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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, March sixteen,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 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 parents and Children, Parent

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and Children. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray and get under way. Father, we thank you

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for this day. Teach us if we are parents, to

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be better parents. Please. If we are children, there are

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a few young people who do watch on this program,

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Please make them holy children who love their parents and

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honor them in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and a

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man again. Parents and children, may I just begin here. Parents,

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it's a privilege to see our children as a heritage.

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This is what the Bible says in the King James version,

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heritage from the Lord. That means inheritance. When you think

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of inheritance. You think of a treasure, you think of, oh,

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my goodness, I hit the jackpot. And I know some

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people won't like my illusion. That seems like gambling, but

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that's not the only way you can hit the jackpot.

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There are times that we have blessings lavished upon us

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to the degree that it is like I started out

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with zero dollars in my bank account and now I

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am wealthy chuching like that is how we should see

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our children. Where God gives us the best possible gift

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outside of salvation and has entrusted it to our care,

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to the degree it's like a treasure. It's like a treasure.

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And so that's how I see Josiah, and I'm sure

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that that is how Simone sees Josiah as well, our son.

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Now I'm going to begin with one of the least

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understood passages regarding our children, next to the one that says,

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and the little child shall lead them. Can I just

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pause right here on my soapbox and say, stop using

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that as a leadership text that literally has to do

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with children in our next life in eternity, leading action,

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leading actual animals, Like you know how you put like

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a little rope on around the you know, like a

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leash or something, and you're guiding the animal like to

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wherever you want the animal to go. Like, that's a

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literal text for our new experience in God, after Jesus

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comes to take us to heaven and then gives us

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the earth made new. That is not a leadership text.

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So that's for me the number one miss appropriated text

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where children are concerned. A little child shall lead some

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animals that normally would have chewed their faces off because

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they in this life were predators, and now they're not

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in the next life. Okay, so that's number one. But

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the second one is this in Proverbs. Somebody's like, what

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that text doesn't have to do with leadership, No, has

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nothing to do with that. Let me go now to

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the second misunderstood text, which is Proverbs, chapter twenty two

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and verse six, and the Bible reads, train up a

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child in the way he should go, and when he's old,

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he will not depart from it. Let me just jump

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in and say what this really actually means. I want

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you to see this, like in an agrarian situation, or

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in an agricultural situation, you have a plant that's growing,

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or a small tree that is growing outside your house,

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and you bend it just a little bit, just a

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little bit, not too much. You're not breaking the branch.

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You're just training it. That's what to train. Look that

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up to train. You're bending it just a little bit

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so that it will go in a particular direction, in

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a way that it would normally go. But you're just

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guiding it a little bit, and I promise you that

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it will continue to do that. You have some plants

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that are called runners, and when you attach it to

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maybe a stalk or a stick or something or another tree,

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then it'll just run and run and run and run

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and run. And you're like, oh my goodness, this thing

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took on to the pathway that I was guiding it into,

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and it will not depart. It's not going to stop

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running that direction because you have done it according to

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its bent. You've done it according to its nature. You

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did not break it, You did not form it in

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a way that it was not already forming. You have

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trained it in the way it should go. So what

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does that mean for our children? If you read it

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literally like how it should read in the original, it

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would be more like train your child, discover your child's

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bent and then guide it in that direction. And if

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we think about it like spiritually, whatever way God created

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the child, you are to ask God what that is,

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discover that have that kind of holy interest in your child,

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and then guide that in the holy way that they

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should go and they won't depart. So Josiah loves music

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to the extreme, just like his mommy and daddy. But

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he loves to play music like his daddy used to

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and his grandma, my late mother did. He plays, plays

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and plays for hours. He just keeps going, keeps going,

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keeps going. So I should see that and say, oh God,

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you made this little boy who's now his voice is

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deeper than mine, hands likely stronger than mine, feet bigger

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than mine. You've made him a musical child. How do

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I train him in the way he should go? Well,

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I shouldn't tell him you can't play music anymore. I

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need you to be a doctor, I need you to

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be a lawyer. You will not be a musician. That

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is not training him in the way he should go.

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I'm discovering with Simone his bent, his bent is toward creativity,

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His bent is toward music. Okay, Well, what does that mean?

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That means that I now need to say as a

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Christian parent, Oh, let me make sure that I'm guiding

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him on the righteous side of this thing, where he's

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not going to to focus on things in music that

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are displeasing to God. So I'm guiding him. I'm guiding him.

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I'm guiding him. There's literally nothing I can do to

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break music out of him, because I've discovered with Simone

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his bent or his propensity toward his inclination and love

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to ward music. And now we're saying, Okay, this is

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how you honor God in music. That is how you

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train your child. It does not mean, now that I've

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invested the time, it does not mean that if you

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guide your child to the Christian lifestyle that they are

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not going to be lost. That doesn't even make sense. Lucifer,

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the one who was previously called the Sun of the Morning,

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had the best father in the universe, That's God, the Creator.

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He gave Lucifer everything Lucifer could possibly have needed in

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order to continue to be holy. Just a quick quiz question, y'all,

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is Lucifer the former Lucifer who is now called the

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devil and Satan and the Dragon and the Father of Lies,

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is he going to be saved in the end. The

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answer is no. Was there a problem with God's parenting?

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Absolutely not, And so what we do need to do

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is to discover what God has placed in our children,

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dedicate that to God and encourage our children and growth,

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and they will not depart from it. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,