Deuteronomy 32:1-2 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. Carbohydrates provide energy to the body by breaking it down to glucose. Carbs are the...
Category: Spiritual Motivation
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25 September 2025 – The Bread – Part 2
Judges 7:13-14 Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.” His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword...
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24 September 2025 – The Bread – Part 1
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. The most common breads of ancient Israel were barley or wheat breads. The grains were ground at home and the fine flour was rolled into flat breads, wafers, sourdough bread or thick-loafs. Barley bread was the staple food of the impoverished, while wheat...
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23 September 2025 – Health-Checks – Part 7
1 Timothy 4:8 For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. Doctors check a patient’s vital signs—temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and blood pressure—to assess and monitor overall health. Checking the vital signs help the practitioners diagnose and determine...
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22 September 2025 – Health-Checks – Part 6
Proverbs 25:27 “It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.” Honey is a natural sweetener and a rich antioxidant. It protects cell damage, heals wounds, helps in fighting off certain infections, gives relief to gastrointestinal issues and builds resistance. However, too much...
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21 September 2025 – Health-Checks – Part 5
1 Samuel 16:7b “The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” An x-ray produces flat 2D black and white images whereas scans can produce detailed 3D cross-sectional images of the soft tissues, organs, internal bleeding and tumors in the...
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20 September 2025 – Health-Checks – Part 4
Proverbs 18:20 From the fruit of their mouth a person’s stomach is filled; with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied. The stomach is a sensitive organ of the body. What we feed our bodies must be healthy, nutritious, and sustaining. If the digestive system is unable to properly break down certain foods it...
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19 September 2025 – Health-Checks – Part 3
Hebrews 12:15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled. The frequency of blood tests to monitor cholesterol, blood sugar, liver, and kidney function would vary with age and health conditions. It is recommended...
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18 September 2025 – Health-Checks – Part 2
Psalm 94:19 “When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.” Anxiety can trigger heart palpitation and increase the heart rate. Pounding heart, fast-beating and fluttering are caused by release of hormones and adrenaline, increasing the heart rate and blood flow. Anxiety related palpitations are normally short-lived and relaxing techniques such as deep...
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17 September 2025 – Health-Checks – Part 1
Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; See if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.” Regular health-checks become essential after the age of 40 to detect any age-related conditions that could deteriorate the health and longevity of life....