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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 twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle 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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and our caption for today is he
Knows my Name. He Knows my

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Name. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I like

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to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray

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and then we will get underway.
Father in Heaven, thank you for this

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day and for giving us the opportunity
to pray. Thank you for giving us

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your word and for this time of
preparation for the Sabbath. I pray God

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now that you will give us understanding, that you will teach us how to

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love you and serve you, teach
us to do your will and to be

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confident but confident in You in Jesus
name, I pray, Amen and Amen

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again. He knows my name.
I remember it was about nineteen ninety nine.

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I was in Florida at a Callporter's
convention or Literature Evangelists convention, and

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I remember the one of the people
who was there. She said, Dave,

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please pray for me. Call my
name. God knows me. And

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I say that again. She said, pray for me, call my name.

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God knows me. And that really
just in the way that I'm stumbling

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here, I was flabbergasted because I
never thought of that. I was a

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new believer. I'd been around the
church all my life, but I was

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a new believer of just about just
under three years. And when she said

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he knows me, I said,
wait a minute. So there's a sense

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of belonging. There is a sense
of God taking Ownership's a sense of He

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claims me and is not just leaving
me up to my own devices. God

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loves me and he knows me.
He knows my name. I love it.

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Well, why would God know my
name? Now? We could say

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that because like our parents gave us
a name and God knows everything. It

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could be because God created us.
Well, that makes sense, it's logical.

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But what we're talking about now is
something spiritual. We're talking about something

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spiritual it is. It is about
the relationship that we have with God.

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You see, he knows those who
know him. I'll say it one more

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time, he knows those who know
him. In the Book of Matthew,

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I think it's chapter seven, the
Bible talks about there are some people that

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I call the didn't ee guys.
I just made that up, the didn't

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I guys. There are people who
will go to God in air quotes and

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say, well didn't I cast out
devils in your name? Didn't I prophesied,

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didn't I do very many wonderful works? And God would say to some

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of those people, the ones who
are not surrendered to His will, those

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who did not feed the hungry,
right, did not clothe those who were

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without clothes, did not see the
lame, the main, the blind,

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the oppressed, right, did not
set the captives free, people who ignored

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the widows, and those who were
not well. And He gave us the

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power, the influence, and the
opportunity to be of service in some turn

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a blind eye. He is saying
to those individuals, I never knew you.

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Depart from me, you workers of
iniquity. And it's just like,

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what, how could God say he
never knew me? What if for ten

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years I was in a good relationship
with him, fifteen twenty thirty years I

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was in a good relationship with him. Well, okay, that's fine and

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wonderful. But God knows people who
are currently presently in relationship with him because

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he has the covering of Jesus.
She has the covering of Jesus, the

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righteousness of Christ as a covering for
our lives. Okay, And so the

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lesson writer actually quoted from the book
The Great Controversy, page four hundred and

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eighty four. And I think this
will give it some more context. God

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or Jesus excuse me. Does not
excuse their sins, but knows what shows

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excuse me, their penitence and faith, and claiming for them forgiveness. He

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lifts his wounded hands before the Father
and Holy Angels, saying, I know

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them by name. Who are the
people that he is saying? He knows

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the ones who are penitent and faithful, those who turn away from our sins

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and recognize that we went the wrong
way, and we begin to agree with

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God and say, God, I
realize that I fill in the blank,

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and this is not something that's pleasing
in your sight. And I now use

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the faith that you have given me. You're the author, God and finisher

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of my faith. Thank you.
You give every person a measure of faith,

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and I'm one of the persons.
And so with this little bit of

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faith, this mustard seed faith,
I will lay hold of your power and

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I will rely on you to make
me holy. So he says, I

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know them those kinds of people who
do not resort to the rum bottle as

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a way to escape life. I
know them, people who do not hide

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behind our titles, our religiosity,
the respect that people who go to church

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give us, or our political prowess, our business. We do not rely

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on our ability to speak eloquently or
write things that move generations. We are

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not relying on any great good or
nasty thing that is about us. In

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order to recommend us to God.
We throw all in and say God,

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I am yours, Please make me
holy. So he says, I know

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them. Let me continue the quote, I have graven them. Oh wait

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a minute. On the palms of
my hands. I want you to look

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at your hands, look at your
hands, or look at a picture of

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someone else's hands, and see there
are lines. And I don't know what

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they mean. I just know that
it's very interesting that we have these lines

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all throughout our hands, and nobody
has the same pattern. But regardless of

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that, Jesus, when he looks
at his hands, we see that when

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he gave his life on the cross
to save his people from our sins,

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he can see that the nail prints
glorified. Yes now, but the nail

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Prince, they are there forever etched
in his hands. There is the reality

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that he gave his life for you
brothers and sisters, and for me I

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have graven them on my hands.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,

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a broken and contrite heart. Oh
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And that comes from Isaiah from Psalm
chapter fifty one, verse seventeen, and

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the accuser of his people, And
to the accuser of his people, he

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declares, the Lord rebuke thee o
Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen

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Jerusalem, rebuke thee I'm thankful that
God is willing to rebuke the devil for

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me. Can I say that just
another way? I am so glad that

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Jesus is willing to rebuke the devil
for you. When he stands up as

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the accuser of the brethren, the
Bible says that he's cast down. Why

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isn't this a brand plucked out of
the fire. Is this not a set

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of people that I have given my
life for. This is in the voice

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of Jesus himself. And so when
the devil is trying to accuse you,

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and even has evidence Jesus giving his
life for you, giving you his righteousness

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when you agree with him and you
are turning away from your sin, that

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record is expunged. There is no
evidence because Jesus now is pleading his blood.

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His blood. He knows my name
because he gave his life from me,

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and we can't lose. Make it
a wonderful day, peace. Thanks

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for joining us listening. Friends.
Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with El David
Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,