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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Getting Fit!!! Mentally, Physically and Spiritually

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We are so blessed to attend a large church where many influential Christian speakers come on Sundays.  This past Sunday Lon Allison (He is on the Billy Graham Team) came to speak on being ready to serve God.  He spoke how we need to train every day like training for a big race.  Well, God placed it on my heart that my family needs to be "Fit" for God. 

So the three areas we are training are

1. Mentally - being in God's Word each day as a family - reading the Bible and talking about it before we do anything else in our day!

2.  Spiritually - We have made a family prayer journal.  We used a 3-Ring binder and made a cover.  The pages are simply note book page with three columns -

Column 1- Date, Column 2 - Prayer Request and Column 3- How God answered our Prayers 

Everyone can add the prayer requests.  Each night before bedtime we have family prayer time and at that time we will pray over these requests.  Also, each morning when we do Bible time we open in prayer, lifting our day to God and then petitioning these prayer requests.  God has done amazing things in our lives and friends/ family - this is an exciting way to document and remember how He answers on those rough days!

Here are pics below:

 Journal Cover

- My daughter picked a Bible Coloring page she liked and then we glued onto Construction Paper and put in the Clear pocket on front.

Cover of Our Family Journal

 

Inside Journal

Inside prayer journal

 

3. Physically  - we are making it a commitment as a family to have family exercise time - walking 30 minutes a day and keeping a journal of exercises done and progress.  WE are starting with sit-ups - yikes!!!

Blessings,

Flossie

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - What a great idea!

Posted by AprilinRI
Thanks for sharing! This is such a wonderful and purposeful way to commit to prayer.

Blessings,
April
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After searching the world for the answers, I am learning to slow down and trust God. Life can be so simple if we just trust Him. I am a Chistian wife married to the man of my dreams. I have 3 children and live on 3 acres. We are not quite homesteaders but we love learning! I see God's kisses everywhere and hear His laughter roll through the air. Come along as we live life one day at a time.

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