Walking the Word

This episode is part of 26x26: a Faith + Fitness challenge to develop you into an unreasonably committed follower of Jesus. This challenge is a Bible study on the book of James. To learn more about the challenge, visit ⁠www.aaronbrewer.org/26x26-challenge⁠

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Lace up your shoes and let's go for a walk. I'll teach you the Bible, and together we'll become unreasonably committed followers of Jesus. Let's go!

This episode is part of 26x26: a Faith + Fitness challenge to develop you into an unreasonably committed follower of Jesus. This challenge is a Bible study on the book of James. To learn more about the challenge, visit www.aaronbrewer.org/26x26-challenge

Learn more about:

WOGLO: www.woglo.co

Narrow Gate: www.narrowgate.org

This special episode is a 75 minute session at a Revelation Wellness® retreat at Lost Canyon in Williams, Arizona.

For more information about Revelation Wellness, visit https://revelationwellness.org.

For more information about the training tracks Revelation Wellness offers, visit https://revelationwellness.org/training.

You were never designed to carry the weight of the world. And the good news is that you don't have to.

Social media and the progress of technology has allowed us to experience extremely traumatic events daily that our brains were never designed to experience consistently at that level. Many war-torn military personnel have experienced trauma at a consistent level for a brief time and suffer from PTSD for a lifetime from that exposure. We subject ourselves to the same traumas daily and expect to walk away unscathed.

Then we wonder why we're always stressed, unhealthy, self-medicating, and angry at everyone and everything that disagrees with our perspective.

It's time for a shift, and we can follow the pattern of Jesus to keep us safe, stable, and focused on making a difference in this world while enjoying the full and beautiful life He came to give us.

We all have been formed by things that have been said to us, done to us, or done around us. It's part of being human. Every event that has had an impact on our lives, whether positive or negative, is a type of trauma by definition. The Bible teaches us to come out of the conformity that we've experienced in the world to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Our bodies tell the stories of our trauma. We often use our faith to caveat those stories, but our faith can actually rewire those stories in our brain so that they are now used for God's purpose. We have to recognize those traumas, discover the lie those traumas made us believe about ourselves, declare the truth about what God says about about us, and develop daily habits that align with that truth.

Your faith cannot be separated from your body. It's all integrated, and it's all connected.

Here's my book I mentioned in this episode: https://a.co/d/1AvWXcp

I want to be blessed. Not like normal blessed. Supernaturally blessed. I want to be blessed so that all the people around me know that I'm blessed - I want that level of blessing. You know what I mean? Of course you do, because you want it too.

I was sitting in church when I read 2 verses in the middle of a larger narrative that made me zone out of the sermon for a good 15-20 minutes. The verses were 2 Samuel 6:11-12. I zoned out, because I preached a whole message to myself about those 2 verses. They struck me so hard that I want to share them with you today, and they're all about someone who was blessed in the way that we want to be blessed.

Let's walk and talk! In John chapters 14-17, Jesus says a phrase over and over again sprinkled throughout the 4 chapters: "Ask the Father anything in my name, and He'll give it to you." He also adds to some of them, "so that you may glorify the Father in Heaven."

That sounds wonderful, and you may even believe it; but how often has that actually happened for you? And how often do you practice that principle? Maybe there's more to it than meets the eye. Let's chat about it.

Also, I introduce this episode with a chat on giving you a theology for your biology. If you want to know more about this, check out https://revelationwellness.org.

You'll notice a rebrand starting with this episode. We're taking it all the way back to 2011 with the original ministry name: Vintage Relevance! Why? It's all about delivering vintage truth in a relevant way to today's world.

Today I'm out for a walk, and we're gonna just chat about something that seems relevant for this episode - rebranding. I'll reference 2 Corinthians 5:17, and we'll talk about what it looks like to let God rebrand our lives so He can claim us as His own.

This is a meditation on Colossians 1:15-20, which says:

'He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and by him all things hold together. He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.'