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Getting In Shape
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‘...A WISE PERSON DRAWS FROM THE WELL WITHIN’
PROVERBS 20:5.
Any good fl ight instructor will tell you, ‘Never make decisions when you’re upside
down. Get turned around; get your nose up and your wings straight - then
re-chart your course.’ The NEWSTART programme in California offers a simple,
easy-to-remember acronym for getting in shape. N - Nutrition. Are you eating
Lord, I realise that right? If not, you’ll suffer chemical imbalances that will affect your health, your
sometimes, I’m a energy levels and your moods. E - Exercise. God didn’t create our bodies to be
slob, I don’t take sedentary. Walking, even a mile a day, will dramatically improve your health.
care of myself and W - Water. Are you drinking enough of it? (6-8 glasses a day). If not, your
often create health immune system becomes weak and your kidneys can’t fl ush out impurities.
problems by not You’re setting the stage for sickness. S - Sunlight. Light triggers two hormones
doing the simple responsible for preventing the blues. The ‘feel good’ serotonin and the ‘good
things over and sleep’ melatonin. That’s why some people get depressed when the days are
over. I’m sorry Lord, shorter and darker. T - Temperance. Are you out of control in certain areas?
please help me to It’s essential that you submit your thoughts, your will, your emotions, and
be more your appetites to God daily. A - Air. Are you getting enough fresh air? Inhaling
disciplined with this deeply? Fully expanding your lungs? R - Rest. You need a good eight hours to
and the spiritual complete the three cycles of sleep necessary to rejuvenate your body. T - Trust in
side of my life, that God. Trust is the highest form of faith. It’s simply believing that ‘Everything is
I would do the little working for your good and God’s glory’ (Paraphrase Romans 8:28). Make up your
things in life often mind today to get in shape!
and well, that one
day You would trust
me with a higher
Three Rules Of Success
calling than I am ‘...LIVE - NOT AS UNWISE, BUT AS WISE’
living out today.
EPHESIANS 5:15.
Amen.
Most successful people have learned to do three things: 1) Evaluate. Too many
‘I came across
of us are like the merchant who was so busy trying to keep the store clean
TheWord For that he forgot to open the front door! The reason you’re in business is to have
Today. It really customers and to make a profi t, not to keep the store clean. Base your decisions
changed my life’
on your purpose 2) Motivate. ‘David encouraged himself in the Lord’, because
there was nobody else around to do it. Jude writes, ‘...building up yourselves
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grilled steak! 3) Eliminate. Did you hear about the family who moved to the
country to get away from the noise and the traffi c? Intending to raise cattle,
they bought a ranch. A friend visited them and asked what they’d named the
ranch. Dad said, ‘I wanted to call it The Flying-W but Mom wanted to call it The
Suzy-Q. One of our sons liked The Bar-J, but the other preferred The Lazy-Y. So
we compromised and called it The Flying-W, Suzy-Q, Bar-J, Lazy-Y Ranch.’ The
friend asked, ‘How are your cattle doing?’ Dad replied, ‘We don’t have any - they
didn’t survive the branding!’
William H. Hinson wrote, ‘He who seeks one thing may hope to achieve it. But he
who seeks all things, will reap from all he’s sown, a harvest of barren regret.’
Think about it!
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