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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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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

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. It is Monday, January five,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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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

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study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is Paul's Prairie Quests, resting

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subject today Paul's prayer Requests. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. Please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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If you've already picked it up, go ahead and type

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A one in the chat. I'm not talking about the

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quarterly I'm talking about the one where we apply the lesson.

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We apply the study in our spiritual lives, our personal lives,

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in our relationships, and in our professional lives. Type of

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one in the chat. And if not and you plan

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to pick it up, you can download it or you

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can get the hard copy. Go ahead and type A

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two in the chat. I'm just curious. I want to

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see where we are with this.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, this is one of the ways we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let me just say very quickly.

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People are saying, did you change the music background for

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the opener and the clothes. Yes. This is actually the

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second time that we've done so since about October in

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twenty eighteen. So yep, once in a while we have

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to make do a refresh, and this is what we've

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done until the next time. Anyway, Let's go ahead and

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pray and then we will get underway. Father, we thank

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you for this day and the fact that you have

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made this day and you've made us help us to

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rejoice and be glad in it. Father, and please, Father,

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teach us to pray like you taught your disciples and

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how the apostles learned to pray in Jesus' name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again Paul's prayer requests. So let's go

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ahead and begin. Let's begin with a quote from Reflecting Christ,

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page seventy one. Reflecting Christ, page seventy one, and it reads,

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everything that Christians do should be as as parent as

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the sunlight. As transparent as the sunlight. You see, there

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are some sketchy things that happen. They're sketchy things that

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happen because people are hiding. They're hiding, and God is

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saying no. When you are connected to Me, when you

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are always praying and not fainting, when you are walking

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with me like Enoch did, you're praying without ceasing. Yes,

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when you are living the life that Paul lived once

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he was transformed and committed to my service, God speaking,

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then what you do is like follow me as I

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follow Christ style. Yeah, everything that Christians do should be

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as transparent as sunlight. One more quote. True love is

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a principle that comes from God, and wherever it is cherished,

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it will flow out in blessings to others jump into

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lesson number one. Lesson number one is coming in from Philippians,

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Chapter one and verse nine. Paul prayed for love that

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grows in knowledge and discernment. Are you praying for knowledge

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and discernment? I pray for wisdom. I need double the

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portion that God gave to Solomon. This is what I

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ask God for every day Philippians, chapter one and verse nine.

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And the Bible reads and this, I pray that your

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love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and

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in all judgment. So love, knowledge and discernment or judgment.

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Are you praying for that in the last days? If not,

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here is here is something that God wants us to do.

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And so this actually means this, This means deep, full

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knowledge and spiritual understanding that only comes from God. The

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Bible says spiritual things are spiritually are spiritually discerned. And

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so there are things that happen on planet Earth, in politics,

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in media, in our everyday life, in our relationships, in

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our professional lives where God wants to tap us on

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the shoulder and give us insight that we would not have.

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We would not have otherwise. I lost the word I

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was going to use, and he is saying that if

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your mind is open to him, if you are continuing

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to pray, and you are receptive to his voice, then

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he will give you guidance that otherwise you could not

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possibly have gotten. Yes, it is the will of God.

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I remember a quote. Now, it is a will of

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God to grant an answer to the prayer of faith

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that which He would not bestow. Did we not thus ask?

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There are some blessings, some understanding, some knowledge, and some

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levels of love that come only when we are requesting

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it from God, seeking his face daily. And so our

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action in this regard is to ask God to deepen

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your love and to guide you by the scriptures and

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spiritual insight. Sometimes sometimes people say that they love us,

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but they show us. Otherwise, they say with their mouths

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that they love us, but they abuse us. They ask

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us to commit sin with them in a moment of passion,

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a moment of attraction, a moment of what they would

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call romance. I love you and then ask you to

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do something contrary to God's word. I love you and

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ask you to do something violent toward people because of reprisals.

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That is not godly love. That is something that humans

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have made up under the unction of the enemy, the

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devil lessen number two. Did I just say that straight? Yep,

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I did Lessen number two. Paul prayed that believers would

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approve excellent things and live with sins seer purity. Okay,

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coming in from Philippians chapter one and verse ten, that

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ye may approve things that are excellent. Let me say

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it another way, so that you can decide what is excellent,

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what is best, and so be sincere and blameless for

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the day of Christ. So when God gives you discernment,

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when he gives you love, when he gives you more

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knowledge of Him, as we have fellowship in the Gospel,

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the work that He has given to us to lead

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people to a relationship with Him eternal life. Ultimately, he

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is saying that we also are to become blameless under

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God because He's giving us all of these manifold blessings,

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all of these manifold blessings, the excellent blessings, are guiding

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us to blamelessness when when Jesus returns. When Jesus comes,

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he's coming with his reward, he said. And when he comes,

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his reward is with me. He said. To give every

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person according as their work shall be and so if

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our work is submission to God, if our work is

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receiving the covering of Jesus Christ, if our work is

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to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our

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Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. If our work is to

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love God and love humans as God has prescribed for

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us and empowered us, then we will appear blameless. We

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will appear blameless at the second Coming, covered in the

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righteousness of Christ. And so this means to be pure,

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judged by sunlight and transparent. Ooh, that's good. That's good.

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So the action is to choose one thing today that

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reflects transparency and moral clarity. Do you need to confess

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to someone that you've wronged? Do you need to be

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clearer when you are reporting at work, not leaving out

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the little details that you think are little because you

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just don't want anybody to know. Yet, now we're being

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transparent and we're being open because God wants us to

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be transparent and open. Lesson number three and final, Paul

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prayed that God's people would be filled with Christ's righteousness.

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Did I not say that in verse eleven Philippians Chapter one,

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being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by

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Christ unto the glory and praise of God. So the

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action is to thank God for giving you his righteousness

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and rely on his strength for obedience. When today thank

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God you have his righteousness. Now use it to glorify.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,