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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 Friday, January three,

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twenty twenty five. 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 new

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Lessons study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption

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for today is tell the Truth. Tell the Truth. I

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need you to tell the truth. I need to tell

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the truth, and we'll talk about that in just a moment,

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but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to

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you and ask you to please go over to your

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our online community. Click that number seven I still need

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one thousand people to click that number seven and join

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Your Daily Portion Companion Guide for this quarter's lesson. Pick

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up the Companion Guide because we make reference to it,

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we use it in the community, and it is for

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you to apply apply what we're learning in spiritual development,

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personal development, in your relationships, and of course also in

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your professional lives. Okay, your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway.

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Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this preparation day,

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and I ask you to please draw us into a

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right relationship with you so we can live the truth.

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We can tell the truth, and we can embrace the

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truth all the time, abide in the truth in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. I don't know how

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many times I'm going to use the term truth today,

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but I hope that you will embrace the truth. And

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so we're going to focus on I want you who

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have the Companion Guide to focus on pages nineteen and twenty.

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My mind is on relationship application, Okay, So you can

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put it into the community chat once you've joined, which

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of the four that you're focused on? But that's where

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my mind is, because the question that comes to mind

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for me is does my style of relating to people

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reflect the truth? Here it is again, does my style

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of relating to people reflect the truth? I remember the

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Bible says Jesus speaking that there were two great commandments,

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right to love the Lord our God with everything that

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we have and everything that we are right. And the

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second is like unto it, namely this to love thy

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neighbor as thyself. So the second and great commandment, the

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final six commandments in the ten Commandments, is about relating

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to people, relating to God and people. Okay. And so

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does my style of relating to people? How I speak

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to and about them? Ah, how I may physically handle

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if somebody needs help. Am I relating in the way

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that is reflective of the truth in my relationship with

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my wife, with my son? Am my abusive toward them

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physically emotionally in the way that I speak to them?

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Or am I reflecting the truth in my relationship? Okay?

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And so this is how we need to become more

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and more practical in these studies and so the lesson

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writer has quoted from the book Christ's object Lessons, beginning

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at page four hundred and fifteen, and it reads, it

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is the darkness of misapprehension or misunderstanding of God that

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is enshrouding the world. Men are losing or humans people

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are losing the knowledge of His character. It has been misunderstood,

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It has been misinterpreted. Let me ask you a question,

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and I'm asking myself the question, like, when people see you,

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are they getting the right view of God? Or is

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the darkness and the misunderstanding of God getting bigger? Because

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people are like, wait a minute, you said you're a Christian,

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Like you say that you love God. Why do you

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speak to me that way? Why is it that when

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we're if something goes bad on the road, like a

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in a while you're driving, is it road rage from

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the person of God? Like the brother the sister? How

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the people of God do you engage in road rage?

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Do you say bad words to people when something doesn't

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go quite right? In an interaction in the gym, somebody

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wants to use this bench for these weights or this

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space over here? How do you respond when things don't

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go quite in the way that you desire. Yeah, so

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we need to really be thinking about this and asking

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God to make us holy at this time. Continuing the quote,

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a message from God is to be proclaimed, a message illuminating.

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That's light, illuminating in its influence and saving in its power.

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So people need to get connected to God, our Father

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through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

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And sometimes you're the one. Many times you're the one

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to give them that invitation. Your life will either enhance

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their desire or repel them. Enhance their desire to know God,

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solidify the relationship with God, or it'll cause confusion. And

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so we need to be answering and asking and answering

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that question. Are we living the way that we relate

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to people? Is it a testament of the truth of

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God or something else? Or something else? Let me continue

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his character and I actually underscored this. His character is

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to be made known. Well, how how is his character

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to be made known? Continuing the quote, Into the darkness

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of the world is to be shed the light of

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his glory, the light of His goodness and mercy and truth. Well,

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how look in a mirror when you have an opportunity,

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look in the mirror, And if you don't have a mirror.

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Turn on your phone with one of those cameras, the

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forward facing cameras. Switch on the camera, look in there

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and what you see that is the answer, like, how

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will his character be made known in this world? How

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into the darkness of the world is the life light

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to be shed of his glory, the light of His

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goodness and mercy and truth. People are to see this

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through you, how God has been good to you, and

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how you reflect his glory. Let me continue the quote

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straight out of the Bible. This is the work is coming.

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This is the work outlined by the prophet Isaiah in

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the words, Oh Jerusalem. That's you, brothers and sisters, the

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people of God, anywhere you are in the world. Ah,

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Oh Jerusalem, that bring us good tidings. Lift up thy voice,

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thy voice. Did you get that? It's your voices that

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need to be heard, my voice that needs to be heard.

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Lift up thy voice with strength, lift it up. Do

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not be afraid, say unto the cities of Judah. Behold

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your God. Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand,

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his arms shall rule for him. And behold, his reward

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is with him and his work before him. And that's

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out of Isaiah chapter fourty verses nine and ten. And

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so the people of God again, the question is how

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am I lifting up my voice?

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Speaker 1: You?

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Speaker 2: How are you lifting up your voices? How are you

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lifting up your lives to say, behold, behold our God,

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Behold your God. So we want to elevate who God

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is through our lives and how we interact with people,

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so that they will say, you know what, I realize

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that something's just not right with my life. I have

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been living according to my own terms. I have been

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relating to others in a way that is not pleasing

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to God. I don't have to be mean, that's not

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really what it is. That like, there are people who

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are very kind and gentle, but maybe maybe they have

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kind of ungodly relationships, like they're sometimes romantic relationships that

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are ungodly, Like God wants us to relate in a

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certain way only if we're married. And maybe that's not

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the way that it's been, you see. And I could

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give more examples, but I think you understand. And so,

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continuing in the lesson, those who wait for the bridegrooms

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coming are to say to the people, behold your God.

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The last rays of merciful light. The last message of

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mercy to be given to the world is a revelation

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of his character of love. So let me just pause

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right here, pause right here, to speak directly to those

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who have not yet said yes to God, like now

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is your opportunity. Now is your opportunity to say, God,

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you know what, I have not been connecting with you

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in a way that is pleasing to you. Would it?

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Please accept me? And I know that He will say yes.

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Just submit your will to him today 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,