VISION
Spreading the love of Jesus through physical and mental health practices for a wholehearted faith.
In Matthew 28:16-20 Jesus gives his disciples something that is known as The Great Commission; “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
At Revelation Wellness, we believe being a follower of Christ is not a spectator sport. Each of us is called by name, by God, to awaken to a new life.
To be a disciple and follow Him means we will be sent to places we never thought we could go and do things we never thought we could do. God’s Spirit living in us (The Holy Spirit) enables and empowers each of us for such a call. As we obey the call, we become the person God created us to be – a process known as sanctification.
Disciples believe God delights in them because they are His sons and daughters and that He also disciplines (leads, teaches, and instructs) those He loves. As disciplined and delighted in sons and daughters of God and co-heirs with Christ, we are being sent into the world to tell others about the goodness, holiness, and wholeness of a good God.
To be a disciple and follow Him means we will be sent to places we never thought we could go and do things we never thought we could do.
God’s Spirit living in us (The Holy Spirit) enables and empowers each of us for such a call. As we obey the call, we become the person God created us to be – a process known as sanctification.
Disciples believe God delights in them because they are His sons and daughters and that He also disciplines (leads, teaches, and instructs) those He loves. As disciplined and delighted in sons and daughters of God and co-heirs with Christ, we are being sent into the world to tell others about the goodness, holiness, and wholeness of a good God.
But many believers in Christ feel stuck and find it difficult to live the life that Jesus died to give. Revelation Wellness is committed to helping people get unstuck, to live free in body, soul, heart, and mind so they can go and set others free.
Jesus tells us in John 16:33 that in this world we will have trouble. Living in a troubled world means we will encounter pain and suffering. Aches and pains are not only experienced in our minds psychologically but biologically too. The trouble a person lives through doesn’t just negatively affect their souls and spirits but also the healthy structure and operation of their brains, and it decreases their immune system, leaving a hurting person more susceptible to sickness, chronic illness, and disease. When a person isn’t thinking or feeling well, they have a hard time using the physicality of their body to choose what is best. When a believer in Christ knows their body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and should steward it as such, and can’t seem to do so, it’s not because they lack willpower, love for God, or faith. Often it is because they’ve lived through painful experiences which disrupted the healthy operation of their brain, interrupting the interconnection of their heart, mind, soul, and body, making it difficult to live their faith.
Every day, countless people roam the earth looking for solutions to heal their aches and pains due to the adversity they have lived through. A painful experience does not occur in our minds and brains alone, but also in our bodies. When people hurt in body, soul, heart, and mind due to a poor health diagnosis, or the messages of the world that tell them their body is not good, Revelation Wellness, our leaders and communities around the world help people take heart.
The health and beauty industry tries to solve the problem of our failing bodies that don’t seem to meet the world’s standards, while the Kingdom of God brings the good news that God doesn’t look at the outward appearance of a man but at his heart (1 Samuel 16:7). With this Good News, many believers in Jesus Christ have discarded the value and importance of our human body. But we cannot remove the importance of the body as it is inextricably tied to loving God with our whole self – heart, soul, mind, and strength.
The greatest commandment Jesus gave us was to love God will all our hearts,, all our souls, all our minds, and all our strength. Revelation Wellness believes in the importance of the body as it relates to the mind and the mind as it relates to the body. A healthy mind and body connection.
All our Revelation Wellness trainings help people connect back to their hearts (feelings), minds (thoughts), and souls (who they were uniquely designed to be, their bodies included) so they may love God with all their strength and ability.
Revelation Wellness believes the human body was designed by God for our ability, not vanity.
In Jesus Christ, healing is possible. Sometimes healing happens in a prayerful miracle moment, and sometimes it happens through the faithful practices of living as a God-embodied being. A God-embodied person lives from the reality that they are a deeply loved child of God, belong to God’s kingdom, is filled with His presence by the power of His Holy Spirit, and is here to make the earth look more like heaven. God-embodied people are transformed by the love of God and bring transformation to the world around them with the joy of the Lord that is their strength. Godly embodied people can feel and process pain and suffering without being overcome. Living as a God-embodied people requires training.
Revelation Wellness provides practices and training for people who want to love God and follow Jesus with their whole hearts. A wholehearted faith with a burning love for Jesus is the point of our training and practices. The practices are not the point of what we do. Jesus is. The practices lead people to His presence.
MISSION
OUR MISSION: HELPING PEOPLE LOVE GOD, GET HEALTHY, BE WHOLE, AND LOVE OTHERS.
The four key principles of our mission at Revelation Wellness are:
Many of us profess to love God with our mouths, but our hearts are still far from Him. In the ways we choose to act, think, and feel about our circumstances or other people, it’s possible to be a Christian by name but not by lifestyle. When we believe one thing in our hearts spiritually, but do differently with our actions physically we prove ourselves to be disintegrated from our core beliefs. Loving God is an all-encompassing, holy and whole endeavor. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” (Mark 12:29-30). Loving God is our full-time life assignment. Because our love for God is built on relationship, not only does our life’s purpose require us to love God but also to let God love us. God’s perfect love drives out all fears that keep us thinking, acting, and choosing in destructive ways.
As stated above, there are many places in our lives where we betray what we believe with our behavior. There is unhealth that resides in each of us for we all come to the cross in need. We all come with a story of pain, disappointments, and regret. Places in our lives where shame and guilt easily condemn our hearts. Getting healthy will be very messy at times. Learning a new way to think, feel, act, and choose takes faithfulness – the ongoing desire to continue to show up and grow up in the ways of Christ, even if we fell short the day before. This is a process the Bible calls sanctification. And much like a challenging workout, sanctification is uncomfortable. Through their classes, meetups, events, and gatherings, a Revelation Wellness Instructor opens the door for all to come as they are, no matter their size, ability, or background story, to hear about The One who by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). Revelation Wellness Instructors provide safe and encouraging spaces for people to continue to become new creations; to work out their salvation as God continues to work in them with His perfect love that casts out all fear that feeds our heart’s dis-ease.
