1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,879 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,679 is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some 3 00:00:10,759 --> 00:00:15,599 of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manner the word of God to keep us 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:20,160 through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of 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 --> 00:00:34,960 speaker l David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It 8 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:40,159 is Wednesday, July nineteen, twenty twenty three. Hello, my name is 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,439 Lle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 10 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:47,600 where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no exception. 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,520 We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Ephesians. 12 00:00:52,799 --> 00:01:00,479 Our caption for today is now blessed forever by Grace. Now blessed forever Grace. 13 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,240 We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to 14 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,200 say welcome one, Welcome all, and ask you to go over to your 15 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,560 Daily Portion dot com. If you've not already done so, join our online 16 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,159 community. That is where you can ask your questions concerning the Word of God 17 00:01:15,239 --> 00:01:19,799 regarding the lesson. You can share testimonies, prayer requests, and we just 18 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:26,439 have a good time in the space when you are asking and sharing. Right, 19 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:30,239 so I speak to you, I share for these ten minutes, and 20 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:36,000 then in that community where you have follow up questions and whatever I just describe. 21 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:40,079 That's where we live seven days a week, twenty four to seven. 22 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,079 You see. Also, please pick up the Your Daily Portion book at your 23 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:49,840 Daily Portion dot com and we can grow in faith and fellowship together. Let's 24 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:53,959 go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, 25 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,920 thank you for giving us this new morning and the blessing of being called 26 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:04,280 by your name, and for the journey that we are experiencing into grace and 27 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:07,919 salvation. Please teach us to love you with everything we have in our In 28 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:15,919 Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again, now blessed forever by 29 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:21,039 grace. I don't know if you have been paying keen attention to the journey 30 00:02:22,479 --> 00:02:27,599 to reach this place yesterday what was it called yesterday? My memory is failing 31 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,759 me. Now resurrected, ascended and exalted with Christ, we're working in reverse 32 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:37,759 and before that once deluded by our own desires. And then before that it 33 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,479 had to do with being deceived by the enemy. And so now God is 34 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,479 leading us on a pathway to say, you are not alone. You do 35 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:51,080 not have to be a victim. You do not have to succumb to your 36 00:02:51,199 --> 00:02:54,680 humanity, You do not have to succumb to the temptations of the devil. 37 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,719 You can be saved by grace through faith. But that's not of yourself. 38 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:07,319 It's not of yourselves, right, it is not of works, lest anyone 39 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:14,520 should boast. So we have the privilege of being blessed forever by God by 40 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:19,080 grace through faith. So I'm going to read now from the Book of Ephesians, 41 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:22,479 chapter one and again. Since we're going through the book and we're pacing 42 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:29,280 ourselves, you will hear certain passages over and over again, because repetition does 43 00:03:29,319 --> 00:03:36,120 what deepens impression. Okay, and so beginning at verse three, chapter one, 44 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:40,400 blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who 45 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:47,879 hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. I haven't 46 00:03:47,919 --> 00:03:53,039 asked you this lately, but where do temptations have their power? Just be 47 00:03:53,120 --> 00:04:00,000 honest, be honest. See, remember the Bible says that that in started 48 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,199 in heaven in the bosom of Lucifer, who became Satan, and the dragon 49 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:12,039 right that old serpent like. So it started in heaven. The war broke 50 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:18,399 out, and then Jesus Mikael in the language of revelation, so he and 51 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:26,639 the devil and their angels they had a war, and there was no place 52 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:32,079 found in heaven for the devil and his angels. So Jesus and his angels 53 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:36,240 kicked the devil and his angels right out of heaven. And the Bible says, 54 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,399 woe unto the inhabitors of the earth and of the sea, because the 55 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:46,079 devil is has come down unto you, having great wrath. And so that 56 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,279 means since he said before that, rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell 57 00:04:50,439 --> 00:04:57,000 therein because the devil's gone, that means I'm coming back. It's full circle. 