Episode 52 of the Living Life Well Show: Why 40 Days to Begin Living Life Well?
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Jon: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Living Life. Well show the intersection of God's word, today's science and healthy living with common sense application, all based on the truth of the word of God. I'm your host, Dr. Jon Skelton. Now let's get straight to the truth.
All right. Welcome back to this episode of The Living Life Well Show. So this is going to be a little bit different today. Today what I want to do is introduce you to our 40 days program. So in our 40 days program, I've recorded a welcome, what to expect video. For anybody who decides to go down this journey.
And so I thought I'd share a little bit of that with you guys today. So here you go. I hope you enjoy.
Welcome to 40 Days to [00:01:00] Begin Living Life. Well, I'm Jon Skelton. I'm the creator of this course, and I'll be navigating you through all the different modules as you go along to start learning how your life can look. Over these next 40 days. We are going to touch every part of health, your physical health, your mental health, and even your spiritual health .
And so I want you locked in, prepared and ready to go because we're going to move fast and we're gonna go deep. I hope that you are ready for this journey. I hope that you are ready to see radical change because that's what this course is designed to do. This course is designed to create radical change in your life so that you can see the benefits of how God has really made you to thrive in this world.
So with that being said, let's jump right in. So [00:02:00] 40 days. Why 40 days? Well, we know biblically speaking, that 40 days is very significant, but we also know through scientific research that it takes about six weeks or 42 days to really develop those habits to change behavior. And that's exactly what this is all about.
This is. All about changing behavior, but we are trying to marry that behavior change with spiritual growth, spiritual insight to create radical change that can be long lasting. Radical change that can. Completely redefine your health, your physical health, your mental health, even your spiritual health, whatever it is that brought you to this.
We're gonna be focusing on it. We're gonna be focusing on increasing your physical health through learning what really helps and what [00:03:00] hurts, what exercise is best or what isn't, what foods. Are most healing and what foods are most destructive? What activities that you participate in throughout the day, how you go about your routines, how you think about particular situations, and how you approach your purpose and life.
Because it all is linked together. It all creates. A possibility for healing or a possibility for destruction. So we want to teach you to learn and see the signs of healing and learn and see the signs of destruction, and that's what we're doing through this 40 days. So. Again, why 40 days?
Well, we know 40 days is very significant, and I said, radical change, right? Well, where do I get that from? Well, biblically speaking, we see that [00:04:00] 40 days is very significant. Virtually anytime. God mentioned 40 days in the Bible. We saw radical change. We saw new worlds new covenants. We saw new lands. All these things we see, new kings, new kingdoms.
All these things we see biblically speaking. So getting into that. So where's the first place we really see this 40 days come into account? Well. First of all, we see it with Noah.
Noah, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights flooded. The whole earth and a new Earth was essentially formed from this. Why did this happen? It happened because the evil in the world at that time was so pervasive. God decided to scratch it and start all over with one family. One family with an imperfect leader, Noah.
But a man who followed God showed himself faithful in that. 120 years leading up to the 40 days by building [00:05:00] this ark and an ark because God said it would rain and flood and no one had ever seen rain. Up to this point, we know that God hit the reset button on mankind, and it started with 40 days of rain.
Then we see the Israelites. The Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years. But why? Why, why 40 years? Well, they wandered 40 years because they weren't obedient in 40 days. They sent the 12 men to spy on the land that God had told them he was gonna give them. But because of their unbelief, because they could not see how God could work in that situation, to overcome the giants, overcome the obstacles that were going to come along the way
they wandered now for 40 years in the desert. They wandered 40 years miraculously God guided, but they wandered 40 years and never entered [00:06:00] into the rest that God promised them into the land that God promised him because of their unbelief. They thought it was too big. They thought it was too hard.
They thought it was too much, and so some of you may be even thinking that now. And then we even see David, and Goliath. The story of David and Goliath starts with Goliath taunting the nation of Israel for 40 days. 40 days, morning and evening. He came out and taunted Israel. Well then finally, David comes at the end of this 40 days it seems, and takes down this giant cuts off the head of the giant and leads Israel into an entirely new time and eventually an entirely new kingdom.
