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Hydrating Nuggets

** “Smile! It increases your face value.”– Robert Harling
** Water is essential for life. It helps regulate body temperature, remove toxins and transport nutrients.
** Wisdom lets us see things from God’s perspective. It leads us into habits and practices that please Him and away from ones that don’t.

*** Nugget 1  Humor Time  

A magazine article said that the way to achieve inner peace is to FINISH things I have started.  Today I finished four bags of potato chips, a cherry pie, and a small box of chocolate candy.  I feel better already!

When Jesus said, “In this world you will have trouble,” …..He wasn’t kidding!

What is the funniest experience you have ever had in church?

  • After leading a large group of preschoolers in some songs in front of the church, I was helping them return to their parents, then the church service would continue. I couldn’t find my own son. Thinking he had gone to the sound board with my husband, I heard a friend giggling and pointing toward the minister of music, who was singing a solo. Looking carefully, my so was standing in front of him, directing him as he sang!
  • When the church secretary walked from the bathroom all the way to the front of the church with the back of her dress stuffed in her pantyhose.

*** Nugget 2   Stay hydrated.

Most people know that it’s important to stay hydrated. Water is essential for life. It helps regulate body temperature, remove toxins and transport nutrients. We naturally lose it through sweat and urine. When it is not replaced, we can become dehydrated. Complications may include seizures, headaches, kidney failure, disorientation, heat exhaustion or worse. Dehydration may accelerate aging and raise your risk of chronic disease or death. The following is the testimony of an acquaintance who had a scare due to dehydration.

I went to the emergency room and was there 12 hours trying to figure out why things were at a crossroad with my stomach. I was in no pain, but I felt death in my spirit. I felt depression. Ct scan and blood work was done. The doctor assured me that they would take care of me. I am a three-time cancer survivor. I said, “God please don’t let it be cancer again because I don’t know if I can muster up another fight with that issue.” So, I quietly told God that I would trust Him. The blood work came back. It was good. I was (DEHYDRATED) but no new signs of reoccurring cancer, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory to God! Thank you, Jesus!

Make sure to drink plenty of fluids daily. You should definitely drink water but there are also other options. Eat plenty of high-water content fruits and vegetables. Try coconut water, teas, milk, and juice. Do some research and find other ways to stay hydrated. Your body will thank you.

*** Nugget 3   Need wisdom? Ask God for it.        

1 Kings 3:5-9
 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.” 6 Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

7 “Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”

If the Lord appeared to you in a dream and told you that you could ask Him for anything, what would it be? Would it be material riches, power, long life, and/or health? Would you ask for a greater walk with Him, a greater prayer life, and/or a heart to give (money, time, etc.)? Would you even think about asking for wisdom and understanding?

Solomon could have requested anything but he asked for the ability to distinguish between good and evil. He wanted to be a ruler with a wise and obedient heart. God was pleased with his request and gave him what he asked for. Then God gave him what he didn’t ask for: riches and honor.  God also promised that he would have a long life as long as he walked in His ways.

Wisdom allows us to see things from God’s perspective and to respond with biblical principles. It leads us into habits and practices that please Him and away from ones that don’t. We must never think that we are too old or too wise to ask God for wisdom. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5). Blessings that come from using His wisdom include:

  • Strength and power
  • Peace and contentment
  • Guidance and direction
  • Increased knowledge of Him

We don’t have to run around like a chicken with its head cut off. We should never consult the horoscope or get a psychic reading. God loves it when we consult Him. When we ask Him for wisdom, He promises to give it to us.

The information that I have shared with you is intended for informational purposes only.

Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?  If you wait, it could be too late. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting live (John 3:16).

If you have already accepted Him, He wants you to get to know Him even better.

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A Healthy Lifestyle

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
James Allen

“There is always something to be thankful for. If you can’t pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.”

I hope this video blesses you.  This is one of my favorite songs.

Six components of living a healthy lifestyle

There are many reasons to try to live a healthy lifestyle:

To lower the risk of disease.

