Ronnie Floyd - Living Fit: Make Your Life Count by Pursuing a Healthy You

Living Fit entails a lot more than simply diet and exercise. Balance is the key to walking a straight line and it is also the key to living a straight life toward the goal of pursuing a more healthy you. Read this and reap!

O. S. Hawkins Bestselling author of The Joshua Code and the entire Code Series

Living Fit is a fantastic heaven-inspired GPS that will transform your life. Its loaded with life-transforming wisdom keys.

Mike Evans # 1 New York Times Bestseller

Ronnie Floyd is a wonderful mixture of pastor-teacher and empowering leader. For as long as Ive known, hes lifted up the people around him. In this book, he has given us a helpful resource with the tools you need for fit living, a lifestyle he has modeled consistently for many years. Pick up a copy for yourself and for a friend, and discover the steps you can take to living a life that counts.

J.D. Greear, PhD Pastor, The Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, NC

Holy, healed, and healthy people change the world! In Living Fit , my dear friend Ronnie Floyd provides a Christ-centered, Bible-based plan that will empower you to do just that live fit in every aspect and shine for Christ!

Samuel Rodriguez President NHCLC Lead Pastor New Season Author of Be Light

Relevant and inspiring. Pastor Floyd gives key perspective on how to make the most while living here on earth. In Living Fit , he unlocks the secret to ignite a more connected life and a healthier you. His step-by-step, biblically backed guide is easy to follow and convicting to implement.

Shelley Simpson Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer President Highway Services at J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.

Having seen thousands of pastoral transitions, Im convinced that living a balanced life is the one key difference between finishing well and crashing and burning. Dr. Floyd has done an amazing job of living in balance, and has now given us a roadmap that will help all leaders finish well. Read Living Fit today. It could make all the difference.

William Vanderbloemen Founder and CEO Vanderbloemen Search Group

Want to live life to its fullest? My friend Ronnie Floyd shares in Living Fit what he has learned and what he lives. To be healthy and whole and reach the potential to which God has called us, we must attend to the fitness of our body, mind, and soul.

Tony Perkins President, Family Research Council President, Council for National Policy

There are no compartments in our lives that God doesnt say, Mine! He desires to use our body, soul and spirit for His great compelling purposes. Thanks Ronnie for pointing us to an intentional pathway to see that He does!

Kathy Ferguson Litton Director of Planter Spouse Care North American Mission Board

Of the thousands of books written and published each year, very few are must read material. Living Fit: Make Your Life Count by Pursuing a Healthy You without a doubtis at the top of that first-class list. Robust, hearty living is yours when you apply vital principles of five prescribed topics encompassing spirituality, finances, physical attributes, emotional well-being, and relationships. Join me in reading, applying, and growing through the books content for making our lives count more for God and man.

Gil Strickland Sr. Founder and Ministry Ambassador Marketplace Chaplains Exceptional Employee Care

If theres anyone who has mastered the art of balancing lifes never-ending demands, its Ronnie Floyd. Leading a life of impact demands we care for every minute of our days and every inch of or bodies, minds, and souls. Living Fit is the fruit of decades of living purposefully. It has timeless wisdom for us today and for generations to come.

Jack Graham Pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church Founder of PowerPoint Ministries

Ronnie Floyd has struck one of the essential truths about what it means to live a truly healthy life: giving the proper care and attention to every part of our beings. Living Fit will reveal the areas of your life that have been neglected and provide you the necessary tools to build habits that lead to a successful and fulfilling future. If you want to know what it takes to find spiritual, physical, relational, financial, and emotional success, this is the book for you.

Dr. Tim Clinton , Ed.D., LPC, LMFT, BCPCC President of the AACC

According to tradition, the philosopher Socrates said, The unexamined life is not worth living. Christian, know life is a precious gift. Because you are made in Gods image, your life has incredible potential and ought to be lived well, intentionally. In Living Fit , Dr. Ronnie Floyd explains how to make this a way of life. Get started getting fit now by following the practical steps in this strategic book.

Jerry A. Johnson President and CEO National Religious Broadcasters

Copyright 2018 by Ronnie Floyd

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

978-1-4627-8155-3

Published by B&H Publishing Group

Nashville, Tennessee

Cover design and illustration by Darren Welch. Additional illustration shutterstock/CoffeeTime.

Dewey Decimal Classification: 613

Subject Heading: HEALTH SELF-CARE \ CHRISTIAN LIFE \ HEALTH EDUCATION

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Christian Standard Bible, Copyright 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible and CSB are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

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Also used: English Standard Version. ESV Text Edition: 2016. Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Also used: The Message , Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson.

Also used: The Living Bible ( tlb ), copyright 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Also used: New American Standard Bible ( nasb ), copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

Also used: New Living Translation, ( nlt ), copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Also used: New King James Version ( nkjv ), copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Also used: King James Version ( kjv ), public domain.

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Dedication

I am dedicating this book to my seven grandchildren, praying God will create in each of them the passion of Living Fit.

I love you, Peyton, Reese, Parker, Beckham, Jack, Norah, and Maya.

Always remember: I love you more!

One Thousand Thank Yous

One thousand thank yous to the following people who have contributed to Living Fit: Make Your Life Count By Pursuing A Healthy You :

• Gayla Oldham and Melissa Swain, for their work of editing and proofing this manuscript.
• Brian Dunaway, Director of Communications at Cross Church, who has helped me think through this book and its message as well as the communication aspects of it.
• Our incredible Cross Church Communications Team, for their assistance in creating the cover of this book and formulating a strategy to communicate it with the world: Andrew Albright, Miguel Gamboa, Tori Lasater, Clayton Lyon, Mary Michels, John Phillips, Betsy Puckett, and Denise Smith.
• My literary agent, Robert Wolgemuth, and his gifted associate, Austin Wilson, and the entire team at Wolgemuth and Associates.