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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 Friday, January nine,

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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 new

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Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians

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and Colossians, and our caption for today is Trusting God's Plan.

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Trusting God's Plan. Before we get into that, I'd like

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to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining

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us for the very first time. I'm asking you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community. Please please go ahead and click

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that donate button, click and get the Life Application Guide

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and let us know where you are in the world

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at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let me just say also that I'm welcoming you to

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this evening's let's call it a musical Bible class. I've

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been trying to figure out how do we say it.

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I'm calling it a musical Bible class where we go

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back through the lesson, one day at a time, using

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music to teach the lesson. And of course, as always,

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these are songs that only exist here in your Daily

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Portion Land. Is that a real place? Yes, in your

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Daily Portion Land. And we will continue to worship together

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this evening at seven pm Jamaica time. If the Lord

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spears life, let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank

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you for this day of preparation. Please draw us into

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your presence, help us to do your will and live

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according to your principles. In Jesus name, I pray a

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man and a man again, trusting God's plan. And so

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what I want to do is go ahead and use

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our Life Application Guide to open us up and then

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we will read some of what is in the lesson. Okay,

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and so we're going to make application where relationships are concerned.

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Hopefully you will have read what is in Friday's lesson.

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Like I said, we'll talk about some of that in

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a moment, but we're using the relationship's application. And if

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you've not gotten your life application guide, then we use

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an acronym or a framework win win because we are

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after success, spiritual success to win. Okay, w What is

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important now relationally cultivating a habit of thanksgiving that helps

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you recognize more reasons to be grateful than you initially realize.

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So I want you to build a habit like that's

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important to build and cultivate a habit of gratefulness so

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that as you are giving thanks as you are are grateful,

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God will open up your eyes and say, hey, did

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you notice this over here? Did you notice that over there?

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And then your vantage point and perspective are changing in

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real time because God is like, yes, I inhabit the

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praises of my people when people are grateful. Like in

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the case of the ten lepers that Jesus healed and

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one came back, he said, where the nine did I?

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Why not did I not heal ten of you where

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are the nine? But since you're here, I'm going to

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give you a special blessing, And so I want you

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to cultivate the atmosphere, the environment, the media medium in fact,

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where you are grateful, and then God will open up

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your mind to more ways that He has been. He

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has been so kind and good to you. Internalize the insight.

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When you take time or invest time to list what

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you're thankful for, and I want you to do this actively,

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you often discover more blessings than you first recognize. Like

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I just said, gratitude shifts your focus from what is

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missing to what God has already provided. Did you get

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that what He's all ready provided? This habit not only

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strengthens your relationship with God, but also makes you more

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aware of the people and provisions He has placed in

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your life. Best move in this regard write down five

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things for which you are thankful from this past week

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and share at least one of them with someone who

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contributed to your gratitude. How is that for action? I'll

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say it one more time. Write down five things for

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which you are grateful from just this week right, and

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share at least one of them with someone who contributed

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to your gratitude. Was it someone here in social media

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or on YouTube? Was it someone at your workplace, someone

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at the taxi, in the taxi with you, someone who

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is at the bus stop waiting with you, someone on

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the bus itself, like somewhere a person came and served

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your home. Was it a pipe that burst and it

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was fixed a jps if you're here in Jamaica or

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wherever you are in the world, the power company, when

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the people came and fixed something, even those like, my goodness,

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how long could it should it take to do this?

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Whatever the case, I want you to share that gratitude

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with the person or one of the people who actually

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contributed to whatever it is for which you are thankful. Okay?

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And so the lesson writer actually guided our minds to

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the book Ministry of Healing, page four hundred and seventy

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eight and four seventy nine. Many are unable to make

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definite plans for the future. Their life is unsettled. They

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cannot discern the outcome of affairs, and this often fills

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them with anxiety and unrest. Let us remember that the

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life of God's children in this world is a pilgrim life.

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So people like me looking for stability. Sometimes we won't

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find stability down here. It's just the fact. It's a

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matter of fact. Let me continue the quote. We have

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not wisdom to plan our own lives. It is not

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for us to shape our future by faith. Abraham, when

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he was called to go out into a place which

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he should after receive for an inheritance, what did he do?

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He obeyed, He went out, not knowing whither he went.

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In fact, Jesus, Jesus, in his life on earth, made

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no plans for himself. He accepted God's plans for him.

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I don't remember this quote. Honestly, I've read the Ministry

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of Healing. I don't even remember this one. This is good.

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He didn't make any plans for himself. He accepted God's

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plans for him, and day by day the Father unfolded

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his plans God. Let me adopt that as of now?

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Should so should we depend upon God? That our lives

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may be simply an outworking of His will. As we

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commit our ways to him, he will direct our steps.

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This quote gets even better. I have to continue reading.

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I had no intention of reading at all, But look

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at this. Look at this too. Many in planning for

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a brilliant future make an utter failure. Let God plan

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for you, as a little child, to trust to the

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guidance of Him who will keep his feet of the

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keep the feet of his saints. God never leads his

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children otherwise than they would choose to be led if

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they could see the end from the beginning and discern

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the glory of the purpose which they are fulfilling as

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co workers with Him. What an incredible reality. And so

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with the little time that we have left, let me

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just let me just give give one final, one final lesson.

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God faithfully keeps the feet of his saints as they

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walk in His purposes. So what I want you to

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do is take one deliberate step brothers and sisters today

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that reflects trust in God's protection and guidance. Yeah, one

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of those steps can be to cancel your plans. Yes,

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I remember reading years ago that we should dedicate ourselves

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to God in the morning and we present our plans

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before God and we say, you know, this is the

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life that you have given me. Here are my plans

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for you to help me to execute or to walk

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away from, as your providence may indicate. So take that

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step today deliberately and ask God to guide your footsteps 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,