Guard You Heart and Mind

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Renounce Everything for Christ

Philippians 4:2-9 The Message

Pray About Everything

2 I urge Euodia and Syntyche to iron out their differences and make up. God doesn’t want his children holding grudges.
3 And, oh, yes, Syzygus, since you’re right there to help them work things out, do your best with them. These women worked for the Message hand in hand with Clement and me, and with the other veterans—worked as hard as any of us. Remember, their names are also in the Book of Life.
4-5 Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you’re on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute!
6-7 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
8-9 Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

For Reflection

Celebrate God every day. Don't fret of worry.
Shape your worries into prayers.
Don't hold back with God.

Fill your minds with things, true.
Fill your minds with things noble.
Fill your minds with things reputable.
Fill your minds with things authentic.
Fill your minds with things gracious.
Fill your minds with things beautiful.

Spend time with God.
Shrink the distance between you and God.

God will displace worry.
God will bring you wholeness.
God will bring you to rest.

Pray

Pray about all things.
Just pray.
It's about you and God together.

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