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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 Monday. It's

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September twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our Lesson study series for this final week through

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the Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is

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Offerings and the Spirit, who the This is gonna be

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good offerings and the Spirit. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. Please

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guide and let us know where you are in the

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world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one

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of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,

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Thank you, thank you for giving us the Spirit of

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Christ as our model. Please help us to receive the

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Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, so that we can live

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that model in real time. In Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Oh my, I remember many years ago,

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many many many years ago, when somebody wanted something from

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me that I wasn't willing to give because there are

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some things that must not leave my possession, you understand.

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So it doesn't matter what it is. It's just the

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principle I want to share today. And someone came and said, hey,

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I'd like to have that thing that's in your possession.

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And I'm like, nah, I don't give that out because

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I needed to stay with me at all times, okay,

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And the person said, look how I did X for you?

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First of all, I didn't request whatever X was. Look

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how I did X for you, And you're not going

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to give me that to borrow to use whatever. And

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I went and got X and put that thing into

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the person's hand and said I don't need your X. Okay, okay.

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Point in this case it sounds almost retributive. But what

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I'm saying to you is the reason why I did

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not want the thing from the person was because now

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it seems transactional. I didn't even request the thing from

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the person and they gave it, saying now you owe me. Now,

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if we had a contract or something like that, then

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that would be perfectly fine. But I never made such

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an agreement. You see where I'm coming from. And so

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there are times that people have transactional relationships with God,

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even if the example I gave you was a poor one.

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I think you get the point. Yeah, sometimes people live

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transactionally with God. If I do this, God owes me that.

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And it's like no, no, no, no, no, it has

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never been that way. It has never been that way.

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And so we begin with that thought from Exodus, chapter

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thirty five, in verse five, it reads, take ye from

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among you offering. This is what God is telling to Moses.

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Unto the Lord who's soever is of a willing heart,

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let him bring it an offering of the Lord gold

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and silver and brass. Yeah. So compelling people to give.

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That is not biblical. Inviting people to give and showing

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them how God has blessed them, and this is what

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he says about it. That's a different thing. But God

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is saying in this instance that he values offerings given

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only voluntarily and not under compulsion, not under coercion, not

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under duress. The people of God gave freely out of

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gratitude for his deliverance. And then it got to the

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point that the people of God had given so much,

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they had sown so much into the ministry of building

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the Tabernacle, that God went back to Moses and said, Okay,

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tell him to stop. Tell him to stop. It's too much.

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We got enough. Just tell him to stop. Wouldn't it

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be wonderful if, in twenty twenty five and beyond, if

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the Lord delays his coming, that God's people would be

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so freely giving and generous in their relationships with people

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into the ministry and call of God, that he said,

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it's enough, you can just stop here, we have enough.

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Wouldn't it be wonderful that the poor that we have

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among us, that they would no longer be a test

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for us, but it will be a testimony that now

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We've resolved this issue among God's people, wouldn't it be wonderful?

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But God has given us the privilege of giving freely,

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not coerce, not under compulsion, not under due rest, not

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from some guilty plea or guilt writing plea. Give from

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a thankful heart, brothers and sisters, and not out of obligation,

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knowing that generosity reflects trust in God's provision. Yeah, my

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son said the other day. I don't remember if I

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told you this, but my son said the other day

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when we were discussing money. I've been teaching him about

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money in a way that maybe is different than other people.

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But I remember him saying when we were we were

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we were talking about what he owed me based on

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an experience, based on something that we shared about school, whatever.

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And now he gets some money, and he said, and

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I asked him, like, how do you want to how

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do you want to settle this score with me? Like

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how you want to deal with that? And he was like,

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take it all, deal with it this way? And I

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said all of it right now. He was like, yeah,

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take it all. And I said okay. He said, yeah,

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you can get more. We can always get more. We

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can always get more. You see, the young man already

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understands that God is the God of abundance. So how

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can we be stingy? How can we hold on to

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how can we have our our grasp closed? When it

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comes to returning to God? What is his He's the

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one that gives us the power to get well, That's

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what the Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter eighteen. So if

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that is the case, then generosity should be the only

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outcome from the people of God, full stop. And so

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from genis from Exodus chapter thirty five and verse thirty one,

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the Bible reads, and he filled him with the Spirit

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of God in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge,

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and in all manner of workmanship. Now we see that

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God used some human beings to build the sanctuary, and

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he's speaking of a certain set of people. And he

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did this more than once, by the way, and in

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this case the brother that he gave power and wisdom to.

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It was to give that work to the work of God.

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You see. So when he filled those people with the

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Holy Ghost and with skill, and with understanding and knowledge

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of all kinds of work, it was for the work

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of God. It was for the glory of God, I

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think you know where we're going here. So the Holy

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Ghost empowers God's people with skills and creativity. What are

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you doing with yours? What are you doing with your

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skills and creativity? Are you using it for the glory

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of God hmm and excellence for the building of His kingdom?

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No matter what else you do out there in the workforce,

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no matter what you do as a professional, whatever you

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do as a business owner, whether it's s corpse corporate

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in your countries, whatever it means. Are you a big

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corporate structure, are your small business? Are you just a freelancer?

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Whatever it is, I said, just a freelancer, like not

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a fortune five hundred company. That's what I mean by that.

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If that is your reality, whichever of those categories that

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devolve upon you, it is for the Kingdom of God.

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If you are unemployed, under employed, overemployed, whatever the reality is,

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the power that God has given you through His spirit

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and skill and understanding and workmanship craftsmanship is for the

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glory of God and the Kingdom of God. And then, finally,

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in verse seven of Exodus, chapter thirty six, for the

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stuff they had was sufficient, I said that to you

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earlier they had given to the point that it was

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sufficient and for all the work to make it and

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too much. I love to see this over abundance. I

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love to see where God's people give so much into

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his work that there is an overflow. So we ask

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God today that he will give us the kind of

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heart that is the spirit of giving, and we will

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have even generosity wars among ourselves, so that we know

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that God can't be outgiven, no.

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Speaker 3: Matter how were joining us in true friends peace always

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remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every

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word that comes from the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it

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a great day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah,