 This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...There's an interesting thing about hunger - whatever we hunger for tends to grow over time, as we focus on it more in both mind and emotions.
If we hunger for things of this world, that often creates more hunger, and can lead to an insatiable, soulish hunger for material things that we can never actually quench. That's the interesting thing about hunger... what we hunger for tends to grow over time as we focus on it more and more. That's why hungering for God is a wonderful thing that leads to us changing the world, and hungering for things of this world (whether they be relationships, money, power or more) leads to idolatry and bondage. At Rhema Yoga, we use our system of Christian Yoga to teach people how to hunger and strive to relationship with the Lord. It's a relationship that God meets you at.
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 This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...Often times, we hear other Christians say something along the lines of "rest in Jesus" or "Just cast your cares on the Lord..." It sounds great, but what does that look like?
Many Christians wonder the same thing. They hear these phrases, which are true, and try desperately to do them... and fail. Not because they don't have the will, but because they don't know how to do it! Frustrated and defeated after trying to find a way to "rest in Jesus," people often end up finding rest and comfort from people or material things instead of God, often without even knowing it. Resting in Jesus looks like different things to different people. At Rhema Yoga, we use Christian Yoga to teach people how to exercise their body, minister to their spirit, and find rest for their soul. This is done through yoga postures, meditations, teachings and more - it's a wonderful way to find relationship and "rest" in the Lord!  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...So often when we get stuck in our past, we become depressed, and when we fixate on the future we become anxious. Why is this?
When we think of the past too much, we tend to fixate on what we did wrong, or what happened to us that was bad. When we think of the future, we think of what may go wrong again! It's not necessarily our fault, our ancestors had to do this for centuries in order to survive in the jungles, deserts and woodlands of the world! We inherited a legacy of survival, not happiness. That comes only from God. At Rhema Yoga, we use our system of Christian Yoga to teach the truths that happiness and joy are an inside job - they start with God on the inside, and end with happiness and joy radiating on the outside. With God, we can think of our past with peace, knowing that God doesn't see our mistakes and wants to heal our traumas. We can rest as we look to the future, knowing that he is a good God, and want's to protect and provide for us all of the way~  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...These days, wherever you go and whatever you watch, you often see a strong message - follow your heart. Following your heart means following what you feel is best - following your emotions.
While emotions are powerful, valuable tools, they are not meant to dictate our decisions and beliefs. Emotions are excellent tools for telling us when something seems off or wrong in our soul. Perhaps we feel mistreated, or we feel a call to protect someone or something. We may feel unheard, or more. But what is important is what we DO with these emotions. If we act immediately on our feelings, we will react, not respond. Reacting is what you do when your hand touches a hot pot - it's instant. Going through life this way is not living a full life, it is living a life of reactions without thought. What's worse, our reactions are not always right, even if they are often well-intentioned. Responding is what we can do after we feel an emotion and try to understand it, try to bring it under God's perspective, and move out of a place of hope, faith and love. Living a full life means living a life of responding to your emotions, not reacting to them. Here at Rhema, we use Christian Yoga to cultivate a lifestyle of responding out of love. The more we worship and grow with God, the easier this becomes. That is what Rhema is all about, connection to God and healthier living here on earth~  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...We are all born with some sort of fears, it seems. As it so happens, almost all of these fears seem silly to others, who in turn hold on to fears that we think are somewhat silly.
The one thing we all have in common however is a desire to escape these fears, in the quickest, easiest way possible. At Rhema, we use Christian Yoga Classes and Teacher Training to help people understand the nature of God and His heart for us. The reality is that God doesn't want to give us a quick "out" or escape from our fears. Far from it. Instead, He wants to help us grow into stronger, more powerful people. That is one of our major purposes here on earth - to grow, to learn, and to overcome. With Him, this is all possible~  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...How often do we hear this, think we know it, and then go about our day doing it anyway?
When we live by the praise of man, we also die by the critique of man. This is not something that makes us powerful people, changing the world and acting as a light! Here at Rhema, we use our system of Christian Yoga to help people understand that only God can fill the "God gap." Only through seeking his approval do we find fulfillment. Only in looking up are we able to change the world around us.  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...So often in the world today, we overlook the small things in life - either the small blessings or the small challenges. Often, these things seem inconsequential, or annoying.
However, the way we appreciate small blessings dramatically affects our happiness. The way we steward small responsibilities dramatically affects our character. When we appreciate the small things, we train ourselves to prepare for large, more important things in life. This is because our character and integrity grow. Think of small blessings, challenges and responsibilities as training for the larger things to come. They are your "workout" and "training" for the "real stuff" that everyone pays attention to and remembers. At Rhema, we teach that those who are faithful in small grow stronger as people. Two major reasons is because their character grows and their happiness grows. Happy people of good character are strong indeed!  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...How do we lead? How can we be a light in the world? What makes someone influential in the world?
Is it power? Money? Charisma? Many times, those three things attract a lot of fans and followers, but they don't spread light, life and more. People flock to hope, healing, life and love. If you want to lead, spread hope. If you want to spread light, spread hope. If you want to bring healing to people in the world today, spread hope. For a Christian, this is easy if we know the Father. From him we have our hope for a lifetime of eternity in heaven. At Rhema, we use Christian Yoga to get closer to our Heavenly Father as his children - this relationship brings hope, healing, life and love to our lives, and allows us to naturally spread these things to those around us as well.  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...As sons and daughters of the King of Heaven, we were made to dream. We were made to create.
Many times people and organizations will tell you to get your "head out of the clouds" and live in the real world. There's a need to be well-grounded and responsible, but there's also an often-neglected need to dream. You cannot create, grow, change yourself, change the world and live a full life if you don't dream. The Rhema Yoga system of yoga was built on dreams, and therefore teaches people to dream in their lives, with God, about all of the amazing opportunities the world has to offer. Dream with God, you won't regret it!  This Week in the Rhema "Christian Yoga" Weekly...If we get stuck in our past we are miserable, if we get stuck in the future we usually feel anxious. The key is to stay in the present.
But why is it so hard to get past our past? The saying "hindsight is 20/20 is popular for a reason - there's a lot of truth to it. It's always easy to see what we did wrong or could have done better when we are looking back, into our past. Seeing what we could have done better and where we went wrong so that we can live a better life now is the way of Heaven. The enemy tries to use our past to punish us and destroy our identity so we will sacrifice our destiny. Here at Rhema, we use Christian Yoga techniques and teachings to help people see that they can move on in their lives, and live full lives with the Lord. We help them become aware that condemnation and guilt for our mistakes are not God's will for us, and that tomorrow is always a new day. |
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