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. It is Tuesday, January
twenty seven, 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 series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in
Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is a
living sacrifice. A living sacrifice. I'd like to say good
morning to everybody, and welcome and welcome especially to those
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This is one of the ways we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day.
Please make us holy and acceptable in Jesus's name. I
pray Amen and a man again. I'm grateful because God
has not left our acceptability. Yeah, I know it sounds complicated.
He had not left that up to us. He has
not put us in a position where we have to
make ourselves acceptable to him. He has given us Jesus Christ,
who lived as the perfect specimen of a living sacrifice.
And all we need to do is yield our will
to God. And when we yield our will to God,
he will do what he'll teach us his way. He
will teach us his way. And so I'm gonna go
ahead and begin begin our with our first lesson. Our
first lesson for today is coming in from Philippians chapter
two and verse seven. Philippians chapter two and verse seven,
and the Bible reads, yay, and if I be offered
upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy
and I rejoice with you all. I'm gonna read it
another way. But even if I am being poured out
like a drink, offering on the sacrifice and service of
your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
So this is interesting. A life poured out for Christ
is never wasted. May I say it one more again? Yeah,
A life that is poured out for Christ is never
wasted because devotion has eternal value. Okay. And so there
are times that people are measuring ourselves by other people's actions. Well,
I wish I could do thus and such because that
person over there whom I respect, can do it. Or
I wish I had these gifts. I wish I had
those talents. Well, whatever God entrusts to us, he will
also multiply. He said, in the parable of the talents.
He said, listen, if I give you one and you
bury it, I'm gonna take that one away from you.
If I give you a hundred and you bury it,
I'm gonna take those away from you. But if you
are given, if God gives you one and you invest it,
he will multiply. If He gives you a few more
and you invest it, then he will do what multiply it.
And so the question is not what we have, it's
when God gives this to us, what are we gonna
do with it? Any effort that we pour out on
behalf of God I'm talking about in reality, then it
is never wasted. That's now an investment into the work
of God's an investment into the people that God is
taking us to serve. Never waste it because devotion has
eternal value. So the action step forward today is to
offer God one intentional sacrifice today. I'm not talking about
you finding something that is so difficult to do so
you can call it sacrificial. No, that's not what I'm saying.
It is what is it that I have in my possession?
Is it time? Is it my energy? Is it convenience?
Is it financial resources? Is it something in my house
that's wasting away when somebody outside of my house could
be using it to their benefit and to God's glory.
Right now, whatever it is, give that to God today, time, comfort,
convenience as an act of worship. Yeah, what I'm doing
with you all every morning and now on Wednesdays in
the evening, now on Sundays, now on Friday evenings, like,
whatever I'm doing with you is a sacrifice. Not because
it's painful or it causes me to have to do
so much, that's not it. It's something that I'm giving
to God and saying, God, this is this is you,
this is for you. Thank you for what you've done
for me. Thank you for what you've done for me.
And by the way, somebody just heard what Wednesday? What
those other days? Yeah, it's only because this happens only
on the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel and none of
the other platforms. I apologize for the interruption. Okay, let's
go into our second lesson, and this one is coming
in from the passage you were expecting in Romans chapter twelve,
versus one and two. Romans Chapter twelve, versus one and two,
and the Bible reads present your bodies as a living sacrifice.
Be not conformed to this world. I'm fast forwarding, but
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and
so our lesson very simply is a living sacrifice is
transformed life, shaped by renewed thinking and surrendered obedience. May
I say it again, A living sacrifice is a transformed life.
God is here to transform us by the renewing of
our minds, so we won't be squeezed into the mold
of the world. Shaped by renewed thinking and surrendered obedience. Yes,
God wants to metamorpho transform us. That's what the word
metamorphosis comes from. And look at this. This is this
is how important it is to me. If you're looking
at me on the screen, you see metamorphosis, expert hah,
transform your mind, transform your life like that's how important
this is to me, that transformation. So today I want
you to identify one habit or mindset that reflects conformity
to the world and replace it with a christ centered practice.
If you notice, when I'm speaking to you, I get
into a preacher mode. Sometimes I get into a teacher mode.
Sometimes I get oftentimes I get into a coaching mode
because transformation requires all of these things, Like, we can't
just be inspired all the time. We can't just only
be informed all the time. There has to be a
moment that we act, and we need to have guidance
about how to act to find clarity. That is part
of the mission of your daily portion in fact. Okay,
so please do that. Listen number three, as we come
to a swift close coming in from First Corinthians, chapter
eleven and verse one, the Bible reads, bee followers of me,
even as I also am a follower of Christ. He
said it another way, be imitators of me, Paul speaking,
just as I also am of Christ. So the lesson
is that true discipleship multiplies the Gospel through personal effort.
Wait a minute, just as the Early Church and the
early advent believers did. Well, what does that mean? What
does that mean? If Paul is following Christ and I
am following the same blueprint that Paul follows, then that's two.
Well is it two? Or is it more? Because when
Paul follows Christ, he is leading many to God. And
if we continue to do that, we will spread the
Gospel fully into the world as a model of discipleship.
So share one biblical truth or testimony with someone today
as a part of living out your personal reasonable service peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. 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,