom of Heaven, all of the things we need will be added to us.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us prioritize his things ahead of our own, and to show ...
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