•    –   Psalm 42:1
•     “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.”
•    –   Matthew 4:4
•     “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

•   surrendering our worries to Him and finding rest for our souls

•    –   1Peter 5:7
•    “…casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you”
•    –   Matthew 11:28-29
•    “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
•    –   Philippians 4:6
•    “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
•    –   Ephesians 4:23 “… to be renewed in the spirit of your minds”

•   breathing more deeply as we contemplate the wonder that is God’s “breath of life”, His Spirit

•    –   Ezekiel 37:9-10
•    “Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived”

•   releasing stress through the liberating joyful freeing movement of dance

•    –   Psalm 149:3
•     “Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!”
•    –   Psalm 150:4
•     “Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!”

•   relaxation and peace as we surrender all to our Creator

•    –   Galatians 5:22–23
•    ” … the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control”
•    –   Colossians 1:13
•    “He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son”
•    –   2 Thessalonians 3:16
•    “Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way”

•    –  Psalm 119:105
•     “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”

• making Him the center even as we exercise our bodies

• worshipping in song and movement

•    –  Psalm 149:3
•     “Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!”

• meditating on His word

•    –  Psalm 119:97
•    ” Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.”

• connecting with Him in silent prayer.

•    –  Psalm 119: 11-16
•    ” I have stored up your word in my heart,
• that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord;
• teach me your statutes! With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
• In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
• I will meditate on your precepts
• and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes;
• I will not forget your word.”

•   binding our physical work with ongoing connection with the word

•    –  Deuteronomy 6:7
•    “…talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when
  you lie down, and when you rise”

•   incorporating every aspect of physical fitness(endurance, strength, flexibility, balance and
relaxation) in concordance with all the most current, sound and safe practices in the area
of physical wellbeing

• building friendships and bridges into people’s lives

• helping each other grow spiritually
• Heb 1:24 “let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works”
•Colossians 3:16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all
wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to
God.”

• More importantly, encouraging the memorizing of scripture and sharpening of the mind.

• Romans 12:2 “…being transformed by the renewing of your mind”

• God’s word having the power to transform us

• – Hebrew 4:12 ” For the word of God is living and active…”
• – Romans 12:2 “being transformed by the renewing of our minds”

• born again

• -1 Peter 1:23
• “…since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable,
  through the living and abiding word of God”

• Christ living in me…I live by His power, His word, His Spirit

• – Galatians 2:20
• “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in
  me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me
  and gave himself for me.”
• – Ephesians 3:16–19
• “that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with
  power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your
  hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have
  strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height
  and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you
  may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

• as yeast and seed

• – Luke 13:18-21
• He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare
  it? It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and
  it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”
• And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like
  leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all
  leavened.”

• new creation

• – 2 Corinthians 5:17
• “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away;
  behold, the new has come.”