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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, January

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twenty eighth, twoenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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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 proven Character,

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Proven Character. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father Wei, thank you, Thank

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you for loving us and giving us everything we need.

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Please make us holy, give us the character and characteristics

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of Jesus Christ in our lives today. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and amen again. Proven character, proven character.

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So let me go ahead and begin with a quote

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from way back into eighteen hundreds like I do sometimes

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here eighteen seventy five review and Herald article by John

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Nevin's Andrew JA and Andrews and it reads, character is

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not formed in ease. Can I just pause right here

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for a moment. There are times that people complain, like

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when you go to the gym, you're in pain and

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you complain about the pain. Well, that's part of growth.

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When you are in business. Sometimes there are difficulties that

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come as you increase your sales or you're seeking to

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and your marketing seems to need a new like a

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tune up or you're having challenges with your allies, not

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even your enemies like your allies, or you're going through

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other growing pains when you move into a new tax bracket. Well,

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all of that stuff comes to create a new level

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of character for us. Nothing that is worth having is easy. Yeah,

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there's simplicity of it. We don't need to complicate it.

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But all pain, even if it's the stuff that we

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don't want while we're living on planet Earth, that stuff

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will continue to form character only in those who are

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submitted to God. So quit the complainant. I wish I

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had the time. Character is not formed in ease. God

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leads his people where difficulty presses. Did you hear that

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God is leading us where difficulty presses? Why? Why, mister Andrews,

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that your faith may be tested and their true worth

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be made manifest. That's what That's the refiners fire, brothers

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and sisters. That's being under the guidance and molding of

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the potter. Huh. How can the pot or the pottery

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say to the potter, why have you made me this way?

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That is right in the Bible, everybody. Okay, let's read

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from My Life Today, page ninety two. Trials are Christ's

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workmen to reform, to refine, excuse me and purify us.

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Let me say it again. I'm being passionate here. Pardon me.

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Trials are Christ's workmen to refine and purify us. Every trial,

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how many trials? Go ahead and type in the chat?

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How many trials did? I just read? Every trial? Guess

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what well endured? My God makes the character stronger and

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the faith purer. Married it one more time. Every trial

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well endured makes the character stronger and the faith purer.

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You want a stronger faith muscle, so that when you

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pray and you say to God, please move this mountain. Huh,

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move this mountain? You command the mountain to be thou

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removed in cast into the sea, then it shall be

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done unto you. Like that comes only as our character

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is proven. So our first lesson for today is coming

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in from Philippians, chapter two and verse twenty two. But

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ye know the proof of him that as a son

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with the Father, he hath served me in the Gospel.

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So we are talking about brother Timothy as he was

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being proven to be a minister that could be of

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service to God through Paul. And so God builds proven

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character through trials that reveal who we are on the inside.

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And this proven is to demonstrate having been tested our character,

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having been tested for genuineness after trial. And so today

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the action step for this lesson is identify one current hardship.

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I don't think you'll have a problem doing that, and

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intentionally respond with a christ like attitude. Your hardship may

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have to do with people. Somebody may be getting on

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your very last nerve under your skin, up under your skin,

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and you are tired. Well, intentionally respond with a christ

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like attitude. Ask God to do that in you, letting

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it shape your character rather than sour your spirit. Stop

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your complaining about the thing that's happening. Don't, in fact,

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the Bible writer said, under the unction of the Holy

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Ghost like, don't act like when these things happen, it's

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some strange thing, the trial of your faith. Work with patience.

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And then of course we continue in that text and

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so God is saying that when things happen to you,

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happy are ye? Because great as your reward in heaven.

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Because they persecuted the prophets which were before you. Hah,

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those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecure.

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I'm not trying to get you excited about it. I'm

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not trying to make you feel like, Okay, we'll bring

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on the suffering, like that doesn't make sense, Like that's foolish.

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What I am saying is that when it happens, though

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though you slay me God, yet well, I trust in you.

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I used to see you by the hearing of the year,

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but now I understand and have a real experience with you,

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as brother Job said at the end of his ordeal. Okay,

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and so please, please, please just take this to heart.

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Somebody's going to go through something today, on this day,

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on the twenty eighth day of January, and you're going

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to remember, Oh, oh, that guy on the TV, that

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guy on the radio, that guy in my YouTube channel

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Facebook was yelling at me this morning. Now I know why,

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because God was trying to get through to me somehow.

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Lessen Number two. True spiritual reliability grows through consistent faithfulness,

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not occasional devotions. Some of you are too occasional. Some

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of you are in spurts. You don't focus, you don't

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consistently do what God's called you to do, whether it's

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a work item, whether it's in your relationships, whether it's

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something personal that should be helpful and beneficial to you.

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Whatever it is like. If you don't have a consistent character,

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a consistent style, give it to God and say God,

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I'm all over the place I was born this way God,

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and so I know it's not a sin, but I

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need you to help me because I'm more people centric.

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I'm more task oriented, but I am driven by other things.

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But I just can't focus so that I stay here

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consistently until I move on to the next thing that

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I should be doing consistently. Give it to God. Brothers

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and sisters, and those of you who are consistent, ask

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God for balance. But the Bible reads here in First Corinthians,

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chapter four and verse seventeen. For this cause, I have

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sent unto you Timotheus, who's shall bring you into remembrance

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of my ways, which be in Christ. I've been Timothy before,

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I'm Timothy now. Really. Yeah, when I work with et

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the ettor doctor Eric Thomas, there are there are things that,

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because we are opposites, that I am his Timothy. For

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i'm his Timothy, I represent his voice in a certain sphere,

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in certain particular things that I'm assigned. Specifically, only those

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things that I'm assigned and it's because God. God showed

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me how to be consistent and do whatever it is

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that's beneficial to the cause. So please please choose one

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discipline as a prayer, study, or service and give it

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to God. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,