{"id":58,"date":"2020-12-25T20:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T01:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/?p=58"},"modified":"2020-12-25T20:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T01:29:51","slug":"muscle-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/2020\/12\/25\/muscle-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Muscle memory. So important when training for combat, whether it is with a gun, a knife, or with the strike of a martial artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This training of repetition and the never ending &#8216;perfect practice&#8217; of such, results in one being ready for combat. &#8220;The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war&#8221; is what we used to say in the Marine Corps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continual training for combat, whether it is physical or spiritual, will build the muscle memory we need to defeat our enemies.&nbsp; We train so that our response to the threat in front of us will not just be deflected defensively but will be eliminated offensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of us who battle anxiety, our battle is one of mental, emotional, spiritual and physiological characteristics.&nbsp; We need to arm ourselves with the word of God, the word of Truth. We need to blend our physical, mental and emotional responses to these battles, with <strong>spiritual truths<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ephesians 6:12<\/strong>  &#8220;For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,&nbsp; but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The threat to our lives is real, though the war has been won, the victory sealed; the daily battles rage on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s arm ourselves with the word of God and train as if our very life depended on it; because it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muscle memory. So important when training for combat, whether it is with a gun, a knife, or with the strike of a martial artist. This training of repetition and the never ending &#8216;perfect practice&#8217; of such, results in one being ready for combat. &#8220;The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/2020\/12\/25\/muscle-memory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Muscle Memory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-anxiety","tag-ephesians","tag-word-of-god"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}