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

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

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

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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

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It's Thursday, January eighth,

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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 prayer Power, Prayer power.

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Have you ever heard it? Yes? More prayer, more power

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less prayer no power like. Okay, before I go too

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far afield, I'd like to 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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our online community. Make sure you pick up the Your

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Daily Portion Life application guide and let us know where

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you are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot

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com and listen, there is a donate button. It is red,

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it's bright red. I want you to click that if

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God has put it in your heart to support the

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ministry again at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's pray. Father, We thank you, We thank

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you for giving us this privilege of prayer, the privilege

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of the power that comes through connecting with you. Please

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help us never to turn our backs on prayer. Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Let me give you

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a simple definition that we received under inspiration way back

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in the eighteen hundreds. Prayer is the opening of the

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heart to God as to a friend. So let's not

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make it complicated, right. Also, prayer does not bring God

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down to us. And I know somebody's thinking I'm saying

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it backwards. Prayer does not bring God down to us,

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but it brings us up to God. What absolutely absolutely,

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and so we want to be seated with Christ Jesus

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in heavenly places. And one of the ways is through prayer,

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elevating our mind, elevating our intentions, elevating our submission to God.

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I know what I just said. Submitting to God is

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elevating us into His presence, and this is where we

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need to be while we make impact on planet Earth.

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I wish I had the time, so let me just

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go ahead and begin by reading a couple of quotes.

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I think you're starting to get my pattern. Sometimes I

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go this way to walk with God is to place

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every step in the light he gives. Let me say

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it again, to walk with God is to place every

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step in the light he gives. Sometimes we're confused, and

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unnecessarily so because we won't seek God's face, we won't

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allow God to guide us in the paths of righteousness.

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We would rather chat GPT the guidance. And if you've

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named yours, you might call it chat. I don't know

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what you call it. Whatever AI model you might be using,

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or Google or something else, you might be asking it

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for every step, you know exactly what you want based

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on a computer telling you what you want. It's like,

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wait a minute, how did we get here? How do

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we replace our actual intelligence with artificial intelligence? And don't

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get me wrong. I use AI, but AI does not

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use me. Come on, somebody just got that. If you

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just got that type of one in the chat, I said,

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I use AI like many of you do, but I

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do not allow AI to use me. And so we

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cannot artificially inflate or use AI in order to drive

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our relationship with God because God caused us through Christ

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to be able to overcome all sin, to overcome everything

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that has separated between us and God. And that is

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not something a machine can give us. From the book

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Acts of the Apostles, page four hundred and eighty three,

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it reads, the path of obedience is the path of holiness.

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God's will is is made known in his word, and

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those who obey his word will not walk in darkness.

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You want light. Surrender your will to God, and he

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will mark out a path before your feet, and you

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will know where to go, when and how. And so

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our first lesson is that Paul prayed for believers to

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be filled with the knowledge of God's will. We get

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that from Colossians chapter one and verse nine, that ye

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might be filled with the knowledge of His will and

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all wisdom. How many know that wisdom is in fact

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Jesus Christ in First Corinthians chapter one, Verses thirty and

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thirty one. The Bible teaches us that if you study

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closely Proverbs chapter eight, you will see that as well,

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that the personification of wisdom in Proverbs chapter eight, when

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you get down to the middle and final parts of

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that pass of that book and chapter, you will see

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this is Jesus Christ right, And so he wants us

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to be filled with the knowledge of His will and

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all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

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Speaker 1: And so this.

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Speaker 2: Wisdom is about divine insight. So, Fia, is your name Sophia, Sophia,

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That's what your name means, wisdom and divine insight. Somebody

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just got delivered today. Yeah, if your name is Sophia,

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then the Greek word that's used here in this passage

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about this same wisdom is Sophia. It's divine insight. So

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I want you to know that God has placed within

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your bosom, Sophia, the kind of insight that only comes

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from Him. The action step for today is ask God

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to give you wisdom to recognize his will in just

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one of the decisions that you need to make today. God,

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what is your will for me? If there's another way,

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let this cut pass from me. Jesus said, Ah, he

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didn't just say it, but yeah, this is his experience

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in the garden of Gethsemane, right before he was to

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give his life for us. Nevertheless, not as I will,

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but as thou wilt. This is what Jesus did. Lesson

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number two, Paul prayed that believers would walk worthy of

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the Lord. The Bible reads in for in Colossians chapter

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one and verse ten, So that you may live worthily

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or walk worthy of the Lord and please him in

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all aspects. Did you know that we can please God? Jesus.

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The Bible says that when Jesus was being baptized in

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the Jordan River, that there was the voice of God,

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our Father, from Heaven, resoundingly saying, this is my beloved son,

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in whom I am well pleased, And so we can

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please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good deed.

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And so to walk or to live in conduct and

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in action. This is what God is saying, that he

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that when we are we are walking worthy with the Lord.

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It means to live in conduct with God and action.

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I mix up myself with God. We are giving him

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all that we have, so we can walk and live

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in all good conduct and in action. So our action

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step in this regard is to choose one behavior, one

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thing that we do. Is it what we're eating today,

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what we're drinking today, with whom we speak today, what

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we stop on as where zoop zoop zoop. Maybe God

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forbids just scrolling aimlessly in social media or on YouTube.

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Choose one behavior today that reflects a life worthy of

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the Lord. Finally, lesson number three, Paul prayed that believers

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would be strengthened with divine power and live with gratitude.

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We see that in Colossian Chapter one, verses eleven and twelve.

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I will read some of it strengthened with all might.

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That's God's might, that's his power, that's divine strength. That's

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what that word do. Numbness means giving thanks unto the Father.

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What is your action step? Begin or end your day

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by thanking God for one specific blessing. I wake up

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in the morning and I'm barely awake. I'm stumbling in

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the darkness, and I'm thanking God, thank you for waking

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me up this morning. God, I appreciate you, thank you

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for waking me up this morning. Because some people didn't

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wake up, and I'm glad that you have still a

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work for me to do so. In any event, there

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was much power that God gives when we pray. Peace.

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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,