Getting Older or Better?

July 28, 2021 by Dani Leave a Comment

Getting Older or Better?

My choice for getting older or better is better. John is now 80 and I will be there in a little over a year. Oh my goodness! We don’t feel old at all. How we do thank the Lord for His mercy and for His instructions on long life.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Renewing our Mind

Our pastor, Curry Blake, has opened our eyes to amazing truths in God’s Word. Adam was created in the image of God. He was smart enough to name every animal. His mind was phenomenal before the fall, when he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and died spiritually. This fallen nature passed to all men born after Adam.

How we thank the Lord Jesus for coming to rescue us. He paid the price for us.
When we receive Him as Lord and Savior, we become a “new creation in Christ Jesus”. Old things (the old fallen nature is passed way and all things become new.) The Holy Spirit now comes to live in our spirits. We are restored to the image of Christ. What an amazing thought.

Be Transformed

One problem arises that all Christians face. That new Spirit in us is trapped within us until we renew our mind and become transformed.

Romans12:1,2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

We can renew our mind by reading and believing and acting on the Word of God.

Getting Older Does Not Mean Our Brain Wears Out

Dr. Caroline Leaf reveals how science is now catching up with the Bible. Old thinking, old research tells us several things about getting older that really are not true. Getting older does not mean that the brain is degenerating. Old thinking is actually wrong thinking. However, this kind of thinking will bring above-unwanted things to pass. Thankfully, we can learn the truth, and do things to prevent these results from old thinking.

Neuroplasticity

Dr. Caroline Leaf tells us that the newly emergent science of neuroplasticity proves that the brain can reorganize itself. It can change and alter its structure as we think. “What we choose to think about and how we choose to think can switch our genes on and off; changing the structure and function of the brain.” ~ Dr. Leaf.

The brain only gets better with use. It never wears out. It does not degenerate unless we fail to use it. God tells us in His Word that we are each fearfully and wonderfully made. It is marvelous to think about how God created us in His image. “There is no expiration date on potential.” ~Dr. Leaf

Potential is Unlimited

Many years ago, John and I learned about God’s Covenant of Divine Health. We began believing for long life and good health. “As our days are, so shall our strength be.” This scripture, Deuteronomy 33:25, is one of my favorite scriptures. For the past four years, we have prayed this daily.

It’s Not too Late

We began ballroom dancing lessons and crossfit training in our 70’s. Both have been a key to keeping flexible and mobile. Dancing works our muscles and our brain. Our Crossfit training has helped with our strength and balance.

What Can You Do That You May Not Think Possible?

God has created each of us with an incredible amount of potential. Getting older does not mean that our brain is degenerating; unless we believe it will, and fail to use our body or our brain. The later years can be the best years of our life. They are that way for John and I. We are extremely grateful. Dancing can keep you young.

The Set of Your Sail

February 24, 2021 by Dani Leave a Comment

The Set of Your Sail Part I

The set of your sail determines much, and maybe everything, in how your life works out. Jim Rohn says we used to think it was circumstances that made the difference. It’s really easy for all of us to blame circumstances. Rohn learned from Earl Shoaf that it is our philosophy that is the major determining factor in our life direction.

Throw Excuses
Overboard

It will be good to throw all of our excuses away and change the set of our sails. We each need a better sail. Whoever really dreamed it may be our own beliefs and attitudes that are determining the way we are sailing on the path of life? Our own ability to think and use our mind helps us to process what God has available for us. Sure there are roadblocks and mountains along the path. Let’s find out how to press on over or through.

Life Lessons

Personal Growth Journey

These past two months I’ve selected some mentors to learn from. We need mentors for a “personal growth” journey. And believe it or not, we all need to be on a personal growth journey all of our days, if we want all that God has planned for our lives.

As my days, so shall my strength be. Deut 33:25

I selected Jim Rohn, his mentor, Earl Shoaf, and Earl Nightingale. Each of these men left an immensely valuable legacy. And miraculously, now they can each become our own personal mentors via You Tube videos.

Jim Rohn in Dallas

Years and years ago Jim Rohn came to Dallas two or three times, and I went to hear him each time. So many valuable ideas made a difference in the set of my sails. Other books, amazing faith-filled pastors and people I had met had already begun the change of my sail direction. My desire is that my sail never stops changing toward the best life path destined for me. What about you?

God Has Provided More Than We Can Ask, Hope, Dream or Imagine

God has so much for each one of us. Until my sail changed directions in 1976, I thought sickness and disease, or freedom from, was just the luck of the draw. Oh how wrong I was! And oh how glad I am that I learned from God’s word that Healing is in our Covenant as believers. Learn More

How We Shape our Life

Jim Rohn talks about his mentor Earl Shoaf, who personally mentored him for at least five years. He said to Jim, “We shape our life by large major by our attitude. Our attitude toward ourselves determines our attitude toward the world.”

We can train our attitude day by day. People who stay young love to grow and change. They expect more good out of life than bad. They expect to succeed more than they fail. Because they expect success, they get success. For myself, my sail is set to expect divine health, long life, and opportunities coming my way. Of course, I am still in training and will be until Jesus comes.

