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SITE INDEX Bob's 2002 Race Schedule and update
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Weekly PowerBreak Messages PowerBreak is a weekly feature, designed to given you some power from God's Word as you begin your week. This internet newsletter has been sent out continuously for over three years as the list of recipients continues to grow. If you would like to receive PowerBreak messages via email each week, please send your request to Bob at email address above. The name PowerBreak was taken from Bob's endurance races where each water stop was a quick refueling, or a break for power on the go. Bob designed the PowerBreak to be that for all who receive the messages each week. A quick thought and power from the Word of God for people on the go. PowerBreak Messages for March 2002 KEEP SCROLLING DOWN Links to previous messages below. PowerBreak Message for March 4, 2002MAXIMUM FAT BURNING Ever notice how every other commercial on television is about something that will burn off the fat. We all seemed to be consumed with getting rid of fat in our diets and off our bodies. The Bible even addresses the issue when God voiced a complaint about His people getting fat - but the proposition had more to do with their activity or lack thereof rather than the shape of their bodies. Deuteronomy 32:15 But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation. What's the point? The people got comfortable and when God said it was time to change, grow, and move forward they were content just to stay where they were. Has that ever happened to you? Getting comfortable is a nice feeling but it can really destroy us. Getting comfortable will keep you from improving your position in life, improving your marriage relationship, your job, your conditioning, even your spiritual journey. Getting comfortable can ruin you. Proverbs 24:33-34 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— 34and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
As getting comfortable by laying around on the couch, eating, and watching TV all the time will ruin your physical conditioning so getting comfortable about any other area of life can lead to the same kind of "fatness" and self-destruction. What’s the solution? God's "MAXIMUM FAT BURNING" PROGRAM. God is constantly getting us to move, to improve, to change, and to go forward in life, just as was Moses described what He was doing with His people when they got comfortable and abandoned His ways. Deuteronomy 32:11-12 Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them in and carried them aloft on his pinions. 12The Lord alone guided them; they lived without any foreign gods. As God stirs you into action His plan is for you to keep moving toward the goal, which requires patience and endurance. The key is not for speed but consistency. Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily hinders our progress. And let us run with endurance the race that God has set before us. 2We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from start to finish. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterward. Now he is seated in the place of highest honor beside God's throne in heaven. If you want to BURN THE FAT - get moving. Don't get comfortable with where you are in life. You, your status in life, your relationships, your business, your journey with God - all need to be constantly improving and moving forward. If they are not - FAT is building and laziness is setting in. Allowed to continued you'll be robbed of what you have. GOOD NEWS - It's never too late to throw off the weight of laziness and get back in the race. Start with getting refocused on your goals, then take on the little things you can do to get some momentum - above all GET MOVING. The more you push and the longer you go, the more you’ll become a "fat burning" machine. Godspeed. Bob Brubaker
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