Physical Health: Aging Gracefully
Aging is not easy, especially for runners and athletes who are used to performing.
We can keep a heavenly perspective that inspires hope and maintains our own joy that one day we will have a resurrected body.
Spiritual Health: Good Yoke
His yoke is easy and the burden is light means that He is a good and loving king.
He is worthy to be served and worthy of all our heart, our mind, and our strength.
Mental Health: How Will We Think?
Our fast-paced culture often pressures us to forgo rest in favor of meeting deadlines and staying busy.
We fill our calendars and our children’s schedules with activities, equating busyness with productivity and effectiveness in God’s kingdom.
However, this constant state of activity can lead to burnout.
True productivity comes from a balanced life where rest is valued and prioritized.
Emotional Health: Faith Expression through Journaling
Our fast-paced culture often pressures us to forgo rest in favor of meeting deadlines and staying busy.
We fill our calendars and our children’s schedules with activities, equating busyness with productivity and effectiveness in God’s kingdom.
However, this constant state of activity can lead to burnout.
True productivity comes from a balanced life where rest is valued and prioritized.
Physical Health: REST-oration
Our fast-paced culture often pressures us to forgo rest in favor of meeting deadlines and staying busy.
We fill our calendars and our children’s schedules with activities, equating busyness with productivity and effectiveness in God’s kingdom.
However, this constant state of activity can lead to burnout.
True productivity comes from a balanced life where rest is valued and prioritized.
SPIRITUAL HEALTH: HEART ISSUES
In Hebrew, the word ‘heart’ (leb or lebab) refers to the inner self, belly, kidney, intestines; while in Greek, it (kardia) refers to the seat of the centre of life.
Therefore, the heart encompasses the mind, the will, conscience, emotions, desires and feelings.
It includes your convictions, values and belief systems too.
SOCIAL HEALTH: A SENSE OF BELONGING
Being together in supportive social circles when participating in a physical activity increases the likelihood that you will continue being active, even during those times when you feel the weakest and least capable.
Support from others will help you maintain strong spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health over long periods of time.
Physical Health: Fitness as Worship
Worship God with our physical fitness with three ways; Invest in physical fitness, interrupt fitness plans, and integrate physical fitness with Kingdom missions.
Mental Health: Power of Positive Thinking
God encourages us to take control of our thoughts, replacing negative ones with positive, God-given thoughts.
He recognizes the immense power our thoughts hold, and so should we.
Emotional Health: Therapeutic Journaling
When we reflect on His blessings, we are reminded of His goodness, which encourages us to keep pushing forward during times of suffering.
Mental Health: Anxiety Buster
The awesome gifts God has given us to serve in His Kingdom and help others can lead us to overcommitment.
Being too busy doing too many things is fertile ground for Satan to grow our anxiety.
Spiritual Health: Transformative Power of Fasting & Prayer
Amid modern life’s distractions, fasting and prayer remain essential for believers seeking spiritual depth and connection with God
Physical Health: Strength Training Matters
While we feel strong in the Lord, the worldly temptations do not stop.
We must find various ways to keep our focus on Jesus.
Social Health: Train Together
If you have experienced the benefit of an endurance training buddy, consider getting a spiritual training buddy!
He or she will help you go farther and faster spiritually!
Emotional Health: Falling Well
In life, we all know that everyone falls at some point no matter how hard we try not to.
Maybe the point is not to stop yourself from falling, but to learn to fall well.
Mental Health: Identity
Trust God and not what those negative voices tell you.
The enemy wants to make a prison inside your head and keep you trapped.
Don’t let him devour you with lies.
Spiritual Health: Pray Amidst Busy-ness
I have learned from experience that whenever I try to set aside time to pray, the first two reasons that come to mind are “I need more sleep” or “I have too many things to do.” Jesus was busy, but He did not allow this to make Him anxious, irritable, proud, envious, or preoccupied.
Holistic Health: Love God With Your Body, Soul, and Spirit
God has freely given us a body to be a dwelling place for Himself, removing all barriers so the Holy Spirit can abide in us and lead us to the truth.
Greater Purpose
When we realise that God created us to glorify Him, and we start to act in ways that fulfil that purpose, then we will begin to experience an intensity of joy and fulfilment in the Lord that we have never known before.
Greater Focus
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Greater Effort
But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is...
Greater Endurance
God calls us to remember the people of faith who have set the example for us, to lay aside things that hinder our relationship with the Lord, and to run with endurance this race in front of us while fixing our eyes on the founder and perfecter of our faith.
Greater Performance
Performance is an avenue that God created for Him to be glorified.
However, performance can become a dangerous pressure-cooker for individuals who make it their foundation, their identity, and their source of worth.
Greater Power
For those that have never experienced the infamous “wall,” it comes in the form of complete and utter depletion of energy to make forward progress.
It is lacking power to proceed.
It is having less and less power.
It is feeling as if there is no energy within you to keep going.
