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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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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, January

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twenty seven, twenty twenty six. 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

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in

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Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is a

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living sacrifice. A living sacrifice. I'd like to say good

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morning to everybody, and welcome and welcome especially to those

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This is one of the ways we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day.

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Please make us holy and acceptable in Jesus's name. I

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pray Amen and a man again. I'm grateful because God

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has not left our acceptability. Yeah, I know it sounds complicated.

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He had not left that up to us. He has

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not put us in a position where we have to

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make ourselves acceptable to him. He has given us Jesus Christ,

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who lived as the perfect specimen of a living sacrifice.

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And all we need to do is yield our will

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to God. And when we yield our will to God,

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he will do what he'll teach us his way. He

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will teach us his way. And so I'm gonna go

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ahead and begin begin our with our first lesson. Our

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first lesson for today is coming in from Philippians chapter

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two and verse seven. Philippians chapter two and verse seven,

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and the Bible reads, yay, and if I be offered

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upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy

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and I rejoice with you all. I'm gonna read it

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another way. But even if I am being poured out

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like a drink, offering on the sacrifice and service of

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your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

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So this is interesting. A life poured out for Christ

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is never wasted. May I say it one more again? Yeah,

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A life that is poured out for Christ is never

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wasted because devotion has eternal value. Okay. And so there

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are times that people are measuring ourselves by other people's actions. Well,

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I wish I could do thus and such because that

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person over there whom I respect, can do it. Or

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I wish I had these gifts. I wish I had

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those talents. Well, whatever God entrusts to us, he will

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also multiply. He said, in the parable of the talents.

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He said, listen, if I give you one and you

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bury it, I'm gonna take that one away from you.

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If I give you a hundred and you bury it,

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I'm gonna take those away from you. But if you

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are given, if God gives you one and you invest it,

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he will multiply. If He gives you a few more

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and you invest it, then he will do what multiply it.

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And so the question is not what we have, it's

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when God gives this to us, what are we gonna

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do with it? Any effort that we pour out on

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behalf of God I'm talking about in reality, then it

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is never wasted. That's now an investment into the work

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of God's an investment into the people that God is

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taking us to serve. Never waste it because devotion has

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eternal value. So the action step forward today is to

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offer God one intentional sacrifice today. I'm not talking about

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you finding something that is so difficult to do so

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you can call it sacrificial. No, that's not what I'm saying.

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It is what is it that I have in my possession?

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Is it time? Is it my energy? Is it convenience?

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Is it financial resources? Is it something in my house

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that's wasting away when somebody outside of my house could

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be using it to their benefit and to God's glory.

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Right now, whatever it is, give that to God today, time, comfort,

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convenience as an act of worship. Yeah, what I'm doing

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with you all every morning and now on Wednesdays in

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the evening, now on Sundays, now on Friday evenings, like,

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whatever I'm doing with you is a sacrifice. Not because

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it's painful or it causes me to have to do

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so much, that's not it. It's something that I'm giving

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to God and saying, God, this is this is you,

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this is for you. Thank you for what you've done

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for me. Thank you for what you've done for me.

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And by the way, somebody just heard what Wednesday? What

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those other days? Yeah, it's only because this happens only

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on the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel and none of

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the other platforms. I apologize for the interruption. Okay, let's

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go into our second lesson, and this one is coming

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in from the passage you were expecting in Romans chapter twelve,

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versus one and two. Romans Chapter twelve, versus one and two,

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and the Bible reads present your bodies as a living sacrifice.

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Be not conformed to this world. I'm fast forwarding, but

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be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and

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so our lesson very simply is a living sacrifice is

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transformed life, shaped by renewed thinking and surrendered obedience. May

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I say it again, A living sacrifice is a transformed life.

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God is here to transform us by the renewing of

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our minds, so we won't be squeezed into the mold

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of the world. Shaped by renewed thinking and surrendered obedience. Yes,

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God wants to metamorpho transform us. That's what the word

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metamorphosis comes from. And look at this. This is this

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is how important it is to me. If you're looking

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at me on the screen, you see metamorphosis, expert hah,

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transform your mind, transform your life like that's how important

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this is to me, that transformation. So today I want

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you to identify one habit or mindset that reflects conformity

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to the world and replace it with a christ centered practice.

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If you notice, when I'm speaking to you, I get

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into a preacher mode. Sometimes I get into a teacher mode.

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Sometimes I get oftentimes I get into a coaching mode

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because transformation requires all of these things, Like, we can't

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just be inspired all the time. We can't just only

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be informed all the time. There has to be a

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moment that we act, and we need to have guidance

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about how to act to find clarity. That is part

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of the mission of your daily portion in fact. Okay,

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so please do that. Listen number three, as we come

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to a swift close coming in from First Corinthians, chapter

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eleven and verse one, the Bible reads, bee followers of me,

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even as I also am a follower of Christ. He

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said it another way, be imitators of me, Paul speaking,

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just as I also am of Christ. So the lesson

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is that true discipleship multiplies the Gospel through personal effort.

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Wait a minute, just as the Early Church and the

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early advent believers did. Well, what does that mean? What

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does that mean? If Paul is following Christ and I

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am following the same blueprint that Paul follows, then that's two.

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Well is it two? Or is it more? Because when

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Paul follows Christ, he is leading many to God. And

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if we continue to do that, we will spread the

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Gospel fully into the world as a model of discipleship.

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So share one biblical truth or testimony with someone today

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as a part of living out your personal reasonable service 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,