PIDGIN EXERCISING YOUR SPIRIT MAN!

1 Timothy 4:8 GNT 

Physical exercise get small value, but spiritual exercise get value for every area, because e promise life both for now and for the future. 

 

Exercise na the effort person dey use train or improve their body, brain or behaviour; na practice to get skill, knowledge, virtue, perfection and grace. Exercise na physical activity wey dey help body organs work well and stay healthy. Exercise don turn same thing as gym, health spas, all kinds of weight loss ideas and keep-fit programmes. 

We dey always happy and de proud to maintain our look and shape, we even dey pay big money for gym and fitness things wey sometimes we no even use. 

Physical exercise dey benefit us well when e don turn habit. The same thing apply to spiritual exercise. Exercising our spirit dey help us well when e be part of our daily life, no be something wey we dey do once in a while. 

To live correct Christian life, we need spiritual exercise — make we dey train spirit man, no be just body wey no dey benefit spiritual things as Apostle Paul talk. 

And 1 Timothy 4:7 talk say make you exercise yourself unto godliness. To exercise unto godliness mean say you dey train your spirit inside the word and spirit of God. If we go exercise ourselves unto godliness, we must sabi how to exercise our spirit man. 

To begin exercise our spirit, na to turn on our spiritual switch and begin build up our spiritual muscle so e go strong. 

We fit exercise our spirit through prayer. 

When person dey waka, e dey use im leg. 

Before pikin sabi waka, e must first crawl. 

Plenty Christians no dey pray, either because dem no sabi how to pray or dem no think say e important for their Christian growth. Some go even just think prayer na wish for mind. 

But the exercise of prayer no be waste, na chance to join hand with God for eternal matter. If we no dey exercise our spirit through prayer, our spiritual muscle go lean like person wey no dey chop. 

Our body get different organs to do different work — ear for hearing, eye for seeing, tongue for tasting, hand for touching, leg for waka. Na so our spiritual organs too suppose work well if we dey sharp through spiritual exercise. 

If we wan think or reason, we dey use mind. But make we understand say prayer different — we dey pray by exercising our spirit. 

Our body dey work everyday both physically and emotionally, and to reach peak performance, we must still train our mind well. 

Our spirit na the fuel wey dey run our body and e need plenty kind of spiritual workout to make us dey perform well. Every spiritual exercise dey test our will, sometimes we go wan stop, especially when wahala, pain, or trials come. But we must push. As dem talk: “no pain, no gain.” So if no spiritual exercise, no spiritual gain. 

We need effort and deliberate action for both physical and spiritual exercise, and sometimes e hard, but persistence na the key to build habit. 

Every Christian dey grow for body and mind (mind, will, emotions, intellect, imagination) as dem also dey grow spiritually by training spiritual senses. 

If small physical exercise dey benefit the body, imagine how much gain dey wen we exercise our spirit man through the help of the Holy Spirit. 

Make we exercise the spirit through fasting, prayer, Bible study, worship and fellowship with other believers wey go encourage and push us to grow. 

Dieting without exercise no dey make sense, and to “diet” your spirit without activity no go help you. No neglect your spirit, exercise am or you go end up with spiritual malnutrition. Exercise your spirit man. 

REFLECTION QUESTIONS 

- How much time and effort I dey put for physical exercise compared to spiritual one? 

- How “exercising my spirit man” dey look like for my daily life? 

- I dey recognize when my spiritual muscle weak or never grow well? Wetin be the signs? 

- Wetin I fit start to do today to make my spiritual muscle strong? 

PRAYER: Lord, help me build daily habit of exercising my spirit man so I go fit dey spiritually healthy and grow well for Christ, in Jesus’ name. Amen. 

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