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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.
Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath, Good

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morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath, June fifteen,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is Elle David Harris. I am

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your host, and this is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word

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every single day, and today is
no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series. This is Lesson
number twelve, the Great Controversy. Our

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coption for today is Earth's Closing Events. Earth's Closing Events. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but
first I'd like to say welcome to you

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

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and Heaven, Thank you for giving
us this new morning, and for the

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privilege that you have entrusted to us
to be together in this manner for so

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many years. Thank you for giving
us your word. Please help us to

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live by those words. In Jesus
name, I pray, Amen and Amen

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again. Earth's closing events. Now, Jesus had a conversation with his disciples

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one time. He was telling them
about an impending challenge that was about to

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happen with the destruction of Jerusalem,
etc. Et cetera. And his disciples,

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in sort of a perplexed manner,
said, but Jesus, tell us,

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when these when shall these things be? What shall be the sign of

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Thy coming and of the end of
the world. And then Jesus began to

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teach them not to be deceived,
to connect to God and remain connected to

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God. And here are a battery
of events that will take place. But

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don't be troubled, don't be troubled. People will be disrespectful to God through

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you. Aha, did you get
that people will be disrespectful to God through

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you? They will persecute you.
They will do all manner of evil against

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you, and say all kinds of
stuff against you falsely for God's sake.

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But he said, rejoice and be
exceeding glad, for great is your reward

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in heaven, for so persecuted they
the prophets which were before you. And

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please don't give up. Don't give
up, because this gospel of the Kingdom

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shall be preached into all the world
for a witness. And then and only

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then shall the income. So you
have one more main assignment to preach the

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great news of deliverance to the captives, to those who are bound to all

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kinds of sin and sickness, intellectual
and mindset type sickness. God has the

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key to that, and he wants
everybody to be free. And so sometimes

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believers are satisfied with simply naming events
when we study these lessons, name the

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events and then roll credits move on
to the next thing. But we need

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to really be focusing on like connecting
with God. Once we know that all

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of these things are happening. We
know what the implications are. How do

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we weather the storm and remain connected
to God? And so what we're going

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to do is begin at the beginning
m HM with Matthew chapter six and verse

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thirty three. Matthew chapter six and
verse thirty three, and a quick quiz

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question while you're going there, like
who created the heavens and the earth?

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Who in the beginning said let there
be light? And there was light?

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Who, while he lived on planet
Earth, said take up your bed and

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walk? And immediately people took up
their beds and walk. Who said go

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and sin? No more like?
And the people had the power to go

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and live victorious lives. You see
where we're going, And therefore therefore,

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as we see in Matthew chapter six, we read, but seek ye first

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the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, And all of these things shall be

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added unto you. All of the
food and water that you need, all

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of the material resources that you need, the health and comfort that you need

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when you're going through trials. He
will provide those things, the mundane,

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the spiritual, the philosophical, whatever
you need. All things needful will be

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added unto you. So don't take
any thought brothers and sisters, when you're

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going through these difficult tribula, don't
take any thought of what you'll eat,

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what you'll drink, what you'll put
on, where you will live. The

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gentiles like people who don't know God. That's what we're going to call the

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gentiles this morning, people who do
not know God. They're the ones that

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worry about these things. But God
is saying that even though you know that

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there will be all kinds of wars
and rumors of wars, ah and earthquakes

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in diverse places, even though people
will turn their backs on God and deception

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will be in its highest gear,
even though the waves and seas will roar

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and the tempests will rage. Even
though all of that will happen, and

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more people will persecute you. Religious
and political powers and religial political powers will

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all fire and aim their proverbial weapons
toward you, brothers and sisters and me.

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God said, just seek Him first, and He'll take care of everything

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else. So maybe that's an action
item for your morning. Seek God first.

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God, would you have me do
today? How can I serve you?

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Thank you? All right, let's
move on to the next one.

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We're going to the Book of Proverbs, chapter three and verse five, and

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the Bible reads trust. That's a
big word. I have trust issues brothers

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and sisters with humans, and I'm
hoping that it doesn't leak into my relationship

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with God. Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart, and lean not

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unto thine own understanding. Of course, the Bible continues that if in all

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our ways we acknowledge him, we
bring him into into the conversation, and

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we listen for his voice and ask
him what would he have us do?

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He will do what make our paths
straight. He will direct our paths,

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which happen to be the paths of
righteousness. And so I thank God that

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we can trust him with everything that
we are, and we can turn away

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from our own understand because things get
so confusing in the last days. We

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can't even believe our own eyes.
We can't believe our own ears. If

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we have been confused about that in
the past, we need not be confused

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now, especially considering technology. Forget
about anything super spiritual, like even with

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technology, you can't believe your eyes. You see somebody on the screen screen

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speaking, you think it's an actor
or an actress that you've been watching for

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decades. And you figure out it's
a machine that has been programmed to sound

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and speak and gesture and whatever else
like them. So we know that the

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enemy has power. If technology can
do that, then the enemy has even

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more power, you see. And
so we want to trust God in everything

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and he'll guide us. And then
we pray without ceasing. I think that's

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self explanatory. Pray without ceasing,
remain in an attitude where we are in

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communion with God, not kneeling down
every moment of every day, because then

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we wouldn't get anything done. Right. What we're saying is that we need

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to remain connected to God to the
degree that we are having communion with Him

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in every situation. As I am
speaking to you right now and looking into

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this camera and letting this microphone do
what it does, and having all of

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the computer stuff surrounding me, I
am still remaining connected to God. While

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you're preparing in your day for whatever
it is that you're going to do before

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hopefully you go into a corporate worship
setting, you are hopefully having direct communion

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with God. Do you see where
we're going with this? And then,

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of course we want to find strength
in God's word. According to Psalm's chapter

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one hundred and nineteen and verse twenty
eight. The Bible reads, my soul

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melteth for heaviness, strength, and
thou me according to thy word. Let

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me read it in another place from
the Net version of the Bible. Color

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from grief, Grief, sustain me
by your word. If you are aggrieved,

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if you are having some kind of
challenge that seems insurmountable, the comfort

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that you need through Christ is in
his word. And finally, for today,

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because I think we're running out of
time, we'll read from first Thessalonians,

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chapter five and verse eighteen. In
everything, give thanks, where this

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is the will of God concerning you
in Christ Jesus. Yeah, in everything,

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give thanks. Be grateful to God, even during earth's closing moments.

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Make it a great 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

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

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David Harris. Make it a great
day. Yeah,