1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,519 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's 2 00:00:05,599 --> 00:00:10,400 food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,359 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manner the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,439 --> 00:00:20,079 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all 5 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:25,399 that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:31,320 healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author 7 00:00:31,399 --> 00:00:34,719 speaker L. David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:40,479 It is Wednesday, August two, two twenty three. Hello, My name 9 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,520 iss LL David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily 10 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,840 Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is no 11 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,679 exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Ephesians, 12 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:59,439 and our caption for today is Christ Dwelling in your Heart, Christ Dwelling 13 00:00:59,679 --> 00:01:03,520 in your Heart. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first 14 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,319 I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,879 Daily Portion dot com and join our online community, and there you can find 16 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,599 a faith and fellowship. Maybe not faith, you can build faith with us 17 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:22,159 and fellowship, and the Lord will instill in your heart every single day if 18 00:01:22,159 --> 00:01:26,319 you are willing a new level of faith, so we can all have access 19 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,359 to His power to transform our lives. And also you can pick up the 20 00:01:30,439 --> 00:01:34,519 your Daily Portion book, which is such a blessing to so many at this 21 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,319 point. And if you have already picked it up, go ahead and put 22 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,040 a one in the chat. And if you have not put a zero, 23 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:46,400 and whoever's typing in zero, please go ahead and pick it up and we 24 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,239 can build together. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get 25 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:53,680 underway. Father in heaven, thank you for this day and for the privilege 26 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,599 we have to connect with you again. And I pray God that you will 27 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,879 teach us to have Christ in our hearts. Help us to embrace You in 28 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:09,159 Jesus name. I pray amen and Amen again. You know, immediately my 29 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:15,319 mind goes to the passage that says Christ in you the hope of glory, 30 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:21,560 the hope of glory, like we're looking forward to the day that God restores 31 00:02:21,719 --> 00:02:25,719 in the fullness what he intended when he created us. In Isaiah chapter forty 32 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:30,000 three and verse seven, the Bible says that God created us for his glory, 33 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:35,719 So he wants us to reflect him now. And as we learn to 34 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,680 reflect him in this light, in this life, pardon me. As the 35 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:46,039 time goes by and we get to the point where Jesus finally returns, he 36 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:53,199 will find his people finally as dazzling and bright as he intended, where we 37 00:02:53,319 --> 00:02:58,520 fully glorify him in all ways and at all times, and we will be 38 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:02,159 locked into that relationship. I don't mean in a negative way, like bound 39 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:07,800 against our will. I'm saying that finally we will have made our decision to 40 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,360 be on the Lord's side. And the Bible says those who are righteous and 41 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:17,280 holy will be righteous and holy still at just the right time. So in 42 00:03:17,319 --> 00:03:22,400 the meantime, though we want Christ in us, Christ in us. The 43 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:29,319 Bible says that if you abide in Christ and His word abides in us, 44 00:03:29,759 --> 00:03:34,400 then we will ask what we will and it shall be done unto us. 45 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:37,960 When is the last time you ask the Lord to dwell in your heart? 46 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,599 When is the last time you ask for the Holy Spirit to be in your 47 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:46,280 heart in mind and actions and how you relate to other people. You see, 48 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,439 when the Holy Spirit is dwelling in us, he is teaching us whatsoever 49 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:55,919 Jesus commanded, and he has promised to be with us always, even to 50 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,919 the end of the earth. That is a promise. And so let's go 51 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,560 back now to the Book of Ephesians. This is our textbook for the next 52 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:10,759 several weeks. The Book of Ephesians will read chapter one. We're going back 53 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:15,000 to chapter one and we'll read beginning at verse sixteen, and the Bible reads, 54 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,879 I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in 55 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:24,120 my prayers, that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father 56 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:30,839 of Glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the 57 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,560 knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. Do you realize 58 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,759 that our mindset is be clouded by our sinfulness, by some of our bad 59 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:46,560 past experiences. So God wants us. And it's here that Paul is manifesting 60 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:54,240 his desire right that we would learn and receive enlightenment, that ye may know 61 00:04:54,399 --> 00:04:59,199 what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory 62 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,920 of his inn heeritance of the saints or in the saints verse nineteen, And 63 00:05:04,079 --> 00:05:09,240 what is the exceeding greatness of His power? We're not talking about a little 64 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:14,560 thing here. We're not talking about just the ability to say no to some 65 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,920 unhealthy food, which is a big deal. I mean no disrespect, But 66 00:05:17,959 --> 00:05:24,240 we're talking about transformation and character. We learn to love where we used to 67 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:28,600 fear. Right. We learn how to have compassion where we were discompassionate, 68 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,519 and maybe God forbid even hue inhumane. Right. We learn how to respect 69 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,959 people when before we had no regard for them, their lives or their families. 