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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: Go ahead, morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Friday,

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December twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are in

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our final study in themes in the Gospel of John

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and I just want you to type in the chat

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a number one if you really enjoyed this quarter's lesson

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in it has been a blessing to us. This is

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the end of lesson number thirteen of thirteen. And I'm

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grateful because we had two quarters back to back through

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gospel books. First it was Mark, now it's John. And

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I know It's going to be an incredible time when

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we move to God's Love and Justice. Before we begin,

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I'd like to welcome 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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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. I want

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you to join our online community. Click that number seven

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to subscribe there. And also please pick up the Companion Book.

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I did not say the quarterly. I think some people

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are confused. We're not talking about the quarterly you have that.

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I'm saying, pick up the Companion book, the life application

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guide that we produce here. And of course we want

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you to pick up the One for God's Love and Justice,

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which we begin tomorrow. But if you even still have

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not gotten the one for this quarter here that we're ending,

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it can still be very helpful to us even though

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we have completed the lesson. Okay, let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank

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you for giving us this day and giving us the

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opportunity to serve you today and to not only look

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at your perspective, but to thrive from your perspective. Please

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teach us to serve you with everything that we are

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in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again.

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I did not announce to you today's caption it is

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thrive from God's perspective. Thrive from God's perspective, And so

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the lesson writer says, God's perspective is vastly different from

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that of humans. God shares his perspective with us through

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his word, the Bible, under the power of the Holy Ghost.

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It is our choice whether we wish to walk in

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darkness or accept the light coming from Jesus Christ, as

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revealed in the Word. And so really that is where

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we begin, Like where are you making your decision? Are

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you with God or against God? Do you loved God?

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Or are you fearful or hateful of God? Do you

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prefer to do His will even though sometimes it may

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be challenging, it may be difficult. Or are you saying

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that you would rather just do things your own way

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because maybe you were disappointed by God, or at least

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you think you were disappointed by God, but your expectations

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were spoiled somehow, and you just don't really want to

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serve him. And I don't want to take for granted

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that there is just one set of people listening or

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watching to your daily portion today, because when Jesus spoke,

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there were almost always, not one hundred percent of the time,

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but almost always both camps were there, people who served

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God and people who said, I just can't bother with it.

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And so really, I want to open up an invitation

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today for every single one of us, under the sound

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of my voice, or maybe you can't hear you're reading

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in the captions, the closed captions, whomever you are, to

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thrive from God's perspective. Now, from the book The Desire

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of Age's page one hundred and forty three, we read

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the angels of God are ever passing from Earth to Heaven,

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from Heaven to earth. The miracles of Christ for the

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afflicted and suffering were wrought by the power of God

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through the ministration of angels. And it is through Christ,

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by the ministration of his heavenly messengers, that every blessing

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comes from God to us. Do you realize that Jesus

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is the bridge. The Bible teaches us about a ladder

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that Jacob now called Israel, would have seeing from heaven

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and Earth, and the angels ascending and be sending. And

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Jesus said it upon the son of Man and so

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Jesus is the pathway to spiritual success. He is the

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pathway to life everlasting. He is the one who gives

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us all that we need to connect with God, our

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Father and remain connected with him, the life giver, so

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that we can live eternally. And guess what his perspective

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is that you can have that today, and you can

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also I can also share this blessing with other people.

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We don't have to keep it to ourselves. We don't

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have to be in a position where we're like, oh,

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you know. Sometimes you may go on a vacation that

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your friends can't afford, or maybe they can't get off

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from work, and you're like, God, I wish I could

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share this with someone. Or maybe you're having a meal

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that you thoroughly enjoy but you're the only one at

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the table and you're like, I wish I had someone

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to share this with. Well, you can share God's perspective.

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His perspective is that God soul loved the world that

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he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in

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him should not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't

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send his son into the world to condemn the world,

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but that the world through him, might be saved, saved

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in your finances, yes, I did say that, saved in

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your spiritual connection with God, saved in your relationships, saved

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in your personal development. God cares about all aspects of

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our lives. Saved in your health, saved in your mindset.

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God cares. His perspective is that we would have life

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and to have that life more abundantly. Okay, and so

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I want to go into our companion guide again. You

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can get that at your Daily portion dot com or

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in the description if you're watching me online. Okay, We're

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going to look at the the uh relationship perspective or

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application of this. Remember, our model is when we want

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you to win, do w what is important now? What

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is important now? In relationships? Thriving from God's perspectives means

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seeing others through the eyes of Jesus. Did you get that? Yeah?

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People with whom you relate, they may be coworkers, they

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may be your loved ones like your husband, your wife,

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your children, your aunti, your uncle. See these people through

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God's eyes, through Jesus's eyes. It requires grace uh oh,

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unmerited favor, patience, and a heart open to his leading

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allow God's love to flow through you. I want you

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to hear that. I'm going to say it again, but

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I'm going to say it slowly. Allow God's love to

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flow through you to others, especially when they disappoint or

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hurt you. Oh my, are you hearing what I'm saying today.

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The only way that you can give people grace and patience,

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the only way that you can give them the opportunity

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really to be open to the leading of God, is

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if you allow God's love to flow through you. He's

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not asking you to originate love. When he said that

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the second great commandment is is to love your neighbor

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as yourself. He was not saying love your neighbor in

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your own strength. He's saying allow him. Allow his love

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to flow through your life and out to your neighbor,

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out to your mother, your father, your brothers, your sisters,

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out to the challenging relationship you're having with your spouse

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right now. There are some people who are having difficulty,

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at nine minutes into our lesson study today, having difficulty

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relating to their loved spouse. But God's love, we need

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you to allow that love to flow through you. Internalize

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the insight I think about a recent interaction that didn't

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go well. Did you respond from the place of light

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or darkness? Acknowledge where you might have missed God's perspective,

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and consider how you can respond differently next time, and

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then end next best move, it's time for action. Reach

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out to someone with whom you have had a conflict

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or strained relationship. Approach them with humility, love, and a

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desire to reflect God's grace. And then, of course there

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is more. So I'm thankful we got through thirteen blessed

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weeks in this lesson study, and tomorrow, if the Lord

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Spaar's life, we begin God's love.

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Speaker 1: And days for joining us listening. Friends, always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day.