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, February twelve,
twenty twenty six. 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 Uniteing Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is Keys for Contentment, Keys
for Contentment. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
get underway. Father. We thank you for this day and
for the privilege that you have entrusted to us to
open your word. I love this. Thank you for the
hundreds of thousands of people every day that join us
over the airwaves, over the internet, over the podcasting space. Father,
please make us ambassadors for you and teach us to
be content in You. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. I neglected to ask you as we're
beginning here, did you come to prayer school last evening?
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Did you learn anything?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, all right? Yeah, keys for contentment
I digress. I'm going to read before we get into
the scriptures. I'm going to read from a Reviewing Herald
article in eighteen seventy eight. From eighteen seventy eight, He
who trusts the providence of God in all things will
find calmness in trial God, patience in delay, and contentment
in poverty. And you think I'm gonna stop right there,
because Christiane speaking people seem to on one side. It's
almost like two political parties within christiandom, right, the ones
who are excited about being poor and the ones who
are excited about being abundant. Okay, I'm not going to
interrupt this again. I'll read it from the top so
we can get the balance here. He who trusts in
the providence of God in all things will find calmness
in trial, okay, patience in delay, and contentment in poverty
or abundance, contentment in God. Whether we have a lot
or we have a little bit, we're content. I have
said to people in coaching that I am not I'm
neither an optimist. I'm neither optimist nor a pessimist. And
I made up something. I made it up. It's nowhere.
I made it up. I'm an always sufficientist, meaning that
the cup is not half empty. The cup is not
half full. I know that when I lift up that cup,
if I am to receive water, since God is the
water of life, that when I tip that cup, that
I'm going to have the abundance of water that I
need in that moment. Always sufficient, God is sufficient. He
will supply all my need according to His riches in glory,
you see. And so we begin now from Philippians chapter four,
and I'll read parts of verses eleven to thirteen Philippians
chapter four, beginning at verse eleven. For I have learned,
you see, he wasn't born with this. It wasn't something
that just came with him. It wasn't a part of
the package when he was born. For I have learned
in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. Some
of us need to learn that or relearn that. I
know both how to be abased, that's humility, that's down.
I know how to abound that's up. You're you're affluent,
maybe maybe you're overflowing. Maybe you're abundant. Maybe your bank
account looks exceptional. Maybe your pantry, your food pantry is incredible.
Maybe you have more than one vehicle, you understand. Maybe
you have more than one set of clothing. You got
clothes for today and close for tomorrow. Maybe that's your reality.
You know exactly where lunch is coming from. At this
time of the morning, you have breakfast, Yes it's coming on,
but you also know that at twelve o'clock or twelve
thirty you're gonna have lunch. You're in abundance. He's learned
how to be abased, and in abundance. Verse thirteen, I
can do all things. Oh, now there's a context for
the verse that sometimes people misapply. I can do all
things through Christ, which strengthens me. It doesn't matter in
what state we find ourselves. If we are in Christ,
through Christ, he will strengthen us to do all things,
whether in abundance or in what we consider to be lack.
And so the lesson is contentment grows when dependence on
Christ becomes stronger than dependence on circumstances. And I think
it was last month, last month or the month or
the end of December. We did one of the prayer
school one of the prayer schools on Wednesday evening that
talked about give us this day our daily bread in
this same discussion here and so and so, the word,
the Greek word for contentment means self sufficient. Wait a minute,
inwardly satisfied through God's provision. Inwardly satisfied through God's provision.
Paul's contentment was not natural, I said. He wasn't born
with it. It was learned. It was formed from both
lack and abundance, through continual reliance on Christ's strength rather
than personal capacity. So what do we need to do
with this? What do we do with this? Identify one
area where you feel unsettled. If there is, in fact
a place like that, you may not have this struggle
at all. So don't try to force it. If you
are like Paul was, then praise God. Show somebody else
how to do it. Identify one area where you feel unsettled.
Pray specifically, Jesus, will you strengthen me to be content
in this place today? All right? Philippians, Chapter four and
verse nineteen. The Bible reads, and I've said it before,
But my God, who my God supply? What will he do? Supply?
What will he supply? All? How much of it? All?
All of what your need? Singular? According to his riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. Does God have a problem
in his bank account? Has it ever been overdrawn? Has
he ever had a debt? Has God ever been without
what we all need throughout the universe, not even on
planet Earth. Since God is infinitely wealthy in every possible way,
materially and spiritually. Since that's the fact, and he is
our need, then we are wealthy in him whatever we
need at the time. If we need a little bit,
he has that is, he has that. If we need
a lot, he has that because He is what in
finite in terms of his capacity, and so we are
not without out. We do not have lack, because in God,
lack is never the final word. Needs are met according
to God's abundance and not our earthly limitations. So do
one thing, one thing, list three needs God has already supplied,
and thank Him aloud for each one. I want you,
as I've said many times before, to spy on God,
and when you discover that He's been good yet again,
I want you to be the first one to thank him.
I'm gonna be racing you. I'm going to be rushing
to do the exact same thing. God gives us the
keys for contentment. That's gratitude, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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,