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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, good morning, Good morning.

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It is Friday, June twenty one, twenty twenty four. My name

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is El David Harris. I am
your noisy host. I thought mute,

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Mike was muted. I apologize.
And this is your Daily Portion where we

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give you God's word every single day, and today is no exception. We

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are continuing in our lesson study series
the Great Controversy for just over a week

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now, and our caption tea on
this preparation day is prepared prepared. That

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is our caption for today. We'll
get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com.
Please join our online community, join our

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coaching program, let us know where
you are in the world. And this

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is a way that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. We have said

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so much over the last twelve solid
weeks. Today we're going to talk about

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preparation, and yeah, let's go
ahead and pray first, and then we

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will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity

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to be prepared, to be able
to know that we are in connection with

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you, knowing that whatever happens in
the final moments of the last days are

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what you've already told us would happened, and our preparatory for us to be

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in the Kingdom with you and with
you wherever you are for the rest of

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eternity. Maybe that's not even a
good way of saying it throughout the ceaseless

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ages of eternity. Please make us
holy in Jesus' name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. I am
fascinated, but not in the not for

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the reason that some might hear why
I'm saying. I'm not saying something that

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you might be thinking. I am
fascinated by preppers. Preppers. I'm talking

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about people who buy large properties and
dig giant holes in the ground and create

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bunkers and have all kinds of survival
style preparations, basically partially because some things

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happen way back in the day where
people needed bomb shelters, or some people

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are paranoid. Some people think that
armageddon is something that you can prepare for

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on planet Earth, and then when
you know a lot of people are just

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gone all of a sudden, then
they can come out of their bunkers and

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be prepared. And I know I
may be given preppers a bad rap,

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respect I'm just saying I want to
be prepared for the coming of the Lord,

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because it's not going to be that
all of the food on planet Earth

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will go away. It's not going
to be that all of the water or

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a lot of the powdable water supply
is going to be somehow tainted. And

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then where those who are prepared will
be safe and those who are not won't

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be It's not going to be some
strange kind of takeover with wicked people who

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are taking over the world and you
who are able to prepare yourselves with let's

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call it protection. Because I think
the social media platforms are really interesting these

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days. Looking for certain words but
you if you protect yourself in a certain

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way, then you're good to go. And then the rest. I don't

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know what to tell you. Sorry, No, this is not what I

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want to be prepared for, because
really and truly God has already told us

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what will happen, how it will
happen, and we're seeing signs of when

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those things become closer. And so
I want to give you just a few

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keys, a few keys to prepare
for the final crisis or crisis, really

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the final crisis, and then this
will all be over. Okay. So

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let's do it basically like we're going
to do fundamentals today. Nothing too deep,

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but I promise it'll change your life
if you if you espouse it.

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Okay. And so we're going to
the Bible Book of Matthew, chapter twenty

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four, and we are reading four
and five verses four and five. And

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Jesus, in answer to a question
that his disciples had asked him about the

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things that he was talking about,
when shall these things be and the sign

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of thy coming and of the end
of the world, he said, watch

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out that no one deceives you,
for many will come in my name claiming

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I am Christ and will deceive many. So God is saying that we need

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to be in a deeper relationship with
Him to know his voice, to know

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when God is pouring into us,
so that when anything or anyone speaks and

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claims to be God huh or manifests
itself even before your eyes, you will

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be able to discern whether it is
Jesus or whether it is not, Whether

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it is God's voice or whether it
is the Enemy's voice. They're the only

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two options. Everybody is either on
as on one or the other of the

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two sides. So strengthen your faith, brothers and sisters, I'm saying it

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to me through regular prayer, regular
Bible reading and study, and fellowship with

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other believers who have the same goals. A community of believers and a strong

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connection with God will transform your life. Hear the voice of God by listening

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for him every day through prayer,
through his word, and then of course

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the collective of believers we come together
and we discern His voice. Now,

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of course you want to have a
grasp of Bible prophecy as much as you

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can in the last days as well. And so we get the idea just

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really quickly from the Book of Daniel, chapter two, and the Bible reads

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that he changed, He changes times
and seasons. He disposes kings, deposes

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kings. I didn't mean disposes,
deposes kings, and raises up others.

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He gives wisdom to the wise and
knowledge to the discerning. Of course,

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in that time we were seeing a
discussion where nepichad Nezzer why he was having

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an interesting time because he was rejecting
God because he thought he was God.

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And then God introduced himself basically,
and the fact is that God does.

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He raises kings, he raises presidents
and other leaders of our countries, and

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he brings them down. And Daniel
the prophecies and Daniel and in Revelation show

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how all of these stand up and
they sit down. According to Daniel chapter

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eleven, they're up and then they're
down. And then we see in Daniel

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chapter twelve, at some point very
soon we will see mi kl him stand

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up for God for his people.
And the next time that there is a

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sitting down, he is sitting down
on the univers's throne and throned as king

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of kings and Lord of lords.
Blessed be his name. And so we

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want to understand Bible prophecy, and
how God is in the affairs of humans,

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even the ones that lead the world, and how it impacts on the

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rest of us, and what we
need to do in order to lead people

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closer to God so that hopefully they
will decide, yes, I love Him

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just like you do, and then
they will serve him. Okay. So

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study the prophecies, not just for
facts and information, not just for times

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and timelines, not just for an
understanding of the symbol, but to have

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a close relationship with God, knowing
that He is still in the affairs of

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human kind. Okay, And so
we want to live a life of obedience.

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In Revelation, chapter fourteen and verse
twelve, the Bible reads, here

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is the patience of the saints.
Here are they that do what keep the

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commandments of God. We don't want
to gloss over that and make it seems

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like it's not a big deal.
It's just a basic principle. No,

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He has given us ten commandments to
let us know what his will and pleasure

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is for our lives, a transcript
of his character. And so when he

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says be holy, for I the
Lord thy God, am holy, he's

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saying, this is the measure of
holiness. This is the measure of love.

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Those who love God will keep his
commandments because his love empowers people to

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keep his commandments. Are you getting
this? And so a life of obedience

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is key right here? That keep
the commandments of God. How do they

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do that? They have the faith
of Jesus. They have the faith.

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We have the faith of Jesus.
Okay. And then, of course we

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want to build a community or be
a part of the community of believers of

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faith. In Hebrews Chapter ten,
verses twenty four and twenty five, it

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says, and let us consider how
we may spur one another on toward love

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and good deeds, not giving up
meeting together as some are in the habit

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of doing, but encouraging one another. And all the more as we see

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the day approaching, this is some
of what we need to do. How

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we must live in order to be
prepared. Are you prepared? Peace?

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread

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alone, but by every word that
comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el
David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,