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This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
This week we are connecting Spirit, soul, and physical body with 10 minutes each day of combining journaling, listening to music, praying in the Spirit, and physical movement all at the same time.
Lately the word "fitting," seems to keep standing out to me.
The other day we talked about how fitting it is to praise God(Psalm 147:1). And yesterday we looked at Proverbs 10:32 which says, "The lips of the righteous know what is fitting."
Today we are looking at 1 Corinthians 14:40 which says everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.
As we connect spirit, soul, and body each day I think it helps us fit everything together in a seamless beautiful way.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that God is a God of order and peace. And we are asking him to help us do everything in a fitting and orderly way.
Today's Health/Fitness Tip
...This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
This week we are connecting Spirit, soul, and physical body with 10 minutes each day of combining journaling, listening to music, praying in the Spirit, and physical movement all at the same time.
Proverbs 10:32 says, "The lips of the righteous know what is fitting, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse."
There are many scriptures talking about the lips of righteous.. for example the lips of the righteous nourish many and are like choice silver.
Yesterday we said that praising God is fitting meaning that it helps to bring into our lives God's beautiful solutions that are the perfect fit.
If we are in Christ, then he has made us righteous, so this promise in Proverbs 10:32 is for us.
This verse tells us that our lips always know what is fitting, meaning we know the perfect thing to say in a given situation.
Today's communion is a time of gra...
This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
Last night we started part 2 of the Connection Challenge which is to connect our Spirit, Soul, and Physical Body.
For many of us who are seeking after God in our lives there is often a disconnect. We see all of the amazing promises that have been given to us in Christ, but we don't see the result of these promises showing up in our lives.
It is through connecting Spirit, Soul, and our Physical body that we see accelerated results.
The Spirit is the inner core of who we are, and the soul is the mind and emotions. Much of what God has done for us has taken place in our spirit and we must build a bridge in our soul to connect our physical bodies and see the results showing up in our lives.
Here is a 10 minute exercise to do each day this week to practice connecting Spirit, Soul, and Physical Body.
This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
This week we are connecting... Spirit, soul, and physical body. One of the best ways for us to connect spirit, soul, and body is through praise.
Psalm 147:1 says Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!
The Hebrew word for "fitting," in this verse can also be translated as beautiful, seemly, or lovely.
I believe something God is showing me is that when we praise him it helps us to connect and fit everything together in our lives seamlessly and beautifully. Praising him expands our capacity to receive beautiful solutions to problems we face. Beautiful solutions are ones that we can never make happen on our own. They come from above and they are the perfect fit at the perfect time.
The word seamless reminds me of the clothing of Jesus at the cross. His clothing was seamless, woven from top ...
This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
Over the last week we have been prioritizing connecting with God. Tonight at 7pm EST on our live zoom in the Connection Challenge we are going to discuss how we are a 3 part being... Spirit, soul, and physical body, and how these three are meant to be connected and function as one.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I think of our spirit as the inner core of us or the inner person of the heart and our soul being our mind and emotions. The soul is the connector between the spirit and the body. Renewing our mind and learning to rest in our soul can be one of the greatest ways we create a bridge that allows all of the good things God has put in our spirit to flow through us.
In today's communion...
This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
This week we are prioritizing connecting with God.
In Job 36:3-4 a young man named Elihu is speaking to Job, and at the end of the book of Job, Elihu is the only who God doesn't rebuke for his words. Elihu says, "I get my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe justice to my Maker. 4 Be assured that my words are not false; one who has perfect knowledge is with you."
God is perfect in knowledge. I always think of knowledge as knowing what to do at the perfect time. Sometimes situations change and the right thing to do changes as well. Knowledge gives us the ability to know what to do in any situation. And God is perfect in knowledge.
Colossians 2:2-3 says My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 i...
This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
This week we are prioritizing connecting with God.
The other day one of our partners sent me a YouTube video with a song about the majesty of God. Then later that night I was reading Psalm 145 which is about the majesty of God. Majesty is beauty, dignity, or being worthy of praise. Here are a few verses from Psalm 145:3-6
Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. 4 One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts. 5 They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty— and I will meditate on your wonderful works. 6 They tell of the power of your awesome works— and I will proclaim your great deeds. 7 They celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.
These verses reminded me of a few scriptures from the book of Revelation.
Revelation 4:11 -“You are worthy, ou...
This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
This week we are prioritizing connecting with God.
Romans 12:10-11 says... Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another. 11 Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.…
Honor leads to connection. When we have honor for God and other people it makes connection much easier, because pride and arrogance block connection.
As we seek to connect with God this week, let's bring a new level of honor into our time with Him.
Today's communion is a time to honor God for who he is and all that he's done. And we are asking Him for help to walk in a higher level of honor for him and one another from this point on in our lives because honor leads to connection.
Today's Health/Fitness Tip
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says... You surely know that your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives. ...
Here is this week's Yearly Cycle Update.
As we move into August, kids are going to back to school and new rhythms and routines often start. This is a time of new beginnings. Over the last couple of months there may have been the tendency to drift away from the fundamentals. This is a time to get back to the basics and refocus. All through this week if you find yourself drifting off track keep reminding yourself to refocus. it is a skill to learn to make fast adjustments. This month we are focusing on connection, so this is a time to refocus on prioritizing connection.
Here is this week's filter(reminder) to write at the top of our journals each day... Refocus.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
P.S. The Yearly Cycle Calendar for 2022 is down below.
P.P.S. It's not too late to join the Connection Challenge.
This month our challenge is to connect on a new level... With God, our purpose, our loved ones, and community.
This week we are prioritizing connecting with God.
In every opportunity for connection, we are either trying to connect or we are trying to get away. We have all probably had those times when someone is trying to connect with us, but we want to be doing something else, or our mind drifts, and we pretend to be listening even though we aren't present. We are there physically but we are really in another world. We aren't really connecting, because we are trying to get away.
Busy schedules, distractions, fear, insecurities, and all kinds of other things keep us from connecting because we want to get away.
This week our challenge is to connect with God on a new level. Here is a way to practice connecting this week...
While reading the Bible, praying, listening for God, and connecting with him pay attention to any times you feel like you are trying to ...
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