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Good afternoon in the light land. This is Mike James with Bodies in Christ, a Kingdom Health Transformation. And it's good to be here.
It's good to be back. It's good to be in the studio sharing some good news about health and wellness. And for the last few weeks, and we're going to continue on that vein or in that vein, we've been talking about a healthy church challenge, which quite a few people have emailed me. So I definitely want to get that text number.
I said email, but text. You can text me at 336-638-1007. If you're interested in more information on the healthy church challenge, as well as anything related to health, wellness, and you want to get more information. Definitely. You can text me there and you know, we have information we can get to you just about getting on the journey to what I call Kingdom Health.
So that number again is 336-638-1007. And speaking of the healthy church challenge, last week I was in the subject matter as it relates to that challenge and some of the things that we look at and some of the things that we will be doing and encouraging our participants to do. And I was on the topic of fasting last week and we went over the scripture reference for fasting and we know that some things only come by fasting and prayer and by fasting and prayer and praying or fasting and prayer. And so, you know, this week I want to talk about, you know, and stay in the subject of fasting a little bit because a lot of what happens in our bodies and how we can bring about change and resetting our metabolism as we go about this healthy church challenge.
And one of the biggest challenges just sharing with you all some of what we're going to cover in the class and in that course as we're working with the different churches is when you eat, it's not only what you eat. That's a big part of it because, of course, you know, I talk about Genesis 1 29 and how God gave us really the eating plan and how we are to eat. And I want to focus on that because it's real simple.
It's not easy, but it's real simple. That's the blueprint. That's the blueprint to resetting your metabolism. That's the blueprint for experiencing the best that God has for you as it relates to health.
That's the blueprint because that was God's original intent for how to fuel these bodies that we have. And with that in mind, the closer that we eat to Genesis 1 29, the better off we're going to be, period. So now in that, I say that it's just as important to eat. It's not only important what you eat, but when you eat and also some what not to eat.
Right, because one of the things we talked about a few shows back was. Getting rid of as much processed, especially what we call ultra processed foods as possible. Because those are all foods that are what I call food stuff. It's not real food. It doesn't nourish your body. You know, you've heard of the term empty calories. Because that's what most food stuff is. It's not really a food.
It's something that's been made in a laboratory, something made in a factory. Now we eat it. And what's amazing about these bodies. And this is incredible, you know, when you think about God's just how wise and just when you marvel at God's creation. And when he created man and he created these bodies to. Pretty much be self-sustaining when I say self-sustaining.
Well. When you look around us. He created. Food for us, right?
Genesis 1 29. That's the food, right? All we have to do is eat the food. Put water in these bodies. And the body pretty much takes care of itself. We're not in charge of cell division. We don't do anything to recreate cells.
We don't have to make them. You know, when our body is sick, we really don't have to do anything to heal it. If we have the right stuff that we're putting in the bodies because the bodies are meant to, you know, again, not only survive, but thrive. So even though we may eat the wrong things, eat and drink the wrong things.
Pour a bunch of sugar through soft drinks and things like that in our body or, you know, excess alcohol and everything else. The body is amazing because it will do everything it can. To continue to operate and it will operate at the highest level possible, even when we're putting, I mean, just straight up junk in it.
Because because it's amazing. I mean, it will. We'll keep going and sometimes we'll keep going for years. We'll keep going for decades sometimes. I mean, under the body will continue to to try to just perform at the highest level no matter what. We can put smoke in the lungs and fill it with all type of, you know, smoke and tar and nicotine and, you know, other substances that we, you know, in the lungs. You know, lungs will try to filter it out and still operate and try to operate at a high level. And when you think about that, it's kind of amazing because when the opposite is true, just think about think about how the body will still perform and, you know, go to the highest level that it possible possibly can, even though we may be putting some crazy stuff in the body. Now, let's turn that around. Just think about how proficient and how, I mean, just efficient the body will work when we work with the body and give it what God designed for it to use for fuel.
Genesis one twenty nine. And operate in that most of the time, think about the energy, think about, you know, just how your cells will not only replace themselves, because again, the cells are going to replace themselves, you know, every day we have cells that are done and then new cells are replacing them. You know, pretty much every minute of every day that's taking place. You know, they say over a seven year period, seven to ten year period, pretty much everything in your body has been replaced because everything is made up of cells. So all these new cells are replaced, the old ones.
But this is the thing. You don't necessarily get a new body because it depends on what you're replacing those cells with. What are you using to build those new cells? Well, if you're using the same thing that caused the body to deteriorate and everything else, then that's what you're going to continue to get is a deteriorating body. But what if you made a change?
What if you change your mind today? And started building with some new building blocks. Right to now where you start building with healthy cells, with cells that are full of nutrients, cells that are full of minerals. So now your body changes.
