Teaching | How to Become the Happiest Person Alive: Part 2 | Eating and Drinking E05
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In a culture that focuses on the negatives, how do we stand apart and live with joy? In part two of this teaching, John Mark talks about how to practice joy in our day-to-day lives and how the practice of eating and drinking together is one of the best ways to go about living a happy life.
Key Scripture Passages: Philippians 4v4-9
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https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/eating-drinking
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the eating and drinking practice. |
| 0:13.0 | There are two basic. |
| 0:20.0 | There are two basic steps, thinking and living, or put another way, first, set your mind on joy. |
| 0:29.0 | As we all know, you can't will joy. |
| 0:32.0 | Joy is more than an emotion but not less and you can't |
| 0:35.9 | will an emotion. There's no light switch on off. There's no light. Turn off the sad switch, |
| 0:41.1 | turn on the happy switch. Right? It doesn't exist. Turn off the stressed |
| 0:44.8 | out switch, turn on the chill. Like it doesn't exist. There's no, if you have a light switch, |
| 0:49.8 | please give me the podcast, right? |
| 0:52.5 | But we don't have control over our emotions. |
| 0:57.0 | Because of that, many people at the live |
| 0:59.5 | at the mercy of their emotions |
| 1:02.0 | live a kind of victim life at their. of their |
| 1:05.0 | emotion, |
| 1:06.0 | live the kind of victim life at their emotions, live the kind of casualty of their biochemical reactions. |
| 1:11.0 | But we do have control over our mind, our thought life, what we set our attention on, |
| 1:19.9 | what we give our mental real estate too, |
| 1:23.0 | and as a general rule, your feelings |
| 1:25.4 | follow your thinking. |
| 1:27.0 | It's a pretty basic stuff. |
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