Daily Bible Reading is Self-Care

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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According to various online sites, "self-care" is a term that became popular within the medical community in the 1950's. Regardless of its origin, the definition of the phrase is flawed. It's missing the soul: "Self-care means taking the time to do things that help you live well and improve both your physical health and mental health. This can help you manage stress, lower your risk of illness, and increase your energy. Even small acts of self-care in your daily life can have a big impact."--National Institute of Mental Health ("Caring for Your Mental Health," NIMH) What about the soul? Doesn't it need self-care, too? Yes, it does. God knows how to guide us into the best overall self-care, and He doesn't limit it to just the physical and mental aspects. His Word nourishes, strengthens, and fortifies our souls as well. "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thessalonians 5:23) We are more than physical bodies with mental faculties. The soul is our "inner person" and it needs daily self-care. In this episode, we'll look at Day Eight in the devotional, Apply: Living What We Learn. Day eight addresses our need for daily soul food. To get a copy of this helpful Bible-habit-building tool, see the link below, or click on the book title in this paragraph. Apply: Living What We Learn--Daily Devotional by Francie Taylor Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Did you know that daily Bible reading is self-care?
0:03.6	Yes, it is. It's part of how we take care of our soul. In today's episode, we're going to look at day number eight from the book, Apply, Living, What We Learn.
0:12.7	Why is it that we have to fight so hard to be in Scripture daily? Well, I can tell you why. It's because it's so valuable.
0:29.5	Welcome to Keep the Heart podcast with Francie Taylor.
0:40.4	Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker known for sharing biblical insights that are practical and inspiring. Now back to today's valuable study. Today we're on day eight in the devotional Apply, living what we learn.
0:51.2	Apply is a 31-day Bible application study that takes us from reading to doing. You can use this
0:58.4	book for solo study, mentoring, small groups, or even book clubs. You'll also find a handy guide in the
1:05.2	back of the book with suggestions on how to use Apply in these various settings. Get your copy of Apply today at keep the heart.com. Now let's get
1:15.6	into day number eight. Day eight is based on Proverbs chapter 8 verse 34, which says this,
1:22.8	Blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
1:29.6	Now, this is wisdom talking in this chapter, and this word daily is the key of our devotional
1:35.1	today. When I worked as a nutritional counselor several years ago, a client asked me this question.
1:42.6	How long do I need to follow the principles of this nutritional
1:45.9	program? Now, he was clearly tired of his program. He was trying to find a way to, oh, I don't know,
1:55.3	I don't know if he was looking for the exit, but maybe he was just looking for a whole pizza.
2:03.5	But his question was a good one, and I answered him like this. Follow this program as long as you want it to work. And I smiled when I said that,
2:10.2	and the client laughed, and then paused thoughtfully before saying, okay, okay, I get it. We tend to grow tired of rules of any kind, whether it's
2:21.7	nutrition, lifestyle, anything. We want to know when we can stop doing something, even if it's good for us.
2:30.8	We want to eat without consequence and we want food to magically have no calories. In daily life,
2:36.8	we want life to have fewer boundaries and we want it to have no consequences. Instead of trying to
2:43.0	find a way to follow that which is good, we want our own way. It's common to dislike things that are
2:50.4	hard or uncomfortable. Human nature is
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