Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

I'm not sure if you can hear any audio difference, but we are back on our old microphones,

the infamous amazing ones that we have that actually were a huge blessing to us.

I don't think I've ever shared this story, but whenever we started mornings of the Masters or formerly known as the Messy Masterpiece Podcast. We had these

forty dollar microphones off of Amazon and they did great, but they had a lot of issues

and they were breaking a lot and we had some dear friends of ours kind of hear about that and they heard our

heart for the podcast and what we wanted to do and they actually gifted us a set of

like the at the time was the highest quality equipment you could buy.

There wasn't some crazy commercial equipment.

So these have continued to be a blessing for us and to others.

So we're very thankful for that.

Just kind of fun little story.

Anyways, we're picking back up with new morning mercy so I'm going to take from here.

It says this, what captures your mind will control your thoughts and it will dominate the desires of your heart.

Outside of intentional moments of public or private worship,

what occupies your private meditation?

That which dominates your meditation shapes the way you view yourself, life, and God, and your view of those things shape the choices you make and the actions that you take.

Is your meditation kidnapped by the disloyalty of that good friend,

the sorry state of your finances,

the disappointment with your church,

the dysfunction of your extended family,

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