DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 26 “Finding Your Inner Peace”

Meditative Thought: Set a daily intention to find inner peace.  Inner peace, or what I choose to call serenity, is a state that no matter what happens, we understand that all is well right now.  No matter what is happening within our lives, there is always a divine call to be content.  This inner peace is the knowing that right where you are, the presence of God is; therefore you are in the right place, for a purpose.

The practice of peace is just not only being ok with the fact that you are in a long line in the super market, or the post office, but knowing that you have been called to that time and space for a divine reason.  Serenity is just not accepting; it is embracing whatever is going on in your life at that moment.  Everything fades in to God; therefore everything has a purpose and a calling.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today set the intention to find your inner peace.  Meditation is the key.  Set the time to meditate on inner peace, and what serenity looks like for you.

Affirmation:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, I am the inner peace that I seek.  I am willing to become peaceful in every and all situations.  And so it is.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 25 “The Practice of Love”

Meditative Thought: Love is the highest state of consciousness and it is the awareness of God in action.  Being in a state of love is releasing the human condition of lack limitation, disappointment, fear, and worry, which block the flow of miracles in our life.  When we set the intention to practice Love, we free ourselves from the human condition.  Love is connecting with the light within you and someone else.  The sorrow of the human condition would have us in a belief that love is not possible.  That is a lie of the ego.

One of the intentions I speak about in yoga is opening up the heart and allowing yourself to love again.  We must set the intention to practice Love.  If there was a religion that I subscribe to, it is the religion of Love and Kindness.  Remember what you send out, is what you get back.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today set the intention to practice Love.  When you find yourself operating from a fear thought, shift your thinking right away.   Give yourself permission to love yourself.  Allow your heart chakra to be open and filled with love. Forgive your self for the fear that consumed your thinking and begin again.

Affirmation:  Just for this moment… just for this breath, I am the love energy that blesses the planet.  I move from a place of love and my life is good.  And so it is.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 24 “The Practice of Activating Joy”

Meditative Thought: I am ‘loving’ Oprah’s term, “Joy Raising.”  She explains it as the feeling of the activation of joy within.  I believe we need to practice activating Joy every day.  When we realize that joy is an internal presence that lives within ourselves, and that nothing outside of our being can bring us joy, we become free to do what activates “Joy Raising.”

Everyday we must set the intention to activate Joy.  It is our connection with Spirit that will allow us to identify what it is that activates Joy.  Be open and willing to contemplate Joy, and what it really means to be joyful.  Through prayer and meditation, God will reveal to you what true Joy is, and once you know it, go after it!

Spiritual Assignment:  Today, practice the activation of Joy.  Meditate on what joy lives within you.  It is time to play, and have fun in the ocean of devotion.  Joy is within you; do not look for something outside to activate it.  Ask the question, “God, show me the joy that is my Life?”

Affirmation:  Just for this moment… just for this breath, I activate the Joy that is my life.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 22 “The Practice of Prayer”

Meditative Thought: Prayer is the practice of aligning our minds and consciousness with the oneness and the unity of God.  Affirmative prayer is what we use to remind us of a connection to a source greater than our human incarnation.  We need the power that prayer gives us.  These words of empowerment keep us awakened to our divinity.

When we set the intention to increase our prayer practice, our life is open to new and amazing possibilities.  Contrary to popular belief, prayer is not for God; our prayer life is only for the edification of our souls.  Prayer helps us to keep our thoughts and our consciousness open and focused.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today, set the intention to increase your prayer practice.  Whatever it takes, say a prayer everyday to realign your life.

Affirmation:  Just for this moment… just for this breath, I stand as a prayer warrior.  My life is the life of God; therefore I am the prayer of life.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 21 “The Practice of Service”

Meditative Thought: Service is a spiritual practice that anchors our oneness with each other. This practice of serving our fellows started from the beginning of time and is imbedded deep within our DNA.  The word service means: the act of helpful activity.  Our divine calling is to be of service to the Universe and to each other.  When setting the intention to live a spiritual life, service becomes an important holy practice.

When we step into service, we activate the energy of love, compassion, joy and gratitude within ourselves, the natural state of being.  The truth is when we choose to serve others, we are really serving our self.  There is only the one power of God, and we are that power in the flesh so there is only one.  Everything we do affects the whole.  We must set the intention to be of service.  This not only serves us, it sets into motion the healing of the planet.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today, set the intention to be in service and know the truth.  What you do for others, you do for yourself.  Ask your spiritual guides how you can be of service to someone.  Then follow your gut.  Step out, open your heart, and change the planet.

Affirmation:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, I am a magnet for service, and I bless the planet with love.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach

For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 20 “The Practice of Sacred Study”

Meditative Thought: Everything that we need to know is within our spirit.  Our eternal high self is one with Divine Knowledge.  The practice of sacred study is to activate that intelligence that lives within our being.  Setting the intention to grow and to expand our consciousness must be followed by the intention to take action through sacred study.

