Do you want to feel better?

Do you want to do better?

Do you want to be better?

If you answered yes to any one of these, then I’ve got something that’ll help.

Something that’ll get you feeling better, doing better, and being better!

Something that’ll help you accept your past, deal with your present, and be ready for that great unknown which always is your future.

Something that’ll help you grow and further build within yourself the character, and calm quiet confidence, of Jesus.

What is it?

Well, it’s better than anything transcendental meditation has to offer. Better than what any of the other non-Christian forms of meditation have to offer. Better than anything you can find through more yoga poses. Better than anything you’ll experience with the ‘law of attraction’, praying to ‘the universe’, or relying on astrology.

It’s better than crystals, energy healers, and pyramids; better than wicca, witchcraft, and goddess worship; better than psychics, shamans, and mediums; better than even the supposed aliens flying about promising to save us all!

And it’s not more religion.

It’s Jesus.

More specifically, Jesus and His first and great commandment.

What’s that you say? You’ve read the first and great commandment many a time, and never found anything in it that’ll do all this?

Well, don’t let that stop you. You’re not to blame.

It’s not your fault that you’ve never been taught the mystery hiding in plain sight found in our Lord’s first and great commandment.

The mystery that, once revealed, proves itself greater than any form of yoga, transcendental meditation, or any other personal development or spiritual practice you’ll ever consider.

Are you ready to uncover the mystery? Are you ready to solve it?

Get started by subscribing to my Making-It-Real service.

It’s here, in this subscription service, that you’ll solve the mystery of the first and great commandment and learn to take advantage of the most powerful teaching in all of history.

I’m so excited for you to start taking Jesus’ teaching and Making-It-Real!

https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/membership/makingitreal/

Coach Paul
‘Feel, Do, and Be Better!’

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Essential Spiritual Fitness Program Summary:

1. Making-It-Real Membership Subscription Service (this is the place for you to start, it takes just 10 minutes twice per day, and gives you access to 1 hour of group coaching per week)
   1. daily training that’s easy to use & simple to do
   2. https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/membership/makingitreal/
2. Faith-Without-Confusion Online Course
   1. supports your daily training
   2. https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/purchase/?plan=3496
3. Books – ‘The Pearl’, ‘A Portrait of Christ – The Mysterious Melchizedek’, ‘The Virtuous Life’, and ‘Jesus, Politics, And Mutiny’
   1. Available in Kindle or Paperback
   2. amazon.com/author/paulrakowicz
4. Videos
   1. Free, covering a variety of topics
   2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw8lpkZjraF7StQVEssN4rw
5. Podcasts
   1. Free, covering a variety of topics
   2. Find on your favorite podcast channels
6. Newsletter
   1. Join the free email list (we generally send no more than one email per week)
   2. http://eepurl.com/baE00X

NOTE: To keep up with the pace of change you need to be agile in your approach to spiritual fitness. You need something direct, that works with your busy schedule, and applies equally to every aspect of your life and its ever-changing circumstances.

You need the kind of focused, ‘essential’ spiritual fitness, that you’ll find here.

I built this program for others like me. For others who the church has also failed, so much so that we won’t even go back. Or, if we do go, it’s ‘on occasion’, or to keep alive ‘social friendships’, even though they’ve failed to meet our deeper spiritual needs. Sometimes failing us in their teaching, sometimes in the way they’ve treated us.

How ‘judgmental’ or ‘hypocritical’ some ‘Christians’ can be, is what many of us have found.

But either way, whether with their Christian ‘lite’ teaching, ‘wrong’ teaching, or their poor behavior, they’ve left us frustrated, with too many questions and never enough answers.

My program solves this problem. It’ll return your focus to the essential teachings of Jesus that provide you the kind of spiritual fitness you’ve longed for. The kind that’ll produce right judgment, not the poor behavior we’ve experienced and that’s driven us out of the physical church.

If this is you, don’t worry. For what’s happened, or is happening, to you (the same as happened to me), this being driven out of the physical church, is leading you into the waiting arms of the true Spirit of God.

So if you’re ready, if you’re looking for Jesus, for His teachings that apply to your 1) personal development, 2) your family life, 3) your place in the spiritual church, and 4) how you’re to participate in the State, you’re gonna get it here. Not based on any one particular denominational view or another, but rather on the best-of-the-best of Jesus’ teachings as understood across the full 2000-year history of our Christian faith.

And it all starts with you embracing continuous learning as you rebuild and mature your relationship with the Lord. Doing so as instructed in Scripture, each and every morning and evening.

Growing one day at a time, in just 10 minutes twice a day, using the Making-It-Real Membership service.

