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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 Sunday, April twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's Word every single day, and today

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

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Our caption for today is God's Word
Alone, God's Word Alone. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I like to say welcome

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Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father

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and Heaven. Thank you for giving
us this new morning and for the privilege

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of a new work week. Father, Please give us guidance as we move

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into all that you will have for
us to do. Father, please give

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us an appetite for you and for
holiness. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. So I
need you to be honest, please

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and thanks. Like, how's your
appetite? Do you have a healthy appetite?

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I said, do you have a
healthy appetite? And when I ask

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about healthy appetite, I'm not asking
about whether your appetite has heft to it

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or that you did desire a lot
of things. When I say healthy appetite,

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I'm asking do you have an appetite
for healthy things? Healthy food,

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healthy entertainment, huh, healthy relationships? Do you have an appetite for healthy

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things? And of course, the
truth of the answer is between you and

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God. If you'd like to share
in the chat, please go ahead.

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But this is really something we all
need to resolve between us and God.

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And so in the Bible Book of
Psalms, Chapter one hundred nineteen, Beginning

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at verse one hundred three, the
Bible reads, how sweet are thy words

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to my taste? Are you seeing
where we're going this morning? How sweet

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are thy words unto my taste?
Yay, sweeter than honey to my mouth?

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How many of you love honey?
I love honey. I love how

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it tastes. There is a kind
of honey that I wish I could taste,

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but I've not been to that side
of the world to get it.

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Manuka honey. I want to get
it straight from New Zealand. I think

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that's where it is predominant. Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth verse

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one hundred and four. Through thy
precepts, I get understanding. Therefore,

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I hate every false way. And
so the Psalmist's appetite for God's words and

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how sweet it is to his mouth
makes him detest every false way. Can

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I just say it another way.
When we have a healthy appetite, those

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things that work against us, those
things that work against our health, those

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things that work against our spiritual health, those things become detestable to us,

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you see, hateful to us.
In fact, Job said something very interesting

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in the Book of Job Chapter twenty
three, beginning at verse twelve, neither

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have I gone back from the command
of his lips. This is when Job

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was in the hottest part of his
trial. He couldn't understand what was going

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on. He wanted a days man
or a mediator between him and God to

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try to explain, like, what
in the world is going on in my

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life? I'm holy? I know
that I'm holy, And he wasn't talking

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about self righteousness. Like he could
not think of anything that he had not

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confessed. He could not think of
any place that he was not in agreement

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with God. He knew that he
was in right standing in air quotes with

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God, and yet his life was
in upheaval. He could not figure out

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what the thing was. And he
had three friends plus one three plus one

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friends and then his wife who were
not helping any at all. But he

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still said, neither have I gone
back from the commandment of his lips.

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I have esteemed the words of his
mouth more than my necessary food verse thirteen.

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But he it is in one mind, and who can turn him?

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And what soul desireth even that he
doeth. And so again again, Job

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considered everything that God said to be
premium. It was like a seven course

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meal to him. He desired them
more the words of God's mouth as more

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than his necessary food. Every single
one of us have to eat. I

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have fasted for twenty three days before. I'm talking about no food, nothing

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in my mouth to chew, no
smoothies, only green drink. Yes,

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uhhah, for twenty three days.
And then I was like, okay,

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it's time to eat now. They're
people who have starved themselves because of some

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religious, social, or political thing. But at some point, either we're

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gonna eat or we're gonna die.
That's just the way it is. Because

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God created us in a way that
we need that sustenance. We need a

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balance of all of the key elements
that God has put in nature for us

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to eat, you see. And
so he said he esteemed the word of

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God's mouth as more than is necessary
food. And then in Psalm chapter one

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hundred and nineteen Psalmchapter chapter one hundred
and nineteen, verse one sixty two,

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I rejoice in your instructions like one
who finds much plunder. How is your

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diet, brothers and sisters, that
is the question. And of course we

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see that John Wycliff's passion was to
translate the Bible. Remember we're talking about

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God's word and the appetite that we
must have for God's word. He had

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a passion to translate the Bible into
English so that the average person could read

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and understand it. Did you get
that? So we don't need necessarily.

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I know sometimes we preachers and teachers
sometimes get ahead of our skis and we

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get all intelligent on you and start
sharing what this word meant in this certain

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other language and what it means to
us today based on that ancient language.

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But what God did for us is
that in many of the tongues languages I'm

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saying of the world, he has
brought humans to translate them in the Bible

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so that people common people, not
people necessarily with PhDs and other terminal degrees,

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people with all kinds of higher education
and learning. No, people who

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are just walking around every day,
doing our business every day, whatever it

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is that God wants us to do, will be able to access what God

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has to say to his people.
Yes, And so I want to give

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a few things before we come to
a swift close here, because it's like,

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well, how do we apply this? How do we apply this?

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So here's a question. How does
finding sweetness and come in God's commands influence

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your decision making your daily decisions?
How does finding sweetness in God's words influence

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how you make decisions? Right?
Because sometimes people when they read and hear

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the word of God, sometimes people
start to kind of WinCE and it just

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like, ah, I don't really
want to do that, and they find

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reasons that it is inconvenient to do
what God says. And so what we're

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finding, having read in Psalm one
nineteen already, we're finding that if we

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will see, like, if we
will change our perception, our perspective,

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huh, and understand that God's word
is sweet, sweeter than honey, that

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we will embrace it more quickly.
Yes, sometimes it's bitter, it feels

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bitter, but we should still see
it as sweet. Yes, sometimes it

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is difficult, but we should see
it as sweet. Why because it is

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the word of God, It's the
word of life. These are the words

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of life, okay. And so
another question is is what role does early

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communion play in your spiritual life?
And this is coming right out of the

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Bible, Book of Psalms, chapter
one hundred and nineteen, Verse one forty

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seven I am up early before dawn
crying for help. I find hope in

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your word. Jesus would go and
in commune with God his father a great

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while before day, and also pray. He would pray, listen for the

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voice of God, yes, and
speak to God honestly as to a friend.

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And so God's word alone can sustain
us. Subsist on it, feast

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on it, peast. Thanks for
joining us listening. Friends. Always remember

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we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the

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mouth of God. This has been
your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,