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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: January 20, 2019

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Philippians 4:8)

Our thoughts are broken and need to be fixed.

Life Lesson (from Grandma McGee) (Philippians 4:8)

If you can't find anything good to say, don't say anything at all.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Phil 4:8 NLT

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

2 Cor 10:4-5 NKJV

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

2 Cor 10:5 KJV

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

1 Tim 4:15 NKJV

Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.

1 Tim 4:15 NLT

Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress.

1 Tim 4:15 NLT

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

1 Tim 4:15 NASU

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

Josh 1:8 NKJV

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Ps 63:6 NKJV

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night watches.

Ps 63:6 NLT

I lie awake thinking of you,
meditating on you through the night.

Ps 77:12 NKJV

I will also meditate on all Your work,
And talk of Your deeds.

Ps 119:15 NKJV

I will meditate on Your precepts,
And contemplate Your ways.

Ps 119:27 NKJV

Make me understand the way of Your precepts;
So shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.

Ps 119:48 NKJV

My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments,
Which I love,
And I will meditate on Your statutes.

Ps 119:48 NLT

I honor and love your commands.
I meditate on your decrees.

Ps 119:78 NKJV

Let the proud be ashamed,
For they treated me wrongfully with falsehood;
But I will meditate on Your precepts.

Ps 119:148 NKJV

My eyes are awake through the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your word.

Ps 143:5 NKJV

I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all Your works;
I muse on the work of Your hands.

Ps 145:5 NKJV

I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,
And on Your wondrous works.

Isa 33:18 NKJV

Your heart will meditate on terror:
"Where is the scribe?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?"

Mal 3:16 NKJV

Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who meditate on His name.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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