Is Your Physical Fitness Getting on Your Praise?

To the fitness device users have you ever been in praise and worship and had your Apple Watch or Fit Bit ask you if you were working out?

When was the last time your arms were sore from lifting them up in thanksgiving?

Expressing our gratitude and thanksgiving can be physical work. I would like to suggest two approaches to Gratitude Training that may motivate you to move.

Training to praise.

Expressing thanksgiving can be physical. We stand, lift our hands, dance and for many others it can be physical work. If you have a limited level of fitness your praise could be stifled. For substantial health benefits, The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion recommends adults should do at least 150 minutes (2 hours and 30 minutes) to 300 minutes (5 hours) a week of moderate-intensity.  We can translate that into 30 to 60 minutes, 5 days a week. If you are new to exercise or returning after a break, walking is the perfect introduction exercise. Soldiers in the army of the Lord, we need to get training. If the idea of training to Praise is not motivating, how about training as Praise.

Have you ever praised the Lord so hard you broke out in a sweat?

Training as praise.

If God woke you up this morning and started you on your way then you have a reason to be thankful.   Why not express that gratitude with a walk. Walking as an act of gratitude and thanksgiving can be a powerful time. You can listen to praise and worship music or do the walk in silence thanking God for all the things He has done and is doing in your life. On my Worship walks I often think on Romans 12:1 I present myself to you as a living sacrifice. I am showing up to walk as an act of gratitude to the One who gave me the ability to walk.

Let’s approach physical training as an act of thanksgiving. I am so thankful to have the movement of my body and the ability to walk, and move. How can I not walk for you God! Whether you are training to be able to give physical gratitude or training as an act of gratitude I hope you will find one of these motivational  to move forward in thanksgiving.  

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." Psalm 9:1