Exercise Yourself
Today as we ride down the
road we a likely to see someone running, walking, for exercise.
Exercise is good for the body
and soul. By exercise, you can lower
your anxiety and depression. With exercise the body releases chemicals that help to reduce
stress and anxiety.
1 Tim. 4:6-8
We need to exercise our
selves in Godliness, and refuse old fables and wise tales. What I mean is that we need to practice doing
what God has said.
We had to exercise to be able
to write our name and drive a car.
…Consider driving a car…
We need to exercise showing
compassion… Compassion does for love what running does for the lungs and
heart. … Jesus had compassion on the
multitudes and so he fed them; he had compassion on the blind man and he healed
him. We love by doing, and we do because
we have compassion.
Mat. 20:29-32
We need to exercise our
patience, that we can temperance or endurance and thus be complete.
Jas 1:3 Knowing this, that
the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
We need to exercise our faith
by praying to God and then trusting in him.
Php 4:6 Be careful for nothing;
but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto God.
Some times
we need to fast as well as pray.
Mt 9:15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber
mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the
days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall
they fast.
Ac 14:23 And
when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with
fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
1Co 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be
with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and
come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
When was the last time we
spend a day in fasting and prayer?
Fasting will exercise you in self-control
and denial of self for God’s sake and a worthy cause.
Doing this will make you
stronger and increase you faith toward God and your prayers.
James 5:13-20
We can exercise our self in
joy by rejoicing in the Lord and praising him.
Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the
Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Php 3:3 For we are the
circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
have no confidence in the flesh.
Php 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
We need to exercise and
practice Humility that we might obtain gentleness and meekness.
James 4:6-10
We need to exercise our faith
that we will have the peace that Christ offers.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let
it be afraid.
Phil. 4:4-7
We need to exercise in
reading the Bible … it is God’s will to us. In it we find the Gospel
revealed to all who would seek it. 2Ti
3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
We need to exercise, practice
taking the Gospel to others that we may be able to bear fruit.
John 15:1-8
We need to exercise our
senses, understanding that we can discern good and evil.
Heb. 5:112-14
Finally hear what Paul wrote.
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are
of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on
these things.
We need to exercise and make
sure our calling that we will not be barren nor
unfruitful, and will not fail.
2 Peter 1:2-10
