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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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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: 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 Monday, December

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twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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new lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in

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the Philippians and Colossians. That's a mouthful. But before we

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get into this, I'd like to say welcome to everyone

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joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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grow in our faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we

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thank you for this morning, Thank you for this workday.

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Please help us to work as unto the Lord. Help

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us to be bound to you and free in all

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other ways. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a

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man again. Our caption is Paul in chains. Paul in chains. Okay,

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so let's go down to a quote. Well, you don't

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know it's down, but that's where it is in my

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notes here in the book Desire of Ages, page six

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hundred and seventy one. The Holy Spirit makes effectual what

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has been wrought by the world's redeemer. So what Jesus lived,

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what Jesus taught, the Holy Spirit makes effective in the

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lives of God's people. How Jesus lived, what he taught,

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the Holy Spirit makes to live and be effective in

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the heart and minds of God's people. This is the

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only reason Paul had this way of thinking, because the

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Holy Spirit was bringing what Jesus said. He said, he

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will teach you whatsoever I have commanded you, and I

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will be with you alway, even unto the end of

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the earth of the world. So through the Holy Spirit,

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the agency of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ is present

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and available in the life of Paul, and that must

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be our reality. Thank God, it's available. It is that

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reality is available. God is still available in twenty twenty

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five going into twenty twenty six, for everybody who is

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yielding our will to him and thus our lesson. Number

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one for today is Paul endured trials because Christ's power

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sustained him. Maybe I could skip the word power because

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Christ sustained him in Tewo Corinthians, Chapter four and verse seven.

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Let me just say it, but we have this treasure

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in Earthen vessels. I read it in another translation in

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a second that the excellency of the power may be

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of God and not of us. I read it the

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other day. Let me read it from New English translation.

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But we have this treasure. What treasure? The treasure of Christ,

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the treasure of all that He has done, the birth,

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the life, the death, the burial, the resurrection, and the

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ministry of Jesus Christ. Until one day he comes, and

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we see him seated upon the throne as King of

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kings and Lord of lords. We see this in reality.

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We have this treasure in clay jars, so that the

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extraordinary power that belongs to God does it belongs to

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God and not from us. So God is manifesting this

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thing down on planet Earth. And we know, now, wait

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a minute, it must be a miracle, it must be

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the power of God. In fact, the word power in

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this case, this case, in this particular text, dunamis. It

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means power and divine ability. Dunamis power and divine ability.

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And somebody's already saying, wait a minute, that sounds like

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exactly exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. The power that God gives

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us is explosive. His message goes into all the world boom.

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Everybody who is in your sphere of influence now has

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the privilege of experiencing God. Why because God is living

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in you. Christ is in you the hope of glory.

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And so your action step is ask God for strength

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in one area where you are feeling pressured. I said,

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feeling pressured, Talk to God about it. God, can you

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give me the strength in this one key area I'm

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feeling anxiety. I'm feeling pressured and trust that God will

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do it. Listen. Number two, Paul focused on revealing Christ's

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life through his own suffering. Yeah, He's like, okay, since

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I'm going through this as like I say e t

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Eric Thomas often says, don't let a good crisis go

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to waste, and Paul is living that reality. He's just like, yo,

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I'm going through all of this. I'm going through this suffering.

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Let's use it as a teaching tool. Let's use it

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as use my situation as a case study for the

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fact that God never leaves us, neither does he forsake us.

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And so in tewod Corinthians chapter four, beginning at verse ten,

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the Bible reads always bearing about in the body the

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dying of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the life also

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of Christ might be made manifest in our body, for

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we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus's sake,

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and that the life also of Christ might be made manifest.

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Can I say it another way, always carrying around in

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our body the death of Jesus Christ, so that the

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life of Christ may also be made visible in our body.

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We go through persecutions, we have to die to ourselves daily.

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There are times that we will have trials and tribulations.

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But I promise you that if the Holy Ghost is

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with us, and we are not just bringing these trials

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upon ourselves and pumping our chests, beating our chest making

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it seem as if we're holy because of what we're

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going through, but we are indeed and in fact yielded

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to Christ, then also the life of Christ will be

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manifest in us where we revealed in us going into

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verse eleven New English translation for we who are alive

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are constantly being handed over to death for Christ's sake,

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so that the life of Christ may also be made

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visible in our mortal body. Visible it means to reveal.

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God wants to make you a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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I'm clapping. I said, God wants you to be a

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revelation of Jesus Christ. You thought it was a book

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in the Bible. He wants you to be the manifestation

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the Bible says, let your light so shine before men

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that when they see your good works, they will glorify

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your Father, which is in heaven. He said that you

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are the sanctuary, the temple of the Holy Ghost. Who

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was in you what you didn't know that you were

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bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body,

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which are which is the Lord's and so he wants

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you to be the revelation of Jesus Christ. Please choose

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one response today that means something is happening and you

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need to respond to it, that will clearly reflect Christ's character.

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Is it road rage? Is it traffic? Is it that

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person who is supposed to be checking you out in

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the supermarket and he or she has an attitude problem,

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and you want to give that person a piece of

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your mind, Well, give them a piece of the gospel,

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Like show them what it's like to be connected with

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God God, so that these earthly things do not get

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us off of our spiritual mark or square lesson number

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three and final, as we come to a swift close, Paul,

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use spiritual resources to face hardship with integrity. In Two Corinthians,

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Chapter six, verses six and seven, it says, by pureness,

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by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost,

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by love unfeigned, by the Word of truth, by the

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power of God. This is the kind of resource that

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God has given to all of his people. The truth.

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Open your Bible and read a passage that strengthens your

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courage and ask God to apply it in your life. Peace.

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See you tomorrow.

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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,