Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, February eleven,
twenty twenty six. 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is think on these things things.
I love it, Thank on these things. Before I get
into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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faith and fellowship. Let's pray and get underway. Father, thank
you for giving us the blueprint for our thought process
and our mindset. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
a man again. All right, So in a moment, we're
going to jump right into that blueprint. That blueprint in
Philippians chapter four. But first I like to read from
a quote in eighteen seventy four the Review in Herald.
The heart becomes tranquil. When's the last time you've used
that word, The heart becomes tranquil. That's a peacefulness. That's
beyond peace as far as I'm concerned. When the mind
dwells on heavenly things for the truth of God quiets
the soul and draws it upward. Wow. Wow wow wow. Okay.
Testimonies for the Church, Volume five, page three hundred ten.
This is a good one and it'll make sense why
we're reading this one. Right thinking and right acting are
essential to a strong symmetrical character. The thoughts must be
bound about, restrained, withdraw from dwelling upon things that only
weaken and defile the soul. Let's go ahead into the
Bible before I start preaching. Okay, Philippians chapter four. Philippians
chapter four, beginning at verse eight. Okay, here's the blueprint.
You want to know on what to think on, what
to dwell. Here it is, finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true? Okay,
that's one. Whatsoever things are honest? That actually means worthy
of respect, That means worthy of respect. Whatsoever things are just,
that means righteous. Whatsoever things are pure? Well, you know
what that means. Whatsoever things are lovely? Let's look that
word up. Lovely. Lovely means friendly towards that is acceptable,
friendly towards that is acceptable. Okay, lovely? Whatsoever things are
of good report? What does good report mean? Praiseworthy or
excellent or praise excellent? Excuse me? If there be any virtue,
if there be any praise, then think on these things.
That's it. Like, If it doesn't qualify like, if it
doesn't go into those categories. Then do not dwell on
those things. You must put those other things out of
your mind. You must replace them with scripture. I must
replace them with scripture that aligns with this. Until our
minds don't even tend toward, or lean or bend toward
those things that are not qualified here verse nine, those
things which ye have both learned and received and heard
and seen in me, Do that. Do that, and the
God of Peace shall be with you always. Now, some
people are like, okay, let me just tell you a
quick story. It's almost it almost sounds like a joke,
but it is not funny. Okay. So I'm an elder.
One of my friends is an elder. We're talking about
twenty some years ago. We go to a video store.
Now you know how long that was? Where you got,
you know, a video because our wives were at home
with some other folks, waiting that we could maybe have
some entertainment for the evening. I usually fall asleep during movies,
so you know, I was just going because we needed
to go, because that's what the people wanted. Okay. So yeah,
we go in there and I'm like, brother, there's nothing
in here to watch. Literally, there's literally nothing in here.
To watch. And he's like, what do you mean. I
was like, well, this one has been words, this one
is on some lewd behavior. This one over here is
based on this, this one is based on that. Brother,
there's nothing to see here. Let's get out of here.
And he was like what. He was like, you expect
that you're going to find something that lines up with
Philippians for a I'm serious, this happened. There's not going
to be anything without no bad words. It's not going
to be anything with no elicit whatever behavior. And I'm like, okay,
that's our problem as believers. We are acquiescing, we are
yielding our minds because we're like, oh, there's no way
to actually live Philippians four eight. I was like, brother,
there's nothing in here for us to watch, so we
shouldn't get anything. Let's push like, let's get let's get
out of here. I won't tell you the rest of
the story. It's not important at this moment. But the
Bible teaches us that when people are talking to you,
when you're choosing your entertainment, when you are choosing your
reading material, when you are entertaining, the thoughts that may
come into your mind, like Eve at the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. When the devils start talking,
that talk rapping to her talking about some did God
say yay to God say and you shall not surely, Oh,
that's not honest, that's not of good report, that's not
praise worthy. She should have rejected immediately that thought. She
was perfect, by the way, So I am not sympathetic
or empathetic because she had a perfect mind. I don't
understand fully what happened. I know she was deceived. I
know that Adam jumped into sin, but I just don't
fully get it. But now that we are on this
side of the sin equation, now that we have the
privilege of rebirth, that we have the privilege of hindsight,
which is twenty twenty vision, we get to say, what
did you tell us God? And then go down through
the list and measure every conversation, every opportunity to entertain
a thought, every time we're going to make an action.
If it does not line up with those things, then
don't trouble it. Lessen number one. I think I've been
passionate enough on this point. Lesson number one, God's peace
guards against the inner life like a military garrison protecting
both the heart and the mind. Let me go to
verse seven. Verse seven, and the peace of God, which
passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and your minds
through Christ. That means to guard to garrison or to
build around, and to stand watch as a soldier. So
God's peace is not a passive kind of peace. It
is walking out of that video store. It is rejecting
that conversation. It is rejecting the thought and replacing the
thought with the Bible, which is God's word, which will
not return unto him void. It actively stands guard over
the believer's thoughts and emotions, not just the intellect, but
also the emotion, over the thoughts and emotions against fear. Oh,
that's a big one. And falsehood. And so the action
step is to pause a few times today, maybe three,
and silently pray, Lord, guard my heart and my mind.
Please God, with your peace, with your peace. And our
final one for today is peace flourishes when the mind
is trained to dwell upon truth, purity, righteousness, and everything
that reflects God's character. Think on these things, brothers and sisters.
See you tonight at prayer school. Peace sevanly joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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,