You Must Take This To Heart

It’s been a blessing to walk with you over the last few weeks as we’ve talked about restoring our total man. I hope you’ve enjoyed the previous posts on the spirit and the soul. Today, I want to wrap up the series by talking about the body. We all know we should eat right, exercise, etc., but today I want to talk about the importance of a specific part of your body that needs to be healthy…

The Bible says in Proverbs 4:23 – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it…(NIV)

Obviously, the writer was using the heart as an illustration of the soul. But, wait a minute…not that I am trying to re-arrange scripture, but what if I was to say it like this…

Above all else, guard your heart, for A HEALTHY BODY flows from it…

The condition of your heart is critical to living the extraordinary life. In a purely natural sense, the state of your heart will determine the state of your overall health. We live in a time when the leading causes of death in the United States are not from environmental factors, accidents, or sickness. The sad reality is that most Americans experience, what could be, preventable deaths. Reports indicate that at least 26% of all deaths in the United States are from some form of heart disease. That is greater than one out of every four. We would never allow anyone to harm us or threaten our lives, yet we are willingly doing damage to ourselves through the decisions we continue to make.

Heart disease doesn’t simply cut short your life. It affects the quality of the life you live. And the affects you experience have a ripple effect all through your life. In fact, this year alone, heart disease will cost the United States $316.4 billion for medical services, medications, and lost productivity. That is a cost that we all bear together.

When it comes to our health, most of us live with a fair degree of denial.

A recent survey showed that 39 percent of Americans thought they had ideal heart health. This is in spite of the fact that 54 percent of those people had been told they had either a heart disease risk factor or needed to make a lifestyle change to improve heart health, or both.

A healthy heart is not the result of drastic behaviors that swing wildly from neglect to restriction and back again. What we truly need is to honestly examine the current state of our health and embrace a lifestyle that is both enjoyable and sustainable.

So, I want to pose some questions to you that will help you get started considering your heart health!

Are you ready?

Question: Do you get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise each week? This breaks to down to thirty minutes of walking, swimming, or bike riding five days per week. You don’t have to join a gym or buy expensive equipment to get the time in. Walk with your spouse on the beach, or go play with your kids in the park. The objective is to get your heart pumping and give it the workout it needs. If you have specific restrictions that limit or inhibit your exercise, or if you have concerns about the type of exercises that you should engage in, then talk with your physician and let him or her direct your activities. We can all do something. One thing that may help is to get started on an anti-inflammatory supplement that supports overall joint health.

Question: Do you have a dietary plan that you follow to promote good heart health? Your diet is very important to your heart health. Having a plan is the first step to success! Having a plan you can actually keep up with is priceless. I’m not a fan of plans that have you counting calories, or points or whatever. A plan that is going to promote consistency and achievability will serve you better in the long run. That’s why I always remind my 1onONE community about the blood types diet plan!

Question: When’s the last time you cleansed your temple! Your heart needs proper nutrition to prosper. Stress, food additives, environmental pollutants and even parasites can disrupt your natural ability to digest and absorb vital nutrition. As toxins, undigested food and other wastes accumulate, the balance and function of the natural system tasked with purifying, detoxifying and revitalizing your body can become impaired. A good colon cleanse will purge your body of built-up waste and improving nutritional uptake. The cleansing process supports digestive health and optimizes digestive function, but can also naturally revitalize and rejuvenate your liver, lungs, kidneys and other vital organ systems. Get started today by checking out the ZOE Cleanse product!

These simple thoughts can go a long way to promoting good heart health in your body! You are so valuable and important to God and his Kingdom! You must take care of not just your spirit and your soul… you must take care of your body, too!

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Winning with you,

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Food For The Soul

It’s a new day and I hope you are beginning to see a shift take place in your life! I’ve heard such positive and inspiring feedback from our blog series the last few weeks. There is something life changing happening in our 1onONE community as we continue our focus on complete restoration in our spirit, soul and body!

Let’s dive into this week’s topic …

If you have your Bible handy, let’s turn to a scripture we’ve looked at before – 1 Thessalonians 5:23. It says: “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (NIV)

We all understand the “body” aspect of who we are. It is the outside, the “shell” of us…the physical part of our being that lives, has breath, and eventually dies. And, then we have a spirit. Our spirit is the eternal part of us that has been redeemed and made right with God through the sacrifice of Jesus. It is in our spirit form that we will spend eternity in Heaven with our Lord and Savior.

