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With Mike James. Good afternoon, good afternoon out there in the light land. I hope everybody's doing well.
Thankful to be here today. This is Mike James with Bodies in Christ, a kingdom health transformation. And so yeah, today we're just going to have a conversation, sit back, talk a little bit, kind of share with you some of my experiences over the past week as it relates to health, healing, and you walking in kingdom health. Last week, we had a great guest on. That was great information. I don't know if you get an opportunity. If you didn't hear it last week, you can go online actually to the Truth Network.
You can go to their website and under podcast as well as under shows, and you can pull it up and actually listen to all of the shows that we've done since we started the broadcast back in May. So yeah, if you missed any episodes, you can definitely go back, check them out because I feel like it will bless you and hopefully get you on your journey to wellness, especially with people in the Body of Christ, get you onto the journey of what I call kingdom health and fulfilling that scripture in 3 John 2, which is, beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. So that's what I want for you out there in the listening world, listening land out there, is to experience 3 John 2 because it is God's will for you to be healthy, for you to live a whole healthy life full of energy, vitality, and being able to carry out the mission that God has given you in the earth. And so I feel like you need health, vitality, and I believe that's God's will for you.
It is a walk-in, again, what I call divine help. So now I'm also going to direct you to a free guide that we have that you can download to kind of start your journey. I'm going to talk about a few things today as it relates to metabolism and you know, because a lot of people are concerned with metabolism as it relates to weight loss, but I went over this a little bit in another episode, but metabolism is more important than just weight loss. It's the key to vital health and I'm gonna get into that in a little bit, but if you want to kind of get a jump start, there's a free guide that you can get at www.fivekeys.live.
That's the number five, K-E-Y-S dot L-I-V-E. And that's the five keys. I've had that out there for a while and I'm thankful for all the people that have downloaded and have gotten gotten information and have shared that it's been a blessing to to get a, you know, just a starting point and kind of how to start this journey because a lot of people feel like, you know, they've been going down the road a certain way. They've tried different things. Some things have worked.
Some things haven't. People have lost weight and gained weight and kind of gone back and forth and what we pray that we can do is help you on that journey to where it's just a journey. There's no more yo-yo. There's no more back and forth. Now you've entered into a lifestyle of Kingdom Health and then it's just a matter of walking out that lifestyle, sort of like when we become born again, saved or, you know, followers of Jesus. You know, we confess with our mouth. We believe in our heart that God has saved us and then we go and we study the Word. We fellowship. We come into fellowship with other believers and then we start that walk, right?
We start that walk. It's a lifestyle. It's not, well, I'm saved today.
I'm not tomorrow. I mean, it happens to some people but, you know, but they can get back on track, right? That's, I guess that's what you call rededication. So some of us in this health walk, you know, it's time for a rededication, if you will, or reset and so that's what I'm gonna talk about a little bit today is resetting your metabolism. As I mentioned, we talked about it before but I'm gonna go back over some things because I think it's very important and I think some people just give up after a while and just say, hey, this is where my health is gonna be. I'm gonna be on this medication. I'm gonna have high blood pressure because it ran in my family. I'm gonna have cholesterol issues because that just runs in my family. My mother was diabetic so I'm gonna be diabetic.
That's just what it is. But family, that is not just what it is. You can reset this whole thing, turn the table. It doesn't matter what your age is, whether you're 15 or whether you're not, whether you're 95, as long as you're breathing, living and eating, you can turn the table, right, and change your whole health situation and experience kingdom health. So now I was speaking with the pastor earlier this week and we were having a conversation because I was talking to him about something that we're doing this fall that we're gonna roll out with a few churches called Healthy Church Challenge, right? So now anybody out there listening, if you are part of a church, you know a pastor, you are a pastor and you hear me say this right now in the air, if you are a pastor, right now in the air, text this number 336-638-1007.
