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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 Thursday, November

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

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study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for today is changed by contemplation, changed by contemplation. Before

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we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to

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everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com,

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life Application guide, and

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let us know where you are in the world. At

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. And

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by the way, the web address is going to be

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right here until the end of the program. Let's pray, Father,

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we thank you for this day and for keeping us

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until now. Father, please please help us to behold you

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and become like you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen

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and amen again, beholding and becoming like God really changed

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by contemplation, and so listen, listen, listen. I'm going to

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read a passage from Second Corinthians, chapter three and verse eighteen,

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Two Corinthians, chapter three and verse eighteen, where the Bible reads,

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but we all with open face beholding as in a

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glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the

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same image, from glory to glory, even as by the

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spirit of the Lord. Let me read it another translation,

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and we all with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of

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the Lord are being transformed into the same image, from

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one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord,

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who is the spirit. Okay, let me say it to

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you like this. The people of God had an unbelief problem.

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They had an unbelief problem, and so when Moses went

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up into the mount with God and invested those forty

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days and forty nights, and he came back all a glow,

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like he came back as what we really are supposed

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to be. The Bible says, we are to shine as

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lights in this wicked and perverse generation, where to be

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lights in the world. Let your light so shine. The

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Bible says, let your light so shine before men, so

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that we may see His good, our good. So when

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they see our good works, will they will glorify our Father,

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which is in heaven. When people see us, they will

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glorify God. They will see the light that God is

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in our lives, and they will aspire to that and say, God,

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how are you so good? If you can change him,

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if you can change her, then you can also change me.

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And so that is the privilege that we have to

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behold the glory of God and become like God. But

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the people, when Moses came down all a glow, they

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were fearful. They said, cover that up, like cover that

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glow up. We're fearful, like cover that up. It was

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because Paul said, it was because of their unbelief. And

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so what the Bible is saying here is that when

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we unveil our faces and experience the brilliance of who

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and what God is, and then begin to reflect that

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out there we are being transformed by the Holy ghost.

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The light that God is emanates from his people out

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into the world. You see. So the question really is

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what are you beholding? What are you watching? What are

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you listening to? What are you experiencing? What is it

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that you're doing for long periods of time that are

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becoming a part of who you are? You see where

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this is going. So God is welcoming us into us

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presence so that when we rew we receive the brilliance

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of who He is, what He does right into our lives.

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That we now will shine that light out into the

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world and others will learn to love God too. And

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so and so you come, what you behold is lesson

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number one from the Book of Hebrews, Chapter twelve and

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verse two. The Bible reads, we are to be looking

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unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. So

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do we really need to say that looking to Jesus

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is the goal? We watch Jesus, we do what Jesus did.

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We ask God to make us holy like Jesus. Yes,

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and so and So the Bible is saying, like a

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mirror catching the light, we reflect what we face. I

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like it. Like that. Let me say it again, we

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reflect what we face. The more our gazes fixed upon

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Jesus is the more our character glows with his glory.

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All right, So when we fix our attention on Jesus,

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something supernatural happens. I love it. We begin to reflect

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what we repeatedly revere. What we watch shapes what we worship.

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The Prince is simple and yet profound. Our focus determines

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our formation. Our focus. The reason why some people are

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so violent on the road road rage is because they're

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beholding violent things, violent activities, violent thoughts, violent music, violent conversations.

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You understand, Yes, they're assimilating violence from their community. Sometimes

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our community. Sometimes I wish I had the time to

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talk to you about what I assimilated as a young

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guy from age fourteen to twenty three. Yeah, yeah, I

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assimilated fully what was going on in my community. The

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more we look upon the character and compassion and courage

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of Christ, now that's the opposite. We're beholding this, we're studying,

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we are appreciating, we are revering. All of this about

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Christ is the more His likeness begins to appear first

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in our thoughts, of course, in our words, and also

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in our actions. In our thoughts, in our words and

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in our actions, we thank God. We thank God. Our

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lesson number two, Our lesson number two is the world conforms,

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but Christ transforms. And of course it takes you right

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to Roman chapter twelve and verse two that it says,

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be not conformed to this world, and that actually means

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do not allow this world to squeeze you into its mold,

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and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed

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by the renewing of your mind. Don't be conformed to

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this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of

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your mind. So transformation begins in the mindset. Can we

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just start with that, Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only way

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that I can I can be transformed is that I

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yield my mindset to God and say, Lord, Now, this

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mind is worldly. This mind thinks about about things that

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are earthly. This mind is more apt to sin than

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to be saved. And so I yield this to you.

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So my I exercise the right that you have given

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us to make a decision. And my decision is to

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submit to You and Therefore, God, I'm letting. I'm letting

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you make your mind inside of my head. Let this mind.

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The Bible says, be in you, which was also in

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Christ Jesus. Right and then and then Paul talked about

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what that mindset was like. It was humility to the

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point of even giving his life for us. He died

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the death that we deserve, so we can live the

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life that he deserved. And so transformation begins when we

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surrender our minds to the Holy Spirit. It continues as

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we daily choose to dwell on what is pure lovely. Oh,

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I think you know this passage and true. Just as

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constant exposure to noise dulls your hearing, I'm always in

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these headphones right here, you see these. I'm always in

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these headphones, and I'm always adjusting. You see me, look

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to the right. It's because I'm adjusting the volume. Like

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am I speaking so loud that I'm dulling my own hearing?

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Because I can hear myself in these headphones. And so

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God is saying, tune our ears and focus to him

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and will be transformed into His image.

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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,