{"id":21,"date":"2007-01-14T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T00:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.crossandcrownchurch.org\/?p=21"},"modified":"2007-01-14T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T00:09:49","slug":"weighing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Weighing In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submitted by Beth.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

This morning Craig spoke of God adding weight to us in 2007, and I began to think of all that entails.\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

In the natural, we think of our weight, mope over our added weight, rejoice over our reduced weight, and concentrate on how we can adjust everything to change our weight.\u00a0 We can apply so much of what is in the natural to the spiritual \u0096 \u0093first in the natural, then in the spiritual\u0094.\u00a0 Here is what God put on my heart to consider this morning:<\/font><\/p>\n

What you eat is what you are.<\/strong>\u00a0 In the natural we know that if we eat fatty foods, we will gain fat, not muscle.\u00a0 So our choice is to eat healthy and be healthy, or eat what we crave naturally and suffer the consequences.\u00a0 In the spiritual, we have the same choice.\u00a0 We can choose to dine on God\u0092s Word (written or spoken) and gain spiritual muscle or to gorge ourselves on worldly pleasures and gain spiritual fat.\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Work out to build to change your fat to muscle.\u00a0 <\/strong>In the natural, experts tell us that to improve your quality of life, exercise combined with diet is the fastest and best choice.\u00a0 Exercising takes you from a place of lethargy to a level of higher energy.\u00a0 Exercising also restructures your physique \u0096 toning you and building muscle.\u00a0\u00a0 In the spiritual, we learn that only ingesting God\u0092s Word is not enough \u0096 just hearing can make us spiritually fat.\u00a0 We need to exercise the Word \u0096 put it into action.\u00a0 Then, we can gain spiritual muscle \u0096 toning us and building spiritual muscle \u0096 giving us a higher level of energy to do God\u0092s work here on earth.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Fat versus Muscle.\u00a0 <\/strong>The Webster\u0092s definition of fat is \u0093having too much adipose (fatty) tissue\u0094 \u0096 not what we desire in the natural.\u00a0 The Webster\u0092s definition of muscle is \u0093to strengthen or toughen\u0094 and \u0093a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body\u0094 \u0096 both of which we esteem in the natural.\u00a0 How we should desire to have spiritual muscle \u0096 to have movement in the Body of Christ \u0096 to strengthen and toughen our most holy faith.\u00a0 WOW!\u00a0 Remember \u0096 muscle weighs more than fat!<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Looking forward to putting on some spiritual weight (muscle) in 2007!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted by Beth. This morning Craig spoke of God adding weight to us in 2007, and I began to think of all that entails.\u00a0 In the natural, we think of our weight, mope over our added weight, rejoice over our reduced weight, and concentrate on how we can adjust everything to change our weight.\u00a0 We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ekklesiaofcrane.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}