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Essential Spiritual Fitness Program Overview:

Making-It-Real Subscription Service (daily training that’s easy to use & simple to do)

Like your physical fitness, spiritual fitness takes daily training along with coaching and motivational support, which this part of the program provides. It includes:

*daily morning Scripture reading and a morning meditation for the training of the soul

*daily evening Scripture reading and an evening meditation for the training of the soul

*over 2,000 footnotes from two-thousand years of church history

*weekly group coaching sessions

*Register here (link: https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/membership/makingitreal/)



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The following services all support your relationship with Jesus you’ll be actively building through the Making-It-Real subscription service.

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Faith-Without-Confusion Online Course (supports your daily training)

*includes fully automated online course

*includes Complete 5 Step Program that restores/rebuilds your Christian Faith

*includes the New Testament principle-based approach of Jesus based on the Christian Old Testament (the Septuagint)

*includes a 45 minute 1:1 coaching session for each of the 5 Steps

*Register here (link: https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/purchase/?plan=3496)



Books

*’The Pearl’ (understand … we no longer live in a fallen world)

*’A Portrait of Christ’ (understand … the coming together of Heaven and earth that’ll draw you closer to God)

*’The Virtuous Life: God’s First And Great Commandment’ (understand … the practical application of your faith)

*’Jesus, Politics, And Mutiny!’ (understand … why our Republic is under attack and what you can do about it)

*Find them all here (link: amazon.com/author/paulrakowicz)



Videos

*YouTube Channel (link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw8lpkZjraF7StQVEssN4rw)



Podcasts

*Find on your favorite podcast channels



Newsletter

*Keep updated and informed (subscribe link: http://eepurl.com/baE00X)



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God Bless!


Coach Paul
‘Live in the truth.’


Spiritual fitness training essential to your every area of need, including:

1) Your personal development

2) Your family life

3) Your life in the one true church, and

4) Your active role in building and maintaining our Lord’s approved form of government

* A Republic (1 Maccabees 8:14-16)

* Built on the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God (Romans 2:14-15)

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“The Essential Spiritual Fitness Program is for those interested in applying the teachings of Jesus to every aspect of their life. From personal development, to family life, duty to God, & even politics, Jesus has something to say to help you live right.” (Coach Paul) 

As you uncover the mysteries of God hidden in plain sight through my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program, you’ll begin to see that ALL the Apostles taught the 4 Cardinal Virtues, in support of our Lord’s teaching on this very same subject. For all the Apostles were focused on supporting your personal development. For this is the intended result of your faith.

Let’s see what the inspired pen of the Apostle Peter wrote about as recorded for all mankind for all history, past – present – and future, in 2 Peter 1:2-11:

God has done His part. See that you do yours.

2Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue, 4by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the utter ruin that is in the world by lust.

5For this very reason you must diligently make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue (the 4th cardinal virtue of right judgment), and virtue with knowledge (the 1st cardinal virtue of discernment), 6and knowledge with self-control (the 2nd cardinal virtue), and self-control with hopeful endurance (the 3rd cardinal virtue of courage). Your hopeful endurance too must always be accompanied by godliness (for faith without works is dead); 7that in turn must have in it the quality of brotherly kindness (love your neighbor – the second of the great commandments at the core of the 4 Cardinal Virtues), and your brotherly kindness must lead on to Christian love (love the Lord Jesus Christ your God – the first of the great commandments at the core of the 4 Cardinal Virtues).

8For if these things are yours and abounding, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

10Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. 11For so will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Now as we meditate upon these words, consider, today, this question Peter is here addressing:

Upon accepting Christ and receiving salvation through faith and faith alone … then what?

If God has done His part, what now is your part to do?

Following are some thoughts for your training as you consider this question.

To start, let me share that many times people who do away with God’s law and refuse to follow it, even after being saved, ask me, “So what are the works we must “add” to our faith (supplement our faith with), once we are saved by faith alone?” But they often ask this question as though it should be obvious that there is nothing more to do. They ask this question with great sarcasm.

I think this is the wrong way to think about this question and God’s law.

I’m not suggesting that we are saved by anything but faith, for it is a truth we are saved by faith alone. But when considering “Then what?” the question really to ask is, once saved, is there then anything we are instructed to do? Anything that will enhance our faith and/or help us in our faith so as to keep us from ever falling away?

If you take the time to investigate the answer to this question, what you’ll find is that, indeed, Jesus teaches us that we must “add” to our faith once we are saved. Not for salvation, but in response to it. He also speaks of those who do nothing after being saved as those who become worse off than they were before first coming to their supposed “saving faith”.

The Apostles all follow suit and teach the same thing after Jesus, including the Apostle Peter. In his second letter Peter repeats the teaching of Jesus about what we must “add” to our faith very matter-of-factly. As such, it’s a great place to start.

As you read the following from the Apostle Peter notice how clearly he identifies the things born again souls are to ADD to their “faith”:

“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.” (2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV)

If you pay attention, you’ll notice the first 4 things he identifies are the same 4 Cardinal Virtues our Lord speaks of when He says to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. You will learn all about these virtues in both my Making-It-Real subscription service and my Faith-Without-Confusion online course.

