HOW FIT ARE YOU? Three Simple Tests to Find Out

How you define fitness depends on the type of performance you expect.  You can get different answers from different people when it comes to defining fitness.  Man is at his best when he achieves balanced fitness spiritually and physically. Everyone should be good at everything a healthy, active man needs to be able to do with disregard to extreme activity of which most are drug-induced.  It is widely agreed that man needs core firmness.  Our own fitness we refer to is that of spiritual capability. You need enough spiritual strength and endurance to run the Christian race without losing out mainly to enjoy heaven through its narrow gate, hence paradise glory.  You need torso strength to lift your own spiritual body weight in repeated challenges/temptations.  All Christians’ activities is aimed at entry to heaven.

FASTING -- QUOTABLE QUOTES

Fasting is a medicine.

Saint John Chrysostom

In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want.

Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)

It's easy to love God. It's easy to love Jesus. It's easy to pray for the heathen African ten thousand miles from the house where you live. It's hard to call a lousy tramp your brother and set him down at your table.

Melvin Tolson (1900 - 1966)

A leap over the hedge is better than good men's prayers.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)

Almighty God, give us the grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life.

Book of Common Prayer 

Command your children to perform ritual prayer when they are seven, and beat them for neglecting it when they are ten.

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (780 - 855)

Grant that those things which we ask faithfully we may obtain effectually.

Book of Common Prayer 

KEYWORDS

Sacrifice, value, energy, prayer, fasting, promise

FASTING

To gain any good thing requires sacrifice; the better the sacrifice, the better the value.  Whatever is given up in exchange for another is attached to a sacrificial value.  No task or important thing will succeed without sacrifice which might include money, time, energy or any other valuable.  You need to give-up something to get-up on the move.

Fasting is the abstinence from food and regularly from drink for a longer than usual time. Fasting has been practiced for a very long time with link to religion. Fasts are observed among believers and adherents of religions. Early Christians are associated fasting with penitence and purification. The Christian church established fasting as voluntary but serious believers in God observe fasts rigorously.  Many Old Testament prophets and early Christian writers condemned the abuse of fasting as an empty formality by persons who led immoral lives. In modern times criticism of fasting has been based principally on other grounds.  The hunger strike, a form of fasting, has been employed as a political weapon. Innumerable political prisoners in various parts of the world have engaged in hunger strikes.  The Israelites observed fasting on different occasions, among which is in the conflict between the other tribes with the tribe of Benjamin, on account of the wrong suffered by a Levite's concubine and when they went to Mizpeh for the Ark of the Covenant.

PUSH - Pray Until Something Happens

PRAYER BULLETIN by a Non-Denominational Evangelistic & Prayer Outreach

MEMORY VERSE:  “Pray without ceasing.”  1 Thes.5:17

PRAYER POINTS

1.              O God of New beginning, begin a new thing in my life and my family today, in Jesus’ Name.

2.              O Lord my God, let every ridicule in my life become miracle, in Jesus’ Name.

3.              Any power assigned to cause violence and shed blood in this nation, enough is enough, be exposed and be disgraced, in Jesus’ Name.

4.              Any dark meeting summoned to pull me down, scatter, in Jesus’ Name.

5.              O Lord, open my eyes to see god opportunities today, in Jesus’ Name.

6.              You ancient gate locking me out of my inheritance, scatter, in Jesus’ Name.

7.              Every witchcraft arrow targeted against my success, backfire, in Jesus’ Name.

8.              Any power asking me, “Where is your God?” O God, arise and answer them, in Jesus’ Name. 

MONEY – A HINT

Any medium of exchange that is widely accepted in payment for goods and services and in payment of debts is referred to as money. It also serves as a regulation of value for measuring the relative worth of goods and services. Price of a commodity is the number of units of money required to buy that commodity.  Certainly, everyone needs money.  Well, if you don’t, I do.  I like money but I don’t love or worship it.  Some animals, especially domestic ones need money.  The government that even control the flow of money needs more of it to keep the system going.  The more money you have, the more the need to increase it rises.  In some quarters, it is more money, more problems, and to others, it’s more money, more progress.  Money indeed is good.  Yes, it is very good.  But money becomes dangerous when it is allowed to control one’s mind.  It becomes evil when it becomes someone’s good – when it is allowed to take the place of GOD in a man’s life.  Money is deadly if it becomes a person’s object of worship.

MONEY - Quotable Quotes

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil.

The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

Money doesn't make you happy.

I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Attributed to Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947 - )

The moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money.

John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)

I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.

Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

OIL SUBSIDY – WHO’S FOOLING WHO?

All the time they have added to the pump price of petrol, the government has always promised to do many good things and further develop the nation but the government has never fulfilled its promises.  Now, the current government has reduced the oil subsidy and also promised to do mouth-watering things and make Nigeria a developed nation.  When are we going to develop?  Is it now that even the West African Examination Council had errors in results or we face security challenge by terrorists?  The called-off protest is nothing compared to other past protests embarked upon.  Why didn’t he even announce the removal while the students on campus were in session? 

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Do not wish to appear the best but be it.

Dada DOS

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear:

because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.

I John 4:18

The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work.

W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself

that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

Doris Lessing (1919 - )

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals,

but, when separated from law and justice,

he is the worst of all.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

You would attain to the divine perfection,
And yet not turn your back upon the world.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

PERFECTION

P

erfection is the worth of something that is as good or appropriate as it can possibly be.  To be perfect means to be great, wonderful, faultless, right or flawless.  It also means to be complete and lacking nothing essential.  Perfection implies having all the necessary characteristics required for a given situation.  When you talk of perfection, you need to see some gifted men do things they know how to do better than others around them.  This is so because they have practiced and invested time and resources.  A perfect person is someone who is very proficient and skilled in a particular area.  This proofs the saying that “practice makes perfect.”  Look around and recall some talented individuals how they do what they do better than others.  What about yourself; what is your own special talent of what can you do better than other people around you.  I have my own and I give all the glory to GOD.