FREEDOM40 - 40-Day Men’s Challenge to Live in FreedomSample

DAY 35

REFLECT + FOCUS

Scientists talk about the connection between our physical and mental state. Everything is interconnected! Good exercise, good diet, good sleep, and many other physical disciplines affect our mental and emotional state.

Our body and brain work with mental circuits. For example: I feel like dancing - therefore I dance. Or, I choose to dance - therefore I come to feel like dancing. Both can be true.

By constant practice we get to learn to mentally align ourselves to the truth of God’s word, and allow it to affect our whole being. Often, when our thoughts and emotions don’t line up with the truth of God’s word, we simply ignore them, and continue to focus on His truth: thanking, worshiping, singing, dancing, proclaiming the Word of God - and it brings transformation to our emotions too.

I encourage you to make physical exercise and disciplines, not just a part of your lifestyle, but a part of your spiritual worship to God.

Let’s hear how some brothers have incorporated these things into regular life:

(Please listen to the interviews in the video.)

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.
Romans 12:1 NIV

Even in times of sickness and physical weakness - continue to offer your body, a temple of the Holy Spirit, as a spiritual act of worship to honor God.

SHOUT

As you declare today’s shout, ask God to show you how to continue to make exercise and physical disciplines a part of your spiritual act of worship.

Life to my mortal body, you give life to my mortal body
Life to my mortal body, through the Spirit of God living in me.
Romans 8, eleven says:

DISCOVERY BIBLE

Continue to discover God’s heart for us through His word to us in 1 Timothy 4:7-16.

What is God showing you through this passage? Take notes and share some thoughts with your brothers, as you pray for one another.

(*Some Discovery Bible passages have been updated since the original. We add the previous passage for reference if you need: Acts 11:19-30.)