Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
speaker, Elle David Harris gool. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
It is Thursday, April eighteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
Our caption for today is Battel for the Mind. Battle for the Mind.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
under way. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
and for the privilege that we have to open your word again. Please give
us the fullness of your understanding and your word. Please teach us how to
serve you and how to love you, how to do your will. Father,
Please please help us to yield our minds to you. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. The battle for the mind.
Really, that's what our series could be called for these thirteen weeks. The
great controversy really is the battle for the mind. Because wherever our mind goes,
where our energy moves. Ah. Whatever we are settling our minds on,
that's what in our determination will be. Whatever we focus on will guide
us to the end. That's related to the focus. If all I focus
on is vehicles and money, then really the outcome of my life is maybe
I'll have money and a bunch of cars. If my focus is on my
belly, then all I'll be able to accomplish is having more of a belly
because of my intake of food. If my intellect is and spirit and emotions
are are focused on poor entertainment, then that means that the only outcome that
I can have is whatever the entertainment is bringing forward to my mind. You
see. But if I yield my will to God and my mind is centered
on things of God, then all that I do, all that I enjoy,
all that I involve myself in, will be godly. I didn't say
religious, I said godly. So when I enjoy nature with my wife Simon
and with Josiah, it will be in a way that pleases God. When
I enjoy things that He enjoys. Josiah enjoys, He enjoys vehicles won't it
won't be it won't be overboard, It'll be balanced. It'll be something that
we can enjoy it together. And God is saying, well, this I
have put here for your enjoyment, you see. And when we come to
the things that are holy, we will not get confused about them and make
them unholy. The Bible says, woe unto those in Isaiah chapter five who
call the things of God to be evil, and the things that are evil,
we try to make those holy. God says, don't get that twisted
like, don't get that mixed up. Make certain that when you are yielding
your will to me meaning God, then what I see is what you see.
My mindset is your minds. You are in agreement with me. You
see, confession and holiness are agreement with God. And so the Bible says,
let this mind be in you, or allow this to be your reality,
which was also in Christ Jesus. And then the Bible teaches us the
type of mindset Jesus had in humility and holiness and submission to God. And
Paul said, now, because God has demonstrated his power through Christ to be
all that I just described him more now that message of holiness through the Gospel
of Jesus, Christ meaning Jesus gave his life. He lived a perfect life
on planet Earth, so that and then when he gave his life on the
cross of Calvary, he died in our place, so that in his resurrection
power we can live holy lives. So Paul said, he's not ashamed of
the Gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
that believe. So those who have the mind of Christ have the power of
salvation because we believe in Him. Yes, when illicit drugs are a temptation,
we can walk away and embrace a relationship with God. Why because we
have his mindset. Not when people want us to gossip and to have even
a poverty mindset. We can replace those gossip minded people in our minds and
the mindset and the improvished mindset with the mindset of Christ, who says we're
above and not beneath. We're the head and not the tail. We're the
lender and not the borrower. That will be blessed in so many different ways,
as according to Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, verses one through fourteen. And
so the mind of Christ submits to the will of God our Father, and
we live holy lives as a result. Okay, and so tewod Corinthians chapter
four, beginning at verse six reads, but even if our gospel is veiled,
it has veiled only to those who are perishing. So this is a
way of saying that in twenty twenty four, I'm going to bring it to
today. In twenty twenty four, if we are living on planet Earth,
God has revealed himself through Jesus Christ and through his word, the power of
God into salvation I described and if people are not seeing it, knowing that
the Holy Ghost is doing all that is possible in order to lead people to
him. When people aren't seeing it, it's because they're perishing. They're perishing.
They're people who refuse to be transformed. There are people who resist the
urges of the power of God. I hope that's not you Verse four,
among whom the God of this age has blinded the minds of those who do
not believe, so they would not see the light of the glorious Gospel of
Christ, who is the md of God. I have a friend who is
angry with This person says, if there is a God angry because of some
things that happened many, many, many many years ago, and the way
this individual interprets what's happening on planet Earth today, and that individual, unfortunately
is choosing because I know that this individual has had access to the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, but in this moment, in this moment, this person is
choosing to be deceived, to choosing to be blinded, because this person's life
is not submitted to God. And anybody who doesn't choose to submit to God
are choosing blindness, are choosing darkness rather than light. And so the Bible
continues verse five, for we do not proclaim ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord,
and ourselves as your servants, for Jesus' sake. For God, who
says let the light shine out of darkness, is the one who shined in
our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the
face of Christ. And so even though we go through trials and temptations,
even though this world is really really weird and wicked both and at the same
time, even though there are things that we cannot explain about our existence these
days, because the devil is out here as a roaring lion seeking whom he
may devour. He's confusing a lot of things through politics and entertainment, even
sometimes politrics inside of the fellowship of believers. But God is saying that if
you will just yield your mind to him. Hmm. That means literally your
perception and your mental faculties to him. Then only what God teaches will you
live by. Only what God teaches will you embrace and be transformed by.
You will not be squeezed into the mold of this world, but you'll be
transformed I'll be transformed by the renewing of our minds. In fact, the
Bible Commentary SDA Bible Commentary, Volume six, page eight fifty four says the
Gospel is the only means by which by which Satan's diabolical schemes and deceptions can
be exposed, and by which people can see the way from darkness to light.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
who believes. You want to live according to the principles of God, then
yield your will to him. That's simple. Yield your will to him,
and let the power of the Gospel transform you and make you into the image
of Christ. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,
make it a great day. Yeah.