Attract Success

Shoaf says the best attitudes gravitate to the top. They become an agent to attract success.

Life is boring only to boring people. Life is dull only to dull people.

Learn More About Living Long

Do you want to learn more about Living Long and Strong?

In this course I pulled in the secrets I have learned from experience living, teaching and studying Fitness and Health over the past 40 years. I coupled this experience with an in depth-inspiring research study I did in 2008 on those most remarkable ones called “Centenarians” (those who have lived the honorable age of 100 years old.)

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You Can Renew Your Mind

July 21, 2020 by Dani Leave a Comment

You Can Renew Your Mind

As a Christian, if God tells you to do this; then, you can renew your mind. It has to be possible. And isn’t it exciting to see that by renewing your mind, you will be transformed?

Background

For most of my decades of being a Christian, I have known about renewing the mind. I love putting God’s Word into my heart every day. My progress has been so minimal considering what is possible. It is very thrilling to see how science and the Bible match and to learn a more exact way to renew my mind.

And be ye not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2

Dr. Caroline Leaf

As 2015 began, the Lord reminded me of a teacher I heard years ago who spoke at our church. I found her website and ordered her new book: Who Switched On My Brain? Very shortly after that, I learned that Kenneth Copeland had her as a guest for two weeks on his TV broadcast in January. I quickly tuned in to kcm.org, found the archives of the shows, and began listening and learning. I realized this material was so powerful that I needed to enroll in her online course at 21daybraindetox.com.

Dr. Caroline Leaf is one of the, if not THE, foremost brain scientists in the world. She is also a student of God’s Word with tremendous revelation knowledge. She has proven that science matches God’s Word.

How Did God Create Us?

God created us as a three-part being: Spirit, Soul, and Body. This is the reason that health is a circle. We can’t leave out any area.

We are a Spirit

God wired us for love (joy, peace, expectation, health). We are not wired for fear. The Spirit man is designed to control the Soul and the Body when our mind is renewed to God’s Word. In the Spirit man resides our:

Conscience

Intuition

Communion (Worship)

We Have a Soul

The Soul is referred to as the “Mind” by Dr. Leaf. The Mind is our

Intellect

Will

Emotions

The mind is designed to be renewed and then to control the Body. NOTE: The Brain is NOT part of the mind. This will be very important to know as we learn more.

We live in a Body:

Our Physical Body

Our Brain

There are two kinds of thoughts:

Good Healthy, Life Promoting Thoughts

Toxic Thoughts

God tells us to think on things good and pure and lovely and of a good report. You will soon see why.

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Spirit, Soul, and Body

The soul is the deciding factor. The Spirit man is designed to rule and become strong. The flesh desires to take over and rule. The flesh wants to be boss of what you eat, how much you eat, how much you weigh, and whether you want to exercise or be lazy and not. When we are very young, our parents have responsibility of planting seeds of truth into our soul. As we get older, we become responsibile for these choices. Our character is developed one thought, one choice, at a time. We are responsible to train our flesh to obey.

Tiny seeds of truth are deposited into Your Soul

As we live in the world, dark seeds begin to enter in

More and more seeds of truth enter in to override the dark seeds and renew the mind. The soul begins to sing.

Training Your Flesh to Obey

July 9, 2020 by Dani Leave a Comment

Training Your Flesh to Obey

Sometimes all it takes is just one new idea to begin the process of training your flesh to obey you. God designed you in a unique way that should allow your Spirit man, (the real you) to reign with dominion over your flesh (body).

The Soul is the Battleground

The soul (mind, will, and emotions) is the battleground. The soul determines who to side with. If the soul sides with the flesh, that makes two against one and the flesh will begin to rule you. It will make demands upon you that you don’t really like, but are too weak to fight. If the soul sides with the Spirit man, the Spirit man will begin to reign and joy and peace will begin to fill your heart. Extra measures of God’s grace and mercy become available to you. The BLESSING begins to operate in your life. You will have strength to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. Your Spirit man will sing

How Can This Happen?

Can we influence who the soul sides with? Yes, we definitely can. However, it is not easy, and it does not happen in the blink of an eye. You have likely noticed that it is also not easy to be dominated by the flesh. It is a choice we have to make. The soul has to be fed a proper diet. This diet is the truth that comes from the Word of God.

You are a Spirit

You are a spirit. When you are born into this world, you may be blessed with parents who begin to feed you tiny seeds of truth. These seeds may be from Bible stories they read to you or that you hear from the church they take you too, and the principles of truth they begin to teach you.

These tiny seeds of truth go into your soul (mind, will, and emotions) and begin to strengthen your spirit man. However, as you begin to grow, thoughts from the world, flesh and the devil begin to enter your soul. We live in a culture that produces these thoughts of pleasing the flesh: “give me a new toy”, “let me have my own way with my brother”, “I can say no to my mom and dad”, “I want my own way”, “I want to have fun”, “I want to think about me, me, me”. Our society is also filled with fear. Fear may begin to come from many directions. “Oh dear, these seeds from the world may begin to overtake the tiny seeds of truth, if they aren’t being replenished.