But, do we really understand the soul part of who we are? When the Bible speaks of the soul, it is often synonymous with our understanding of the mind. The soul is the part of us that thinks and feels, has emotions and makes choices. All of your decisions, all of your emotions, all of your opinions, are a product of your mind and soul. The soul includes the conscious and subconscious minds, the realm of emotions and the will. The soul gives a man personality, self-awareness, rationality and natural feeling.

Think of it like this – if you were talking to me face to face, you’d be looking at my body, but speaking to my soul. And here in lies an important facet of life that I really want you to understand – we as human beings take in and experience the world (i.e. the natural aspects of life) through both in our bodies and our souls. Our bodies provide the five senses…sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. But, it is in the area of our souls where we process, interpret, store, judge and filter through all that we bring in. This is so crucial to understand if we are going to truly live the extraordinary life and gain victory through Jesus!

I’d like to give you a simple illustration of this principle…

You and I meet in a crowd and I put my hand on your shoulder. You would know that I physically touched you through the body’s sense of touch. But, how would you feel about the fact that I touched you? It could make you feel happy, afraid, curious or…some other emotion. And then, if I were to move to the person next to you and touch them, they too would know that I put my hand on them…but they’d probably have different feelings about it than you.

It is our soul that tells us how to feel about and process our world. So, it’s important that if we are going to become the best version of us, that we focus on growing our soul, and bringing it into alignment with the Master and His Word. When we become born again, our spirit man is cleansed, made clean and becomes whole. But, we don’t receive a brand new physical body, nor does our soul automatically change either. The mind and soul you had before you were saved are the same the moment after you were saved. The good news is that God provides us the power by His Spirit, and the Word of God, as tools to renew our mind and grow our soul.

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.” – Romans 12:2 (NIV)

“and be continually renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh, untarnished mental and spiritual attitude],” – Ephesians 4:23 (AMP)

There is so much that can be said about the principle of renewing our souls, but I want to start by sharing one principle…one strategy with you that I think is so powerful for leading the extraordinary life.

I read a book once that impacted my journey deeply. There was a quote from the author that read, “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”

So many of God’s people are halted from the BEST version of themselves because they are trapped in the PAST version of themselves! In the example I gave about meeting in a crowd and touching you on the shoulder, the emotion of fear may rise up from someone that has been abused in their past. So much of how we respond is determined by the old messages our soul gives us about how to respond to the now. New relationships are doomed from the start because of filters from the past. Business ventures are never started because of ones that may have failed in the past.

Well, it’s time to get breakthrough over our past so that the Master can lead us to a future that is full of the EXTRAORDINARY. We can give up the past that our soul has stored, and receive a new future full of the promises of God! You might be asking…”Damon, where do I start?”

• We must forgive ourselves for the past we have created…
• We must forgive others for the past others have created for us…
• We must change our negative patterns …
• We must shift our way of thinking to God’s way of thinking…

Learning how to take the first step with anything is hard. Taking your first step in letting of your past maybe the most difficult thing you will ever do. But friends, it is needed. The world, your family, and your friends need the best version of you to come on the scene.

Can I help you take your first step? Let’s face it…we have experienced some pain in our past…betrayal, disappointment, abuse, discrimination, you name it! How do we let it not taint our future? My good friend James Ward has created a roadmap, a battle strategy for how to stop the pain from impacting your future. It is a powerful book called “Zero Victim” and I want to bless you today by giving it to you ABSOLUTELY FREE!! All you have to do is pay the shipping! But, you must act now…I only have a handful of them I can offer at this price. So you must act in the next 72 hours to ensure you get yours! Click here and use the PROMO CODE “PASTFREE” to get your FREE COPY!

Let me leave you with a few nuggets of encouragement today as you endeavor to leave the past behind!

Second Corinthians 10:5 says…

“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (NIV)

Even if your past tells you that you are a failure, not worth anything, or not good enough, God says you are. So cast your past down, and lift up your new identity in Christ!

Colossians 3:2 says…

“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” (NIV)

When your past tries to take you off the path to complete restoration, look up and know that God will lead you in the right way!

