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

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

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

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

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

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to 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

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morning. It is Sunday, April
twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this

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is your Daily Portion where we give
you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are
continuing in our Lesson study series the Great

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Controversy, and our caption for today
is persecuted yet triumphin. Persecuted yet triumphin.

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We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first I'd like to

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just say welcome to you and ask
you to please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com, please join our
online community, pick up the Your Daily

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Portion book, and also please let
us know where you are in the world

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at your daily Portion dot com.
This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship.
Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father and
Heaven. Thank you for giving us this

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new day and for the privilege that
you have entrusted to us to open up

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your word. And I'm asking you
now to please please go ahead, Please

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go into our hearts and take out
what you did not put there. Please

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go into our lives and put in
there what is missing. Please make us

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holy today in Jesus's name, I
pray Amen. Then damen again. Let

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me ask you a question. Have
you ever been persecuted? Have you ever

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been persecuted? And I'd like for
you, if you are in social media

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or on YouTube, to go ahead
and type yes or no in the chat.

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I know those on radio can't do
this. Have you ever been persecuted?

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And let me ask you another question. Is God faithful? And I

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just want you to go ahead and
type a yes in the chat For that

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one, just type a yes,
God is faithful. If you're watching after

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the fact, go ahead and type
it in the comments section. Yes,

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God is faithful. Of course He's
faithful. And since God has been faithful

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to his people throughout history, we
know that he has good credit with us,

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that he will be faithful to us. He will be faithful to us,

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not because of his commitment to us
only, which is incredible, but

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because he's good. Like he is
good, that is his nature, and

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his mercies endure forever. And so
God's people throughout history have been persecuted,

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we have had challenges. In fact, Jesus said that when people revile you,

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and they persecute you, and they
do and say all manner of evil

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against you falsely for my sake,
he said, rejoice and be exceeding glad.

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Why because your reward is great for
so persecuted day the prophets which were

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before you, and so the people
of God, like I said, for

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many many generations, all the way
back to Abel. Abel. I'm talking

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about Abel, the son of Adam
and Eve. Even from that time until

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today, God's people have lived triumphantly, even though we have been persecuted.

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And so what I'm going to read
is some of what is in the Lesson.

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I would invite you to please go
to the actual study the Lesson study

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and also Sabbath Truth dot Calm Sabbath, truth, dot calm, and look

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at some of what happened when the
Sabbath was changed, if you want to

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say, when someone attempted a power, a religial political power attempted to change

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the Sabbath. And so, but
I want to focus today on uh.

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Here it says whenever God's people remain
faithful to him, Satan is enraged.

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So, if you're ever wondering why
life is the way that it is for

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you when you're going through trials and
temptations, if you're being faithful to God,

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you are praying, and you are
asking Him to be in your life,

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and you're yielding your will to him
as far as you can, and

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you're wondering, well, what is
going on in my life? Well,

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what's going on in your life?
Is the same thing that was going on

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in the three Hebrew young men's lives, right, the same thing that was

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going on in Joseph's life and Job's
life, right, the same thing that

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went on and Hannah's life as she
had hoped and prayed and wanted to have

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a child, and she couldn't have
one, but until she yielded in a

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special way to God, and then
he made her fruitful. There are things

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that happen in our lives because the
devil hates you, roaring lion, seeking

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whom he may devour. And so
God wants us to armor up, as

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in the Book of Ephesians chapter six, with the entire armor of God,

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so that we will be able to
stand in the evil day. Okay,

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And so whenever God's people remain faithful
to him, Satan is enraged, persecution

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often follows. The prophet Daniel described
a time still future to him when the

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medieval church would make war and persecute
God's people from the Book of Daniel,

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chapter seven and multiple verses there.
The prophet John described this time period the

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same time period as a time when
God's Church was forced to flee into what

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the Bible calls the wilderness, where
she would be nourished for what we understand

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now as a time, a times, and a dividing of time. And

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then, of course, the Bible
continues the twelve hundred and sixty days,

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and I'm just reading this so you
can go back and look at it again,

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because we're not going to be able
to really make a lot of sense

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of this today because of the time. But the twelve hundred and sixty days

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and the time times and half of
time in Revelation chapter twelve and verse six

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and fourteen are both referring to the
same time period three and a half times

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or years times three hundred sixty days
equals twelve hundred sixty days. And I'm

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like, okay, some of you
are like, Okay, this is the

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first time I'm hearing this. This
is this is I don't understand. Like

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I said, I want you to
please please go to Sabbathtruth dot com and

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look at the change of the Sabbath
and then you can get more insights.

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So Bible prophecy is often been written
in symbols, and this is one of

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the cases. Okay. And so
as William Shay, who is a Bible

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scholar, and I have met him. We became quite fond of one another

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some years ago when I lived in
West Virginia. He gives twenty three lines

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of biblical evidence throughout the Old Testament
for this day for a year principle in

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symbolic Bible prophecy, as in Numbers
chapter fourteen and verse thirty four and Ezekiel

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chapter four and verse six, and
again, the Bible interpreters have used it

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throughout the centuries. Now, what
I need you to do, because of

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the time that we have again,
is to go to sabbathtruth dot com look

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at the change of the Sabbath,
and then you can make more sense of

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this. But with the time that
we have left this morning, I'm asking

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you to do you a favor,
not me a favor, not God a

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favor, not your family a favor. I need you to make a decision

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today that, no matter what the
external force is, no matter what the

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temptation is, is that you will
yield your will to God and be faithful.

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And some of you may be thinking, well, how in the world

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can I be faithful when my money
is shorter than my month? Like how

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can I be faithful when people are
persecuting me and telling lies about me and

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all I want to do is God's
will? Like how can I be faithful

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when there are challenges in the political
system in my home country and I have

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been a refugee and I'm feeling like
where I fled too is difficult too,

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Like how can I be faithful?
Well, you can be faithful in the

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way that God's people have always been
faithful. Just yield and say God,

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these times are bigger than me.
It is more difficult than anything that I

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can handle. But I am willing
to serve you. Will you give me

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your Holy spirit. That's what we
want to focus on, like ask God

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to give you his holy spirit and
determine that, by God's grace you will

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do as will whenever the religial political
power comes to ahead in our day,

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in the last days, I believe
we live in the last days. If

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you have already built the habit,
if you've built the habit of yielding your

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will to God on what we consider
to be the small things of life,

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that when that great, big,
worldwide trial comes, you'll already be faithful.

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You'll already be accustomed to hearing the
voice of God. You will already

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be accustomed to saying, God,
no matter what happens, I'm gonna come

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and serve you. And God will
continue to keep the promise that He's made

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to his people from Abele's time until
today, that if you will yield to

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him, he will keep you safe. And then one day, one day,

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when Jesus comes, he will take
you into the heavenly King. Peace.

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

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

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This has been your daily portion with
El David Harris. Make it a great

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day. Yeah,