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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 us

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

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

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

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speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It

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is Friday, December eight, twenty
twenty three. Hello, my name is

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El David Harris. I am your
host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you guns word every
single day and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our Lesson study
series. God's mission, my mission,

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and our caption for today is God
Confidence, God Confidence. We'll get in

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to that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to

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you and happy happy preparation day.
I hope that you are doing well.

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I know that you are all over
the world, and that's a blessing because

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Jesus said He's coming back. After
this gospel is spread into all the world

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for a witness the Gospel of the
Kingdom, like we need to have this

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done, Like, let's get this
done so that Jesus can come. I'm

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tired of being down here. I
live somewhere very beautiful, and you some

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of you do too. But that, besides, that is besides the point,

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beside the point. I don't want
to be down here like this.

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I want to go to heaven for
a thousand years like God said, and

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after that, I want to live
on this planet the way He intended for

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it to be. But before I
get too far off into that, let

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me just say welcome to you and
ask you to go to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Look on there.
You'll see what I'm asking you to do

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there and we can continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and

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pray and then we will get Underwe
Father, thank you for giving us your

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spirit. Please give us confidence in
you in Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Yeah.
So, one of my friends, his

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name is Winston. He said that
God that people can can effect the two

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extremes without God, the two extremes, whatever the two extremes are. But

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in order to find balance, we
need the Holy Ghost. So some people

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are overly confident. That's an extreme. When I say confident, I mean

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self confident, overly confident in self
and your capability. And you're like,

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Dave, you're trying to give me
a complex, Dave, is it that

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you have a small mindset? No, if you really knew me how,

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you wouldn't even ask that question.
Ah. But if we have too much

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confidence in ourselves, or we lack
confidence all together, and we feel like

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we can't do anything right, or
we're fearful of every little thing. It's

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always something you're afraid of. You're
afraid of success, You're afraid of failure,

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afraid of what people will say,
You're afraid of who knows what else?

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What if I don't get another opportunity? What if I get hit by

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a truck? And I'm not making
this stuff up, Like this is stuff

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that I encounter with people all the
time. I coach people every single day

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of my life, well six days
a week and multiple times sometimes in a

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day, and I encounter this.
So what God wants us to do is

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to place our trust in Him.
That is to say, have balance,

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have a lot, a lot a
lot of confidence in God. Put your

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trust in God. Let's read now
from the book The Acts of the Apostles,

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pages two hundred forty and two hundred
forty one. We'll get into that

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now. The words of the Apostle
and the description of his attitude and surroundings,

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as traced by the pen of Inspi, were handed down to all coming

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generations, bearing witness of his unshaken
confidence, his courage and loneliness, and

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adversity, and the victory he gained
for Christianity in the very heart of paganism.

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Paul's words contain a treasure of knowledge
for God's people. He was in

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a position where he might easily have
said that which would have irritated his proud

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listeners and brought himself into difficulty.
Had his oration been a direct attack upon

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their gods and the great men of
the city, he would have been in

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danger of meeting the fate of Socrates. But in with tact born of divine

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love, he carefully drew their minds
away from heathen deities by revealing to them

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the true God who was to them
unknown. You see self confidence says just

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fire shots on the lie. You
see the lie. Shoot at the lie.

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You see the lie blow up the
lie. You see the lie fill

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in the blank, just hit it
dead on, and it's like, wait

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a minute, now, it is
not necessary to irritate your listeners at all

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times. Like there are times that
because God gives us the power of His

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Holy Spirit and gives us wisdom,
that we are to handle certain situations with

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kid gloves. Why because we're fearful. No no, no, no no.

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Our confidence is in God. Ah. We are trying to position people

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to hear the message my friend Darryl
Davis. Darryl Davis taught me many years

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ago because of where I come from
and the way that I used to communicate,

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because it's a harsh environment. I
wasn't born harsh. I'm not naturally

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harsh. I'm really peaceful. I'm
a peacemaker. I don't want any controversy.

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I don't like controversy. But because
of my socialization, there are times

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that I would just shoot messages straight
at the target, bang and say things

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and people couldn't process it. And
I would say, well, what can

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you What do you not understand about
what I said? And it's harsh and

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it's bold and it's forward, right
and what he said was speak so you

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can be heard, Dave, not
just for the sake of speaking. And

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I said, wait a minute,
and he said, your way of doing

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things, how's that been working for
you. You need to speak so you

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can be heard, not just for
speaking sake. And I'm like, okay,

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I got it. And from that
day on, I have not had

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the challenges that I used to have
where communication is concerned. Yeah, things

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can be mixed up, things can
be misunderstood. I got it. But

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God taught me through Darryl's insightful words, speak so you can be heard.

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And Paul spoke so he could be
heard. Ah. It was born of

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divine love, and he carefully drew
their minds away from those false gods by

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revealing to them the true God who
was to them unknown. What an incredible

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experience. So here are a few
things that we need to keep in mind.

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One cultural sensitivity. It is not
that we will bow and say that

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it is okay to sin because in
the particular culture, then that activity of

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sin is acceptable. That's not it, that's not it. Paul's approach exemplified

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that he respected the cultures and culture
and belief of his audience, not that

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he agreed, not that he acquiesced, but that he respected them enough and

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what God wanted to do in them
that he did not unnecessarily notice that word

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necessarily ruffle feathers. Again, common
ground. We talked about this the other

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day. He also sought common ground, like he could agree with what was

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true. What was true is that
there was one of the so called deities

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that they worshiped that said that was
dedicated this space was dedicated to the quote

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unknown God. So he could agree
that they had one space for the God

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for something they didn't understand. And
it's like, okay, well let's use

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that. So you worship, I
worship, you worship God's I worship God.

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Oh, here's one that is not
familiar to you. I worship the

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one True and Living God. Let's
insert here. So common ground was very

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very important when he was having this
discussion, uh, in terms of faith.

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And then I want you to think
about explaining yourselves, explaining the truth

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of God's word, the truth about
things that lead and tend toward God patiently.

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Patiently. Some preachers, teachers,
people who give testimonies, people with

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whom you work who are supposed to
be believers, are so irritable, always

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arguing and fighting on social media,
always arguing and fighting on the bus or

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at work about some point of Bible
teaching. That's called doctrine. All Bible

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teaching is called doctrine. I wish
I had the time, And God is

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saying, where are you getting this
irritable spirit? That is not the way

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that I taught you? So patiently
explain hah, with meekness and with fear,

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and of course, of course there
must be integrity in the message.

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Whatever you are sharing, there must
be honesty and reverence and integrity in it,

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because That's God's way. God confidence
is what we need. Thanks for

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joining us listening to friends. Always
remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has been

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your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,