Philippians 3:13 says…

“Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.” (NIV)

When your past tries to remind you of what’s behind, you forget it to grab what lies ahead!

I believe that God wants you to be completely healed, restored and operating at your maximum potential. Start being all you can be today, by leaving behind anything that stands in your way!

I’m praying for you and believing that God’s best is right around the corner for you!

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Winning with you,

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Developing Your Spirit Man – Enriching Your Relationship with God

Damon Davis here! I trust that the Master has lifted you this week and you are now ready to JUMPSTART your journey towards developing the new you! Last week, I introduced you to this concept of complete healing and restoration by focusing on the total composition of man – spirit, soul and body. Well this week, we are going to start off by hitting the topic of the spirit head on! This part of the composition of who you are is the most vital aspect, and the first place you should start when working to create the EXTRAORDINARY LIFE!

So, if you’re like most of us, you’re wondering, “Where do I start…what is my first step in developing my spirit man? The first step is understanding that you are in fact a spirit being!

Genesis chapter 2:7 says…

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Now, this verse as well reflects the triune or three-in-one nature of man. Notice the three elements once again. It says that He formed the dust of the ground. This is the natural element of man – his body. And it says that man became a living soul. He became self-aware with his own thinking, feeling, and choosing.

But, we cannot overlook the middle portion. Look at it again… and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The word “breath” in the original language also means spirit. Now if we were to read this verse again with this understanding, it would sound like…

“The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the spirit of life; and man became a living soul.”

Notice the order. God began with dust of the ground. It was completely lifeless. It would be just as if you were to take some clay and make a figurine. In and of itself, the dirt or clay does not have the capacity for life.

Continuing in this vein, the Bible says in Genesis 1:26 that we are made in the image and likeness of God. Well, have you ever asked yourself, “What is God like?” John Chapter 4:24 says – “God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” So, if God is a Spirit and we are like God, then we must conclude that we are a spirit. The next logical conclusion is that if we are spirit beings, then our lives thrive and flourish when we take care of, and focus on the development of our spirit man. However, because we live in a fallen world where we have to fight our fleshly desires, our focus is on ourselves. Thus, we fall into the trap that our daily actions are usually focused on our physical and emotional needs, and very rarely on our spirit man.

How do you develop your spirit man? You must connect with the ULTIMATE SPIRIT…the God that created us and formed us.

He created us in His image and likeness. He breathed His Spirit into us, all so that we could commune and fellowship with Him! So to grow your spirit man, you must nurture and enrich your relationship with Him, your Heavenly Father!

I want to share some steps with you that I’ve found to be helpful for me in developing my spirit man through connecting with God. I’m just like many of you reading this post…between kids and family, business, my 1onONE program…man, it gets difficult to find the time to fellowship with the Master.

But friends, this is vitally important. The number one thing you can do for you and those you love is find time to sit in the presence of God!

Let’s dive into the steps that I’ve learned through the Generals of the faith that taught me to develop my spirit man.

1. Prayer: I like to describe prayer as communicating or simply talking with God. I know this concept is simple, but powerful. If we are called to have a relationship with God, we have to learn to communicate with Him. The apostle Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 that we are to “pray without ceasing.” Hey gang, that means that God wants us to be continually in communication with Him! So let me encourage you…IT’S TIME TO FIRE UP YOUR PRAYER LIFE! I’ve learned so much about the breakthrough power of prayer from people like my good friends Pastor Teresa Goggins and Cindy Trimm!
2. The Word of God: The Bible declares that “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” The spirit man grows when we feed ourselves on the Word of God. I strongly suggest you invest in a Bible version you can enjoy and understand. A lot of our 1onONE community enjoys the Dake Bible that we offer. And, recently, I was introduced to Ewan MacLeod who became a guest on the show. He taught me the importance of understanding the original language and text of Jesus, Aramaic, which he has studied for the last 15 years. I personally saw my prayer life grow and expand in revelation when I studied the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic and English. The revelation that comes from studying the Bible in this way is amazing! Because the Word of God is what brings change to your life and grows your spirit, I want to offer these two valuable products to you at 50% off! Use Promo Code : “SEP16B50”
3. Declaration: There is transformational power in declaring the Word of God. This is not prayer. This is actually expressing out loud, the promises, purposes and plan of God for our lives. When everything on the OUTSIDE of us is going wrong, we need to allow what God has written on our hearts to come alive by declaring OUT LOUD His promises that are true for our lives! If you want to jumpstart this practice of declaration in your life, check out some of these powerful declaration CDs by Renny McLean and our specialized 1onONE Declaration CD!

