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03 08 2026 Heavenly-Mindedness · 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 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, March eight,
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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 Heavenly minded net. Let's
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  Speaker 2: say that three times, heavenly mindedness. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion Life Application guide, and please, please would you
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the privilege of coming together one more time. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you now to please make us heavenly minded
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  Speaker 2: and earthly good. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. So yeah, I just kind of gave you
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  Speaker 2: a sneak peek into my mind when I was praying,
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  Speaker 2: because we used to say, way back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: I was a little boy, and I used to hear
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  Speaker 2: my mom say it really that some people are so
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  Speaker 2: heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. That is
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  Speaker 2: not what we're talking about today. Not having our head
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  Speaker 2: up in the clouds, not making it seem as if
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  Speaker 2: nothing on planet Earth matters because we're going to heaven.
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  Speaker 2: That's not it. But when we are heavenly minded, When
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  Speaker 2: we are heavenly minded, that means that we are connecting
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  Speaker 2: so much with God that whatever his will is, whatever
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  Speaker 2: is going on in heaven, we need it. In earth. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so that is the goal. That is the goal.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go into the Bible book of Colossians, chapter three.
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  Speaker 2: That's Colossians chapter three, and I will read verses one
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  Speaker 2: through four three, verses one through four, and the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep
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  Speaker 2: seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the
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  Speaker 2: right hand of God. So now we have our positional perspective, Like,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to know what's important, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to look into the heavenly Throne room and see what's
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  Speaker 2: happening there with God seated with Christ at the right
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  Speaker 2: hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not
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  Speaker 2: on things on the earth, for ye are dead and
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  Speaker 2: your life is hid with Christ in God. So if
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  Speaker 2: your primary focus is what's right in front of you,
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  Speaker 2: like your bills, what car you have or don't have,
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  Speaker 2: the home that you have, these are all benign things.
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  Speaker 2: Like these are things that you know. We need somewhere
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  Speaker 2: to live. We need a way to move around, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's by foot, by animal, by bicycle, by motorbike, by scooter,
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  Speaker 2: by car, by suv, something else, boat, plane, or combination
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  Speaker 2: of all of what I just said, But that is
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  Speaker 2: not our focus. That may be a part of our reality,
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  Speaker 2: but it must not be our focus. Don't set your
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  Speaker 2: affection on the things beneath. Keep thinking about the things above,
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  Speaker 2: not the things on earth. For you have died and
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  Speaker 2: your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ,
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  Speaker 2: who is your life, appears, then you too will be
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  Speaker 2: revealed in glory with him. So where your treasure is,
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  Speaker 2: that's not in this text. So your heart will be
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  Speaker 2: also wherever your mind set is, that's where your body
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  Speaker 2: will be. You understand where we're going with this. This
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  Speaker 2: is what the Bible teaches us. And so our first
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  Speaker 2: lesson then is that heavenly mindedness requires being raised with Christ.
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  Speaker 2: That is a miracle. We were born in sin, shaping,
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  Speaker 2: in iniquity. You understand that, of course you do, because
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  Speaker 2: you were born like I was born. You were born
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  Speaker 2: from a woman's womb of some sort, like some kind
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  Speaker 2: of way. We were born of a woman, and so
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  Speaker 2: as a result of that we have the woman and
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  Speaker 2: the man's DNA. We have our parents' DNA, and with
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  Speaker 2: our parents' DNA comes these foibles, these predispositions towards sinning.
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  Speaker 2: The proclivity towards sinning were bent that way naturally, but
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  Speaker 2: supernaturally when we are reborn, when we take on the
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  Speaker 2: mindset of Christ, because we're submitting to God's will. Now
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  Speaker 2: we are dying to the mindset that tends to the
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  Speaker 2: earth and being raised to the mindset that Jesus had.
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  Speaker 2: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus others focused. God's will be done focused, you understand.
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  Speaker 2: And so heavenly mindedness requires the miracle of resurrection. We submit,
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  Speaker 2: we die to self, and we need the miracle of resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: So Paul makes heavenly mindedness conditional. Uh oh, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: begin with discipline, effort or spiritual elevation. It begins with resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God is making the first move. Only those
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  Speaker 2: who have died with Christ and have been raised with
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  Speaker 2: Him can seek heavenly things. Without resurrection, life heavenly focused
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  Speaker 2: becomes a religious aspiration rather than a spiritual reality. I
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  Speaker 2: just say it another way, like, if we don't have
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  Speaker 2: resurrection power in our lives, meaning if we're not raised
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  Speaker 2: to be holy with Christ, then what we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: is a possible. We can't even we can't even begin
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  Speaker 2: to do what God has called us to do if
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  Speaker 2: we don't receive the resurrection of life unto life. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so our action step is to ask yourself daily.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to fill in your name here, like,
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  Speaker 2: ask yourself honestly whether your pursuit of God flows from
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  Speaker 2: resurrection life or from personal effort? You know, all that
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  Speaker 2: praying that you're doing. Is it that you are trying
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  Speaker 2: to be like something, trying to be holy? You know how,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on here every day, sometimes twice a day, well
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  Speaker 2: really sometimes even three times a day. I would say
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  Speaker 2: on Sundays it's three times a day. Does that mean
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  Speaker 2: that I'm trying to do something? I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 2: brownie points somehow, earn some extra credit in heaven, like
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  Speaker 2: get an A on my report card? So God pats
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  Speaker 2: me on the back to say well done? Or is
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  Speaker 2: it because God's life is already resident in me and
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  Speaker 2: this is an out growth of that life? Okay? And
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  Speaker 2: so flows from resurrection life or from personal effort? And
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  Speaker 2: recommit daily to living from Christ's life within you. This
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  Speaker 2: is good. We're going to need the Holy Ghost to
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  Speaker 2: make that one make sense. Let's go with our second lesson,
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  Speaker 2: a hidden life produces a visible witness. I'll read the
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  Speaker 2: passage again in Colossians three and verse three. For ye,
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  Speaker 2: for you have died, and your life is hidden with
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  Speaker 2: Christ in God, a hidden life produces a visible witness. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me slow it down. Let me slow it down.
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  Speaker 2: So if I am covered in the righteousness of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: that that means that whatever I do, however I come
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  Speaker 2: into the world, however I share, then that is an
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  Speaker 2: outgrowth of God's character. And people are no longer really
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  Speaker 2: seeing me. They're seeing Christ within the hope of glory.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever they're seeing they can easily attribute to God, because
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  Speaker 2: human beings can do that, you understand. So the Christian
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  Speaker 2: life is hidden at its source, but visible in its expression.
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  Speaker 2: Our security is not found in our performance or consistency,
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  Speaker 2: but in union with Christ. Because our life is hidden
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  Speaker 2: with Him, we are safe even while we struggle. I
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  Speaker 2: just say that, Praise God. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for 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,