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02 11 2026 Think on These Things · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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