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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, October eleven,

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twenty twenty four. 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 themes in the Gospel of John, and our

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caption for today is the Abundant Life. The Abundant Life.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this day and for the privilege

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that we have to be together again and to open

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your word. Thank you for this time of preparation. Please

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help us to live the abundant life. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen, and a man again. Okay, And so

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the trillion dollar question I did not say million, I

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did not say billion. But the trillion dollar question today

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this Friday morning, is how can I get or live

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the abundant life? That is the trillion dollar question for today.

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How can I live the abundant life? Because we talk

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about it a lot, especially Christians, A lot of people

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talk about prosperity and how to have abundance and sometimes

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I think people get confused, either confused by not understanding

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or confused by selfish ambition. How do we live the

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abundant life? Well, let me just start here. Through His word,

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Through God's word, we live the abundant life through his word.

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Why because life is in his word. In Him is life,

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and the life is the light of men, the same

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Him who is the Word. And we're going to talk

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about that in detail beginning tomorrow and then right through

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the next week. But we'll begin here by reading from

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the book The Desire of Ages, page three hundred and ninety,

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and then we're going to give you some really solid

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biblical foundation here, and it reads the life of Christ

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that gives life to the world is in his word.

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I think I just said that, Yes, it is by

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his word that Jesus healed the disease and cast out demons.

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By his word, he's stilled the sea and raised the dead,

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as God ever raised your death circumstances to life. There

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are times that you have maybe even faced near or

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near death experiences. Maybe you were in the hospital and

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they didn't give you a good prognosis, like he or

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she is going to pass away in this short period

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of time, and after years now you are still here

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living by God's grace. Huh, like Hezekiah. Yes, look up

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Hezekiah in the Bible. God gave him fifteen more years. Yes,

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there are dead circumstances in your finances, in your relationships,

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and God revived them. Okay. And the people continuing the quote,

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bore witness that his word was with power. He spoke

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the word of God as he had spoken through all

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the prophets and teachers of the Old Testament. The whole

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Bible is a manifestation of Christ, and the Savior desired

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to fix the faith of his followers on the Word.

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When his visible presence should be withdrawn. The Word must

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be their power or a source of power. The faster

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they were to live by every word that proceedeth out

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of the mouth of God. As our physical life is

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sustained by food, so our spiritual life is sustained by

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the Word of God. I think you're getting the common

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theme here. And every soul is to receive life from

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God's Word for himself. As we must eat for ourselves

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in order to receive nourishment, so we must receive the

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Word for ourselves. We are not to obtain it merely

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through the medium of another's mind. Let me be very

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clear here. I mean, like how you listen to me

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every day or you watch me on the internet. Yeah. No,

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like you may listen to or watch other people on

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the internet, on the radio. Some of you were watching me,

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listen to me on the radio. You're watching me on

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television and other spiritual leaders that you respect. In Bible teachers,

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God is saying no, not just that way. That's a

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good start. If the person that is sharing is actually

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sharing God's truth. We should carefully study the Bible, asking

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God for the aid of the Holy Spirit that we

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may understand his word. That's the end of the quote.

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And so what we're going to do now with the

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remaining moments that we have here just about just about

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five or six minutes here is go into the actual Bible.

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The Bible reads here in Hebrews chapter four. This is

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why the Word is so empowering and powerful to transform

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our lives. For the Word of God is alive and active,

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sharper than any two edged sword. It penetrates even to

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the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It

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judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. So this

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emphasizes that God's word is powerful. It is dynamic, meaning

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it does not just sit still. It is able to

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God's word can move in and through our lives when

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we accept his words and transform our lives when we

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do his words by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Here is one of my favorites from the Book of

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Job and the Bible reads, beginning at verse eight of

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Job chapter twenty three. Behold, I go forward, but he

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is not there. So Job is in confusion in a sense,

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even though he's holy, he knows God, but he's in

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a sense, he's in confusion. He's not there and backward,

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but I cannot perceive him. Have you ever been in

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a situation where you could not perceive God? You felt like, well,

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I don't know where he is in my life. God,

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are you listening to my prayers? I need you desperately,

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but I am not able to perceive your presence. Yes,

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this is what Job was going through. On the left hand,

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where he doth work, I cannot behold him. He hideth

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himself on the right hand. At least that's what Job

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was saying. That's what he was saying. Jesus experienced this

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on the cross when he cried out, my God, My God,

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why have thou forsaken me?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Why are you leaving me?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 2: Why can I not sense your presence through the darkness.

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This is what Job is describing. Hmm. I cannot see.

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But he knoweth. This is what I like, the transition

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point in verse ten. But he knoweth the way that

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I take. When he hath tried me, I shall come

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forth as gold. See, we go through trials and tribulations,

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brothers and sisters, especially as we live in these last days.

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We will go through temptations. We will be tested to

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the nth degree in preparation for the Kingdom of Heaven

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and then the earth made new. We will be tested

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so that we can hold fast to the power of God.

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But we want to come through as fine gold. My

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foot hath held his steps his way? Have I kept

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and not declined? Here? It comes? Here, it comes. How

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is it that his foot has held his steps? How

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is it that he has not declined and not gone

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away from God? How did he go through this trial?

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How did he have the abundant life? I am so

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glad you ast as we come to a swift clothes.

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Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips.

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I have esteemed his words. He esteemed what he esteemed

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God's words, the words of his mouth more than my

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necessary food. See, the abundant life comes through God's word,

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even more than sustenance comes through the food that we eat.

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Make a day.

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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,