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 Thursday, November
twenty twenty twenty five. 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for today is changed by contemplation, changed by contemplation. Before
we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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right here until the end of the program. Let's pray, Father,
we thank you for this day and for keeping us
until now. Father, please please help us to behold you
and become like you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
and amen again, beholding and becoming like God really changed
by contemplation, and so listen, listen, listen. I'm going to
read a passage from Second Corinthians, chapter three and verse eighteen,
Two Corinthians, chapter three and verse eighteen, where the Bible reads,
but we all with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the
same image, from glory to glory, even as by the
spirit of the Lord. Let me read it another translation,
and we all with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of
the Lord are being transformed into the same image, from
one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord,
who is the spirit. Okay, let me say it to
you like this. The people of God had an unbelief problem.
They had an unbelief problem, and so when Moses went
up into the mount with God and invested those forty
days and forty nights, and he came back all a glow,
like he came back as what we really are supposed
to be. The Bible says, we are to shine as
lights in this wicked and perverse generation, where to be
lights in the world. Let your light so shine. The
Bible says, let your light so shine before men, so
that we may see His good, our good. So when
they see our good works, will they will glorify our Father,
which is in heaven. When people see us, they will
glorify God. They will see the light that God is
in our lives, and they will aspire to that and say, God,
how are you so good? If you can change him,
if you can change her, then you can also change me.
And so that is the privilege that we have to
behold the glory of God and become like God. But
the people, when Moses came down all a glow, they
were fearful. They said, cover that up, like cover that
glow up. We're fearful, like cover that up. It was
because Paul said, it was because of their unbelief. And
so what the Bible is saying here is that when
we unveil our faces and experience the brilliance of who
and what God is, and then begin to reflect that
out there we are being transformed by the Holy ghost.
The light that God is emanates from his people out
into the world. You see. So the question really is
what are you beholding? What are you watching? What are
you listening to? What are you experiencing? What is it
that you're doing for long periods of time that are
becoming a part of who you are? You see where
this is going. So God is welcoming us into us
presence so that when we rew we receive the brilliance
of who He is, what He does right into our lives.
That we now will shine that light out into the
world and others will learn to love God too. And
so and so you come, what you behold is lesson
number one from the Book of Hebrews, Chapter twelve and
verse two. The Bible reads, we are to be looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. So
do we really need to say that looking to Jesus
is the goal? We watch Jesus, we do what Jesus did.
We ask God to make us holy like Jesus. Yes,
and so and So the Bible is saying, like a
mirror catching the light, we reflect what we face. I
like it. Like that. Let me say it again, we
reflect what we face. The more our gazes fixed upon
Jesus is the more our character glows with his glory.
All right, So when we fix our attention on Jesus,
something supernatural happens. I love it. We begin to reflect
what we repeatedly revere. What we watch shapes what we worship.
The Prince is simple and yet profound. Our focus determines
our formation. Our focus. The reason why some people are
so violent on the road road rage is because they're
beholding violent things, violent activities, violent thoughts, violent music, violent conversations.
You understand, Yes, they're assimilating violence from their community. Sometimes
our community. Sometimes I wish I had the time to
talk to you about what I assimilated as a young
guy from age fourteen to twenty three. Yeah, yeah, I
assimilated fully what was going on in my community. The
more we look upon the character and compassion and courage
of Christ, now that's the opposite. We're beholding this, we're studying,
we are appreciating, we are revering. All of this about
Christ is the more His likeness begins to appear first
in our thoughts, of course, in our words, and also
in our actions. In our thoughts, in our words and
in our actions, we thank God. We thank God. Our
lesson number two, Our lesson number two is the world conforms,
but Christ transforms. And of course it takes you right
to Roman chapter twelve and verse two that it says,
be not conformed to this world, and that actually means
do not allow this world to squeeze you into its mold,
and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. Don't be conformed to
this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of
your mind. So transformation begins in the mindset. Can we
just start with that, Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only way
that I can I can be transformed is that I
yield my mindset to God and say, Lord, Now, this
mind is worldly. This mind thinks about about things that
are earthly. This mind is more apt to sin than
to be saved. And so I yield this to you.
So my I exercise the right that you have given
us to make a decision. And my decision is to
submit to You and Therefore, God, I'm letting. I'm letting
you make your mind inside of my head. Let this mind.
The Bible says, be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus. Right and then and then Paul talked about
what that mindset was like. It was humility to the
point of even giving his life for us. He died
the death that we deserve, so we can live the
life that he deserved. And so transformation begins when we
surrender our minds to the Holy Spirit. It continues as
we daily choose to dwell on what is pure lovely. Oh,
I think you know this passage and true. Just as
constant exposure to noise dulls your hearing, I'm always in
these headphones right here, you see these. I'm always in
these headphones, and I'm always adjusting. You see me, look
to the right. It's because I'm adjusting the volume. Like
am I speaking so loud that I'm dulling my own hearing?
Because I can hear myself in these headphones. And so
God is saying, tune our ears and focus to him
and will be transformed into His image.
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 El David Harris. Make it a great day, Yeah,