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 Thursday, January fifteenth,
twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 United No uniting Heaven and Earth. I'm still
getting used to it. Christ in Philippians and kalais uniting
heaven and Earth. Christ in Philippians and Colossians. And our
caption for today is United and Fearless. Yes, United and fearless.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you.
Thank you for giving us this day for the opportunity
to open up your word. Thank you for your word
that is sanctifying in nature. Please make us holy today
in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again, united
and fearless. Yes, let's go ahead and begin with an
interesting quote I found from way back in eighteen eighty six,
a Review and Herald article by Urrayah Smith. Unity among
God's people brings courage. So of course we know what
the standard of unity is. It's God's truth. Unity among
God's people brings courage. Division brings weakness. When we stand
together in truth, no enemy can terrify us. Ooh, I'm
going to read it one more time. Unity among God's
people brings courage, Division brings weakness. When we stand together
in truth, no enemy can terrify us. I'm grateful that
God has given us the standard. It's an immovable standard.
It is solid. It is solid as the nature of
God himself, his word, his word. And therefore when we
are unified on his word, that means that we are
accepting and choosing to live by faith his word. Then
we have no need to fear, because His word is
solid and it is the undergirding of all that we do.
And so with that we are going into the Word.
You see what I did there Philippians chapter one, and
I will read the beginning at verse twenty seven. We
used this passage yesterday, or at least part of it,
and the Bible reads, only let your conversation or it
is conduct, conduct conversation be as it becometh the Gospel
of Christ. So that means whatever way we live and
conduct ourselves needs to be like Jesus would. If the
Bible says that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the
power of God unto said salvation, then what I say
and how I live must not be flying in the
face of that. If it's power of God unto salvation,
then I don't live week a week life. I don't
live a weak and broken mindset, because why that is
not the Gospel of Christ. I do not live according
to against the word of God. I live according to
the Word of God, because it becometh the Gospel of Jesus.
Christ leads us to living what God has taught us.
That whether I come to see you or else be absent,
I may hear of your affairs. That ye stand fast
in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the
faith of the Gospel. This is the blessing verse twenty eight.
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries. We've said that
which is to them an evident token of perdition. If
you're fearful and you are in the faith community, then
that means there's some problem in our unity, our unity
of faith under the Holy Ghost. Because the first century believers,
those individuals when right after the Day of Pentecost, they
were running forward knowing that God was with them. Okay,
but to you of salvation and that of God for
unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ,
not only to believe on him, but also to suffer
for his sake. So he's saying that you don't need
to be fearful. And by the way, while you're believing,
you're going to suffer. If you live godly in Christ Jesus,
in this present world, you will suffer persecution. But you
don't have a reason to be fearful. Why because you're
unified in the faith based on the Word of God
Verse thirty. Having the same conflict which ye saw in
me and now here to be in me. Let me
go and read that, since you are encountering the same
conflict that you saw me face, and now you hear
that I am facing. So he knew that the people
of God would suffer persecution like he suffered persecution, but
they had no need to fear. Why because they were
unified in faith under the banner of the Word of God.
In the last days, is there no more appropriate guidance
for us that we will indeed face the worst persecution.
Yes we will. But if we are unified not with
the world, not with apostate churches, but unified under faith,
unified under the actual Word of God, not the edited version,
not the artificially intelligent version, but the actual Word of God,
then we have no need to fear because we are
together in faith and harmony based on the Word of God.
And God has promised special power in that case. So
Our first lesson in that regard is unity strengthens courage,
because united believers stand firm against opposition. And so the
action step is for you to encourage at least one
person in your faith fellowship today to stand firm with
you in Christ be present with them. I'm not saying
stand firm from Afar, not saying stand firm and I falter.
I'm saying that we together both and we together can
stand firm in our faith. Our lesson number two comes
in from Acts, chapter fourteen and verse twenty two, where
the Bible reads, we must, through much tribulation enter into
the Kingdom of God. In another version, it says it
is necessary to enter the Kingdom of God through many persecutions.
That means pressure, there is affliction, there is distress. Do
I need to ask like, do I need to put
out a poll right now to ask you if you've
been going through trials, whether you've been going through pressures
or afflictions or distress. Do I even need to do this?
The fact is that if you're one of God's children,
then Jesus Christ, having gone through the same experience already,
is the indicator that you will too. Could it be
that God's people, who are supposedly representatives of him, would
suffer less than Come on, now, Jesus suffered, and therefore
we will. It's not something that we necessarily look forward to,
but that's the fact. Because the devil hates Jesus. The
devil hates Jesus's people. Huh. He pushed Jesus in situations
where there was tribulation, and therefore we are as well.
We are not greater than our master. So the action
step is to identify one hardship you face and choose.
This is a decision. Choose to walk through it with
Christ instead of being fearful lesson. Number three in final
comes in from Romans chapter eight and verse seventeen. If
so be that we suffer with him, that we may
also be glorified together. If indeed we suffer with him,
we will also be glorified together with him. We will
honor him, we will share in his glory. And so
suffering with Christ's leads to sharing in his glory when
he returns. So pray today, Lord, help me to endure
whatever comes with your strength and for your glory 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day, yeah,