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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 Tuesday, December thirty,

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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 new

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Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians

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and Colossians. I won't say it again. Our caption forour

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today is paul In PHILIPI, paul In PHILIPI. Before we

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

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joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.

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I'm asking you to go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. Pick up the

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Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide for Q one twenty six,

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this lesson that we're just embarking upon. Please please pick

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that up. You can download it now or you can

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And also please, if the Lord inclines you, please go

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let me just say before I

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pray that if the screen is hitching a little bit,

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it's because my computer is under pressure right now. It's

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doing something else while we are broadcasting here. Okay, so

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please pardon me if I hitch a little bit. But

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we're here. We're here by God's grace. Let's go ahead

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and pray. Father, We thank you, Thank you for the

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blessing that you are to us. Please help us to

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learn from the experiences of Brother Paul and to learn

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how to connect with you in such a way that

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no matter in what situation we find ourselves, we too

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will be content and rejoicing in Jesus' name. I pray

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a man and a man again, And so we begin

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now our first lesson for today by reading from the

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Bible Book of Acts, the Book of Acts, chapter sixteen

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and verse nine. Acts Chapter sixteen and verse nine. The

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Bible reads, and a vision appeared to Paul in the

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night there stood a man of Macedonia and praying him saying,

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come over into Macedonia and help us. We preachers often

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talk about the Macedonian call because there are some people

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who are out there who really need help for the

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word of God, who need a special type of encouragement

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because they are wanting to live the life connected with God,

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but trials and temptations overwhelmed them, and we need to

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be learning like how do we serve in those situations?

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And so the word for vision today is or God, Yes,

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gave him a vision and appeared unto him is horama,

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and it means a vision or a divine revelation. It's simple.

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God revealed himself in a way where Paul knew that

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there were some people who really needed him. So the

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action step really simply today is to ask God to

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show you where he wants you to serve today. God

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directs his people. God directs his people to places where

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the gospel will advance most effectively, Where do you want

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me to go? Where thou leadest, I will follow God?

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Where are the people most receptive? I remember my wife Simone.

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She asked me, how do you know when to stop

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helping people? I said, well, I stop helping him when

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it's not helpful. It's like what I stop helping when

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it's not helpful. See, there are people who have a

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habit of rejecting. There are people who have mindsets that

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are not receptive to assistance, not ready to yield or

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to learn or to receive help in a way where

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they are being good stewards of whatever it is that

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we are sharing. Is it a new mindset, is it

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a teaching is it our energy? Who knows what it is?

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Financial resources? Whatever it is. And the people, in this

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case the Macedonian call, those people were ready. It was

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a perfect investment for Paul to direct his attention to

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these folks because the revelation of God says these folks

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are really ready, and that is a lesson for all

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of us. Before I go into my lesson number two,

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I would like to read from an article in the

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Review in Herald in eighteen sixty the year eighteen sixty,

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written by James White, The servants of Christ may meet trials. Yes, yes,

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they may meet trials. Yet each trial is but another

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step in the path of duty. Yes we will. And

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from the book Desire of Ages, page two hundred and

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twenty four. God never leads his children otherwise than they

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would choose, if choose to be led, if they could

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see the end from the beginning. That's a context for

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us as we look at his story. Paul's story in Philippi.

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Our lesson number two is God uses strategic locations and

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prepared people to expand the mission. Going into verse fourteen

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of chapter sixteen of the Book of Acts, and a

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certain woman named Lydia. See God is using Lydia right

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whose heart the Lord had opened. So God had opened

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her heart, much like when Elijah was living on planet Earth,

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and the Bible says that God prepared a widow for

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him in Sidon or Zaidon. That's the same place Jezebel

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came from. And then the rest is history. God prepared somebody,

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and in this case, God is preparing a woman named

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Lydia whose heart the Lord opened, that she attend to

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the things which were spoken of Paul. Yeah, he opened

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to open fully. That's what the word means dianoigeo, that

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is to open fully. God opened up her mind. He

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opened up her heart so that she would she would

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do she would do what God had said, so the

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work and the mission that God had given through the

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apostle would move forward. And so the action step for

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us in this regard is to pray for God to

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open someone's heart through your witness. What is it that

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you are doing in the Master's calling? Yeah, How do

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you need the people's hearts to open? Like me? I'm

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here every single day if the Lord gives me strength

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as he has given me strength over many years. We've

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been together thousands and thousands of days together consecutively. So

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I should be praying for God to open someone's heart

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through my witness. And this is not the only way,

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but you understand where we're going with this. God opened

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their eyes to see you. You promised God that if

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we will lift Jesus up, that you would draw people

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unto yourself. Would you do it for us? God? Listen?

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Number three and final is. Trials are sometimes part of

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the assignment God revealed from the beginning. What Yeah, Sometimes

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the trials are part of the packet because sometimes I'll

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just give you an example. Back in the day, God's

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people liked to huddle together, huddle together, and they would

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not move around the world. Sometime they would just huddle

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together too much, and God was like, stop centralizing like that,

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hud stop with all the huddling. And we understand in

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history that God allowed persecution to hit the church, not

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to destroy the church, not to cause the people to

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become discouraged, not to harm or in some way imperil

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the church. But he allowed some of the persecution to

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come in because the persecution and what happened to the

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people served as seed for the growth of the gospel.

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So it dispersed the gospel. It moved the gospel out

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of the little, tiny walls of the the massive edifices

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that God's people were keeping, the little communities that only

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had like minded people like God wanted to spread beyond

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those tiny little walls of structure into all of the world,

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and he allowed persecution to cause the necessary spread the advance.

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There are some things going on in our world right

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now where people are still trying to centralize, still trying

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to hold onto the old paradigm, still trying to make

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it like it was when they were building temples and

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sanctuaries for God to dwell among his people. When God

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is saying I need you in small pockets all around

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the world, brightening the corner where you are. The people

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had to undergo hardship. So commit one difficulty you face

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to God and ask Him for the strength to endure

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it faithfully and to spread His word wherever you are.

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Make it a great day, peace.

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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,