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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy.

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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, February eleven,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is think on these things things.

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I love it, Thank on these things. Before I get

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into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. Thank

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's pray and get underway. Father, thank

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you for giving us the blueprint for our thought process

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and our mindset. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and

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a man again. All right, So in a moment, we're

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going to jump right into that blueprint. That blueprint in

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Philippians chapter four. But first I like to read from

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a quote in eighteen seventy four the Review in Herald.

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The heart becomes tranquil. When's the last time you've used

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that word, The heart becomes tranquil. That's a peacefulness. That's

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beyond peace as far as I'm concerned. When the mind

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dwells on heavenly things for the truth of God quiets

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the soul and draws it upward. Wow. Wow wow wow. Okay.

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Testimonies for the Church, Volume five, page three hundred ten.

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This is a good one and it'll make sense why

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we're reading this one. Right thinking and right acting are

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essential to a strong symmetrical character. The thoughts must be

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bound about, restrained, withdraw from dwelling upon things that only

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weaken and defile the soul. Let's go ahead into the

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Bible before I start preaching. Okay, Philippians chapter four. Philippians

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chapter four, beginning at verse eight. Okay, here's the blueprint.

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You want to know on what to think on, what

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to dwell. Here it is, finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true? Okay,

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that's one. Whatsoever things are honest? That actually means worthy

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of respect, That means worthy of respect. Whatsoever things are just,

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that means righteous. Whatsoever things are pure? Well, you know

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what that means. Whatsoever things are lovely? Let's look that

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word up. Lovely. Lovely means friendly towards that is acceptable,

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friendly towards that is acceptable. Okay, lovely? Whatsoever things are

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of good report? What does good report mean? Praiseworthy or

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excellent or praise excellent? Excuse me? If there be any virtue,

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if there be any praise, then think on these things.

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That's it. Like, If it doesn't qualify like, if it

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doesn't go into those categories. Then do not dwell on

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those things. You must put those other things out of

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your mind. You must replace them with scripture. I must

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replace them with scripture that aligns with this. Until our

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minds don't even tend toward, or lean or bend toward

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those things that are not qualified here verse nine, those

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things which ye have both learned and received and heard

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and seen in me, Do that. Do that, and the

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God of Peace shall be with you always. Now, some

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people are like, okay, let me just tell you a

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quick story. It's almost it almost sounds like a joke,

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but it is not funny. Okay. So I'm an elder.

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One of my friends is an elder. We're talking about

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twenty some years ago. We go to a video store.

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Now you know how long that was? Where you got,

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you know, a video because our wives were at home

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with some other folks, waiting that we could maybe have

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some entertainment for the evening. I usually fall asleep during movies,

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so you know, I was just going because we needed

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to go, because that's what the people wanted. Okay. So yeah,

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we go in there and I'm like, brother, there's nothing

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in here to watch. Literally, there's literally nothing in here.

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To watch. And he's like, what do you mean. I

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was like, well, this one has been words, this one

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is on some lewd behavior. This one over here is

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based on this, this one is based on that. Brother,

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there's nothing to see here. Let's get out of here.

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And he was like what. He was like, you expect

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that you're going to find something that lines up with

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Philippians for a I'm serious, this happened. There's not going

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to be anything without no bad words. It's not going

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to be anything with no elicit whatever behavior. And I'm like, okay,

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that's our problem as believers. We are acquiescing, we are

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yielding our minds because we're like, oh, there's no way

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to actually live Philippians four eight. I was like, brother,

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there's nothing in here for us to watch, so we

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shouldn't get anything. Let's push like, let's get let's get

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out of here. I won't tell you the rest of

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the story. It's not important at this moment. But the

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Bible teaches us that when people are talking to you,

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when you're choosing your entertainment, when you are choosing your

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reading material, when you are entertaining, the thoughts that may

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come into your mind, like Eve at the tree of

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the knowledge of good and evil. When the devils start talking,

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that talk rapping to her talking about some did God

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say yay to God say and you shall not surely, Oh,

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that's not honest, that's not of good report, that's not

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praise worthy. She should have rejected immediately that thought. She

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was perfect, by the way, So I am not sympathetic

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or empathetic because she had a perfect mind. I don't

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understand fully what happened. I know she was deceived. I

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know that Adam jumped into sin, but I just don't

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fully get it. But now that we are on this

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side of the sin equation, now that we have the

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privilege of rebirth, that we have the privilege of hindsight,

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which is twenty twenty vision, we get to say, what

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did you tell us God? And then go down through

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the list and measure every conversation, every opportunity to entertain

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a thought, every time we're going to make an action.

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If it does not line up with those things, then

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don't trouble it. Lessen number one. I think I've been

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passionate enough on this point. Lesson number one, God's peace

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guards against the inner life like a military garrison protecting

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both the heart and the mind. Let me go to

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verse seven. Verse seven, and the peace of God, which

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passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and your minds

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through Christ. That means to guard to garrison or to

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build around, and to stand watch as a soldier. So

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God's peace is not a passive kind of peace. It

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is walking out of that video store. It is rejecting

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that conversation. It is rejecting the thought and replacing the

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thought with the Bible, which is God's word, which will

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not return unto him void. It actively stands guard over

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the believer's thoughts and emotions, not just the intellect, but

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also the emotion, over the thoughts and emotions against fear. Oh,

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that's a big one. And falsehood. And so the action

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step is to pause a few times today, maybe three,

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and silently pray, Lord, guard my heart and my mind.

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Please God, with your peace, with your peace. And our

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final one for today is peace flourishes when the mind

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is trained to dwell upon truth, purity, righteousness, and everything

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that reflects God's character. Think on these things, brothers and sisters.

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See you tonight at prayer school. Peace sevanly joining us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,