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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 Thursday, January fifteenth,

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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 United No uniting Heaven and Earth. I'm still

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getting used to it. Christ in Philippians and kalais uniting

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heaven and Earth. Christ in Philippians and Colossians. And our

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caption for today is United and Fearless. Yes, United and fearless.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. I'm asking you to go over to

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide. Also, also,

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you.

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Thank you for giving us this day for the opportunity

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to open up your word. Thank you for your word

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that is sanctifying in nature. Please make us holy today

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in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again, united

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and fearless. Yes, let's go ahead and begin with an

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interesting quote I found from way back in eighteen eighty six,

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a Review and Herald article by Urrayah Smith. Unity among

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God's people brings courage. So of course we know what

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the standard of unity is. It's God's truth. Unity among

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God's people brings courage. Division brings weakness. When we stand

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together in truth, no enemy can terrify us. Ooh, I'm

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going to read it one more time. Unity among God's

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people brings courage, Division brings weakness. When we stand together

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in truth, no enemy can terrify us. I'm grateful that

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God has given us the standard. It's an immovable standard.

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It is solid. It is solid as the nature of

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God himself, his word, his word. And therefore when we

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are unified on his word, that means that we are

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accepting and choosing to live by faith his word. Then

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we have no need to fear, because His word is

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solid and it is the undergirding of all that we do.

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And so with that we are going into the Word.

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You see what I did there Philippians chapter one, and

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I will read the beginning at verse twenty seven. We

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used this passage yesterday, or at least part of it,

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and the Bible reads, only let your conversation or it

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is conduct, conduct conversation be as it becometh the Gospel

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of Christ. So that means whatever way we live and

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conduct ourselves needs to be like Jesus would. If the

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Bible says that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the

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power of God unto said salvation, then what I say

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and how I live must not be flying in the

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face of that. If it's power of God unto salvation,

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then I don't live week a week life. I don't

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live a weak and broken mindset, because why that is

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not the Gospel of Christ. I do not live according

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to against the word of God. I live according to

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the Word of God, because it becometh the Gospel of Jesus.

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Christ leads us to living what God has taught us.

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That whether I come to see you or else be absent,

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I may hear of your affairs. That ye stand fast

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in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the

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faith of the Gospel. This is the blessing verse twenty eight.

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And in nothing terrified by your adversaries. We've said that

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which is to them an evident token of perdition. If

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you're fearful and you are in the faith community, then

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that means there's some problem in our unity, our unity

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of faith under the Holy Ghost. Because the first century believers,

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those individuals when right after the Day of Pentecost, they

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were running forward knowing that God was with them. Okay,

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but to you of salvation and that of God for

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unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ,

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not only to believe on him, but also to suffer

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for his sake. So he's saying that you don't need

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to be fearful. And by the way, while you're believing,

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you're going to suffer. If you live godly in Christ Jesus,

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in this present world, you will suffer persecution. But you

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don't have a reason to be fearful. Why because you're

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unified in the faith based on the Word of God

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Verse thirty. Having the same conflict which ye saw in

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me and now here to be in me. Let me

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go and read that, since you are encountering the same

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conflict that you saw me face, and now you hear

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that I am facing. So he knew that the people

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of God would suffer persecution like he suffered persecution, but

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they had no need to fear. Why because they were

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unified in faith under the banner of the Word of God.

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In the last days, is there no more appropriate guidance

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for us that we will indeed face the worst persecution.

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Yes we will. But if we are unified not with

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the world, not with apostate churches, but unified under faith,

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unified under the actual Word of God, not the edited version,

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not the artificially intelligent version, but the actual Word of God,

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then we have no need to fear because we are

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together in faith and harmony based on the Word of God.

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And God has promised special power in that case. So

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Our first lesson in that regard is unity strengthens courage,

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because united believers stand firm against opposition. And so the

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action step is for you to encourage at least one

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person in your faith fellowship today to stand firm with

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you in Christ be present with them. I'm not saying

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stand firm from Afar, not saying stand firm and I falter.

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I'm saying that we together both and we together can

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stand firm in our faith. Our lesson number two comes

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in from Acts, chapter fourteen and verse twenty two, where

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the Bible reads, we must, through much tribulation enter into

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the Kingdom of God. In another version, it says it

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is necessary to enter the Kingdom of God through many persecutions.

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That means pressure, there is affliction, there is distress. Do

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I need to ask like, do I need to put

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out a poll right now to ask you if you've

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been going through trials, whether you've been going through pressures

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or afflictions or distress. Do I even need to do this?

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The fact is that if you're one of God's children,

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then Jesus Christ, having gone through the same experience already,

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is the indicator that you will too. Could it be

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that God's people, who are supposedly representatives of him, would

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suffer less than Come on, now, Jesus suffered, and therefore

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we will. It's not something that we necessarily look forward to,

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but that's the fact. Because the devil hates Jesus. The

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devil hates Jesus's people. Huh. He pushed Jesus in situations

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where there was tribulation, and therefore we are as well.

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We are not greater than our master. So the action

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step is to identify one hardship you face and choose.

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This is a decision. Choose to walk through it with

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Christ instead of being fearful lesson. Number three in final

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comes in from Romans chapter eight and verse seventeen. If

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so be that we suffer with him, that we may

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also be glorified together. If indeed we suffer with him,

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we will also be glorified together with him. We will

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honor him, we will share in his glory. And so

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suffering with Christ's leads to sharing in his glory when

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he returns. So pray today, Lord, help me to endure

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whatever comes with your strength and for your glory 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day, yeah,