Because getting healthy will be hard and messy at times, we remind people that no matter how hard their situation may be, their belief in Jesus gives them the right to stay whole. Living whole is the way we maintain peace. It is Christ’s peace He left with us no matter what trouble we face in this world (John 14:27). God’s peace is what we have the right to receive, always, because on the cross Jesus said “It is finished:”(John 19:30). No weapon forged against us can prevail since Jesus dealt with the sin on the cross. By His blood shed on the cross, Jesus overcame the power of death and the effects of sin for all mankind, for any who might believe in Him. Even though each of us is always in the process of becoming a new creation, in Christ, we have the right to stay whole – to stay still, to keep our peace. When The Good Surgeon shows up to work on our hearts (sanctification), it’s best we stay still, keep our peace and keep breathing because “This too shall pass.” Wholeness is a state of remaining at peace while we are in the process of becoming. Wholeness belongs in and on God’s people.
The second of the two greatest commandments that Jesus gives us is to love others as we love ourselves (Mark 12:31). We would be hard pressed to find anyone who would disagree that loving others is a good thing and the right thing to do. The challenge is how can we love others with a sustainable and enduring love if we haven’t taken the time to be loved by God – to get healthy and be whole? Since God is love (1 John 4:8), meaning He is the source, the instigator, and progenitor of love, it is impossible for us to love others with a healthy love unless we ourselves receive God’s love that drives out our stinking thinking, faulty feeling, and destructive choosing. God is love, and His truth sets us free to love others even if they choose not to love us in return. Even if we are mocked, scorned, or hated, like Christ, we can still choose to love. This is the highest form of love for God and others. It’s a love that is not self-seeking. Love for God and from God, above all else or others, fills us up, sets us free from needing the love of man, and makes us the humblest of servants who seek to serve and not be served – to meet needs and heal hurts. By showing up to do our part of loving God, getting healthy, and remaining whole, we are best fit for this kind of Love. It’s this kind of love that displays the goodness of God on earth. When we have this kind of love for others, we are best fit to carry the Good News message of the Gospel to the ends of the earth without needing love from man in return. We love because we have first been loved. As disciples of Christ, we want the world to know there is room in His house for them too (John 14:2)!
CORE VALUES
GOD FIRST. NO GIMMICKS. FREEDOM LIVING.
The fitness and wellness industry is a wonderful realm that can get noisy. With new products and promotions popping up in every magazine or social media feed, it’s easy for us all to get lost in the promises of achieving a better version of ourselves. None of these things is bad in and of themselves. It’s our hearts that get easily lost when we look only to what can be seen. We believe one of the best ways to keep ourselves from getting lost in a sea of “do this or don’t do that” is to be a Matthew 6:33 people; “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” At Revelation Wellness we seek God first and most so we might know how and when to give our best yes to God, ourselves, and others.
Gimmicks occur when lofty promises are made in order to attract attention. Many people have been discouraged by their health and wellness experiences because not only did someone make a promise to them that they couldn’t keep, but they also couldn’t keep their own promises to themselves. This ongoing pattern of broken promises fuels the cycle of shame and can keep people feeling unworthy of God’s redeeming love. At Revelation Wellness we hold all people in high honor and esteem. We consider it a privilege to walk alongside people who desire to get better and not just feel better. We see all our classes, trainings, and events as a holy and whole space for people to grow in relationship with a God who keeps all His promises. We want to be a safe place for people to reset and refresh if they have been taken captive by the desires of their flesh. You are welcome here if you are a product line representative. We are not anti-supplement or anti-product, but we are anti-gimmick. Join us as we see people as opportunities to serve, to build them up as image-bearers of God, and never as opportunities for personal or platform growth.
If there’s one thing we get excited about at Revelation Wellness, it’s the idea of helping people get free from their patterns of obsessing and neglecting the things of this world; from worshipping created things over creator God (Romans 1:28). Worship occurs wherever, whenever, and to whomever we ascribe highest value, and to whom or where we go looking for our needs to be met. To be human is not a matter of if we will worship, it’s a matter of who or what we will worship because everybody has a hungry heart. Anything we give highest value to that is not God is what the Bible calls idolatry – giving ourselves away to a false god. Idolatry takes our hearts captive, leading us into bondage and away from living healthy, whole, and free. At Revelation Wellness, we are excited to partner with God as He does His healing and redemptive work of setting all the captives free to love God, get healthy, be whole, and love others because free people free people.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
WHAT WE BELIEVE
WE BELIEVE THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, WHO EXISTS FOR ALL ETERNITY IN THREE PERSONS: THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.
(Mark 12:28-32, Deuteronomy 6:5, Micah 6:8)
(Romans 11:36, John 1:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6, 1 Corinthians 11:12)
(1 Timothy 2:3-4, John 3:16-18, 1 Corinthians 15:3-5)
(2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 6:15, Isaiah 43:19, Ezekiel 36:26, Romans 6:4, Ephesians 4:24, Revelation 21:5)
(Colossians 1:17, John 8:58, 1 Thessalonians 5:23)
(Isaiah 43:10-13, John 14:6)
WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT IS THE DIVINELY AUTHORED AND AUTHORITATIVE WORD OF GOD. IT IS COMPLETE IN ITS CURRENT CANONICAL FORM.
(2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:20-21, Luke 24:27)