Greater Strength
We train hard and use disciplines to strengthen us when we run.
These bring to us awards that will rust and decay, so how much more important is it for us to discipline ourselves as we seek to grow closer to our Heavenly Father?
Greater Core
It takes a lot of time and effort to build the core.
Discipline, perseverance, patience, commitment, and accountability are some characteristics needed by the individual to develop it.
Greater Promise
It’s all good when we see these promises through and enjoy the subsequent results.
However, what happens when (and it often does) the promises fall flat?
Greater Health
I did not start asking questions about the importance of Jesus Christ until late 2012. I suffered from back pain for...
Greater Pace
Our faith is not built upon “once and for all”, but a daily commitment. The small daily chats we have with Him that grows our trust in Him.
Greater Potential
Know that where He wills our potential, that is where it will be. Greater potential in God’s eyes can be different for everyone. It is not the scale of your mission because your potential lies in your obedience to His calling.
Follow
Christianity without discipleship is Christianity without Christ.
To be a believer is to be a disciple, and to be a disciple is to follow Jesus.
Christ-Centered Life
A life without Jesus is a fake life. Your life needs to revolve around Jesus, centering around His plans and purposes for you. You need to be real to yourself, to take the word of God and apply it in the reality of your life.
Faithful Focus
Fixing your eyes on Jesus means that you need to maintain your faithfulness even in times of turmoil or distress.
God desires that deeply!
He wants you to know that He can be trusted and that He is ultimately in control.
What is the extent of your faithfulness that God is expecting from you?
Friend of Jesus
If you had the opportunity, would you send a friend request to Jesus?
Would your posts be any different if you knew Jesus was your friend and reading them?
Would He “like” or comment on your posts?
God Pursues Us
As we live out our life mission of pursuing God, let us remember that it is He who first pursued us and continues to pursue us.
He is the reason we exist and the reason we serve.
GO THE DISTANCE
Jesus invites the insecure to find security in Him.
He calls us not to be indifferent, for He was not indifferent to our needs and our sins.
Holiness
The distinction is that holiness is a by-product of righteousness.
Not the reverse.
When we are in right relationship with the Living God, we become, we are holy, we are granted His holiness and our lives will be different.
Run Like Christ
We can do all things through Christ Who strengthens us. Be submissive to His will and sacrifice things that hold us back from finishing our race.
Wholeheartedly, Not Pure Heartedly
Like the Word of God, let us emphasize coming to God with whole hearts rather than waiting for it to be purified.
Practice Makes Perfect
If you want to mature in Christ, get ready for some kingdom assignments that train you towards perfection as these will reveal misalignment and help us rightly realign in the Spirit.
Overcoming Stress
Stress and anxiety see the worst kind of future, but Hope says God has got this!
God works the night shift so that we can rest in Him and sleep!
Running with the Wise
Those of us who may consider ourselves “experienced” Christians need to remember to slow down for the new believer.
To take time from our busy lives to fellowship, encourage, and walk the path of faith with them.
Rest in Jesus on Unknown Paths
We will all have illnesses or injuries in these human bodies, don’t wait for those times to draw closer to Him and spend more time with Jesus.
The time is today, the call for you to draw closer to Jesus is today.
There is nothing in this world like being filled and surrounded by the presence of Jesus
Are you in the Right Zone?
For the first time, it didn’t bother me that my heart rate shot up because I had to run faster or climb hills.
I simply ran with the Lord, and I finished my run wearing a smile and knowing that I was in the right zone.
Uncompromised Commitment
Our commitment to GOD should be reflective of His unconditional love bestowed upon us.
Jesus loved us so much that He was committed to us until His last breath on Earth.
Victory Through Christ!
after loss, there is still life and love; after hurt, there is still hope and healing; after pain, there is still peace and purpose; and after chaos, there is comfort and clarity.
Hard Feet and a Soft Heart
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you” (Matt 6:33).
Hard feet and soft hearts develop when we walk in God’s priorities and His gospel message.
Training in Godliness
An athlete in training and a coach knows that there will be plenty of self-sacrifice when training and coaching in their sport.
If we desire to advance and perform well, wise decisions, prioritization and following a plan will set the stage for success.
This is true if we desire to follow Jesus and do what matters most.
When You Pray (Part 2)
Prayer is not so much getting our way as it is aligning to His.
This may not be what you want to hear, but it just is.
When You Pray (Part 1)
Avoid vain repetitions, many words; and a fixed, empty, rote repetition.
Long prayers do not mean more spirituality or more impressive
Remember Our Identity
As children of God, we have the capacity to hear His voice. There will be times when we don’t understand or hear from God. Wait on Him.
Walking with Jesus
God hears us and speaks back.
It’s in that still small voice that when looking for a sermon to listen to, you hear, “you need that one today”.
Or when in prayer over someone, you hear, “text or call this person”.
Ultimately, it is our privilege and blessing to obey, to walk with God in peace.
