By Robbie Raugh, RN/Nutritionist and host of The Raw Truth
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
Our priorities have to be in order with God first and foremost to get any results. If we want to help our clients, business, kids, family or ourselves, we need to know the raw truth about fitness and do it. It doesn’t matter how much we eat right and exercise—if we don’t pay attention to the 7 Truths to Health and Fitness.
If we don’t get this right, our health physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually will be starving. We won’t be effective in our mission, and our business will suffer. We won’t make the impact in our ministry or in the workplace using the gifts God gave us. But more importantly we won’t be living out God’s purpose in our life.
We need to take care of what I call our temporary earth suit in order to go out and do God’s work and live out HIS purpose in our life. Results are more than just about physical fitness.
Our purpose in this world is to know God and let him be known. As an RN and Nutritionist, I worked in hospitals for many years in what I call “sick care”. I then left that to go into “health care” in helping people to prevent and reverse disease. I worked at Bally Total Fitness back in the day for almost thirty-five years. What I found out during that time is this:
We can eat right and exercise and still be sick if:
- We are spiritually neglected.
- We live in a toxic relationship.
- We are sleep deprived and don’t handle our stress.
God placed 7 Truths on my heart that are paramount to our health and life. Those 7 Truths are Faith, Family, Food, Fitness, Detox, Sleep and Stress Management, and they are all vital to our health and life. This is the basis of my new Book The Raw Truth Recharge – 7 Truths to Health and Fitness.
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These 7 Truths help people live the abundant life that God desires for all of us. God does not want us walking around sick and thick and tired—this I know! God cares more about the condition of our heart than the condition of our body.
Yes, we have a responsibility to take care of our body, but spiritual fitness is much more important than physical fitness. By God’s design, it’s all integrated - mind-body-soul-spirit. Faith without works is dead. It takes deliberate action to get results with Jesus at the center of it all.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight.
Watch the 2019 Fitness Ministry Awards
Robbie hosts Faith & Fitness Magazine's Redefined Conference 2019 Fitness Ministry Awards on Facebook LIVE Thursday, November 14 @ 9:05 am Eastern live from the Orange County Convention Center and the Athletic Business Show in Orlando, Florida.