Now that 40 days was very scary. For the Israelites, there was the huge obstacle of this giant in front of them. They had [00:07:00] disbelief, but it only took one action to turn an entire kingdom into a new story and a new blessing in the life of all the Israelites at that time. And then we see it in the New Testament.
And with Jesus. We see it twice. I know most of you may be saying the most significant number with Jesus'. Three three days. He was in the tomb before he was. Resurrected, and that is absolutely true. Our salvation does not occur without this happening.
But Jesus practiced that 40 day principle before he ever started his ministry, and then he started it. Had another 40 days post-resurrection. So right after Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, he immediately went out into the wilderness to fast and be tempted by Satan. For, you guessed it, 40 days.
Jesus, prior to every , healing, [00:08:00] anyone before the cross, before any of the disciples were called prayed. And fasted and prepared by being tempted by Satan for 40 days. Why? Because he was starting his ministry right after this. This was the beginning to Jesus's great three year work that he did for all of us.
He was showing Satan that no matter how weak the human flesh is, the ways of God are stronger than anything Satan could throw at him. Jesus prepared intensely for 40 days before starting his ministry. Then we see it again after Jesus was resurrected. We see that he appeared for 40 days to the apostles to teach them and instruct them on what he wanted them to do, start the church.
So Jesus doubled down on this 40 day principle and emphasized a couple of things. Huge. Great new beginnings require intense [00:09:00] preparation To make the new beginning succeed, you need to involve others. The other thing that he showed us. Is that there's gonna be temptation along the way. There is going to be obstacles along the way.
There is going to be intrusions and interruptions and derailments, or attempts at derailment along the way. And so you have to anticipate that in these 40 days, the same would be true through scientific research. We see that beginning a new habit is not a straight line beginning. A new habit is going to have.
Its ups and downs beginning. A new way of doing things is going to have ebbs and flows, and so we have to give ourselves grace. We have to anticipate problems, and we have to continue to have the resolve to move forward. Through those interruptions, through those instances. So for that reason, [00:10:00] that's why we're choosing 40 days.
40 days to create radical change in your life, physically, mentally, and spiritually, so that you can live your purpose so that you can find your way in this life not with ease, but with. Discipline, purpose and direction. And so I hope that's what you're hoping to get out of this 40 days. Because my hope for you is, and my prayer for you is that as you go through this 40 days, I.
You will learn more about yourself, about what really makes you tick, about how God has uniquely designed you, and how his word can really be translated into full healing for your life. My hope is that you achieve. Physical, mental and spiritual benefit through this 40 [00:11:00] days learning principles that will allow you to see full health in the very, very near future.
So thanks and God bless.
Well, that was a little introduction to the 40 Days to Begin Living Life Well program that we have available for you. So if that interests you if that sounds like something that you would enjoy, or heck, if it sounds like something you know, somebody else might enjoy, we would ask that you share this subscribe to our.
Jon: Podcast channel as well as our YouTube channel. If you would, in addition if you are interested in moving forward with that 40 days program for yourself or for someone else, we do have some coupon codes available. You can reach out to us on social media. And then get that coupon code there.
The program is $149, but through this podcast special, we're [00:12:00] lowering that to 99 for a few individuals. So if that is you, if you are interested in moving forward with this program. For the next 40 days. Then I would encourage you to reach out to us on, on social media and you can find out how to get that coupon code there.
So I hope this has been enjoyable. I hope this has been informative and if you want to know more, want to go ahead and sign up for the program,
Just go to the show notes and you can find the link there. Thanks and God bless.
Speaker: That's it for this episode of The Living Life. Well show if you like what you've heard and want to learn more or want to know how to put this into practice for yourself, go to live life well clinic.com. Until next time, this is Dr. John Skeleton saying go out and live the truth so you can live life well.
