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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 Sabbath, February seven,

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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 and Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is a heavenly citizenship, a

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heavenly citizenship. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining

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Please please also let us know where you are in

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father,

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We thank you for this Sabbath morning. Please help us

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to live according to your principles. In Jesus' name, I

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pray a man and a man again. See Jesus when

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he was teaching his disciples how to pray, one of

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the things he said was thy will be done on

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earth as it is in heaven. And so God wants

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us to have a heavenly mindset. Okay, we're not talking

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about a geographic location. We're talking about we are talking

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about the spirituality of connecting with God. We're talking about

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the holiness of God. As the Earth is in twenty

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twenty six, it is still degrading because of atom's sin

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and of course the second atom, the second atom. Jesus

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Christ has positioned us so that one day the earth

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will be made new. So in the Earth made new,

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that is a heavenly mindset. Right in heaven, where the

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throne of God currently is, that is still heavenly mindset,

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you see. So what we're talking about is the contrast

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between unholy and holy, where God dwells and where humans

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currently dwell. Okay, And so when you see the caption

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heavenly citizenship, I do not want you to think of

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a geographic location, because some of you have been saying

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some of us. Really I stopped many years ago, but

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some of us have been have been saying that we

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are citizens of heaven, meaning a location. And it's like, right,

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but you know, when Jesus does come, according to Revelation

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chapter twenty, when Jesus comes, right, then for a thousand

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years we will be in heaven. But after the thousand

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years are finished, the fulfillment of Jesus's promise in Matthew

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chapter five, the meek will inherit the and now add

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a word new Earth. So we'll live in heaven for

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a thousand years, and then after the thousand years are finished,

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God's people will live in the new Earth, you see.

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And so our citizenship is with God. I could have

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just said that and saved a couple of minutes, but

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I need you to understand the biblical logic surrounding the mindset, okay.

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And so I'm looking forward to the day that we

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get to live with God forever and our mindset shift

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must begin today, today, today. So let me begin with

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a quote, a quote from Reviewing Herald, eighteen seventy four.

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Those who take hold of the promises of God have

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a citizenship higher than nations, and a hope more enduring

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than empires. Do you see? So the rise and fall

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of earthly kingdoms in Daniel chapters one through well, really

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the whole book of Daniel, the rise and fall of

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kingdoms is that's earthly, that's earthly, that is the citizenship

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of earth. But when Jesus Christ now hitting at the

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base of all of earthly paradigms and his kingdom is established,

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that's heavenly, okay. And so from the book Testimonies for

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the Church, Volume nine, page two hundred and eighty five.

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We are pilgrims and strangers here and we are we

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must not allow earthly things to eclipse the glories of

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the heavenly world. Thank God, Thank God. So what is

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our lesson number one? Our lesson number one is coming

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in from the Book of Philippians, chapter four and verse six,

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where it reads, be careful or anxious, Do not be anxious, right,

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be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and

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supplication with thanksgiving, so we're connecting with God. Prayer is

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having a conversation with God as with a friend. Supplication

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has to do with making specific requests, and we'll hear

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about that in a second. Thanksgiving. You know what thanksgiving is.

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I want you to spy on God when you speak

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to God about a thing, when you are hoping to

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go hoping of God about a thing, and then He

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does what God does only God can do and answers

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according to his will. I want you to be the

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first one to see. I want you to be peeking

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into the windows of heaven. I want you to be

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spying on God and be the first to see as

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soon as God makes an action, when he makes a

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move and begins to answer your prayer whatever his will

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is on his answer, and begin with thanksgiving and gratitude. Okay,

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So by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make your requests

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made known, be made known unto God, and so heavenly

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citizens I mean heavenly citizenship gives the believer an unshakable

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peace because our lives and future are secured in God's hands.

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And so another action step in this regard is to

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pause three times a day at least. But I'm just

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giving you a number to aim for three times a

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day and breathe a simple prayer of thanksgiving, naming one

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burden that you are releasing to God. Thank you God.

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Right now I have anxiety because whatever is going on

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in my life. Thank you for taking this burden from me.

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And I want you all to do it, knowing that

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God has that as his will already. He doesn't want

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you to be anxious. Be anxious for nothing, he said.

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But by prayer and supplication you understand what the tech said.

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All right, lesson number two. Earthly kingdoms fail, but believers

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belong to a kingdom that cannot disappoint, decay, or be destroyed.

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Coming in from Philippians, chapter three and verse twenty, where

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the Bible reads, for our conversation in this case I

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have misinterpreted many times it means citizenship. Our conversation is

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in heaven. I've said conduct. Sometimes it is conduct, sometimes

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it is citizenship. In this case it's citizenship. So our

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citizenship is in heaven. From whence also we look for

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a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. The citizenship really means,

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It really means commonwealth or legal entity rooted in a

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higher government. So when we look at Isaiah, I think

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it's chapter nine and verse six where it says, and

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the government shall be upon the Messiah's shoulders, and his

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name shall be called wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father,

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and the Prince of Peace. We're talking about the higher

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government of God. And so the action step then is

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write one sentence declaring your loyalty. For those of you

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who have ever written for citizenship or had to pledge

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as you shifted your citizenship or acquired a citizenship somewhere,

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you know what this is like. So I want you

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to do something like that. I do too, by the way,

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write one sentence declaring your loyalty to the Kingdom of

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God rather than the earthly paradigm. And our lesson Number

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three comes in from John chapter fourteen and verse twenty seven.

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Jesus said this peace I leave with you, My peace

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I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled,

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neither let it be afraid. In another translation, it says,

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do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

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God wants us to have the kind of peace that

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flows from His presence. What does the step identify one

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source of recurring worry and create a seven day prayer

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plan to bring it to God daily. Make it a

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great Sabbath. We'll see you in the morning of the

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Lord's payars life 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,