  1. To relieve stress.

  2. To have increased energy.

  3. To increase the length of your life.

  4. To increase the quality of your life.

  5. To be fit for the Master’s use.

I am not trying to increase the length of my life, but I am trying to increase the quality of my life. I don’t do everything right. Some days are better than others. I love food. I love to eat. The problem is I eat too much. Anyway, I’m working on it.

If I had to pick the most important reason for striving to live a healthy lifestyle, I would choose #6. We all have a destiny to fulfill. We have been given gifts and talents to use for God’s use. I don’t think most of us truly grasp that. If we did, we would be doing more for Him.

Everyone won’t write a book, be a movie star, the president of a large corporation, or a great artist. The greatest accomplishment that any of us can do is to accept Jesus Christ as our personal savior and be found trying to fulfill our destiny. Life passes by so swiftly. We have only a limited number or years. I don’t want to die without at least trying to discover and use my gifts and talents. What you do may not be on a professional level. My videos and my blogs sure aren’t. But at least I can say – I tried.

I want to share with you six components of healthy living.

 Air is a component of health that we totally take for granted. We don’t go to bed and say, “I sure hope that I won’t run out of air while I sleep tonight or I wonder if I’ll have enough air in the morning.” We just assume that we will have air.

It is possible to go weeks without food and days without water, but six minutes without air and you’re a corpse. Air is so important because of oxygen. The blood and trillions of cells that make up the body perform the functions of life. They must be oxygenated regularly or death occurs. We receive our supply of oxygen by extracting it from the air we breathe into our lungs. This is called respiration. In tiny air sacs in the lungs, the blood is purified, supplied with oxygen, and sent on its way to the rest of the body. When we breathe out, we exhale carbon dioxide gas and a lot of other waste materials.

Even though it’s practically impossible to have really pure air in this day and age we can still do what we can to make the best use of the air that we breathe.

Deep breathing         breathing     is a component of health that supplies us with the fuel that keeps us alive. How we breathe affects how we absorb oxygen into our bodies. The oxygen feeds the brain, the nervous system, and every cell of the body.   Normally, we should breath abdominally. There are enormous benefits that accompany breathing the way the body is designed to breathe. Most people breathe totally from the chest.

Abdominal breathing clears your mind and relaxes you. It balances you. It’s the key to relaxation and to the correct oxygenation of your body. Abdominal breathing takes pressure off the heart, and has an amazing effect on the nervous system.  We want the abdomen to expand as we breathe in, and then we want the air to move up and out as we exhale.

Exercise    exercise    is a component of health that greatly assists in the oxygenation of your entire body, especially aerobic exercise, which accelerates the heart’s pumping action. There is an exercise routine for everyone. Bones are alive, and just like every other part of the body, they benefit greatly from exercise.

Life depends on the flow of blood in our bodies. Every drop of blood circulates through the entire body, every minute! A larger heart is a healthier and stronger heart. Any good exercise routine should address basically three areas of fitness: (1) cardiovascular, or aerobic, (2) strength, and (3) flexibility. Aerobic exercise is the form that strengthens the heart.

Water: There is not one function of the body that is not dependent on water. Approximately seventy percent of the body is water. The brain is 80.5% water, the lungs 80%, and the blood 90%. From the minute food enters your mouth, every process necessary to transform it from a food to blood, bone, muscle, and tissue – depends on water.

Water holds nutrients in solution and transports all food necessary for life to the various parts of the body. The body uses water to extract the vitamins, minerals, proteins (amino acids), carbohydrates, fats, and the other basic nutrients of life to the proper place and drops them off in the exact amounts needed at exactly the right time in the body.

Water holds wastes and toxins that it picks up from the cells and carries them to the organs of elimination. Water carries them to the four organs of elimination – bowels, bladder, lungs, and skin for disposal. Water brings in what we need and carries out what we don’t.

Without sufficient water you would have no saliva. You wouldn’t be able to swallow! The organs that perform the functions of life are all more water than anything else. Water is the chief agent in regulating body temperature, like water in the radiator of a car.

As to how much and what kind of water to drink, well the experts have different opinions. One thing is for sure, the less you get from your food, the more you have to drink.

 

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