Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

And today, we're continuing our series called The Habits of Happiness.

In this series, Rick dives into the book of Philippians and helps you discover God's path to true and lasting happiness.

Okay, here's the final part of a message called

How to Keep from stressing out.

If I want to reduce the stress in my life,

I worry about nothing, I pray about everything,

I thank God in all things, and number four, I think about

good things. I think about good things. Now this is extremely important because the stress

and your war with stress in your life, that war, that battle is going on between your ears.

The stress isn't out there, it's in here, it's inside, it's between your ears.

The battle is in your brain.

It's in your thought life, it's in your mind.

And your war with stress or won or lost in your mind.

And what you fill your mind with will determine the level of stress in your life if you want peace of mind now listen closely if you want peace of mind you're going to have to start controlling what you allow in it.

Most people, they just, their mind's like a freeway.

Anything can drive through it.

And they fill their mind with poison and garbage and stuffing and all kinds of things.

And you know, the mind is like a computer. It's G.I.G.O. Gar garbage in, garbage out. Whatever you put in your mind is going to come out in your life. And so they go and they see movies they shouldn't see, and they watch shows they shouldn't watch, and they read novels they should, and they listen to gossip they shouldn't listen to, and they just let anything in their mind. They worry about water pollution, they

worried about food pollution, they worry about air pollution, but they're not worried at all about

mind pollution, and yet that's the most serious pollution. I say, well, I'm just trying

to be open-minded. Some people are so open-minded, their brains fall out.

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