You end up with a new body, with new cells. And so, yeah, you look at some people, you know, that are on up there in age and you say, oh, my God, you look like you're about 30 years old and they may be 70. Maybe extreme. But there is a lady, you can look up online, I think Chef Bobette, if you look at her, I mean, she's in her 70s and she looks I mean, she don't look a day over 45. She's online. You can look her up. She's a chef out in California. She's she's all vegan.
She's been vegan for I forget how many years. But the point of it is, is all about what you're rebuilding these cells with. So, again, I said, you know, it's not only about what you eat, it's about when you eat.
And it's also about, you know, really the mindset that comes to just making those changes right and eliminating, one, those ultra processed foods. So now we got we were talking about fasting. I'm gonna get back into fasting because that's what we were talking about last week and different types of fasting.
There's no full fast where you do 24 hours, you may do 48, you may do 72. You know, you can pray and fast during those times as well. But I also talked about there's a number of health benefits that comes from fasting as well as spiritual benefits. And some of the health benefits, of course, is you're giving your body a break from digestion. You're giving your body an opportunity to rebuild that microbiome. And that's a term that you are here throwing around a lot now in the health circles, because now they're starting to understand the importance of healthy microbiome and different types of microbiome. And it's, you know, when you do look at the studies on it, it's almost like having a brain in your gut.
I mean, that's what it's like. The microbiome is like a brain in your gut and they send different signals out from your gut that helps control the body just like your brain does. Right. So it's important that you have, you know, a healthy gut and part of resetting that and resetting your metabolism, you know, stems around some fasting that you will need to do to cause a reset to happen. So now just in your regular eating and things like that, this is one of the things I always recommend as it relates to when you eat. In the evenings, I know people work different shifts and things like that. But this is a good practice to at least give yourself three hours and a span of three hours between the time you go to sleep. And the last thing that you've that you've eaten.
See, a lot of people have that whole theory. They don't want to go to bed. I don't want to go to bed hungry. And some people use food as a sedative.
You know how it can be. You eat a big meal and you get sleepy and you feel like, hey, that's a good way to go to sleep fast. Right.
No, don't do that. Not when you're going to bed to try to rest for the next day. Because now you go to sleep on that full stomach and your body is spending a lot of energy and it's taken a few hours to digest the food that you just ate, as opposed to that time being spent with your body repairing itself. See, that's that's important for your body to get that time to to do the repairs that you need, and that happens mainly when you sleep. So if the body is breaking down food and in the middle of digestion while you're sleeping, it's not getting that repair time. So, yes, when you eat is just as important as what you eat. So, again, give yourself at least three hours between your last meal or the last thing you ate and when you go to bed.
So now if you need to drink water or something like that in between or say, well, can I get a snack? You know, I know sometimes it's just habit. Sometimes it's just a habit to eat until you go to sleep.
Right. Because you may eat dinner, you may sit around a little bit, watch some TV or whatever it is. And then when you're watching TV, of course, the inclination is to eat something.
I get it. But now, if you have to eat something, if you just until you can break the habit and end up just drinking some water and stand up and and just, you know, watching TV without, you know, munching and snacking. Because a lot of times when we grab a snack is something that's ultra processed. Then the body has a problem breaking that down.
Right. So you got sugar, salt, all those different things in the bloodstream and it's going to take the body a minute to to recoup from those things. So if you do have to eat a snack in between or something like that, you know, I suggest eating maybe like some peanuts, pecans, pistachios, some type of nuts, something from the nut family. Because, again, you're not spiking your blood sugar with something sweet. And nuts are pretty much, you know, high in protein and not, you know, not a lot of carbs. So, you know, you're giving yourself something that your body can break down long term and doesn't cause that spiking effect.
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Call Angerica Artis at 336-448-3511. All right, we're back. And again, if you're just joining us, joining us, this is Bodies in Christ, a Kingdom Health Transformation. And I'm the host, Mike James, and we're talking about the Healthy Church Challenge and some of the things that are involved in the challenge, some of the things that we're doing.
I'm just sharing some things that you can do to experience Kingdom Health. So we were talking about, it's not only important what you eat, what you eat is not just the most important thing, but also when you eat is important as well. As we went through a little bit of what we talked about last week in reference to fasting, because again, that's a matter of when you eat and your body being in a fasting state and allowing your body to repair itself because it's not breaking down food. So you're not having digestion taking place all of the time.
See, that's the thing. And I know there was a school of thought out there a while back that if you graze all day, OK, you know, if I graze all day, then, you know, that's a good thing because your body does create more energy to break down food, which speeds up your metabolism some. And there was a school of thought that as your metabolism speeds up, that's a good thing. So you're constantly burning, but you're constantly burning because you're constantly putting, you know, food, calories and things like that, you know, in the furnace. And we're not set up to really be in a state of digestion all the time.
