{"id":2600,"date":"2016-07-15T06:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T06:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2016-07-15T06:27:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T06:27:46","slug":"1000-pushups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/1000-pushups\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 pushups"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bodily fitness has a certain value, but spiritual fitness is essential both for this present life and for the life to come. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Timothy%204:7-9&amp;version=PHILLIPS\">1 Timothy 4:8<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the left side you have the Body. On the right side you have the Spirit. In between them you have\u00a0Gymnasia&#8230;the place of exercise, and &#8220;training naked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both Body and Spirit have to be put into the Gym in order for the full potential of each to be realised.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Body (Somatikos) is bigger than just your physical body. It&#8217;s that which has a bodily form or nature. So if it&#8217;s got a physical form, it has to be exercised.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, Bodily exercise does have value.<\/p>\n<p>Just think of how your Body would change if you did 1,000 push ups every day for the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Think also of how your Body of work would be transformed by writing 1,000 words per day, painting a new picture each day, writing a new song every week etc.<\/p>\n<p>And then imagine what would happen if you applied at least the same effort to exercising your Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Meditation, Expectation, Confession, Praise, Prayer, Worship, Forgiveness, Thanksgiving, Bold Declaration, Speaking To Mountains, Confidence, Single-mindedness, Rejoicing&#8230;these are the push ups, situps, barbells and treadmills of your Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Use at least as much effort as it takes to do 1,000 push ups&#8230;and you&#8217;ll be amazed at the results you experience.<\/p>\n<p>Now and in the life to come.<\/p>\n<p>Selah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodily fitness has a certain value, but spiritual fitness is essential both for this present life and for the life to come. &#8211; 1 Timothy 4:8 On the left side you have the Body. On the right side you have the Spirit. In between them you have\u00a0Gymnasia&#8230;the place of exercise, and &#8220;training naked&#8221;. Both Body &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/1000-pushups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1,000 pushups&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}