Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Increase Intensity

Intensity is the degree or amount of energy transmitted. If you intend on increasing intensity then you will need a good source of energy. Physical energy is the result of proper nutrition, rest and exercise while spiritual energy is form the indwelling presence of the Almighty and feeding on the nutrition of His Word. If you pollute and dilute the source of your strength you will become weak and apathetic. Which is really just a + pathetic and you become a pathetic ineffective person. Almost everyone wants to be strong and productive but some seem to struggle much more that others. Sickliness starts at the source. If you eat junk food, natural or spiritual and are full of ill will you won’t feel well. Whatever you put in has to be processed. If its good nutrition it produces energy which enables more intensity. But if it’s bad then it saps your strength as you try to digest the trash and burn it up. The more garbage you put in the more energy you will have to expend to get it out of your system. That’s why people with poor diets wear out and die quicker. People burn out and quit because they have polluted and poisoned themselves and wonder why they can’t win. This produces sorrow and pain and they wish they could change but they are just too feeble. What’s the problem? YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! Your physical, spiritual, mental and relational condition is a reflection of your nutrition. If you intend on increasing intensity you will have to start at the source. Whatever good you decide to do ask God to help you, fill you, and strengthen and discipline you to do. He will help you purify your fuel so you can intensify your fire!

Eph 3:16
16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].
AMP

James 1:21-25
Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
NKJV

And be…. “…nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.”
1 Tim 4:6-NKJV

It’s not by our wisdom, ability or might, but by power of His Word and indwelling presence that we will live right, shine bright and fight the good fight.

PIE 90 Scripture:

Rom 5:5
5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
NKJV

Rom 5:5 ...the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost who was given unto me.(KJV)
...the love of God has been poured out in my heart by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. (NKJ)
...the brimming river of Gods love has already overflowed into my heart, on-drawn by His Holy Spirit, which He has given to me. (WAY)
... the love of God has filled my heart (20th C.R.)
... God’s love has flooded my heart (Gspd.)
... God’s love fills my inner being through His Holy Spirit (Johnson)
... God’s love has been poured forth into and continues inundating my heart by the Holy Spirit (Black)
... God has given me a love transfusion by the Holy Spirit (Jordan)
... the love of God is diffused in my heart by the Holy Spirit (Syriac)
... my heart is full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit (Basic)
I am able to hold my head high no matter what happens and know that all is well because God has given me the Holy Spirit to fill my heart with His love. (Taylor)