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 Wednesday, January
twenty eighth, twoenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host, and 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 in Philippians
and Colossians, and our caption for today is proven Character,
Proven Character. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father Wei, thank you, Thank
you for loving us and giving us everything we need.
Please make us holy, give us the character and characteristics
of Jesus Christ in our lives today. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and amen again. Proven character, proven character.
So let me go ahead and begin with a quote
from way back into eighteen hundreds like I do sometimes
here eighteen seventy five review and Herald article by John
Nevin's Andrew JA and Andrews and it reads, character is
not formed in ease. Can I just pause right here
for a moment. There are times that people complain, like
when you go to the gym, you're in pain and
you complain about the pain. Well, that's part of growth.
When you are in business. Sometimes there are difficulties that
come as you increase your sales or you're seeking to
and your marketing seems to need a new like a
tune up or you're having challenges with your allies, not
even your enemies like your allies, or you're going through
other growing pains when you move into a new tax bracket. Well,
all of that stuff comes to create a new level
of character for us. Nothing that is worth having is easy. Yeah,
there's simplicity of it. We don't need to complicate it.
But all pain, even if it's the stuff that we
don't want while we're living on planet Earth, that stuff
will continue to form character only in those who are
submitted to God. So quit the complainant. I wish I
had the time. Character is not formed in ease. God
leads his people where difficulty presses. Did you hear that
God is leading us where difficulty presses? Why? Why, mister Andrews,
that your faith may be tested and their true worth
be made manifest. That's what That's the refiners fire, brothers
and sisters. That's being under the guidance and molding of
the potter. Huh. How can the pot or the pottery
say to the potter, why have you made me this way?
That is right in the Bible, everybody. Okay, let's read
from My Life Today, page ninety two. Trials are Christ's
workmen to reform, to refine, excuse me and purify us.
Let me say it again. I'm being passionate here. Pardon me.
Trials are Christ's workmen to refine and purify us. Every trial,
how many trials? Go ahead and type in the chat?
How many trials did? I just read? Every trial? Guess
what well endured? My God makes the character stronger and
the faith purer. Married it one more time. Every trial
well endured makes the character stronger and the faith purer.
You want a stronger faith muscle, so that when you
pray and you say to God, please move this mountain. Huh,
move this mountain? You command the mountain to be thou
removed in cast into the sea, then it shall be
done unto you. Like that comes only as our character
is proven. So our first lesson for today is coming
in from Philippians, chapter two and verse twenty two. But
ye know the proof of him that as a son
with the Father, he hath served me in the Gospel.
So we are talking about brother Timothy as he was
being proven to be a minister that could be of
service to God through Paul. And so God builds proven
character through trials that reveal who we are on the inside.
And this proven is to demonstrate having been tested our character,
having been tested for genuineness after trial. And so today
the action step for this lesson is identify one current hardship.
I don't think you'll have a problem doing that, and
intentionally respond with a christ like attitude. Your hardship may
have to do with people. Somebody may be getting on
your very last nerve under your skin, up under your skin,
and you are tired. Well, intentionally respond with a christ
like attitude. Ask God to do that in you, letting
it shape your character rather than sour your spirit. Stop
your complaining about the thing that's happening. Don't, in fact,
the Bible writer said, under the unction of the Holy
Ghost like, don't act like when these things happen, it's
some strange thing, the trial of your faith. Work with patience.
And then of course we continue in that text and
so God is saying that when things happen to you,
happy are ye? Because great as your reward in heaven.
Because they persecuted the prophets which were before you. Hah,
those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecure.
I'm not trying to get you excited about it. I'm
not trying to make you feel like, Okay, we'll bring
on the suffering, like that doesn't make sense, Like that's foolish.
What I am saying is that when it happens, though
though you slay me God, yet well, I trust in you.
I used to see you by the hearing of the year,
but now I understand and have a real experience with you,
as brother Job said at the end of his ordeal. Okay,
and so please, please, please just take this to heart.
Somebody's going to go through something today, on this day,
on the twenty eighth day of January, and you're going
to remember, Oh, oh, that guy on the TV, that
guy on the radio, that guy in my YouTube channel
Facebook was yelling at me this morning. Now I know why,
because God was trying to get through to me somehow.
Lessen Number two. True spiritual reliability grows through consistent faithfulness,
not occasional devotions. Some of you are too occasional. Some
of you are in spurts. You don't focus, you don't
consistently do what God's called you to do, whether it's
a work item, whether it's in your relationships, whether it's
something personal that should be helpful and beneficial to you.
Whatever it is like. If you don't have a consistent character,
a consistent style, give it to God and say God,
I'm all over the place I was born this way God,
and so I know it's not a sin, but I
need you to help me because I'm more people centric.
I'm more task oriented, but I am driven by other things.
But I just can't focus so that I stay here
consistently until I move on to the next thing that
I should be doing consistently. Give it to God. Brothers
and sisters, and those of you who are consistent, ask
God for balance. But the Bible reads here in First Corinthians,
chapter four and verse seventeen. For this cause, I have
sent unto you Timotheus, who's shall bring you into remembrance
of my ways, which be in Christ. I've been Timothy before,
I'm Timothy now. Really. Yeah, when I work with et
the ettor doctor Eric Thomas, there are there are things that,
because we are opposites, that I am his Timothy. For
i'm his Timothy, I represent his voice in a certain sphere,
in certain particular things that I'm assigned. Specifically, only those
things that I'm assigned and it's because God. God showed
me how to be consistent and do whatever it is
that's beneficial to the cause. So please please choose one
discipline as a prayer, study, or service and give it
to God. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,