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a year agoI have a lot of athletes and/or weightlifters ask me how I honor the Lord in my training. These are two practices that changed my time in the gym from a anger filled and self gratifying experience to an intimate time I get to have with the Lord-
1. I don’t train until I’ve spent quality time in the word and in prayer. I even do this before my first meal of the day because I want to feed my spirit before I feed my flesh. But even before training, if I’ve only spent an hour in the word/worshipping God for the day, I’m not going to go spend 2 hours in the gym.
2. I’m praying throughout most of my training session (most of the time in tongues but sometimes just having a casual conversation with Jesus). And for anyone who says that isn’t realistic, 1 Thessalonians 5:17 even tells us to pray without ceasing, so that’s what ima do! Inviting the Holy Spirit into your training and interceding makes is so easy to evangelize to people in the gym as well which also honors Jesus!
There’s a lot of other little convictions that I maintain such as dressing modestly, listening to Christian music if I do listen to any music, always speak life into my training partners life, and never complain about my body or how my lifts may feel. However, all of these things happened naturally when I started living by the first two practices I listed above.
I pray this encourages someone to lay their “gym life” at the feet of Jesus. Jesus can’t be our savior if He is not our Lord over our ENTIRE life. He laid His life down for you and He expects the same commitment from you in return. So stop pushing Jesus out of your training. Training also becomes so much more lively and fruitful when Jesus is at the center of it!
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