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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, February twelve,

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twenty twenty six. 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 Uniteing Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is Keys for Contentment, Keys

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for Contentment. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and

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get underway. Father. We thank you for this day and

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for the privilege that you have entrusted to us to

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open your word. I love this. Thank you for the

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hundreds of thousands of people every day that join us

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over the airwaves, over the internet, over the podcasting space. Father,

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please make us ambassadors for you and teach us to

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be content in You. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. I neglected to ask you as we're

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beginning here, did you come to prayer school last evening?

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For those who are on the radio, you have to

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come on YouTube for that, or if you're on Facebook,

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you have to come to YouTube for that. Every Wednesday

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evening we have prayer school for just about thirty minutes

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or fewer at seven pm my time. Okay, so please

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type a one in the chat. Were you there last night?

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Did you learn anything?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, all right? Yeah, keys for contentment

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I digress. I'm going to read before we get into

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the scriptures. I'm going to read from a Reviewing Herald

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article in eighteen seventy eight. From eighteen seventy eight, He

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who trusts the providence of God in all things will

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find calmness in trial God, patience in delay, and contentment

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in poverty. And you think I'm gonna stop right there,

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because Christiane speaking people seem to on one side. It's

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almost like two political parties within christiandom, right, the ones

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who are excited about being poor and the ones who

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are excited about being abundant. Okay, I'm not going to

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interrupt this again. I'll read it from the top so

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we can get the balance here. He who trusts in

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the providence of God in all things will find calmness

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in trial, okay, patience in delay, and contentment in poverty

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or abundance, contentment in God. Whether we have a lot

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or we have a little bit, we're content. I have

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said to people in coaching that I am not I'm

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neither an optimist. I'm neither optimist nor a pessimist. And

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I made up something. I made it up. It's nowhere.

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I made it up. I'm an always sufficientist, meaning that

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the cup is not half empty. The cup is not

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half full. I know that when I lift up that cup,

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if I am to receive water, since God is the

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water of life, that when I tip that cup, that

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I'm going to have the abundance of water that I

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need in that moment. Always sufficient, God is sufficient. He

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will supply all my need according to His riches in glory,

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you see. And so we begin now from Philippians chapter four,

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and I'll read parts of verses eleven to thirteen Philippians

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chapter four, beginning at verse eleven. For I have learned,

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you see, he wasn't born with this. It wasn't something

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that just came with him. It wasn't a part of

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the package when he was born. For I have learned

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in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. Some

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of us need to learn that or relearn that. I

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know both how to be abased, that's humility, that's down.

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I know how to abound that's up. You're you're affluent,

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maybe maybe you're overflowing. Maybe you're abundant. Maybe your bank

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account looks exceptional. Maybe your pantry, your food pantry is incredible.

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Maybe you have more than one vehicle, you understand. Maybe

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you have more than one set of clothing. You got

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clothes for today and close for tomorrow. Maybe that's your reality.

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You know exactly where lunch is coming from. At this

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time of the morning, you have breakfast, Yes it's coming on,

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but you also know that at twelve o'clock or twelve

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thirty you're gonna have lunch. You're in abundance. He's learned

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how to be abased, and in abundance. Verse thirteen, I

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can do all things. Oh, now there's a context for

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the verse that sometimes people misapply. I can do all

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things through Christ, which strengthens me. It doesn't matter in

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what state we find ourselves. If we are in Christ,

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through Christ, he will strengthen us to do all things,

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whether in abundance or in what we consider to be lack.

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And so the lesson is contentment grows when dependence on

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Christ becomes stronger than dependence on circumstances. And I think

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it was last month, last month or the month or

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the end of December. We did one of the prayer

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school one of the prayer schools on Wednesday evening that

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talked about give us this day our daily bread in

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this same discussion here and so and so, the word,

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the Greek word for contentment means self sufficient. Wait a minute,

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inwardly satisfied through God's provision. Inwardly satisfied through God's provision.

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Paul's contentment was not natural, I said. He wasn't born

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with it. It was learned. It was formed from both

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lack and abundance, through continual reliance on Christ's strength rather

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than personal capacity. So what do we need to do

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with this? What do we do with this? Identify one

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area where you feel unsettled. If there is, in fact

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a place like that, you may not have this struggle

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at all. So don't try to force it. If you

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are like Paul was, then praise God. Show somebody else

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how to do it. Identify one area where you feel unsettled.

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Pray specifically, Jesus, will you strengthen me to be content

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in this place today? All right? Philippians, Chapter four and

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verse nineteen. The Bible reads, and I've said it before,

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But my God, who my God supply? What will he do? Supply?

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What will he supply? All? How much of it? All?

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All of what your need? Singular? According to his riches

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in glory in Christ Jesus. Does God have a problem

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in his bank account? Has it ever been overdrawn? Has

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he ever had a debt? Has God ever been without

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what we all need throughout the universe, not even on

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planet Earth. Since God is infinitely wealthy in every possible way,

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materially and spiritually. Since that's the fact, and he is

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our need, then we are wealthy in him whatever we

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need at the time. If we need a little bit,

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he has that is, he has that. If we need

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a lot, he has that because He is what in

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finite in terms of his capacity, and so we are

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not without out. We do not have lack, because in God,

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lack is never the final word. Needs are met according

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to God's abundance and not our earthly limitations. So do

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one thing, one thing, list three needs God has already supplied,

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and thank Him aloud for each one. I want you,

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as I've said many times before, to spy on God,

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and when you discover that He's been good yet again,

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I want you to be the first one to thank him.

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I'm gonna be racing you. I'm going to be rushing

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to do the exact same thing. God gives us the

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keys for contentment. That's gratitude, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,