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 Friday, January two,
twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host and that 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians
and Colossians, and our caption for today is standing Firm
in Faith, Standing Firm in Faith. Before we get into that,
I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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one of the ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you for the preparation time that you give us
right before the Sabbath every single week. And I pray
that our minds will be preparing, that we will be
preparing to see you face to face one day soon. Father,
please give us faithfulness in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again. So the lesson writers has given us
a quote from the Youth's instructor November ninth, eighteen ninety nine.
I'll read just a little bit of it and then
jump into our lesson number one for today, and it reads,
God has chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the
spirit and belief of the truth. God has chosen you,
not just the youth, but He's chosen you too. I
know most of the people who are listening and watching
me this morning are elders. Even to me. I'm in
my fifties and you could be my parents. Many of you,
about seventy four percent of you are elders to me.
But God has chosen you to salvation through sanctification, to
be set apart for a holy use by the Holy
Ghost and belief of the truth. Therefore, this is going
to be very encouraging for people who are becoming weary
in well doing. Some of you are tired of seeing
what's happening in our world through the news cycle. You're like,
how many times do we need to go through this
or the other thing? Well, the inspired writings say, therefore
stand fast. If you serve God faithfully, you will meet
with prejudice and opposition. This is going to happen. Brothers
and sisters. No need to get tired now, this is
what's going to happen. But do not become provoked when
you suffer wrongfully. Oh what so, some of y'all need
to turn your social media pages right off. Turn them off.
It was one thing back in the eighteen nineties when
this was written. You know, it took some time for
the message to get out when people would yield to
provocation and then write it down, and she Auntie Ellen,
would say, listen, don't give voice to the wickedness by
putting it into our papers, meaning our publications like don't
do that. So we should really follow that guidance today
where it's so much faster and you can't take it
back and the internet never forgets. Do not use the
internet or social media in particular as a spiritual therapist.
Stop putting every thought and feeling out there, especially when
you're being provoked. When you suffer wrongfully, she said, do
not retaliate. Hold fast your integrity in Christ. Set your
face as flint heaven word that means, don't lose focus.
Don't lose focus. Let others speak their own words and
pursue their own course of action. It is for you
to press on in meekness and lowliness of heart. You're
not going to be able to control what people say
and do. Run forward with Christ. She's saying, do your
work with steadfast purpose, huh, with purity of heart, with
all your might and strength, leaning on the arm of God.
The true and exalted nature of your work you may
never know the value of your being. You can measure
only by the life given to save you. That means
that the measure of your soul is not the way
people see you, not the way people either applaud for
you or disrespect you. The measure is that Jesus Christ
gave his infinite of infinite value life for you. I
don't know how to say it because I didn't write
it down first. Yeah, of an inestimable value is the
life of Christ, and this is what he gave so
that you can be saved. Brothers and sisters, So switch
the social media thing right off, especially when you are
feeling emotional. Let me just pause right there, Pause right there,
and let's jump in with our lesson Number one. God
calls believers to stand firm through sanctification and of course truth,
as we already read. Let's read again from Second Bessalonians,
chapter two and verse thirteen, and we find the principle again.
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth. That's
where it came from, Okay, And that sanctification means the
same as consecration. It means to be set aside because
God has something he wants you to do that requires holiness.
It does not only read a quoier skill. It does
not only require the way He wired you behaviorally like
behavior style wise. It doesn't only mean through your experiences
as you've lived on planet Earth for fifteen twenty thirty
seventy ninety years on planet Earth, it is that the
Holy Ghost has set you aside as a child of
God and a follower and an ambassador for him. You
represent the King of kings and Lord of lords. Blessed
be his name. And so that's what God wants for you.
He's chosen you from before there was a beginning. Less
of number two. Faithfulness invites opposition. That's what happens, like
we become magnets of opposition. Yet integrity must remain unshaken.
In First Peter, Chapter two, verses nineteen and twenty, it reads,
for this is thankworthy if a man of conscience toward
God endure Oh, no grief m hm, suffering wrongfully my God? Yeah.
If when ye do well and suffer for it, ye
take it patiently. This is acceptable to God. So suffering
because of our own evil not acceptable huh, being punished
because we have turned our backs on the law of
God and it leaked into our practical lives, and the
law of the land comes to deal with that. I'm
talking about justly. I don't mean injustly justly well, that's
not acceptable. God doesn't That is not God's intention for
our lives. But if in this life we have to
suffer for the time being, for the time being, not forever,
but for the time being because of doing what God
says that the Bible says is acceptable. I know it
runs counter to our thought process. It seems unjust, and
in fact it is. But the fact is that God
is going to repay. He will bring retribution to the
wickedness on planet Earth in one day. He will set
justice as the standard. Our action for today is to
respond to one unfair oh God, or irritating situation today
with patience instead of retaliation. God wants to transform our
minds and transform our lives. Brothers and sisters, we give
God thanks. We give God thanks. He wants us to
stand firm in the faith, but Jesus did it before
we did, and now we can too. Make it a
great day. Peace see you today. 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,