Fight With Praise

This week's Faith Rx'd Workout:

Keep Your Head Up

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Trust

This week's Faith Rx'd Workout:

Trust

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Peace With God

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Peace With God

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Who do you say that I am?

This week's Faith Rx'd Workout:

Who do you say that I am?

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Greatness

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Defining Greatness

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Give Thanks

Give Thanks

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READ:

Romans 1:21-25 - “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him…”

John 4:23 - “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.”

REFLECT:

There are countless things in the world for which we should be thankful:  life, breath, the smell of rain, a beautiful sunset, friends, spouses, children, family, sex, health, money, jobs, bacon, caffeine, strawberries, physical strength, our favorite training apparel, and so on. These are all things to be enjoyed. But how often do we see good things get misplaced by our over-desiring of them, and they transform into our ‘god-things?’ When good things become god-things we’ve dethroned God and an idol is born!

So we see in the universe there are two categories: the Creator and the created.  When people focus on God as their primary source of relational enjoyment they receive love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control; and God gets shown as the Glorious One.  However, when anything else takes His rightful position, we ultimately receive the wages of counterfeit glory:  competitive bitterness, anxiety, lust, aggressiveness, impatience, resentfulness, stress, insecurity, and inner rage. These all ultimately lead to death.

The Games, The Open, local competitions, daily workouts, Sunday runs in the park, and even YOU were not created to be the focus of your life and/or worshiped. They were created and allowed by God as a gift for your enjoyment and His glory. Hitting a workout is a gift from God to enjoy as a celebratory appreciation of the life and health He’s given you. And, it is also much more!  It is a gift and a means to share with others your thanksgiving to God for how kind He’s been to you and how glorious He truly is.

RESPOND:

1 - Start a 5-minute timer.  List as many things possible you can recall for which YOU are thankful.

2 - Identify which items on the list have become “god-things” in your life.

3 - How has your fitness become a “god-thing?”

4 - If you could never workout again, how would you feel?

5 -Thank God for His many blessings through fitness and every other created thing He has given you to enjoy.

Faith Workout

TODAY'S STEPS
READ:  Galatians 2

REFLECT:  How were others attempting to intimidate Paul, so that he would alter his message?  
And, what made Paul feel secure so that he "did not yield in submission even for a moment?"

RESPOND:  
1 - Identify people, or things, that tend to intimidate you.
2 - If you are a Christian, who is really on trial in God's courtroom on your behalf?
3 - How does the truth of the gospel give you freedom?

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"I identified myself completely with [Christ]. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not 'mine,' but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.  Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily." (Galatians 2:20-21 - The Message)