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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 Monday, January twelve,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.

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I am your host den 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is to die is gain,

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to die is gain. Before we get into that, I'd

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank

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you for this new morning and for the work week

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that you have helped us to embark upon. Please help

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us to serve you with everything that we have, everything

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that we are, and to just give it all away.

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Give it all to you, and you will use us.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a man Again.

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Before we read our Bible passage, let me give you

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a couple of quick quotes. As per usual. One is

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coming in from the General Conference bulletin in eighteen ninety five,

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eighteen ninety five, and this one is by at Jones.

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At Jones, victory is found only in the complete surrender

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of self to Christ. We could really just end our

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program right here. Let me read it one more time.

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Victory is found only in the complete surrender of self

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to Christ. See Jesus modeled that behavior we read about that.

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I think it was Friday when we read that. He

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right out of the lesson that he made no plans

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for himself, but he surrendered his will to the Father.

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And allowed him day by day to mark out his path.

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And so a lot of times we're looking for victory.

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We're looking for success by generating it or strategizing it,

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or somehow mapping it out for ourselves and then saying God, now,

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could you please bless this and listen? There are some

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nuances in what I'm saying that would make that seem logical,

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like that actually makes sense. But if you're trying to

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be an overcomer, overcoming sin and self, overcoming selfishness, overcoming

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the foibles that come with us as a package deal

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when we are humans, then that must come from Jesus Christ,

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full stop. We cooperate with him. We don't operate without him.

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Somebody just got that, all right. And so something else

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from Acts of the Apostles, actually some reading in the

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Acts of the Apostles, not a direct quote, but submission

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to God will. God's will is the only way to

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be victorious the warfare in which we find ourselves. Now

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let's go back up to our lesson number one. Now

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you know how my notes are organized. I have my

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quotes at the bottom and my lessons at the top.

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So now you know, lesson number one is coming in

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from Second Corinthians, chapter ten. Second Corinthians, chapter ten and

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verse four, and the Bible reads for the weapons of

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our warfare are not carnal or not human weapons, you know,

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the ones people go to war with. Okay, now we're clear,

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but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

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So our instruments of battle must be spiritual. Remember when

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we went through that whole quarter on how Joshua led

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the people of God by faith through to the promised land.

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And there were times that God would say, stand still

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and see the salvation of the Lord. There were times

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that he would say shout, he would say blow to trumpets.

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He would say, do not war like, do not do

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the things that make actual sense. It's logical that if

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you're going to go and have war, then you should

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bring your armaments. And God was saying, no, no. The

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only reason I would have them do that. Have you

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do that was because you wouldn't cooperate with the miraculous

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in this case. And so if you need to know

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what the weapons of our warfare that our spiritual are,

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then one quick place is to go right to Ephesians

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chapter six, where it gives us the mandate to put

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on the whole armor of God. Seven implements of war.

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I want you to count them when you have an opportunity.

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I've said this many many times over the years to you,

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but I want you to count them from the very

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top of the text, straight through until it's over, and

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tell me if you found seven. Okay, So please do

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that for me, and we'll come back to it at

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another point. But the instrument of our battle to pull

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down the strongholds in our mindset, in our lives, the

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things that cause people to turn away from God must

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come from the Holy Ghost. Must come from God himself.

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Not brute force of will huh, not will power, not

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cessation plans which may have some place in the equation.

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But that is only after we have yielded our will

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to God and if He gives us that guidance as

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our direction. So the action step in this case is, well,

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we submit ourselves to God first, as the Bible writer says,

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submit yourself therefore unto God, and then resist. Okay, so

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we submit ourselves to God. We submit ourselves to God

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and then resist one negative thought today by responding to

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it or reply lacing it with a Bible promise, you're

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not good enough. You see, if that thought, that negative thought,

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that thing, you're going to fail. Well, the Bible says

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what I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.

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So as soon as the mind goes in that wrong direction,

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or in that direction that is contrary to what God

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has taught us, then we go to the scriptures. I'll

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never overcome this temptation. I'll never overcome I keep doing it,

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and my parents did it, and their parents before them.

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And then you can say, well, there hath no temptation

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taken you, but such as is common to man. But

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God is faithful, who will with the temptation provide a

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way of escape that ye may be able to bear it.

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I'm not wise enough, I'm dumb. I'm stupid. Sometimes people

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say these kinds of things. I'm so stupid. I keep

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making that mistake. If any man lacks wisdom, let him

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or her ask of God, who will not withhold any thing. Yeah,

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and so we replace that negative thought today by responding

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with a Bible promise. Lesson number two. In the Great

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Controversy we talked a lot about that last quarter. Paul's

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life was completely surrendered to Christ. As we read in Philippians,

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chapter one and verse twenty one. For me, to live

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is Christ and to die is gained. That means he

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sees an advantage, He sees profit and yielding his life

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for Christ. I wish I had the time. Let me

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go to the action step. Ask God to help you

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live one action today that reflects full surrender. You see

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Jesus when he was in the garden of Gethsemity. Think

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about what Paul said. When Jesus was in the garden

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of Gethsemite. He said, if there's another way, please God,

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let this cup Father pass from me. Nevertheless, not as

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I will, but as thou wilt. Whatever your will is, God,

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let me live it out lessen number three and final.

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Even death cannot defeat the believer who remains connected to Christ.

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The Bible reads in Philippians chapter one and verse twenty two.

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But if I live in the flesh, this is the

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fruit of my labor. Or now, if I am going

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on living in this body, this will mean productive work

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for me. Since I'm still here. The result of my

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steel here nests the outcome of that. The fruit of

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that is production. For God, 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,