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 is Thursday, February 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 number six, actually Lesson number six. The theme is
uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians and Colossians, and
our caption for today is just one thing Know in Christ.
I like it, just one thing know in Christ. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but before I do,
I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
those joining for the very first time. I know that
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we will continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray Father,
thank you, thank you for this day You've entrusted to us.
Help us to be enamored by obsessed by. I don't
know if that's a good word, but be drawn to
the one thing, knowing Christ, knowing you Father, in Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Just one thing, y'all,
Just one thing, and business and every other thing that
I do where coaching is concerned. Listen, one of the
things I say to the people, and many of them
are so successful and still scattered and all over the place.
And I'm like, well, if you can attain to that
level of success being scattered, can you imagine if you
were focused? Can you imagine if you would, you would
have a single eye toward that one powerful goal. And
until you achieve that, don't move on to something else,
don't spread yourself very thin and so spiritually even more
interesting because humans are trying to do that spiritually, like
trying to serve self and God both and at the
same time. And so let me just say, let me
just see say I'm going to dial it back. We're
going to go back to the eighteen eighties again. Eighteen
eighty four a Review and Herald article and it's by
jenn En Loughborough, and it reads, every advanced step in
the Christian race demands an eye fixed upon the goal.
Do we use that word again, transfixed or fixed? Do
we use that anymore? Fixed upon the goal and a
heart willing to lay aside? Here is the big word.
Every weight that hinders progress toward Christ? Is it a human?
Lay aside the weight? Is it a thought? Lay aside
that weight? Is it a mindset? Lay aside that weight?
Is it a philosophy? Is there a conflict of what
you do with whom you do and your core values?
Lay aside that weight, anything that hinders progress toward Christ?
And in that vein we go with our lesson Number one.
Knowing Christ requires experiencing both the power of his resurrection
and the fellowship of his sufferings. In Philippians, chapter three
and verse ten, the Bible reads my aim right, single eyed,
fixed goal, laying aside everything else. He's following the guidance.
Here Paul is under the Holy Ghost. My aim is
to know him. And I explained to you yesterday. I
think it was what to no means. It's an intimacy
that has fruit, It bears fruit. Okay, to know him,
to experience the power of his resurrection. That is, I
die to sin, and I'm alive to holiness. I'm alive
to righteousness. I'm alive to the ability to submit myself
to God and resist the devil, and he will flee.
I'm alive to the ability that when trials and tribulations
come Paul in the Philippians rejoices even though he's in prison.
That comes only from God. Okay. So that's his aim,
know him experience the power of his resurrection and to
also share in his sufferings. And we see that there
is an outcome. There's an outcome that he can also
attain to the resurrection. So he wrote it almost like
a sandwich. So, yes, power of his resurrection. Oh, by
the way, you will suffer along the journey. But when
your suffering has done its work and God perfects you,
then you will receive the ultimate resurrection, and that will
be eternally okay. And so this word fellowship, this word fellowship,
it really was in the King James. I didn't read it.
It said fellowship. In his sufferings, Paul used that word.
The word is cornanea is interesting, a deep participation, a
deep participation or shared experience. The church into which I
was baptized back in nineteen ninety six in Alexandria, Virginia,
had we had an actual ministry, a fellowship for new
believers called Kynanea. I don't think we were thinking about
we were thinking about fellowship or Conanea in suffering. But
that's what That's what Paul was saying. He shared experience
a deep participation. When Christ died, we died in him.
It reminds me of the song were you there when
they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified
my Lord? Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there and they crucified my Lord? But if
we participate in this not to crucify him, but to
be crucified alongside him spiritually speaking, dying to sin as
in Romans chapter six, and then being raised in Romans
chapter three, and being raised now spiritually incorruptible. I wish
I had the time, And so the action step is
to thank Jesus for just one hardship. I know, I know,
I know, I know. For me, it's in retrospect. I've
thanked him in the past for hardships that have passed already.
Whatever way you need to do it, thank Jesus for
one hardship that you faced recently, and ask him to
use it to draw your heart closer to him. There
is a place of quiet rest near to the heart
of God. That's what we want. That is the goal.
Lesson number two. Knowing Christ requires forgetting what is behind
and pressing forward with undivided focus toward the goal God
has set. Who said it? God set it? Philippians, Chapter three,
Verses thirteen and fourteen. I will truncate just a little bit,
abbreviate it. This one thing I do, I'm forgetting those
things which are behind, and I am pressing toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus. Let me read it in another version.
But one thing I do, I'm forgetting the things that
are behind. I strive toward the goal for the prize.
What is the prize. It's the upward call of God
in Christ Jesus. Some of us have been downward. Some
of us have been downward, some of us have been earthward,
some people have been hell bound. But what God is
saying to us is that when we surrender our will
and we are singly focused toward that relationship with God
and doing whatever he says as an outgrowth of this relationship,
then the prize is upward. It's the upward look. It's
the upward lay away. You understand. Yeah, new heights I'm
gaining every day. Huh. That's a good song, but it's
a better principle. And then finally, lessen number number three.
I didn't give you an action step, but let's get
to the final lesson. Knowing Christ means daily maturity, thinking
as Christ's minded believers, and walking in the light. We
have already attained the stuff God has revealed. Live according
to that principle, beginning at this moment. Make it a
great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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 l David Harris.
Make it a great day. Yeah,