You Are Spirit First

It's one of the questions women ask me most. My answer always comes back to Scripture.

Your spirit is the part of you that has been connected to God since before you were born. As He told the prophet Jeremiah, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee." Your soul is your mind, will, and emotions. Your spirit is that deeper place where God speaks to you.

Have you ever had a gut feeling about someone? Walked into a room full of strangers and sensed there was someone you needed to talk to, or felt bad energy and wanted to leave? Felt butterflies before speaking to an audience?

Maybe you were driving home and something in your gut told you to take a different route, and later you learned there had been a serious accident at the intersection you avoided.

That is your spirit. That is God's candle searching the inward parts, confirming things to you and guiding you.

I often share this picture with women. When a baby grows in the womb, everything it needs comes through the umbilical cord. Life itself reaches us first through the belly. So it makes sense to me that this is still where we feel God's voice.

Pay attention to those inner promptings, good, bad, or indifferent. Sometimes they are warning you. Sometimes they are simply showing you a safer, easier way. Either way, they are worth honoring.

Spirit, soul, and body are three facets of who you are, and at More Than Fitness, we start with spirit. Before we talk about workouts, hormones, or nutrition, I want you to recognize and honor your own spirit and your connection to a higher power. For me, that is God. You are spirit first and foremost.