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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 Sabbath, December six,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.

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I am your host Dan. 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 Lesson number eleven,

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our lesson study series, Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and

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our caption for today is living in the Land and

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living in the Land. Before we get into that, I'd

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like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those

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joining us for the very first time. If you came

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in last evening and enjoyed the worship that we had

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the teaching through music, go ahead and type of one

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in the chat.

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Speaker 1: Please.

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Speaker 2: If you are on the radio, you're listening, you're like,

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what are they talking about? That's because it only happens

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on the YouTube channel. So Friday evenings, we have the

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privilege of going through the lesson study the whole week

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in song and Bible teaching. We invest just about an hour.

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So if you enjoyed that and you were uplifted, and

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more than that, if you are being transformed, then type

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A two in the chat. God is transforming you and

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you're learning even through music. Go ahead and type of

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two in the chat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm grateful.

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I'm grateful. Let's go ahead and pray and then we

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will get underway. Father, we do thank you for the

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privilege of being called by your name. Please help us

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to live like we are your children. Right now in

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

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Let's go ahead and jump in with our first lesson,

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our first lesson for today. It's coming in from the

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Bible Book of Proverbs, chapter eighteen. Proverbs chapter eighteen, and

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I will read verse let's see verse thirteen. Proverbs chapter eighteen,

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and I will read verse thirteen, and the Bible reads

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he that answereth the matter before he hereth it, it

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is folly and shame to him. Let me read it

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in another version. The one who gives an answer before

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he listens, that is his folly and his shame. Now

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I want to use a word, a Hebrew word, which

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is really a paradigm. It's a principle of the ancient

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people of God. It's shama shama, and it means to

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listen intelligently to heed, listen intelligently to heed. And so

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how in the world are we going to begin to

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move or to action a thing when we've not heard

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the entire matter. This is the problem with a lot

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of people. Some people run out ahead of God thinking

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that they understood everything because they did not have the

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patience to listen, wait and then act, or wait, listen

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and act, as the case may be. Some of you

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have children that are like that. Some of you are

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like that yourselves. You rent out ahead and wait, wait,

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come back, come back. You missed the point. And so

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shama again means to listen intelligently or to heed. And

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also it has built into it action, and so we

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want to action only having heard, not based on assumption. Okay,

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unity requires understanding and not assumption, and so and so.

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The action step is before forming opinions of opinions about others,

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before running and doing what you believe you are called

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to do. Seek to understand the intent. If you're talking

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about with others, seek to understand their intent. If you

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are someone who is running the vision, running the mission

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of a ministry or an area of ministry, then find

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out everything you need to know before you start running.

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And of course, when it comes to God, we want

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to be keenly listening, understanding God's intent, and then and

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then we can run. We practice listening first, speaking second,

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and in the case of having our relationships with people,

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judging last. Now we come in from lesson number two,

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coming in from Proverbs chapter fifteen and verse one. That's

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right in the lesson, A soft answer turneth away wrath,

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but grievous words stir up anger. Oh wait a minute,

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so this word for soft actually means tender or gentle.

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True strength shows itself through calm, restraint and gracious words.

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You know, the power of life and death is in

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the tongue. I know a lot of people use this

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to talk about manifestation. Like you, you speak a thing,

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speak what you seek until you see what you say.

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Shout to my baby sis Mignon Francois. I call her

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the boss Lady, and that is true. I perfectly agree

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with her. But some people will take that to to

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to to too far. Like some people are just speaking

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what they seek and that's it. But what God wants

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us to do is to speak the kinds of words

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that are gracious. There are times that are speaking needs

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to be pulled down or pulled back as we await

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the message, so that when we do speak what we

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seek and we see what we have said, it's the

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right thing. Sometimes people speak anger, people speak inciting. Sometimes

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people speak things that are antagonistic, right instigatory things, and

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then we see on the other end the fruit of

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those things. So God wants us to speak with restraint.

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We should be speaking gracious words. And of course I'm

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saying in the context of people who are having interpersonal

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experiences when misunderstandings arise. Gentleness restores peace faster than confrontation does.

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Joshua Chapter twenty two shows that humility and dialogue can

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save relationships that assumptions would have destroyed and so what

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I want you to do, and I'm doing it often myself.

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Respond to tension as the Lord gives you strength with

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grace even when you feel provoked. Let your tone become

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an instrument of healing and unity. Notice I said tone,

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not the words only, but the tone. Let those tones

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that come from your voice, your facial expression, your body

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language become an instrument of healing and unity. Lesson number three,

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God calls his people to collective purpose. We've been talking

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about mission clarity and mission aries, right. So the Bible

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reads in Ephesians chapter six and verse seven, with good will,

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doing service as the law, as to the Lord and

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not to men. There are times that we are in ministry.

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We are doing our work in our mundane tasks every day,

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even in our business where we are doing service to people. Please,

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Sometimes we're just doing service in order to collect a check.

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Sometimes we may use a soft answer in order to

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manipulate somebody politically somehow, or that's the intent, and we

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may smile nicely, but really have we have sneers and

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canines showing in our character. So what God wants us

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to do is to do everything that God wants us

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to do with enthusiasm, as though we are serving the

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Lord and not the people I have. Should I say this? Yes,

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I have served individuals that were complete, depletely like off there,

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I don't know. They were not on the mission. They

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were not on the mission. And God said, you serve

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me when you're serving him, you serve me when you

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are serving her. Don't focus on them, see them as

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the pathway to service. And so the word for service

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is du lea I think I pronounced it right, meaning

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ministry or bond service. God calls his people to focus

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on our shared mission rather than our minor differences. So

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serve with sincerity, serve with joy, and in every task,

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whether seen or unseen, do it as an offering to God.

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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,