58 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:00,199 Now. That means that if we are seated with Christ Jesus in heavenly 59 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,120 places, and prayer does not bring God down to us, but us up 60 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,800 to God. If that is the case, and indeed it is, then 61 00:05:09,879 --> 00:05:15,439 when temptation has power over us, it is because we have not allowed ourselves 62 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,000 by faith to be in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. We have not allowed 63 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:27,959 ourselves we have become earthly. We have allowed the moments of trials and temptations 64 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,560 to bind our feet to planet Earth. When God is saying come up a 65 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,800 little higher, you can come up through prayer. He said also that when 66 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:42,240 we praise him, he inhabited the praises of his saints. And so we 67 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,560 praise God, we enter into worship, we pray. We are taken up 68 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:50,399 to God, and He is not brought down to us. And we're talking 69 00:05:50,399 --> 00:05:56,240 about spiritually speaking. So please, I don't need any text messages or emails 70 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,720 to say, what did you mean, Dave? Did you mean that like 71 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,160 physically? I'm not talking about that. I am saying that God positions our 72 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:11,319 mindset. He positions us from a power perspective, perspective connecting with God, 73 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:15,759 so that temptations lose their sway. There's a song we sing it in church 74 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,639 all the time. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful 75 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:25,480 face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of 76 00:06:25,519 --> 00:06:30,480 His glory and grace. So we understand now let's keep going Verse four of 77 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:36,360 Ephesians chapter one. According as He hath chosen us in him before the foundation 78 00:06:36,519 --> 00:06:45,199 of the world, that we should be what holy and without blame before Him 79 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,160 in love. So standing before God in judgment is not supposed to be a 80 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:54,079 place of trepidation. God is holy, He is just, He is good 81 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,879 one hundred percent of the time. He is a consuming fire like He is 82 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,680 the holiest of all. Blessed be his name. But you know what God 83 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,079 created us in his image and in his likeness. Do you know what else? 84 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,519 He created us for his glory? Do you know what else? He 85 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:15,759 never intended for anyone to sin? And therefore this plan of salvation, where 86 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,079 He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places with Christ Jesus, 87 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:28,519 he is now positioning us to that place, that space, that reality, 88 00:07:28,759 --> 00:07:32,839 eternal reality that he had in mind from before the world was. And what 89 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:38,600 place was that that we would be without blame in him? Ah? What 90 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,879 was that place? That we should be holy? Fully holy, just like 91 00:07:41,959 --> 00:07:46,720 he is. The Bible says that we are to be holy for the Lord, 92 00:07:46,759 --> 00:07:50,000 our God also is holy. It didn't say also, I just added 93 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,560 that for the Lord, our God is holy, so be holy. Because 94 00:07:54,720 --> 00:08:00,680 he's holy. Let him be the cause of your holiness. If you are 95 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,160 King's kids and you are. If I am a king's child and I am, 96 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,439 that means this is the only outcome that is acceptable. Keep going Ephesians 97 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:15,560 chapter two and verse seven, that in the ages to come, he might 98 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:20,480 show God wants to manifest in the universe, that he might show he wants 99 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:26,800 everyone to see what his intent was from before the world was that he might 100 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:33,480 show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness to ord Us through Christ 101 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:39,080 Jesus. And that's the end of the passage there. We never graduate from 102 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,840 grace. I can hear now my younger brother, he's not my brother, 103 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:50,840 but he's a brother in Christ, right, Pastor doctor Myron Edmunds basically saying 104 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:54,720 something like what we're reading here like, we do not graduate from grace. 105 00:08:54,519 --> 00:08:58,440 We do not graduate from grace. Everything is about grace. If we're going 106 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:03,559 to be said, everything is about grace. If we're going to overcome those 107 00:09:03,639 --> 00:09:07,440 challenges in our marriages, right, everything is about grace. If we are 108 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:11,919 going to understand what God's intent is for us, Everything is about grace. 109 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,600 If we will overcome those bad words and those nasty habits, and those addictions 110 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:22,000 to alcohol and other chemicals. Right, if we are to become kinder and 111 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:28,320 gentler to our children. It's all about grace, and we never graduate from 112 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,240 this. God wants to demonstrate to the universe. And I'll read you a 113 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,600 quote tomorrow with the Lord's Spair's Life to men and to angels, that God 114 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:45,720 is revealing his character through us through Jesus Christ. Peace. Thanks for joining 115 00:09:45,799 --> 00:09:50,080 us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but 116 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:54,279 by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your 117 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,840 daily portion with l David Harris. Make it a great day.