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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 Tuesday, January sixth,

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in twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 new

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Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians

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and Colossians, and our caption for today is Spiritual Discernment applied.

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The spiritual discernment applied. It doesn't make sense that God

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shows us something and then we don't actually do anything

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with it. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm

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And if you do, then Lord bless you. And if

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you don't, then we know that God is not leading

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you to That's okay, and this is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father,

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we thank you for this day and the opportunity to

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open up your word today and to do your will.

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Please fill us with your holy spirits name I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Spiritual discernment applied. Let's find a

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quote that can be useful to us. In the book

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The Ministry of Healing, page four hundred and seventy one,

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we read trials are often permitted to accomplish a work

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that otherwise would never be done. Oh, trials are often

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permitted to accomplish a work that otherwise would never be done.

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Can I get just give one example? The Early Church,

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the first century Church. One of the reasons that they

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spread far and wide was because they were being persecuted,

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and they moved from place to place to attempt to

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escape persecution, and they would share the Gospel everywhere they went.

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Trials are often permitted to accomplish a work that otherwise

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would never be done. My brother and friend, Pastor TJ. Tias,

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and his wife, they suffered a tragic loss of their daughter,

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whom they adopted and loved until she again passed away,

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and the ministry of the Tias family has expanded in

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a great manner, in a great way because of the loss.

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Maybe that's not the right way to say it, but

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I think you understand where I'm going. There was a

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way that our brother is ministering today based on the

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experience that God allowed him. Trials are often permitted to

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accomplish a work that otherwise would not be done. So

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our lesson number one today is Paul viewed his imprisonment

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all as an opportunity for the Gospel to advance. This

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is why he could say rejoice in the Lord all

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way and again I say rejoice. Wow, that's a special

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kind of fate that we all can have. But in Philippia,

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chapter one and verse two, while the Bible reads, but

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I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which

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happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance

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of the Gospel. Let me say it another way. I

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want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation

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has actually turned out to advance the gospel. I think

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it was Joseph that said that what you meant for

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evil you speaking to his brothers, God meant it for good.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh.

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Speaker 2: And so this word for advance or whatever means did

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I say or whatever I shouldn't have said, that progress

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forward movement. That means to continually move forward in movement.

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So the action is look at one difficulty today, one

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of the difficulties you're going through, and ask God to

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show you how it can move his mission forward. Is

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God using you as a case study like he did? Job?

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Is it that somebody is going to be encouraged by

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your response to the thing that's going on. You're being

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open and honest and they know what you're going through

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and the way that you're responding to it is also

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going to lead someone closer to the kingdom. H So

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that's your action step for lesson number one. Less a

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number two is coming in from Philippians chapter one, Versus

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thirteen and fourteen, and the Bible reads, so that my

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bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and

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in all other places, that many are much more bold

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to speak the word without fear. So the lesson is

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that Paul saw every guard he's locked up, you know,

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every visitor, every restriction as part of his assignment. You

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didn't just pick the stuff that was good and the

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things that he enjoyed and loved. He didn't just pick

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the stuff that was rosy and light. Every single thing

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he saw as a part of his assignment in spreading

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the gospel. We're talking about boldness and fearless confidence. Now

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the action step is to speak one word of faith

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today where you would normally hesitate. Ah. Let me say

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it again, speak one word of faith today where you

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would normally hesitate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before I start preaching,

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let me move to lesson number three. And it's coming

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in from verse eighteen of Philippians chapter one, And here

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is some of it. Christ is preached, and I therein

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do rejoice, yay, and will rejoice. Let me say it

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another way. In every way they're in pretense, oh, or

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in truth, Christ is being proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Man.

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I just say that this is one of the it

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may seem simple to you, but one of the texts

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that perplex me a little bit, because he's like, if

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by pretense or by truth, Like, there are times that

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I'm like, but God, like, we can't just be out

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here playing with this gospel here, and he's like, that's

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not your business. Like when other people appear to you

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that they're playing with the gospel, whether by pretense or

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by truth, Christ is being proclaimed. And in this this

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brother right here who was inspired by the Holy Ghost,

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full of the Holy Ghost. Yeah, he rejoiced in that.

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And I'm like, ah, so we shouldn't be judging what

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we see when people are teaching or preaching the gospel

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or somehow manifesting the Gospel in a way that we whoops,

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don't prove. It's not your business, he said, whether in

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pretense or in truth. So they're contrasting just so nobody

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tries to go real, you know, academic and look for

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what does the Greek word for pretense mean? And see

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your misunderstanding. M M no, no, no, no, no, he's

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literally saying what we read pretense or truth. I think

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it was the disciples that Jesus was speaking to and

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they were like, hey, you want us to go and

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stop them from preaching, And Jesus was like, no, no,

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don't do that, No, don't do that, because whoever is

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proclaiming my name cannot say speak or do evil against me.

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I'll just pause right there. Our action step, then, is

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to choose joy today, even when motives or circumstances around

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you are imperfect. Choose joy. Big shout out to Mignon

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Francois my baby, says, I call her the boss Lady.

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Choose joy. Choose joy today, even when motives or circumstances

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around you are imperfect. Wow. Let me read one more

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quote before I bring us down to a swift close.

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Faith sees in every crisis a call to greater trust

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and deeper service. Faith sees in every crisis a call

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to greater trust and deeper service. Is that your reality?

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This is how we apply the spiritual dessernment that God

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gives us. Make it a great day. 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,