70 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:43,279 Right. So he is now giving us the exceeding greatness of his power 71 00:05:43,319 --> 00:05:49,199 to us word who believe according to the working of His mighty power. Whose 72 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:55,040 power we're talking about his power. We're not talking about our will power, 73 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,519 even though yes, we should surrender our will to God. And once we 74 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,639 are doing that, then there is nothing that can overcome us once our will 75 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,519 is surrendered to God. But it is not brute force of our will. 76 00:06:05,079 --> 00:06:10,920 It is a yielding where the Holy Spirit now is in the driver's seat, 77 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,240 and He is the one making us holy with our consent. Let's go now 78 00:06:15,319 --> 00:06:21,120 to Ephesians chapter three. We're laying a foundation here Ephesians chapter three, and 79 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:26,920 I will read beginning at verse fourteen and the Bible reads for this cause, 80 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,439 I bow my knees. We're talking about prayer again. Paul is praying. 81 00:06:30,639 --> 00:06:33,720 I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, of 82 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:41,199 whom the whole family in heaven and Earth is named. HM. That's interesting 83 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,040 that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory. There it 84 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,680 is again to be strengthened with the might, with might by His spirit in 85 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,560 the inner man. Can I just pause here for a moment. Some of 86 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:04,800 us have learned to type our lives and outward behavior such that we begin to 87 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:13,600 believe that that tidying of our behavior is holiness. I pray two three, 88 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,639 four times a day. Tick, I do my quote good deed for the 89 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:26,839 day. Tick I fill in the blank for my spouse, tick fill in 90 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,199 the blank at my job. Got it. And then we begin to congratulate 91 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:39,639 ourselves because, oh, I avoided looking at someone, but even still in 92 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,720 my heart, I'm lusting after that same someone. Well, at least I 93 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:50,120 didn't show anybody that I was tick. I was not murderous in my actions, 94 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:55,279 but I did have anger against my brother without a cause. We're in 95 00:07:55,319 --> 00:07:59,079 Matthew chapter five with these last two examples, right, tick, I did 96 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,959 it? Now God owes me something. No no, no, no, 97 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:05,879 no, no no no. What God is promising and now we hear it 98 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:11,199 in the voice of Paul, is that we be strengthened with the might of 99 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,680 His Holy Spirit in the inner man. That's what nobody else can see. 100 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,879 Like what our thoughts are is who we really are? For seventeen, that 101 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:26,639 Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and 102 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:31,360 grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints. What is 103 00:08:31,399 --> 00:08:35,240 the breadth, oh my, and the length and the depth and height? 104 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:41,440 And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. So Paul is saying 105 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:48,519 that you can get to know the love and knowledge of the love of Christ, 106 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,360 which is beyond knowledge. Did you get that? Let me say it 107 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:58,159 again, You get to know the love of God that's beyond knowing. So 108 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,519 what he's saying is that our natural ability to pick up and to know things. 109 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,759 Yeah, God's love is far beyond that. But what He's going to 110 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,120 do, because he loves us, he is going to reveal the mystery of 111 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:13,960 his love in our bosom. He is going to transform our hearts and character, 112 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:20,159 such that we reflect that love. Let me go again and to know 113 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,360 the Love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all 114 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:31,440 the fullness of God. Did not the Bible say that Jesus is the fullness 115 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,720 of the Godhead bodily? Did not the Bible say that the Holy Spirit comes 116 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:39,559 to teach us whatsoever Jesus commanded. Listen, We need Christ in us the 117 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,039 hope of glory, and we will one day see Him as he is. 118 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:48,799 Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live 119 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,679 by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 120 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,440 This has been your daily portion with l David Harris, make it a 121 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,840 great day.