Women Of Strength: A Devotional to Improve Spiritual & Physical Health
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Do you want to get your health and fitness on track? Discover these devotions that can help you to keep your body and spirit healthy.
Are you battling obstacles that get in the way of your wellness? Do you need encouragement to spend more time with God? Have you backslidden in your healthy habits? Kimberley Payne is a former personal trainer whose writing style is warm, friendly, and easy to understand. She often tells on herself, reassuring you that you’re not the only one that falls off the diet and exercise wagon.
Women of Strength is a book that takes you through the year in twenty-four devotions dedicated to the seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Each season is further divided into sections that include a fact on common health and fitness questions, a reflection, a prayer, a Bible verse, and an energizing exercise.
Kimberley guides you along the path to a stronger you as she shares her personal life lessons, devotionals, and exercises. She’s on a quest to help other women improve their spiritual and physical health through the seasons.
By reading these reflections you’ll feel calmed and encouraged instead of shamed and useless.
In Women of Strength you’ll discover:
•A loving, gentle, and even funny way to get healthy
•Relatable, guilt-free anecdotes that you can return to each year
•Ways to include God’s word in right eating habits and exercise
•An emphasis on living life in balance
•Practical advice on how to get back on track and overcome obstacles
Women of Strength is a great reminder that God wants to be involved in your life, including your health journey.
If you like devotionals that uplift, motivate, and inspire then you’ll love this book that relates your spiritual life with your physical life. Buy Women of Strength to take better care of your whole self today!
Kimberley Payne
Kimberley is an award-winning author who writes to help others grow closer to God.Her writing relates raising a family, pursuing a healthy lifestyle, and everyday experiences to building a relationship with God.She combines her teaching experience and love of writing to create educational materials for children about family, fitness, life sciences, and faith.
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Women Of Strength - Kimberley Payne
Women of Strength
A Devotional to Improve Spiritual & Physical Health
Copyright 2015 Kimberley Payne
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Women of Strength
A Devotional to Improve Spiritual & Physical Health
Table of Contents
Introduction
WINTER
God is in the details
Resolutions
Habits
Just Do It
The Body
Faithfulness
SPRING
Temptation
Intense Interest
The Sinner’s Prayer
Obedience, Not Experience
Progress, Not Perfection
Sabbath
SUMMER
Pesky Problems
Sun Shower
Water Sports
First Impressions
Need to Pump Iron
Fasting
AUTUMN
Fanatical
Tis the Season
Care for the Caregiver
Goals And Rewards
Pause for Menopause
Mirror, Mirror
Conclusion
Introduction
I created this devotional book out of a desire to become more physically healthy. As a former personal trainer, I knew all about exercise and nutrition, however, I still missed something. Or should I say, Someone.
In the past, I’d never included God in my health and fitness plan. I thought it wasn't something worthy of His attention. However, God checked my spirit and told me that He wants to be part of everything in my life; even something as small as losing a few pounds.
How can you become a woman of strength today?
You can honour your body by taking care of it – both physically and spiritually. Women of Strength is the perfect companion for your health program. There are four divisions to follow the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn. Each season is further divided into 6 sections that include an inspirational devotional, a fact on common health and fitness questions, a reflection, a prayer, a Bible verse, and an energizing exercise.
My prayer is for you to improve your spiritual and physical health through the seasons!
WINTER
God is in the Details
I gained a pound in the last week. It really is remarkable how a small number on the scale can have such great significance. Last week, I didn’t gorge and eat with gluttonous hunger. I didn’t sit down to seven-course meals and midnight snacks. No, the error I made wasn’t in the big sense but rather in the small. I neglected to mind what I ate. That is, I didn’t pay attention. I ignored my body signals of hunger and fullness. I ate food while tending to other matters – as if eating were second to other activities. I ate food for the mere taste of it and, more often than not, I ate without fully knowing I was eating.
When I am mindful of what I eat I truly enjoy it. I look to it as a source of pleasure and nourishment. When I treat food with respect I treat my body with respect. It is the same with my Christian behaviour. Some days, I tend to get lazy with my worship of God and just go through the motions. I may go to church but my mind is tending to other matters. When I’m not mindful of my prayers and pay lip service to them, they come only from my mind but not my heart. It’s not enough to practice spiritual rituals. I must worship God with my heart as well as my mouth.
My intentions may be good but if I don’t pay enough attention to the Word, I realize that I haven’t lived up to my true call as a Christian. Although I didn’t commit a horrendous sin, my behaviour isn’t reflected in the large events. Instead, it’s the small details. Was I patient and slow to anger? Did I respect the clerk behind the counter, obviously overwhelmed by the volume of customers? Was I kind and gentle with my children? I realize that my misbehaviour hurts God more than anyone else.
I pray that I won’t be like those spoken of in Isaiah 29:13, The Lord says: These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.
I don’t want to go through the motions, but rather, I want to pay attention to the details of my heart. God is in the little things. He is in the every day. If I look to Him in my everyday life, I’ll grow spiritually strong. I want to be healthy in body, mind and spirit.
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