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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, May three,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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

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

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

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Our caption for today is God is
with and I want to underscore that word

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with God is with us. Do
you realize that God is with you?

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I'm just saying like it's a good
question. It's a way to start our

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day. God is with us.
We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I like to say welcome
to everyone joining us, especially those

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joining us for the very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion

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thing about the online community in case
you missed it. It's for you to

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ask your questions or have discussion about
the lesson. Okay, we're not necessarily

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going to broadcast into that group.
You already see me on so many different

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platforms. You're listening on the radio, right, you're watching on TV,

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and so it's not for you to
watch again because it's already online so many

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places. It's for you to begin
the discussions, and then of course I

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will weigh in so it can be
a two way street. Right now,

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it's a one way street because I'm
the one with the microphone and the camera

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and you're the ones over there with
your two thumbs. So what we want

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to do is open it up so
that I can respond to you, because

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clearly, at this moment, I'm
kind of in the middle of something.

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I can't respond to everything that's going
on while we're live, all right,

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So let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Father in

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Heaven, thank you. For giving
us this day and for the time of

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preparation that you have entrusted to us, for the Sabbath that is coming,

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and for the time, for the
time that is upon us as Jesus is

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about to come. Please help us
to know with everything that we are,

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that you are with us in Jesus
name. I pray Amen and Amen again

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for those excuse me for that sound
for those who are joining us for the

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first time. We are going through
some discussion surrounding the Protestant Reformation, and

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then we throw out some names I
shouldn't say throughout, but we throw out

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some names of reformers were who were
showing how faith in God can get us

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through any time of trial and how
God is leading his people. Right now,

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we're going to focus a little bit
on Martin Luther again, but I'm

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going to have to read some things
to you from the book reviewing Harold.

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Really, it wasn't the great controversy
a pardon me great controversy page two hundred

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and nine, with powerful foals,
when powerful folds were uniting to overthrow the

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Reformed faith. Remember, more than
five hundred years ago, the people of

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God stood together to say, you
know, there is something that God would

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require of us. There is a
way that He would have us to be

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relating to him right. And there
is no way that we are going to

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yield our faith because some power as
that we are to do it their way.

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We want to do it according to
the scriptures, so like the way

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the scriptures say, and not the
way that humans say. And so when

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powerful, powerful foes were uniting to
overthrow the Reformed Faith, and thousands of

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swords seemed to be unsheathed against it, this is what Martin Luther wrote.

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I want you to get this.
Satan is putting forth his fury, ungodly

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pontiffs are conspiring, and we are
threatened with war. Exhort the people to

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contend valiantly before the throne of the
Lord. Did you get that? So

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you have people who are who are
doing things that are threatening to people physically

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and spiritually. And so now what
Martin Luther is saying is that we need

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to use the weapons of our warfare
which are spiritual and not carnal. Here's

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what he said again, exhort the
people to contend valiantly before the throne of

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the Lord by faith and what prayer, so that our enemies vanquished by the

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spirit of God, may be constrained
to peace. Where was he focusing He

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was focusing on prayer. He was
focusing on connecting with God as with a

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friend, and knowing that if we
have God for us, then nothing can

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be against us. So he is
saying that if we will pray, pray

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until we move the hand of God, then again the enemies, our enemies,

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will be vanquished by the spirit of
God and constrained to peace. Let

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me continue, our chief want,
our chief labor is prayer. Here comes

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that word again. You see,
Missus White said that prayer does not bring

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us bring God down to us.
It brings us up to God. You

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see, prayer brings us into the
very atmosphere of God's presence. Prayer elevates

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us above the din and movement of
the street and the confusion of war.

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Like prayer, when we are connecting
to God, real and true, we

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are now being elevated to a place
where the enemy has no power. Let

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me continue, Let me continue our
chief labor is prayer. Let the people

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know that they are now exposed to
the edge of the sword into the rage

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of Satan, and let them pray. Let them pray, Let me ask

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you the same question that I asked
myself as I was reading this. How

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is your prayer life? Brothers and
sisters, how is your prayer life?

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How was your prayer life? You
see again from page two hundred and eight

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of the same book Great Controversy.
God's faithful servants were not toiling alone.

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While principalities and powers, and wicked
spirits and high places were leagued against them.

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The Lord did not forsake his people. Could their eyes have been opened,

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they would have seen as marked evidence
of divine presence and aid as was

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granted to the profit of old which
one here it comes. When Elisia's servant

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pointed to his master the hostile armies
surrounding them and cutting off all opportunity for

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escape, the prophet prayed, Lord, I pray the open his eyes that

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he may see. And this is
coming from tewod Kings, chapter six and

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verse seventeen. Ah, and Lo, the mountain was filled with chariots and

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horses of fire, the army of
heaven stationed to protect the man of God.

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Thus did angels guard the workers in
the cause of the Reformation. End

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of quote. See in twenty twenty
four. God is still with his people.

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Did you hear what I just said? In twenty twenty four, God

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is still with his people. If
we could see like God sees hah,

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if we could see in the way
that in this moment Elisha was able to

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see and wanted the servant to see, we would know that there is a

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retinue of angels hah. There are
scores and legions of angels that are excelling

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in strength, that are here to
protect us come what may. So when

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your trials come, when your temptations
seem too difficult to bear, and maybe

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they are no certainly they are in
our own strength, they are too difficult

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to bear. But let us let
us see with the eyes of God through

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the power of the Holy Spirit,
that He has not left us alone.

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That when Jesus promised that he will
never leave us nor forsake us, he

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wasn't playing games. He wasn't telling
a joke, He wasn't causing us to

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just feel good about what he was
saying. He is true as true in

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twenty twenty four, as he was
in the days of Elisha, as he

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was in the days of the Reformers. While you go through your go through

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No that God is with you,
and so I'm thanking God that he has

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given us the facility of prayer,
the pavilion of prayer, so we can

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talk to him and say, God, we're here to do your will.

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Will you protect us? The answer
is yes, God is with us.

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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,