A 21 Day Journey To A New You
Food, Fitness, and Faith
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"A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences." Proverbs 27:12
Focus For Today: When you form a deeper relationship with God, you can start to establish healthier habits, starting now!
Maybe you have heard the old saying that it takes 21 days to change a habit. It's a common-sense idea that makes a valid point. If you can do anything for 21 days straight, then there's a good chance you can keep doing it on the 22nd day and the 23rd and the 24th and beyond. If you thought that you could establish a number of healthy habits, would you be willing to carve out a few minutes each day for the next three weeks in order to find out? If you answered yes, congratulations. You are about to embark on a grand adventure.
If you are like most people, you have already tried, perhaps on may occasions to form healthier habits. You employed your own will power in a noble effort to create a new and improved healthier you.
You've probably tried to improve various aspects of spiritual, physical or emotional health. Perhaps you have gone on diets, or made New Year's resolutions, or tried the latest self-help fad in an attempt to finally make important changes in your life. And if you are like most people, you have been successful...for a while. But eventually those old familiar habits come creeping back into your life, and the improvements that you have made proved to be temporary. This blog is intended to help you build a series of healthy habits for your Christian walk...and make those habits stick.
During the next 21 days you will asked to depend less on your own will power and more upon God's power. For three short weeks, you will be asked to focus on three major areas of your life: Diet, Fitness and Faith. And of this you can be sure; When you form a working relationship with the Creator, there is no limit to the things that the two of you, working together can do in just 21 days!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
VERY BIG PORTIONS
MAKE VERY LITTLE SENSE
Do you dine out often? If so, be careful. Most restaurants stay in business by serving very large portions of tasty food. Unfortunately, most restaurant food is high in calories, sugar, and fat. You will probably eat healthier meals if you prepare those meals at home instead of eating out, plus you will save money too!
MORE FROM GOD'S WORD:
3 John 1:2 (New International Version)
"2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well."
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (New International Version)
" 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."
Proverbs 4:23 (New International Version)
23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 16:16 (New International Version)
16 How much better to get wisdom than gold,to get insight rather than silver!
Matthew 7:24 (New International Version)
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock
MORE THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR HABITS
You can build up a set of good habits so that you habitually take the Christian way without thought.
E. Stanly Jones
You will never change you r life until you change something you do daily. John Maxwell
He who does not over come small faults, shall fall little by little into great ones. Thomas a Kempis
Begin to be now what you will be hear after. St. Jerome
If you want to form a new habit, get to work. If you want to break a bad habit, get on your knees. Marie T. Freeman
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we can not break it. Thomas Mann
FORMING HEALTHY HABITS
It's an old saying and a true one: First, you make your habits, and then your habits make you. Some habits will inevitably bring you closer to God; other habits will lead you away from the path He has chosen for you. If you sincerely desire to improve you spiritual health, you must honesty examine the habits that make up the fabric of your day. And you mus abandon those habits that are displeasing to God.
If you trust God, and if you keep asking for His help, He can transform your life. If you sincerely as Him to help you, the same God who created the universe will help you defeat the harmful habits that have defeated you, I have no doubt. So, if at first you don't succeed, keep praying. God is listening, and He is ready to help you become a better person if you ask Him...so ask today.
WORKING IT OUT
TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT EXERCISE
Before you begin a major new exercise program, see your doctor: as the old saying goes, it's better to be safe than sorry. I often wonder if most doctors are listening to their own advise.
MOVING MOUNTAINS
Every life - including yours - is a series of successes and failures, celebrations and disappointments, joys and sorrows. Every step of the way, through every triumph and tragedy, God will stand by your side and strengthen you....if you have faith in Him. Jesus taught His disciples that if you they had faith, they could move mountains. You can too.
When a suffering woman sought healing by mearly toughing the hem of His cloak, Jesus replied, "Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole" (Matthew 9:22 KJV). The message to believers of every generation is clear: we must live y faith every day.
When you place your faith, your trust, and you r life in the hands of Christ Jesus, you will be amazed at the marvelous things He can do with you and through you. So strengthen your faith through praise, through worship, through bible study, and through prayer. And trust God's plans. With Him all things are possible, and He stand ready to open a world of possibilities to you...if you have faith.
MORE FROM GOD'S WORD ABOUT FAITH
Isaiah 7:9 (New International Version)
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand firm in your faith,
you will not stand at all.’”
1 Corinthians 16:13 (New International Version)
13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.2 Corinthians 5:7 (New International Version)
7 For we live by faith, not by sight. Hebrews 11:1
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