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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

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twenty three, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El

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

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

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth Christ in

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Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is Church Connective.

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We just have a few more days left in this series,

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Brothers and Sisters, Church Connectivity. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask

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you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community, pick up our new Life

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Application Guide for Quarter two twenty twenty six. And also,

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world and click that contribute button because we are listener

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and viewer supported at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways we continue to build faith

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in fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day

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and the privilege we have to come together. Please teach

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us to come together in the beauty of holiness and

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the fullness of our experience, to be able to fellowship

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with our brothers and sisters around the world and to

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worship you. Please help us to remain connected with you

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and with each other until Jesus comes in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Church connectivity and of course,

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as you would probably have anticipated, the lesson writer says,

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in a world connected by the Internet, we connect so

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many ways, brothers and sisters, social media, and countless devices.

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It is difficult to imagine the challenge that Paul faced

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in helping God's people feel that they were part of

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something bigger than their local congregations. But let me just

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say that even with all of our quote connectivity, with

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all of what the lesson writer made allusion to, or

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direct account to We can become disconnected. We can make

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it seem as if we are on our own because

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the devil has backed some humans into a corner, and

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in that mindset of depression, spiritually speaking, or elitism, like

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I'm the only one that is holding or holding the

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line like you feel me, like Elijah said when he

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was running from Jezebel, And God said, no, I have

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seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to bail.

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You are not the only one, because you're not the

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only one with the Holy Ghost. And once the Holy

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Ghost has come upon us, we shall be God's witnesses

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wherever we are around the world. And when Jesus returns,

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he's coming for a people full of the Holy Ghost,

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covered in the righteousness of Christ, who are without spot

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and without wrinkle or any such thing. And so we

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are asking God for holy connection now, okay, And so

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I read now from J. N. Andrews. The Church of

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Christ is strong guest when it's members labor together. Okay.

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So we don't need to just be talking about God

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together only, or sharing about God in our words or

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speech only, but labor. We need to work together to

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be of service to other people. Together in harmony. How

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do we receive harmony through the Holy Spirit, just like

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the first century believers did after that the Holy ghost

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had come upon them, then they could labor for the

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people around them. Okay. And so when it's members labor

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together in harmony, each esteeming the other better than himself,

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that's how you know if we're in harmony, if we

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esteem the others as better or put others in priority

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above ourselves. Okay. And so also also we're going to

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begin with our lesson number one coming in from Colossians,

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chapter four and verse ten. So this can all make sense, okay. Aristarchus,

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my fellow prisoner, saluteth you and Marcus, marcus sister's son

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to Barnabas, touching whom ye received commandments. If he come

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upon you or come to you, receive him. I'll read

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it in another translation. Aristarkus, my fellow prisoner, greets you,

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and so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, about whom

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you received instructions. If he comes to you, welcome him.

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And we can see the growth in brother Paul's life,

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because listen, this dude was not his Paul was not

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his biggest fan. Marcus's biggest fan he saw. He thought

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that Marcus was soft, like when the trouble came, that

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Marcus would run away. And so now we are seeing

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that he's saying because he is all together fruitful, his

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ministry is all together fruitful. We are seeing Paul say,

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even now, okay, when he comes to you, I want

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you to welcome him, and I want you to welcome

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him in the way that you would welcome me. Okay.

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And so of course he's also given greetings from Aristarchus.

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And so the lesson is that the church is strengthened

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through visible partnership. The best thing you can do in

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your church or a fellowship and community is show that

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you have deference toward one another, that you have love

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for one another. When someone else who is also responsible

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and powerful shows up on the scene, you need to

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show that you're not intimidated by the gift that God

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had given him or her. You are not in competition

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with the gifts that God had given to him or her.

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You support, and they also support. And so Paul intentionally

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names coworkers to reinforce the truth that the Gospel advances

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through shared labor and not isolated effort. And so here

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is a key word from what we are talking about here.

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Fellow captive, he said, fellow laborer, fellow prisoner. That's one

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sharing the same struggle with Whom are you sharing the

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same struggle, brothers and sisters? Is it one of your

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church brothers and church sisters or a bunch of you

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in the same community hm hm. Unity deepens when believers

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share hardship for the same reason, So Paul highlights the

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shared sacrifice. Connectivity grows when believers know that they are

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not suffering or serving alone. Think of your church. Now,

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many churches have that one person who's serving. Is it

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a deacon, a deaconess. Is it another person in usher?

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Is it an elder? Is it a one of the

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people on the pastoral staff who are saying, you know,

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and moaning and lamenting and saying everything is falling upon me,

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all of the burden is on me. So what we

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are looking at is that that's not really true. There

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may be some adjustments that need to be made, but

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connectivity grows when believers show they are not suffering or

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serving alone. So identify one person in your church fellowship

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who is carrying a heavy load in ministry. Encourage that person.

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This week through prayer or in a direct message. Lesson

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number two, The Bible or the Gospel reconciles broken relationships,

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and the Bible reads in verse eleven Colossians four, and Jesus,

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which is called Justice. That's not the one who gave

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his life for us who are of the circumcision. These

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only are my fellow workers unto the Kingdom of God,

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which have been comfort unto me. Okay, and so Paul's

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mention of Mark signals restoration after pre failure, showing that

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reconciliation is essential to church unity. There are times that

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things don't go as planned. There are times that we

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make God forbid mistakes, not because we have to, but

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it happens. And when it happens, God has given us

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the pathway of relationship success in Matthew chapter eighteen, how

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to reconcile situations between brothers and sisters of Christ. And

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so we receive comfort and relief and consolation. Restored relationships

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become sources of strength. People can see, Oh, this can

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be done. And so church connectivity is really submitting our

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will to God through the Holy Ghost until Jesus comes,

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make it a great day. 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,