Again, that's 336-638-1007. And in the field, you can just put Healthy Church or Healthy Church Challenge and I'll know that's what you're contacting us about because I want to share information on what we're going to do when we roll out this Healthy Church Challenge because one of the things we've found is that people are more apt to do something in groups or when they're working together. So we're going to challenge different churches, maybe 10 or 12 churches that we work with and we're going to go through a Healthy Church Challenge, right? So there are going to be some markers that we're going to have out there, some prizes for different markers that the groups reach and then we're going to see who comes out as the healthiest church at the end of the challenge, right? Just having fun, but look, having fun but also changes some things about how we're doing things and helping us become healthier as a church, right? So again, that's 336-638-1007 and just text Healthy Church Challenge, right? So we were in there talking, me and this pastor and I've known him for quite a while. Actually, I've known this pastor for about 30 years and our relationship started before, you know, I was even, yeah, I've been saved about 30 years but right before I got saved, our relationship started because we both used to work out at the Y and play basketball and, you know, over 30 years ago. So we were, you know, in there talking just about our journeys and just talking about, you know, just health and some of the things that, you know, he's experienced in his life over this time and then people in his family and people close to him and just sharing how much this is needed, right?
Because a lot of things we see and a lot of things we experience and even our family members are experiencing, you know, especially as we get as we get older, you know, some of us 50 plus, you know, different things have kind of come into play, you know, after that time period but our conversation was and he was in agreement that it doesn't have to be that way, right? Because God has designed his best for, he wants the best for us and part of what we do in the Healthy Church Challenge as well as, you know, in the courses and stuff that I do is really help people to change their mind around health, mindset change, renewing the mind because that's important because we have to look at this differently and be able to see ourselves like God sees us or to see ourselves as he desires us to be and see one of the challenges I always give in any course, any class is for people to get a vision, get a vision for the best health you can possibly be in. What can your mind come up with as far as the best health that you could be in right now at this point in your life? Can you see it? That's the first thing because if you can see it, then God can do it.
So, you know, I'll challenge the listeners out there right now. Think about where you are right now in your life, your health, how you feel the whole nine yards and I want you to think what would be, if you could just daydream and it happened, what would your healthiest self look like? What would you feel like? What would you be experiencing right now as your healthiest self? Because if you can see that, if you can crystallize that vision, then what probably is happening, you probably are seeing the vision that God has for you for your health. And then it's just a matter of the steps it takes to actually walk in that vision and experience what I call kingdom health.
Because it's out there, it's available for each and every one of us and again, it doesn't matter where we are in the process because we all can start somewhere. The beautiful thing about these bodies that God designed is they are designed to regenerate. They are designed to, for instance, the cells, you know, we have all, we have billions and billions of cells in our body that makes up who we are. And so the cell regeneration process is taking place every minute of every day. Cells are dying, new cells are replacing those cells that are dying. But now the question is, as we are replacing those cells, what are we replacing those cells with?
Well, it's whatever the building blocks we are using to fuel and feed those cells. So that's where mindset comes in, having a mindset change. If you know you're building a house and that's what we're doing every single day, every day we're rebuilding this house, this body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. We're rebuilding this temple every single day. And how are we doing that? Brick by brick with the choices that we make as far as what we eat, what we drink. Those decisions, right, that we're making each and every day, which they seem like small decisions, but they are rebuilding this building that we call our body every single day. So what are you building with? See, that's the question.
What are you building with? Now, some of us, I've used this example in the beginning when I first started this broadcast, I gave the example of the three little pigs. And if you know that story, I don't know if they tell that story to kids anymore, to young kids. I know it was a story when I was growing up, but I don't know if the young kids even, I don't even know if they know that story.
But I know that story. Where the three pigs, they were, you know, building the house, the three little pigs, one built the house with straw, one with sticks, and one with bricks. And, you know, the big bad wolf would come and huff and puff. Well, that's, I use that analogy as it relates to ourselves. If we are using what God has given us from Genesis 1 29, and that's what we're building with, then we're building a brick house. So when the wolf comes and huffs and puffs, he can't blow the house down. But if we are falling into the trap of the processed foods, the quick meals, the things that we see on television and the commercials that are running, where everything is super processed and full of salt and sugar, then we're building our house with straw and sticks. So it's a conscious decision to build with bricks, because that's what we want to do. We want to build with bricks. And the bricks are found right in the word in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 1 29, when God gave Adam instructions on what he was to eat. Those are the building blocks. Now, you also found those building blocks again, as I mentioned earlier, to download the free guide at www.the number five keys.live.l-i-v-e. And you'll get those keys, which will give you a start. So you can start building with bricks, because you don't want a straw house.
