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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.

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It is Friday, July five,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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

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Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no

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exception. We are continuing in our
new Lesson study series through the Book of

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Mark, and our caption for today
is remain connected to God. I need

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you to remain connected to God.
Really, you need you to remain connected

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to God. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I

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like to say welcome to everyone joining
us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. Please go over
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Daily Portion dot com. This is a

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way that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven. Thank you for

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giving us the opportunity to open your
word again and to become connected with you

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and then remain connected. Father.
Please give us your holy spirit and help

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us not to intellectualize away the beauty
of an experience with you. Help us,

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Father, to live holy lives.
In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Have you
ever been connected to God? Connect it

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to God? And I know that
sometimes people wonder, well what does that

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mean? Like, how do we
get connected with God? And let me

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just give a simple definition of faith. Besides what the scriptures say very clearly

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in the Book of Hebrews chapter eleven, I want to give an illustrative explanation.

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Okay, so think of faith as
a wire. Right some of you

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have cell phones, many of you
do, and you have you have a

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wire that connects to your cell phone
and on the other end it connects to

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the power source. Okay, So
faith is that wire. If the faith

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is connected the wire is connected to
the power source, and then that wire

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is also connected to your life.
Then the faith works. You see,

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it is functional, it is useful. It causes the phone to be able

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to do whatever the phone was created
to do. You can call people,

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you can answer text messages. You
can even switch on a light and use

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it like a like a like a
flashlight. You can take pictures and videos

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and audio. That phone only remains
functional or useful as long as it is

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in good working order and it remains
connected at the appropriate times, connected to

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the power source through the wire we're
calling that faith. Did you get that?

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And so as long as we are
connected with God by faith, our

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faith is connected to God and the
and the faith is coming from us and

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we're now connected with God, that
passageway that can do it. That wire

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called faith is useful. And so
so we need to be asking God to

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keep us connected with him. We
need to be asking God to help our

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faith to be strong, not fraid, not broken. Have you ever had

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a wire that reverse charged your phone? Like your phone started to lose current,

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lose power when you connected it with
that wire. And if you've not,

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then let me just tell you when
that happens. It's because the wire

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is broken, something is crossed up
in the wiring, something went very wrong,

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and then your phone heats up and
it starts to go down instead of

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go up. That's because that's not
the right kind of faith. There are

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times that people believe in things that
are attributed to God, but it's not

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really God speaking, you understand.
And so we need the kind of faith

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that Jesus is the author and finisher
of, the one that Jesus gives every

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human a measure of the kind of
faith that works by love and purifieth the

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soul, purifieth our lives. That
kind of faith. As we connect that

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to God and we lay hold of
it for ourselves, that will give us

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the power that we need to continue
to live according to God's principle. So

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hopefully that made sense. It was
visual, it was practical to you.

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And so what we're going to do
now is consider a few ways that we

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can remain connected with God. Okay. And so in the Bible Book of

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Revelation, chapter fourteen and verse six, the lesson writer wanted us to take

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a peek at it again. The
Bible reads, and I saw another angel

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fly in the midst of heaven having
something specific though, what did this angel

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have the everlasting Gospel to preach unto
them that dwell on the earth. Do

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you live on planet Earth? I
think so to every nation. So it

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doesn't matter. There are hundreds of
nations represented who listen and watch, listen

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to and watch your daily portion.
You're on two hundred radio stations on multiple

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devices, You're on satellite radio,
television, on thirty platforms online. Everybody

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on all of those platforms and all
of those languages and dialects in all of

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those geographic locations. This gospel,
everlasting Gospel, is for you and kindred

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and tongue and people. And so
what we need to do is embrace this

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everlasting Gospel. Before you were born, this gospel existed because Jesus Christ,

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as the Bible says, was slain
before the foundations of the world. So

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the plan of salvation, what would
be necessary to save humans in the event

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that humans to choose to sin,
was already in place even before Adam was

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created, even before Eve was created. Mm hmm. So this plan of

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salvation, this everlasting Gospel, was
here as long as God was here,

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because his mind is eternal in his
mind ready to go in the event that

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it would be necessary to save humans
from our sins. And I'm thankful that

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God was not reactive. I'm thankful
that he didn't have to figure out something

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on the fly when things went wrong
in the Garden of Eden, at the

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Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
evil. I'm thankful that he had the

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foreknowledge and insight and plan so that
we could be saved and not have to

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pay the penalty that we deserve to
pay if we have faith in him.

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Okay, And so the next one
we want to look at is in the

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verse seven and saying with a loud
voice, fear God. That is reverential

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awe, that is respect for God. Fear God, and give glory to

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him. That means that we are
allowing his life and light to shine through

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our lives. Give glory to him, so when people see us, they

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see him. Let your light,
the Bible says, so shine before humans,

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other humans, right, other pece
people, so that when they see

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your good works, they will glorify
your Father, which is in heaven.

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So it says, fear God and
give glory to him, for the hour

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of his judgment is come, and
worship him. The only one that could

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have made heaven and earth, the
sea and the fountains of waters. So

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we are thankful that we have the
privilege to worship the one who created us.

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We're thankful that we have the ability
to say thank you and live a

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life of thanks, to live thanks
to the one who created us, and

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help other people to get so connected
to God that they will learn how to

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worship Him in everything that they say
and do as well. Okay, another

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one comes from the Book of Mark, Chapter one, verses fourteen and fifteen.

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Now the Bible says, now after
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Jesus came into Galilee preaching the what
gospel of the Kingdom of God. I

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think we just heard something like that, saying the time is fulfilled, the

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Kingdom of God is at he and
repent ye and believe the gospel we read

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about that this week. And so
what God is saying is that now we

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have the power to respond to his
call to discipleship. We have the power

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now in our lives to turn away
from those things that normally would have separated

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us from Him and to turn toward
helping other people to do His will.

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We learn how to do his will
day by day, step by step,

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by faith, we're empowered to do
His will, and then we assist others

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in doing the same. So much
to say, so little time, But

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let me just say we all have
the privilege and we all must if we're

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going to live, remain connected with
God. Make it a great day.

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

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by 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

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great day. Yeah,