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Hey friends, you have found the morning mindset.

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I hope that's what you were looking for.

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This is our opportunity to get

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our minds aligned with the truth

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of God's Word today. I

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know you have either been in or have

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seen portrayed on television a courtroom scene where

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they have someone on the witness stand and

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the attorneys are asking questions. That

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scene is all based around. This

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need to get to the truth, to

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understand the facts of a

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situation and what is really true. That

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is an image that is so powerful for me

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when we think about this thing

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that Paul has been describing to us in

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Ephesians chapter 6 called spiritual

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warfare and putting

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on the armor of God which is

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our responsibility as believers in Christ. We

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are going to dig into that today on

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the morning mindset. So

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get out your Bibles, get out

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your journals. If you have a morning mindset

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journal, get that thing out. We are going

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to be digging into Ephesians chapter 6 verse

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14. You

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may hear me mention the morning mindset journal

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and wonder how could I get at my

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hands on one of those. You can go

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to morningmindsetmedia.com/ journal and

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it will take you to an Amazon page where

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you can purchase one for yourself. It is really

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just a guided opportunity for

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you to listen to the morning mindset right down to

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your thoughts and apply them to your

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life maybe in a more specific way than

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you would simply by listening. Go

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to morningmindsetmedia.com/journal. As

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we dig into Ephesians 6 again in

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our Christian behavior series, I am asking

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you to pray with me because we

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need God to be our teacher today.

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Our God and our King, Jesus Christ,

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we bow before you in humility knowing

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that you want to teach us

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today. There's something very

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encouraging, very comforting about

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that. You want my. mind to

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be enlivened with your truth. You want

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my heart to be spurred

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on with your truth. So Lord, give

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me eyes to see your truth today and a mind

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to understand it and a heart that is willing to

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apply it. We ask you to

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do this in us, in your name.

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Amen. As

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Paul has been talking to us about this

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imagery of putting on the armor

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of God, he is now going

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to begin giving us specific parts

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of that armor to consider.

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And remember, all of this is

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imagery, but the imagery has power.

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It represents something real and something

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true in a spiritual sense.

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So Ephesians 6.14 says, Stand therefore, again, he

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is going back to what he has previously

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said. Our goal is to stand against the

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schemes of the devil. And he

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says, Stand therefore, having

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fastened on the belt

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of truth. So

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he is likening this thing

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we call truth, which we are going to talk about

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in a moment, to a belt. So

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imagine a soldier of Paul's

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day, a Roman soldier, having this belt

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strapped around his waist. He has got it

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tightened down, cinched really tightly

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because that belt is going to hold

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some of his weaponry. That

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belt is going to support his midsection. That

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belt is also going to provide some protection.

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And what does Paul say that belt is? He says,

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in our context it is truth. We

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need to go into battle with

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truth, not with what

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we speculate about, not

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with our own theory or our

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own beliefs. We

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need to go into the battle with truth

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because truth is what matters. Go

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back to that courtroom scene. Why

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is everyone asking questions? Why

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is there a person on the witness stand to begin

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with? Well, it is because the to

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uncover the truth so

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that a right judgment can be made

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in that case. So

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turn around and look at your own life. How

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is truth beneficial to you in

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the day to day of your living? Well

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as a parent it is very important to know the

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truth of what is going on between

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your two kids when you have a situation to

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deal with, isn't it? As

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an employer or an employee it is

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very important to know the truth if

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you are going to deal rightly with

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the circumstances and potential conflicts that

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are happening between your workers. You

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see, truth affects all kinds of things

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and it affects most of all how

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we view the world. Because

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remember this context is one of

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spiritual warfare. We have an enemy

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who schemes against us and

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one of the things he does is he distorts

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the truth. If

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you go back to Genesis chapter 3 you

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see that is what he did from the

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very beginning. He distorted the truth, he twisted

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it so that it was no

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longer truth but a lie and

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he convinced Adam and Eve to

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accept his version of the truth. So

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friends when you hear people talk about

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standing in your truth I

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want you to read and reject that idea right away. Because

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there is not my truth in your truth,

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there is God's truth and that

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is all that matters. It is God's

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truth that guards our hearts and minds. And

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Lord we want you to give us your

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truth, to open our eyes to it, to

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help us take it in every day here on the

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morning mindset and in your word. But

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guide us to fight this battle

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according to what you say is

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true. sure

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if you are a believer in Jesus Christ

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or not, we'll become sure.

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Friends, you can know for sure.

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Go to morningmindsetmedia.com/meet

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Jesus. That link

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is in the description for this episode.

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I also want to make you aware that

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we've created a morning mindset journal.

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It's like a companion to the daily

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episodes that you can use to take

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notes, write out your thoughts, and even

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script out prayers to God, as

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you learned through the content we share

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on the morning mindset. Go

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to morningmindsetmedia.com/journal to get

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your copy.