Every time I have an “Ah-Ha” moment, it is anchored with feeling that I have known that “spiritual nugget” all my life.  Whenever I contemplate something that I have read, there is always a deepening of my consciousness, a quickening of my soul.  We set the intention to go deep; it is the study that allows the journey.  When I hear an inspirational speaker, what resonates with me are the topics that I have already studied.  The intention is the key that unlocks the door, but it is the study that helps you to see there are no doors to unlock in the first place.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today set the intention to up-level your consciousness with sacred study.  Join a class, a study group, or a book study; and allow a fellowship of like-minded people take you on a journey of enlightenment.

Affirmation:  Just for this moment…just for this breath, I embrace the journey of transformation.  I activate the divine knowledge that lives within my soul.  And so it is.  Amen
Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach

For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 19 “The Practice of Giving”

Meditative Thought: Today is the day that we set the intention to give more money, time, and our divine qualities that we bring forth.  There is power in the act of giving and sharing, activating the law of circulation.  What you give away freely, you freely receive.   It is so important that we remember, we are not here to get anything, we are here to give and share the presence of God that lives within us.  The practice of giving is connected to our ability to see our gifts as divine, belonging to the Universe.   There is nothing we truly own.   All that we have is God’s, and we are only the tool for sharing.  When we realize that we have been chosen to be spiritual tools destined to share God, we become free to give.  We must release the fear of not having enough and know that everything we have comes from an abundant source of supply that can never run out.  Understand that all your money, your time, the divine qualities you bring fort,  are because of your connection with God.  When it is time to give, remember you are only exchanging energy that belongs to Spirit.  You are free to give it away, and there is always enough.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today set the intention to give more.   Be an open vessel for God’s gift to flow freely through you, for you, as you.  Begin a practice of prayer and meditation anchoring the truth that there is enough to share and spare.

Affirmation: Just for this moment… just for this breath, I am the gift of God, and I freely release the blessing upon the planet.  I am the anchoring of heaven on earth; a divine-being pouring out the gifts of the Universe everywhere I go.  Amen

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach

For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

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DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 18 “The Practice of Affirmations”

Meditative Thought: The power of the “spoken word” is deep and transformative.  The bible verse that begins ‘John’ is, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.”  This declaration helps us to set the intention to be mindful of what we say.  The words that we speak are the words of the divine.  We are the mouthpieces of God, and we have a responsibility to speak words that will inspire; language that carries a vibration that will uplift all that hear it.

It is not only what is spoken that matters, it is also what is heard that has an equal effect.  Affirmations are a practice that helps to align your thinking and your emotions.  When an affirmative word of truth is spoken consistently, there is a shift in our consciousness.   When the truth is spoken, and we truly hear what is being said, we are open for a shift within our DNA.  We change on a cellular level.  We not only have a shift of consciousness, but our sub-conscious is open for a shift.  A repetition of the practice of speaking affirmations, hearing them, and contemplating the truth will lead to your expansion and growth.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today, begin your practice of daily mantras and affirmations that will remind you of who, and what you are.

Affirmation:  Just for this moment… just for this breath, my life is a living expression of the Holy Spirit, and I live these words of truth with gusto.  Amen

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach

For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com

DAILY SPIRITUAL NUGGETS:  31 Days of Setting Intentions Day 17 “The Meditation Practice”

Meditative Thought: The word meditation means mindful listening or awareness.  Meditation is the time we set aside in the world and go within, to hear the voice of God.  The only way we can truly experience the Universal presence is through meditation.  It is in the stillness that we shall know the Universal Flow.

My favorite movie is the “Color Purple.”  At the end of the film, the song Shug and a glorious choir sings, “Maybe God is Trying to Tell You Something.”  The chorus repeats, “Maybe God is trying to tell you something.”  Whenever I hear it I am reminded that God is always speaking to us, but we are not always listening.

When we are quiet and still, that is the time we commune with Spirit; that is the only time we are available to truly hear what is needed to be heard.  We must set the intention to be still everyday.  It is the consistency of an everyday practice that helps us to build our spiritual consciousness along with our dedication to see God unfold.  When we are present and listening; it may be in a conversation, during fellowship, or when we are alone, our life opens up to a deeper dimension.  Be present, be awake, hear the message of the heart, and it will transform your life.

Spiritual Assignment:  Today, set the intention to meditate.  For the next 30 days, set an appointment with God.  Find the time to be still.  It could be 5 minutes, 30 minutes, or and hour; it does not matter…Just do it.  Take time to sit and listen, not thinking, not creating a shopping list, or worrying about where you need to be next.  Just listen. Listen to the breath, listen to your heartbeat, listen to nature.  Be present, and be aware during the time you have allotted for the stillness.  This is a sacred time, a precious moment in eternity.  The practice of meditation will change your life.

Affirmation:  Just for this moment… just for this breath, I am the emanation of God, blessed and filled with love.  My meditation practice fuels my life and I am everything I desire.  And so is it.  And so it is.  Amen.

Skip Jennings, ALSP, CPT
Licensed Spiritual Counselor/Personal Fitness Trainer/Transformation Coach
For more information about spiritual counseling, fitness training, or life coaching visit: www.skipjennings.com