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Dr. Willie Mae Hawkins
•Ordained Clergy, Preacher & Teacher
•Consultant
• #1 Best Selling Author
•Certified Personal Trainer
•Certified Sports Nutrition (soon)
•Ordained Clergy, Preacher & Teacher
•Consultant
• #1 Best Selling Author
•Certified Personal Trainer
•Certified Sports Nutrition (soon)
The Human Body
The body has much to tell, if people could only learn how to listen.
God often speaks through the body.
In most cases, the body is the first to know if
one is overcommitted, stressed, uneasy or joyful,
and when one need to attend to something
that is causing pain or disease.
~ Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
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The body has much to tell, if people could only learn how to listen.
God often speaks through the body.
In most cases, the body is the first to know if
one is overcommitted, stressed, uneasy or joyful,
and when one need to attend to something
that is causing pain or disease.
~ Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
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Self-Care
Self-care is not selfish.
We are stewards of our bodies just as we are stewards
of other gifts received from God.
Self-Care means understanding the meaning of
positive health and working toward it.
~ Gwen Wagstrom Halaas, author of The Right Road: Life Choices for Clergy
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Self-care is not selfish.
We are stewards of our bodies just as we are stewards
of other gifts received from God.
Self-Care means understanding the meaning of
positive health and working toward it.
~ Gwen Wagstrom Halaas, author of The Right Road: Life Choices for Clergy
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Exercise
In 1 Tim 4:8 Paul expressed the importance of spiritual growth,
he did not disregard the fact that
physical training/exercise does some good.
1 Tim 4:8 For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
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Exercise
Bodily Movement
Tilling the soil, replenishing and subduing the earth,
and working and caring for the Garden of Eden
meant that muscles in the body must have been used.
~Don Colbert, What Would Jesus Eat?:
The Ultimate Program for Eating Well, Feeling Great, and Living Longer
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Bodily Movement
In biblical times,
People did not drive cars - they walked
People did not turn on a faucet – they used the muscles to pull water up
from a well and walked back to their homes
They did not go to a grocery store – they farmed (physical labor)
They did not have washing machines – the used their hands and arms
against the resistance of the water in their heavy clothes
They did not have phones to communicate with family or friends
-they had to walk up hills and rocky mountains
-and across sandy deserts to communicate
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In biblical times,
People did not drive cars - they walked
People did not turn on a faucet – they used the muscles to pull water up
from a well and walked back to their homes
They did not go to a grocery store – they farmed (physical labor)
They did not have washing machines – the used their hands and arms
against the resistance of the water in their heavy clothes
They did not have phones to communicate with family or friends
-they had to walk up hills and rocky mountains
-and across sandy deserts to communicate
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Jesus’ Bodily Movement
When Jesus walked the earth, most people walked from three
to ten miles a day in the course of their daily lives.
When Jesus was about five years old, he walked with his family
from Egypt to Nazareth, a distance of more than four hundred miles
During his ministry, many of his trips consisted of walking
from Galilee to Jerusalem, a distance of approx. 120 miles.
From the time Jesus was 5yrs old until he was thirty,
He walked from Galilee to Jerusalem to the temple
3 times a year. (Exod 34:23)
These 3 annual pilgrimages accounted for
approx. 18,000 miles during his lifetime.
~Don Colbert, What Would Jesus Eat?:
The Ultimate Program for Eating Well, Feeling Great, and Living Longer
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Oxygen
Gen 2:7, God breathed into the nostrils the breath of life,
and man became a living being.
Oxygen is the breath of life.
Imagine God’s essence flowing throughout the human body - -- your body.
Receiving more oxygen/the breath of life through exercise is beneficial.
It promotes better emotional, behavioral, and physical health,
bodily endurance, and a longer life.
God’s promise of long life!