Now what leads Peter to tell us what we must “add” to our faith, once saved? This that he wrote just before, “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.” (2 Peter 1:3-4)

So, because of this, that is, in “response” to these precious and very great promises we’ve now become partakers in, he tells us, “for this very reason” in verse 5, “add to your faith (or supplement your faith with) virtue, etc.”

And notice, Peter too understands that it is us, our sinful desire, that is the problem, as did Jesus. It is not the law that was the problem, or the works of righteousness we’ve always been called unto. This is why he too is comfortable directing us to moral excellence (virtue) through knowledge of Christ’s supreme law.

Now, if we do this – grow in the virtuous life – what then does he promise? Let’s see (and notice, just like Jesus, he indicates that those who don’t add these things to their faith will end up falling away, and be worse off than before they first came to faith):

“For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:8-11)

So, according to Peter, who is teaching after the likeness of Jesus, we MUST add to our faith, once saved. Not for salvation … but in response to it.

Fortunately for us, these things we MUST add to our faith, once saved, are written in the good book.

In fact, all the Apostles throughout the New Testament teach us what these things are.

Now be careful to always remember: None of this means that we are saved by these things “beyond faith”.

It is always faith alone by which we are saved.

But faith alone is dead.

And if we insist for our own selves on just faith alone, then we, as Peter said in confirmation of Jesus’ teaching, well, we become blind, and in danger of falling from salvation.

This is the reason why my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program is focused on helping you grow in your personal development by developing in your own life the 4 Cardinal Virtues of Discernment, Self-control, Courage, and Right Judgment. For without adding to your faith the virtuous life, you are in very real danger.

As you contemplate these things, remember that the 4 Cardinal Virtues are the means by which we attain the ‘practical mysticism’ of Christ.

Simply put, they are the means by which we know Christ in us, the hope of Glory.

The means by which we walk in the Way.

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As a reminder of the value built into my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program specifically through the Faith-Without-Confusion online course:

Step 1 unwinds the mystery of God and Creation through Christ. Uncovering the nature of the spiritual realm and how it is that our life in this earthly realm is the proving grounds for our eternal state. This is the foundation for deepening your relationship with Christ. The rounding out of your faith.

Step 2 gets into even deeper spirituality as it unwinds the mystery of the Gospel through Christ and the Cross. Introducing you to the Mysterious Melchizedek and, ultimately, your innermost self. Awakening you to the inner nature of your very own soul.

Step 3 unwinds the mystery of the new man and his life in Christ especially through the 4 Cardinal Virtues and the Moral Law. Taking you beyond “knowing” and into the “practical application” of Christ’s teachings. Elevating your mind beyond the things you thought you knew. To the grandeur and moral elevation of Christianity beyond which the human mind can not advance.

Step 4 unwinds the mystery of the practical application of Christ’s teaching in a world where not everyone is good. Where not everyone is willing to accept that Jesus is Lord. This is known as Discernment with Public vs. Private Enemies.

And finally, Step 5 unwinds the mystery of how the spirituality of Steps 1 and 2 and the practical application of Steps 3 and 4 combine into a daily practice of the ‘practical mysticism’ of Christ. Unfolding through an understanding and application of the First and Second Resurrections. We call this, “Embracing the Power” and it is the ongoing fulfillment of you growing your personal development through and in Jesus Christ.

OK…

For those of us who are saved, and are committed to amending our ways. We are those called to what we refer to as the ‘practical mysticism’ of Christ. To conforming our lives to the life Christ as the author and finisher of our faith so perfectly modeled during His earthly ministry.

And this is the very thing we help you do here with my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program.

Provide the ways and means for entering into dispassionate love that leads to the greatest passion through the mysteries of God, the Gospel, and Creation.

Centered on the revelation of Jesus Christ. The manifestation of God among men.

What we sometimes call “Training through The Mysteries of God in Christ.”

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You can get started working my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by subscribing to the Making-It-Real service by clicking the following link:

https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/membership/makingitreal/

You can further your growth using my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by enrolling in my Faith-Without-Confusion Online Course by clicking the following link:

ENROLL NOW

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God Bless!

Coach Paul
‘Feel, Do, and Be Better!‘

The New Testament teaches us, first and foremost, to love our Lord and God.

In Matthew Jesus says,

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment.” (Matthew 22:37-38)

Luke adds, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.” (Luke 10:27)

Does this mean the heart comes first?

A common thread among non-Christian mystics is, indeed, that the heart is first when seeking to understand the mysteries.

But this kind of “understanding” leads to truth being relative.

This is why we find that, among the Christian mystics, the opposite has always been true. The mind is first.