Especially with the diet that we a lot of us eat now with the ultra processed diet, because what ends up happening, we end up having having an excess glucose in our bloodstream. So it's important to give our bodies a break. You know, to spend time not eating, and as I was just saying, I really recommend for, you know, most people, everybody, if you can, to give yourself a three hour window between at least three hours between when you ate your last meal or when you last ate something and when you go to bed or go to sleep. Because then you give your body a real break, you know, you've had time to digest the food before you actually lay down to go to sleep. Now, when you lay down to go to sleep, your body can go into repair mode. You know, the blood is not going to help digest the food.
Now it's free to do what it does for proper healing to take place in the body. So again, when you eat is just as important as what you eat. So now the other thing about. When you eat. And what you eat. Comes down to. How much you eat.
See, that's that's an important thing, too. And this is hard and it's challenging sometimes, especially when we eat out, because, you know, years ago. And it was doing, you know, during my lifetime, I don't know. It seems like the buffets came.
They started coming out, I don't know, you know, maybe 30 years ago or whatever. All these all you can eat buffets, it may have been longer than that because I was in college and they had one over at A&T, this place called Buff's. Duff's. It was Duff's. That's what it was. It wasn't Buff's.
It was Duff's. But they had all you could eat and they had I mean, you would just go in there, you spend your I forget how much it was back then. And you would just you know, you spend your money and you felt like you were going to get your money's worth. Right. If you had to come out of there crawling, you was going to eat everything you could. But the only thing about that and sometimes, you know, when we think about a good meal and good fellowship and a part of it is, you know, leaving out of wherever you are or if you add a meal at your mother's house or grandmother's house or and, you know, you just want to eat everything you can.
Everything is so good. You just you know, you want to be full and satisfied. Right. But how many of us I find myself in that same boat. How many of us the food is so good that we'll eat so much that we'll go past that limit to where you get over into the misery category.
Right. We take a good thing, that good food, something that was so good and good to us. And then we take it overboard to now we're miserable, like we can't hardly move. We're stuffed.
And I find myself being guilty of that from time to time and see the thing about that. And we have to be careful with that because one of the things we want to get in the habit in of just eating enough. Not eating too much, just eating enough. You know, we don't need that safety mechanism in, you know, that with that may have been there, you know, years ago or however long ago where, you know, we're fearful that we're not going to get another big meal for a long time. So we have to eat everything we can, you know, to make sure it holds us for, you know, however long, like we're a lion or something. Right. Like we're some animal out in the wild kingdom where, you know, they may only eat once a week or they may only eat once every two weeks. But that's not the case with us. We know we're going to eat in a few hours.
Most people. So we don't have to go through that whole overeating and eating too much. Right. To really be mindful that, OK, you don't want and we try to get away from eating like excess meat too.
Right. Because your body takes longer to break meat down. But just the regular portion. If we want to if we want to fill our plate up with something, let it be the vegetables. Let it be the grains, those things, OK, where we're eating more of that. That covers more of our plate than the meat. And it takes a little mindset change to really to really adapt that and to really get into the mindset that, OK, this is how I'm going to eat. But see what happens if you're eating, you know, the food is good.
You get a good sized portion, not overdoing it. But then you leave yourself to if you want to eat something after the meal. Of course, I don't suggest eating, you know, sugar rich foods or anything like that. But then that's the time to eat a piece of fruit after your dinner. Eat a few slices of pears or a few slices of fresh apple or watermelon or, you know, some other fruit.
Or, you know, eat some berries, blueberries or blackberries or grapes or something like that to be what we usually consider to be dessert. But to have fruit instead, because those most of the fruits have a lot of water in them. So that helps you to have the sensation of being full where it's not getting filled up on, you know, the meat and all of those things, because the meat, you know, is heavy, especially red meat. And then it takes longer for your body to digest it.
So it stays in your system longer. And so, you know, it's not as, I mean, you get protein from meat, so, you know, it's OK. I'm not saying it's not OK to eat meat. But when you balance your meal out to where, again, the majority of food on your plate is the vegetables and grains, then the smallest portion on your plate is the meat, which usually is the opposite way. But if you just make that, if you just change that one thing, that's going to help a lot as well.
As I said, how much you eat matters. So, again, what I'm going to do, because I have had some people to text me while I've been on the broadcast wanting more information on the Healthy Church Challenge, and I definitely appreciate that. So any of you all that are out there, if you're part of a church body or you want information on the Healthy Church Challenge, just text me at 336-638-1007.
That's 336-638-1007. And it's always good. It's always good to share this word about health. And my prayer is for everybody that they experience kingdom health because I truly believe that's God's desire for all of us. 3 John 2 says, Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers. So that's my prayer for you today. And remember, the best is yet to come. Is yet to come. 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 Jain on The Light. .
