MAKING GOALS AND ACHIEVING THEM Part 5

Your physical health affects every part of your life. Believe it or not, your physical fitness has a significant impact on your emotions and your ability to succeed! You’ve  heard it, “no pain, no gain.” Though sometimes we don’t want to acknowledge it, we all know it’s true. Since God wants you to be productive in every area, addressing your physical health is a must.

I remember being on a cruise in Mexico when I ran into this gentleman who was a specimen of health and fitness. Looking at him, I assumed that he was in his early to mid-40s. After chatting with him for a while, I found out that he was 66 years old. Of course, I asked him what his secret was. I wondered if it was some kind of special diet or supplements he took or maybe a unique workout program that he adhered to. His reply to me stuck! He said, “I just Show Up.” “You can find me at the gym five days a week.” He said, “some days I feel good, and other days I am tired and don’t really feel like working out much, but I just Show Up!”

How about that! Just show up! In the area of your health, God wants you to show up! God lives inside of you-you are his temple; therefore, what happens to your body is very important to him!

1 Cor 3:16-17 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

Think about it; God, the Holy Spirit, is housed inside your body. Therefore, what you do with your body impacts your relationship with God! Because of God’s great desire for us, he gave us wisdom keys in his word to help us live in his abundance. He lets us know that getting drunk, overeating, using drugs, and the like are detrimental to our prosperity. These things make us feel good at the moment but destroy our health in the long run.

The greatest keys to your health are sleep, positive thinking, exercise, nutrition, and water. Often when people think of being healthy, they only think of exercise and nutrition. Without proper rest in the right kind of thinking, a life of God’s abundance is not possible. Because God cares so much about you, what you do regarding these things is very important to him! Did you hear that? Yes – those things are important to God! Why? He knows that if you don’t feel good, you won’t be tap into all created you to be and do.

Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” Jn 10:10b  Apostle John declared, “Beloved, I  wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” 3John 2

God longs for you to live in the full measure of abundance that he created you to live in, but this is not possible without being healthy. May this Encouraging Note challenge you today! I pray that you will take seriously the areas we have discussed for optimum health. They are keys to your success and the gateway to your future and dreams! The year is just beginning, and it’s your season to prosper! Choose to take your health seriously because it is time to be…

MAKING GOALS AND ACHIEVING THEM