Which leads to an “understanding” that is anchored in the sublime teaching of Christ and His Moral Law.

It is to this kind of understanding that we as Christians are called.

Indeed, are we not called upon in our faith to bring every thought unto obedience to Christ?

To let the mind of Christ be in us?

So why, then, does our Lord start the first and great commandment with the heart?

Simple. Because if our confession of faith only remains in the mind, and never makes its way into our hearts, then our confession of faith is naught.

So rather than our Lord saying in the first and great commandment that we must start in the heart, he is telling us this is where it all ends.

At the same time He’s telling us that the mind, or discernment, leads the way to a loving heart.

This is why “the mind” is last in the listing. The last (the mind) shall be first, and the first (the heart) shall be last.

This distinction between the Christian mystic and all others is the difference between a true reverence for God, the One who fills all things, and the false seeking of a “oneness” with, what turns out to be, “nothingness”.

Now consider carefully this concept: That “nothingness” must be the goal when the “heart” comes before the “mind”.

For the heart, apart from the mind, can not know its way. And so the “way” must be “nothing”.

The mind, though, can discern right from wrong, giving the heart a compass by which to know the direction for its tendency to loving kindness.

This is why all “love” is not equal to the Christian.

And why Christ spent so much time teaching what “true love” really is.

And what is it?

True love is that shown through the mind of Christ.

Dispassionate love that leads to the greatest passion. In Christ’s case, all the way to the passion of the Cross.

As we like to note…

For those of us who are saved, and are committed to amending our ways. We are those called to this sort of love. To conforming our lives to the life Christ so perfectly modeled during His earthly ministry.

And this is the very thing we help you do here with my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program.

Provide the ways and means for entering into dispassionate love that leads to the greatest passion through the mysteries of God, the Gospel, and Creation.

Centered on the revelation of Christ. The manifestation of God among men.

What we sometimes call “Training through The Mysteries of God in Christ.”

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You can get started working my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by subscribing to the Making-It-Real service by clicking the following link:

https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/membership/makingitreal/

You can further your growth using my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by enrolling in my Faith-Without-Confusion Online Course by clicking the following link:

ENROLL NOW

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God Bless!

Coach Paul
‘Feel, Do, and Be Better!‘

The New Testament teaches us to be holy.

As you follow this teaching…

Seek not holiness in order to be righteous. Instead, because Christ has made you right before God, seek to make all that you do holy.

For remember…

It isn’t that we do works to be holy. It’s that we are as we should be in Christ which makes holy all that we do.

I am helped in “holiness” by always keeping in mind…

That grace by faith alone is first. This is, and always will be, associated with that free gift of Christ through the Cross.

It is then this free gift which leads me, by changing my very nature, to naturally desire to walk with Christ more and more.

Which then makes even the most mundane things I do each day, holy.

As we’ve noted before…

For those of us who are saved, and are committed to amending our ways. We are those committed to holiness. To conforming our lives to the life Christ so perfectly modeled during His earthly ministry.

The very thing we help you do here with my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program.

Provide the ways and means for entering into holiness through the mysteries of God, the Gospel, and Creation.

Centered on the revelation of Christ. The manifestation of God among men.

What we sometimes call “Training through The Mysteries of God in Christ.”

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You can get started working my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by subscribing to the Making-It-Real service by clicking the following link:

https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/membership/makingitreal/

You can further your growth using my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by enrolling in my Faith-Without-Confusion Online Course by clicking the following link:

ENROLL NOW

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God Bless!

Coach Paul
‘Feel, Do, and Be Better!‘

The New Testament teaches us there are many mysteries.

Mysteries of God. Of the Gospel. Of Creation.

Mysteries God has now revealed. But only for those with eyes to see, and ears to hear.

For these mysteries remain hidden, though hidden now in plain sight.

One of the wonders of these mysteries is how one can come to be saved through an initial understanding of God, the Gospel, and Creation. With such salvation complete in every way.

Simple faith is all it takes.

What precedes such faith? Repentance…

What follows such faith? Amending of one’s ways…

And this latter part, this is where the practical mysticism of Christ comes in.

For those who are saved, and are committed to amending their ways. For those conforming their life to the life Christ so perfectly modeled during His earthly ministry.

This is what you’ll find here. With my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program.

The ways and means for entering into the mysteries of God, the Gospel, and Creation.

Centered on the revelation of Christ. The manifestation of God among men.

What we sometimes call “Training through The Mysteries of God in Christ.”

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You can get started working my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by subscribing to the Making-It-Real service by clicking the following link:

https://spiritualfitnessprogram.com/membership/makingitreal/

You can further your growth using my Essential Spiritual Fitness Program by enrolling in my Faith-Without-Confusion Online Course by clicking the following link:

ENROLL NOW

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God Bless!

Coach Paul
‘Feel, Do, and Be Better!‘