Day 17

I did 100 push-ups (4X25) today. I am understanding lately how psychological working out is. If my goal is 25 push-ups, then I'm exhausted by number 25. But if I set 35 as my goal, I can blow right by 25 even if it's not my first set. I need to be setting good daily goals keeping this in mind.

I have been good with my diet restrictions, and eating vegetables today.

Before I started my 100 days of sweat, I would often spend all evening with the Lord, in prayer, worship, reading the word, hanging out with him. Not that I did it everyday, but if I started, I'd spend a couple of hours easy. Now that I'm focusing on exercising too, I spend much less of my time with the Lord. I find that exercising comes first, then the Lord. I need to reverse that, or figure out some way to make them work together better, as I am missing my extended times with the Spirit. Please pray for me that I'll be able to find those times again. It seems like eventually I'm just going to have to start getting up earlier in the morning to exercise before work (I dread getting up any earlier than I already do). That way I'll still have my evenings. I also have Christmas break coming up, and although that will afford me much more time for all this, I don't traditionally do well when my schedule changes. That will take lots of discipline.

"As the rain and the snow fall from heaven
And do not return to it without watering the earth
making it bud and flourish
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater
So is my word that goes out from my mouth.
It will not return to me empty,
but will achieve what I desire
and accomplish the purpose for which I sent it."
Isaiah 55:10-11