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Here is the Message for March.
Our message for the year of 2023 is "God Saved the Best Until Now," and our message for March is... Turn It Around and the Best Will Be Found
A big day in March is Purim, which is March 6-7 this year. Purim is a picture of the tables being turned. A law was written that was going to destroy God's people, but Queen Esther approached the king about writing a new law that would override the old law. Jesus did the same for us. He said that he did not come to abolish or do away with the Old Covenant, but he brought in a New Covenant that sits above and overrides the Old.
The picture of Purim is turning what was a major problem into an opportunity. The way they remember this is by fasting during the daylight hours on 3/6/23 this year and then feasting in the evening. This symbolizes how quickly God can take us from fasting to feasting. And part of the way this happened was that the King told Esther to write what she wanted. In a simil...
Here is today's communion meditation.
It seems like during February and March God always reminds me of emotions. I always like to think of emotions like powder in the bottom of a glass. They can be stirred up into our system. Emotions are not good or bad, they are neutral and feedback to help us make adjustments and corrections. But for us to truly make adjustments we need to process and clear the emotions out of our system.
We can clear emotions out of our system by talking through things, writing in a journal, or even exercise. Then once we clear the emotions out of the system we can examine and process why we are feeling the way we are so that we can adjust.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the gift he has given us in our emotions and to learn to clear and process them the way he intended.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Emotions are one of the most important keys to health. I think of emotions as the translator or bridge bet...
Here is today's communion meditation.
This year our message is... God Saved the Best Until Now.
Psalm 31:19 says, "How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you."
God has some amazing things stored up for us and the Heavens are the storehouse of his bounty. When Jesus turned water into wine, they said he saved the best until now... but before he turned the water into wine, he told his mother Mary that it wasn't his time yet. But Mary put a demand on his supply, and it released some of the good that was stored up.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the good things that he has stored up for us and to help us access and receive them.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
On the days when you are pressed for time or don't feel like exercising ask yourself... What can I do? Maybe you can't do a full workout or your normal routine, but what...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Yesterday we talked about a progression in scripture which is... Be fruitful, multiply, and increase greatly.
To increase greatly I think it requires having structures and a predictable process. If we were to be flooded with people, customers, orders, clients, finances, etc we would need a predictable process to handle it all. God models this... he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If we will abide in Christ and take action on what he shows us to do he has a predictable process that will make us fruitful, multiply us, and increase us greatly. We don't always know how he is going to do it, but the eventual result is predictable process to make us more like Christ.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand his process and to help us become more him by developing predictable processes that can be a blessing to others and help us increase greatly.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
When I had my gym ...
Here is today's communion meditation.
In scripture there is a progression that God often talks about which is... Be fruitful, multiply, and increase greatly.
First, is being fruitful by having transformation, results, or a testimony/story to tell. Then we must multiply by helping someone else get results. The other way we can multiply is by recording the process into different mediums such as video, audio, or writing. Then we must increase greatly. For a while I feel like God has been teaching me about increasing greatly and recently, I noticed in the story of Noah that the phrase "increase greatly," is used a few times to describe the flood waters increasing.
In order to increase greatly I think we need the structures and systems in place to handle the increase. For example, if a flood of money, people, orders, clients, etc came to us do we have the systems and structures in place to handle them?
In today's communion we are asking God to help us create th...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Lately we have talked about having "One Great Day." To focus on having one really great day where we bring God into the day with us, have the fruit of the Spirit flowing, walk in love, take action on what we know to do, and connect with people.
But as much as we may try to have one great day sometimes things get off track. In order to have one great day I think we need the ability to make quick adjustments, so that the whole day doesn't get derailed.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us be people who make quick adjustments when we know they are needed.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
We also need the ability to make quick adjustments in our health and fitness. If something gets off track in our health and fitness, we need the ability to adjust.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is this week's Yearly Cycle update.
It seems like this time of year God always reminds me of the importance of emotions when it comes to our health.
Emotions are the translators between our spirit and physical body. I like to think of emotions as powder in the bottom of a glass: They can be stirred up. Emotions can be felt when they are stirred into the system and are meant to give us feedback so that we can make adjustments.
Any time we are in a negative emotional state, such as stress, worry, fear, anger, or insecurity, we can use this as a cue to make adjustments. When we view emotions from this perspective, they are not good or bad. They’re simply feedback, allowing us to accelerate our progress by making adjustments.
Emotions must be processed and cleared out of the system. The longer emotions circulate, the more they become a part of us. For example, we could start with a little worry or stress and allow it to stay in our system for days, weeks, ...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Lately we have talked about having "One Great Day." To focus on having one really great day where we bring God into the day with us, have the fruit of the Spirit flowing, walk in love, take action on what we know to do, and connect with people.
A key to having one great day is staying in the fullness of Christ. John 1:16 says that out of his fullness we have all received grace upon grace. It is out of his fullness that we receive the grace we need for each moment of the day... grace upon grace. But sometimes we step out of his fullness. Once I had a time when I was feeling kind of empty and unfulfilled throughout the day, and I felt God was asking me to slow down and spend a few minutes with him. Within less than a minute of getting still he reminded me that there is fullness in him, and immediately I felt full and energized again.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand the fullness that is in Christ...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Lately we have talked about having "One Great Day." To focus on having one really great day where we bring God into the day with us, have the fruit of the Spirit flowing, walk in love, take action on what we know to do, and connect with people.
The other day we said that to have one great day we need to let things go. We don't have time to waste getting frustrated, complaining, venting, getting into strife with people, and magnifying the size of problems. But as I was thinking about this, I was reminded that we shouldn't just let things go...we should sow them. I like to think that when I let issues go I am planting them so that God can multiply good things back to me. Faith works through love, and we can express faith and trust in God by walking in love when people make mistakes, wrong us, or push our buttons.
If we will let go of the issue and sow love, grace, kindness, presence, gentleness, encouragement, etc God will ...
Here is today's communion meditation.
Lately we have talked about having "One Great Day." To focus on having one really great day where we bring God into the day with us, have the fruit of the Spirit flowing, walk in love, take action on what we know to do, and connect with people.
A big part of having one great day is having great energy. In Colossians 1:29 Paul says he worked with God's energy working within him.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us understand that we can rely on his energy within us, which is unlimited, rather than our own. And we are asking him to help us access and experience his energy working within us at greater levels.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Our workouts are a great time to practice working with God's energy.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
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