Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. It is Monday, January five,
twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is Paul's Prairie Quests, resting
subject today Paul's prayer Requests. Before we get into that,
I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Anyway, this is one of the ways we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let me just say very quickly.
People are saying, did you change the music background for
the opener and the clothes. Yes. This is actually the
second time that we've done so since about October in
twenty eighteen. So yep, once in a while we have
to make do a refresh, and this is what we've
done until the next time. Anyway, Let's go ahead and
pray and then we will get underway. Father, we thank
you for this day and the fact that you have
made this day and you've made us help us to
rejoice and be glad in it. Father, and please, Father,
teach us to pray like you taught your disciples and
how the apostles learned to pray in Jesus' name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again Paul's prayer requests. So let's go
ahead and begin. Let's begin with a quote from Reflecting Christ,
page seventy one. Reflecting Christ, page seventy one, and it reads,
everything that Christians do should be as as parent as
the sunlight. As transparent as the sunlight. You see, there
are some sketchy things that happen. They're sketchy things that
happen because people are hiding. They're hiding, and God is
saying no. When you are connected to Me, when you
are always praying and not fainting, when you are walking
with me like Enoch did, you're praying without ceasing. Yes,
when you are living the life that Paul lived once
he was transformed and committed to my service, God speaking,
then what you do is like follow me as I
follow Christ style. Yeah, everything that Christians do should be
as transparent as sunlight. One more quote. True love is
a principle that comes from God, and wherever it is cherished,
it will flow out in blessings to others jump into
lesson number one. Lesson number one is coming in from Philippians,
Chapter one and verse nine. Paul prayed for love that
grows in knowledge and discernment. Are you praying for knowledge
and discernment? I pray for wisdom. I need double the
portion that God gave to Solomon. This is what I
ask God for every day Philippians, chapter one and verse nine.
And the Bible reads and this, I pray that your
love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
in all judgment. So love, knowledge and discernment or judgment.
Are you praying for that in the last days? If not,
here is here is something that God wants us to do.
And so this actually means this, This means deep, full
knowledge and spiritual understanding that only comes from God. The
Bible says spiritual things are spiritually are spiritually discerned. And
so there are things that happen on planet Earth, in politics,
in media, in our everyday life, in our relationships, in
our professional lives where God wants to tap us on
the shoulder and give us insight that we would not have.
We would not have otherwise. I lost the word I
was going to use, and he is saying that if
your mind is open to him, if you are continuing
to pray, and you are receptive to his voice, then
he will give you guidance that otherwise you could not
possibly have gotten. Yes, it is the will of God.
I remember a quote. Now, it is a will of
God to grant an answer to the prayer of faith
that which He would not bestow. Did we not thus ask?
There are some blessings, some understanding, some knowledge, and some
levels of love that come only when we are requesting
it from God, seeking his face daily. And so our
action in this regard is to ask God to deepen
your love and to guide you by the scriptures and
spiritual insight. Sometimes sometimes people say that they love us,
but they show us. Otherwise, they say with their mouths
that they love us, but they abuse us. They ask
us to commit sin with them in a moment of passion,
a moment of attraction, a moment of what they would
call romance. I love you and then ask you to
do something contrary to God's word. I love you and
ask you to do something violent toward people because of reprisals.
That is not godly love. That is something that humans
have made up under the unction of the enemy, the
devil lessen number two. Did I just say that straight? Yep,
I did Lessen number two. Paul prayed that believers would
approve excellent things and live with sins seer purity. Okay,
coming in from Philippians chapter one and verse ten, that
ye may approve things that are excellent. Let me say
it another way, so that you can decide what is excellent,
what is best, and so be sincere and blameless for
the day of Christ. So when God gives you discernment,
when he gives you love, when he gives you more
knowledge of Him, as we have fellowship in the Gospel,
the work that He has given to us to lead
people to a relationship with Him eternal life. Ultimately, he
is saying that we also are to become blameless under
God because He's giving us all of these manifold blessings,
all of these manifold blessings, the excellent blessings, are guiding
us to blamelessness when when Jesus returns. When Jesus comes,
he's coming with his reward, he said. And when he comes,
his reward is with me. He said. To give every
person according as their work shall be and so if
our work is submission to God, if our work is
receiving the covering of Jesus Christ, if our work is
to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our
Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. If our work is to
love God and love humans as God has prescribed for
us and empowered us, then we will appear blameless. We
will appear blameless at the second Coming, covered in the
righteousness of Christ. And so this means to be pure,
judged by sunlight and transparent. Ooh, that's good. That's good.
So the action is to choose one thing today that
reflects transparency and moral clarity. Do you need to confess
to someone that you've wronged? Do you need to be
clearer when you are reporting at work, not leaving out
the little details that you think are little because you
just don't want anybody to know. Yet, now we're being
transparent and we're being open because God wants us to
be transparent and open. Lesson number three and final, Paul
prayed that God's people would be filled with Christ's righteousness.
Did I not say that in verse eleven Philippians Chapter one,
being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by
Christ unto the glory and praise of God. So the
action is to thank God for giving you his righteousness
and rely on his strength for obedience. When today thank
God you have his righteousness. Now use it to glorify.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,