As years go by, if the truth from God’s word is not replenished strongly into your soul, the

: The Source of Seeds of Truth

: Tiny Seeds of Truth

: Toxic Seeds from the World

spirit man begins to shrink and the soul begins to side with the flesh as the world’s toxic seeds grow larger and larger. Watching the news often plants seeds of fear and worry. Oh no! What has happened? The body begins to take more and more territory and boss you around more and more. You don’t like it. You seem to be trapped. Can you escape?

Yes, You Can Escape

Yes, you can escape. You can train your flesh to obey. The tide will begin to turn as you become aware of what you give attention to. We move toward and become like that which you pay attention to the most. What are you watching/reading/listening to? Close friends: What do they talk about the most? Do they encourage you with the promises of God’s Word? Or do they bring fear and defeat thoughts to you. What kind of things are you filling your mind with?

Overcoming the Tide

As you begin to read and meditate on God’s words, His thoughts begin to overcome the toxic seeds from the world. You begin to see yourself healthy and strong. You begin to realize you do have dominion over your body. It can no longer demand what you feed it. Your spirit man is becoming stronger and stronger. Things you thought impossible become possible. Your spirit man begins to sing.

Every Day is a New Opportunity to Stay Free

For myself, I find that if I devote the first hour of my day to reading God’s word, it deposits inner strength into me. I search for treasure promises as I read. His Word is like a treasure chest filled with The Blessing and how to walk in that Blessing He has provided for us as believers.

Worship Music

Lately, after discovering the worship music of Terry MaCalmon, I have added early morning seeds of truth to my spirit man. We have instructed Alexa to wake us up with this beautiful worship music. It fills the atmosphere with peace. This music is so wonderful that I play it in the background of whatever I am doing throughout the day. I also activate my faith by thinking on the fact that I am depositing faith seeds of truth into my spirit man and it is becoming stronger and stronger with every single truth seed received.

Terry MaCalmon Worship

Allow your spirit man to soar as you train your flesh to obey.

The Biggest Take Away from the Famous Nun Study

June 12, 2018 by Dani Leave a Comment

The Nun Study

In the last couple of posts, I have mentioned the famous Nun Study. This has really peaked my curiosity and desire to find out all I could. David Snowdon spent many years following this group of aging nuns to better understand why some of the sisters were able to age gracefully, retaining their mental faculties, and others were not. He has written a book: Aging with Grace.

As I have studied this information and began to recall all I have learned from Dr. Caroline Leaf, ( a world known cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Communication Pathology, and a woman filled with God’s powerful Word), I recognized parallel findings between what was found through the study of the Nuns and what Dr. Leaf has found through her study of recent scientific findings, her own clinical practice, and the Word of God.

It all goes back to the basic premise found in the scriptures. “We are truly wired for love.” Current scientific research is confirming what God has been saying all along: “We are hard wired for hope and great expectation.

In the Nun Study, a discovery of the early records of the 678 nuns shed tremendous light on Aging with Grace (without mental diseases). The nuns whose beginning essays were filled with the most positive emotions had far better statistics of living longer and healthier than the ones whose essays revealed negative emotions.

This agrees most completely with God’s Word as well as with recent research findings: negative toxic thinking leads to disease including Alzheimers. Dr. Leaf shares how exciting it is to her to see that research is beginning to catch up with the Bible.

The brain’s innate optimism was stumbled upon by accident by researchers (published in the book The Optimism Bias), but was there all along in God’s fabulous Word. God has graciously wired our brain to believe that the future will be much better than the past and the present. Research is showing that this bias is true in every race, region and socioeconomic bracket.

The outstandingly good news is that we can change our thoughts. We can rewire our brains for thinking good thoughts and melting toxic ones. Dr. Leaf has several books available on just how to do this. Two years ago Team Fabulous studied through an eight week course on Renewing Our Minds based on the material by Dr. Leaf. (All team members have access to this archive baby step training course.)

Researchers believe these findings about optimism could fuel a revolution in psychology.

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Getting Older or Better?

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV

Renewing our Mind

Be Transformed

Getting Older Does Not Mean Our Brain Wears Out

Neuroplasticity

Potential is Unlimited

It’s Not too Late

What Can You Do That You May Not Think Possible?

The Set of Your Sail Part I

Throw Excuses Overboard

Personal Growth Journey

Jim Rohn in Dallas

God Has Provided More Than We Can Ask, Hope, Dream or Imagine

How We Shape our Life

Attract Success

You Can Renew Your Mind

Background

Dr. Caroline Leaf

How Did God Create Us?

We are a Spirit

We Have a Soul

We live in a Body:

There are two kinds of thoughts:

Spirit, Soul, and Body

Training Your Flesh to Obey

The Soul is the Battleground

How Can This Happen?

You are a Spirit

Yes, You Can Escape

Overcoming the Tide

Every Day is a New Opportunity to Stay Free

Worship Music

Terry MaCalmon Worship

The Nun Study

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Throw Excuses
Overboard