P.S. Whether you are new to the Christian faith or have been a Christian for a number of years, the progress of your spiritual growth depends on the degree to which you choose to invest into it. Giving yourself to practices that will build up your spirit and encourage its development will open new deeper avenues of life for you! If you’d like some help getting started, check out my 21-Day Journey to Restoration Package! Your life will flourish and prosper in a whole new way!

Winning with you,

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Become All That God Has Destined You To Be

Hey there 1onONE community, Damon Davis here! I am blessed to have the opportunity each and every week to bring powerhouse guests to you through my television program! I believe 1onONE is a divinely inspired platform God has given me to empower and strengthen the Body of Christ to become all that God has destined us to be. I also believe the broadcast is a vessel to get God-inspired principles to the masses, and reach the teenager, the CEO and everyone in between.

Why do I believe this is so important? Because, I know with all of my heart that God does not want any of us living short of who we are called to be or having all that we are supposed to have. That is what I call the extraordinary life. Anyone can live ordinary these days…living in financial lack, having health problems or not having peace in your soul is ordinary. But, if you are reading this post, that is NOT the life God has for you.

Trust me, I know what it’s like to live ORDINARY; experiencing what everyone else is going through. But, one day I grew beyond frustrated, being sick, not having God’s best, struggling each and every day, and questioning what my purpose in life was. I was in this dark season and I experienced what can only be described as a God moment. I began to realize that no matter how much I exercised, no matter how much I prayed, how much money I made, or how much I tried to not get upset, I would never experience the great life I so desperately wanted. God began to show me that until I begin to build up the total composition of who Damon is, I would not see His best in my life.

You see, man is a triune being. We are in fact one person, but with three different parts that, together, make up who we are. We are a spirit, we have a soul, and live in a body. We will only succeed in living the extraordinary life when we get all three parts of who we are operating at maximum levels.

If you wish to grow in wisdom and knowledge, and fulfill the will of God for your life to become all that God has created you to be, you must first focus deeply and sincerely on the body, the spirit and the soul!

So, what does that mean? How do I begin this journey? What’s the course that I follow? How do I get on course, and stay the course? Well, one thing is for sure…you can’t do it alone! That’s why I believe our 1onONE community is so important! To fully understand the journey, let me break down the connection between the body, the spirit and the soul. The body, which is your temple, is your physical being. This relates to the areas of health, fitness and nutrition. You must take care of your physical body in order to operate at maximum levels.

But, it doesn’t just stop there. You have a soul. The soul speaks to your inner self, your emotions, your thoughts, and your will. So many people are sick, dying and self-destructing, not from obesity or high blood pressure, but because they are depressed, angry, bitter or just down right unhappy.

And, you are a spirit. The spirit is our relationship with our Heavenly Father. Frankly speaking, this is where most people truly don’t give enough focus. If the spirit is not aligned with God’s purpose for you, then it will throw the body and soul out-of-whack. Understanding this, and focusing on each step of the journey will help you discover and come to terms with who you are, understand who you are NOT, and gain confidence in who God made you to be. It’s not just a journey of your spirit, and not just a journey of your body and soul. This is a journey of revelation of you and for you. This is a journey of discovering some things about what you really think, and what you really feel is important in your life.

So, over the next few weeks, I want to share some thoughts with you on how you can take some simple steps to build up the total composition of who you are! I am ready to set out on this tremendous journey with you and introduce you to a better total self. Understand, this journey is a lifelong one that is full of God’s overcoming power and Great Grace, as the Holy Spirit leads us from victory to victory, glory to glory, and into complete wholeness. In my next blog, I will discuss the spirit and lift the lid on just how vital it is to your total well-being.

And listen, you may be wondering where to get started on your own journey. If so, I want to encourage you to explore my 21-Day Journey to Restoration Package. It is filled with valuable tools for all parts of your triune being. I look forward to our journey together, and confident that you will receive breakthrough in every area that you are standing and believing for through Jesus Christ!

“Now, may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:23

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So, jump on it and get yours today!

Winning with you,

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