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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 Tuesday, April
twenty three, 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. Our caption for today is
Courage to Stand. Courage to Stand.

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

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welcome to you and ask you to
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pick up the Your Daily Portion dot Com,

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Excuse me, and also let us

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know where you are in the world
at your daily portion dot com. This

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is a way that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray, and then we will
get underwig bather and Heaven. Thank you

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for giving us this day and our
daily bread. Please Lord, help us

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to eat freely from your table and
not waste our food or energy on things

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that don't matter, but to please
be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

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In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Courage to

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stand. God wants us to stand
up, stand up for Jesus. Remember

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that song when we were young,
Stand up, stand up for Jesus,

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Ye, soldiers of the Cross.
That's what God wants us. He wants

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us to hold up the royal banner. We shall not suffer loss. I

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love that song. I love that
song. What great memories. Let's go

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ahead and begin our discussion with a
question. Do you lack courage? Like?

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Are you fearful in these days?
And I know I keep saying in

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the last days, in the last
days, because really and truly we are

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living at the edge of time.
Brothers and sisters, Jesus is coming soon.

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Are you standing in a position where
you are faithful or are you fearful?

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Are you faithful or are you fearful? Remember when Adam sinned? The

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Bible says that God came into the
garden as usual, and the Bible says

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that he, as Adam heard the
voice of God walking in the garden,

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he was hiding. Adam said,
God said, where are you? And

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Adam said, I was hiding.
I'm naked. I hid myself. I'm

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fearful. Why, like, who
told you you were naked? Adam?

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Did you eat of the fruit that
I commanded that you should not eat of?

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And he said well, And of
course then Adam starts to blame Eve,

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and then the story just goes crazy
after that. But God wants us

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not to be fearful and hiding in
the last days. No, he wants

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us to be courageous and stand stand
as faithful people who are still in right

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relationship with God. So we don't
need to hide in the bushes. We

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do not have to blame anybody for
what we have done or not done.

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But we can say God, thank
you for being so faithful to me,

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and then live in a right relationship
with him. And so that is why

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we begin now our discussion in the
Book of Acts, the Book of Acts,

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chapter five, and I will read
beginning at verse twenty eight. Now,

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the people of God, a few
of God's men were having a little

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challenge, and I'm really understating it. They were having a challenge because they

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were doing exactly what God said,
but the people around them persecuting them for

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that purpose. And so the Bible
says here we gave you strict orders not

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to teach in this name, speaking
about Jesus. You were not supposed to

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teach in Jesus' name. Look out, look, you have filled Jerusalem with

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your teaching, and you intend to
bring this man's blood on us. But

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Peter and the apostles replied, we
must obey God rather than people. You

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have that kind of faith that no
matter what is going on around you,

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you would obey God rather than people. Yes or yes Verse thirty. The

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God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging

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him on a tree. God exalted
him to his right hand as leader and

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savior to give repentance to Israel and
forgiveness of sins. So God did not

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will not hold any sin against anyone
that we confess. That is agreement with

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God. Confession and holiness, that
is agreement with God that if we confess

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our sins, he will not hold
it against us. But the people that

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did not love God at that moment, even though they said that they were

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God's people, were still indicting the
apostles as if the apostles were charging them

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with a crime that they didn't do, and they felt they felt guilty,

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they felt guilty. And so now
they're faced with the decision, are they

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going to repent, turn away from
their sin and their guilty thoughts and feelings,

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and then just come into rite connection
with God right so that the same

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Savior that they don't love can forgive
them because look at it. Look at

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it. It says here that He
was giving repentance to his people and forgiveness

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of sins. Or are they going
to continue with their dogged foolishness and decide

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to continue to walk away from God
Verse thirty two. And we are witnesses

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of these events. So is the
Holy Spirit, whom God has given to

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those who obey him. You see, the question really is who is our

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enemy in these circumstances when human beings
are so vehement and against you and God,

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who is our real enemy. The
Bible says here in the Book of

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Ephesians, chapter six, beginning at
verse ten, Finally, my brethren,

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be strong in the Lord, and
then the power of his might, put

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on the whole armor of God,
that ye may be able to stand against

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the wiles of the devil who is
our enemy. Brother Paul Well, he

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says, for we wrestled not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities,

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against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world, against spiritual

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wickedness and high places. And so
God has given us the antidote, like

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he told us that we Since our
enemy is supernatural and spiritual, then the

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weapons of our warfare are also spiritual. They are not carnal, they are

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not martial arts. They are not
Brazilian jiu jitsu. They are not boxing,

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they are not self defense kravma.
God, they are not target practice

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with your firearm license firearm. None
of the actual enemy that has against our

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soul cannot be beaten by those earthly
implements of war. God is saying that

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our enemy is spiritual, and therefore
we yield ourselves to the Father of spirituality.

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That is God our Father. In
fact, in fact, in Revelation

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chapter three, the Bible says,
behold, I come quickly verse eleven.

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Hold that fast that thou hast that
no man take thy crown. So do

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not allow humans to get in the
way. Do not allow those principalities and

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powers and rulers of the darkness of
this world, the spiritual wickedness and high

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places, to get in your way. Yield your will to God because verse

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twelve, to those who overcome,
will I make a pillar in the temple

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of my God. He shall go
no more out. And I will write

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upon that person the name of my
God and the name of the city of

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my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from

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my God. And I will write
upon that person my new name. He

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that hath an ear, let him
hear the spirit saith unto the churches.

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So this is a promise to all
of us. And if we will just

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be faithful, and I said,
just be faithful, if we will allow

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God to put in our bosom the
courage to stand, come, what may

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in these last days, when people
want you to steal in order to get

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notoriety, When people want you to
become an influencer in social media or on

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YouTube with things that do not please
God. Ah, when people are asking

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you and showing you that they want
you to go against the guidance that God

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has given us in the scriptures regarding
worship and commitment to God, he wants

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us to standgeously. He wants us
to stand courageously. Here are a couple

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of things that you can consider as
we come to a swift close. Emphasize

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God's authority over human commands. God's
authority, and then strengthen your spiritual resolve

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to live according to God's principle.
Engage in spiritual warfare wisely. Remember we're

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not going in there to fight a
human war, an earthly war. We

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are in a fight of our lives, eternal lives. That means that the

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captain of our soul is the chief
who will vanquish our foe. That we

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need to yield our will to God
so he can do it in our lives.

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A wonderful day. Peace. Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends.

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Always remember we cannot live by bread
alone, but by every word that comes

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

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Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,