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Kingdom help by renewing those cells and understanding you know just how important it is and how everything we eat and drink is either building a block with with brick or building a block with straw and there may be some things that are like sticks in between so you know those in between things but we got it we we have an opportunity to choose every time we eat and drink what we're building these bodies and what are we building these cells with so that's a tremendous opportunity to build and i was talking a little bit early about you know meeting with the past and talking about this about this healthy church challenge and what we're doing and how important it is you know in our community to really foster just a different way of going about health because catching it on the back end is not really going to do it that's sick care you know our what we want to do is focus on well care because i really believe that when we're here as believers we you know we all have a mission there's something that we're meant to do and there's no timeline per se on how long have appeared or how short of appeared or once we reach a certain age that that's it that we should just go somewhere and sit down because i don't believe that's the case you know i think a lot of us just getting started you know in their 50s and 60s and 70s really you could be embarking upon a whole nother journey or carrying out another part of the mission you know that god has given you you know because i think when joshua fully took over i mean it's not documented we haven't seen his birth certificate or anything like that but when he took over from moses you know when you when you do the math joshua was was about 80 years old when he took over and took took israel into the promised land so that's uh you know that that's a that's a blueprint like no we're not slowing down right unless we have to because our bodies have given out on us again yeah we know these bodies are temporary we know that but while we are here i think we have a charge to take care of these bodies to be able to carry out the mission that god has given us have an energy vitality and then two clarity of thought so that's one of the things that i really want to emphasize and really focus on is helping the body move into a place of experiencing kingdom health because that's what i think god's will is i know that's his will for you to really be in the best health that you can possibly be in and for you to experience kingdom health while you're here in this earth right so now what we talked about in the last week and there was something i want to i want to go back over that the young lady that was the guest that had been through one of the classes and she was sharing her experience and how she had done a lot of different things because i know that's a part of everybody's story especially as you mature and you've lived a little bit and she had told the story about how before she had gone through the bodies in christ in christ um class how she had done a number of different things she had lost weight she had gained weight she had lost weight she had gained weight and as a matter of fact she mentioned that she had done weight watchers eight times and she had joked about you know the eighth time being the charm and i know some people you know are frustrated with that whole cycle and how well you know if i really do something different what what's going to be different about me taking an approach that bodies in christ would suggest and she said it best on the broadcast last week she talked about how it wasn't just you're doing a quote unquote a weight loss program or doing a diet or anything like that it was more like a bible study if you will you know that was around health and how she you know it was the word that helped her along this journey as much as what she was eating and then she said something that was key that's come up several times in the class and this is what i pray for anybody that's going through this because i know too there's an emotional part to eating that we do address as well in our classes as well as we'll address it in the healthy church challenge as well because we know that's a big component of why people can't move forward as it relates to just walking in their best health is from some of the emotional ties to food and then why those emotional ties are there and she said something that was just so vitally important and i hope you all caught that and i've had another student to say the same thing she said for the first time one of the first times in her life she was at peace with food there was no stress around what she was going to eat when she was eating it what it was going to do to her what it wasn't going to do to it not feeling guilty all of those different things that are some feelings that are associated with food especially when you're trying to um eat healthy or lose weight or whatever the case may be and that's the thing that that's that's one of the best things that can come from this it's really people being at peace with food something as simple as food you would think we would all be at peace with it because we enjoy it but that's not the case so now one of the things we talked about a while back is the emotional aspect of eating and people eating emotionally as a matter of fact one of the other guests who is a sponsor of the program she gave some great commentary around emotional eating and how from a mental health and wellness standpoint because she's a professional in that i'm talking about crystal nicholson with choice behavioral health and how she works with people and and what they do to get people to do different behavior is to deal with what they're thinking so what i'm going to do now speaking of crystal nicholson and choice behavior health i'm going to shout them out and and just encourage you to contact them if you need any of their service so choice behavior health they support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health diagnosis it's founded by crystal nicholson who is also called to pastoral counseling and holds a master's degree in counseling crystal believes that a right a right relationship with god the father through christ catapults humanity to right relationships with one another so you can call her at 336-218-5176 again that's 336-218-5176 and that's choice behavior health so family i'm going to close out today just encouraging you to you know focus on focus on health changing being willing to go down that road one more time right but this time with god being your guide into this health journey to health healing wholeness wellness because i believe that's his plan for all of us again is to experience kingdom health so again if you haven't already i'll leave it one more time download it www.fivekeys.live and i appreciate you listening in today and as i always say at the end of the show just remember the best truly is yet to come is beloved i wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers tune in every thursday at 3 30 p.m and saturday at 9 30 a.m for a kingdom health transformation with mike james on the life this is the truth network
