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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3: It is Sunday, January fourth, twenty twenty six. Hello, my
name is El 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 new Lesson study series uniting Heaven
and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians. Before we get
into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we
thank you for this day. Thank you for loving us
so much that you listen to us. Thank You for
uniting heaven and Earth through Christ, Lord, so we can
be saved. And I just pray God that we will
indeed experience fellowship with you. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen,
and a men again. Fellowship in the gospel. Fellowship in
the Gospel. What does fellowship mean to you? What is fellowship?
What does fellowship mean to you? And I'd like for
you to type it in the chat? Type it in
the chat what does fellowship mean to you? If you're
listening on the radio and you're like, what chat? Yes,
we're live on YouTube right now and on a few
Facebook channels. You can come back to it. Okay, what
does fellowship mean to you? Is it a lunch that
happens after church on Sabbaths or something else. Yeah, So
what God is showing us is that he wants us
to have unity and agreement going in the same direction
with God and with each other. With God, that's the
vertical relation and with one another. That is what God
wants for us. Okay, And so we're going to the
Bible Book of Philippians. Of course I've oversimplified, oversimplified into
the Book of Philippians Chapter one, Philippians Chapter one, and
I will read verses three through eight Philippians Chapter one,
Versus three through eight, and the Bible reads, I thank
my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every
prayer of mine for you, all making requests with joy
for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day
until now. So let me look up the word fellowship
here koinanea plot twist Coinania. I remember we had a
ministry like that at the Community Praise. Now it's called
Community Praise Church. Back then it was Community Praise Center
in Alexandria, Virginia. And that means one's partnership. That is
literally participation or social intercourse or benefaction to communicate, to
have communion. And of course this has to do with
joint partnership, that is the intimate experience we can have
with God and with one another, to where we know
how each other think, how we feel, how we breathe,
what our connections are. It's not one of those sort
of passing situations where we just happen to know one
another's name and follow each other on social media.
Speaker 2: Not like that.
Speaker 3: So God wants that for us, and we see it
in Paul's writings verse six. Being confident of this very
thing that He which hath begun a good work in you,
will perform it until the day of Christ. Yeah, Kynannia,
that fellowship may be a part of the good work
that God has begun in you. If you're an introvert
like me and generally not look for new relationships, not
generally looking for ways to socialize even spiritually, that now
you know, right I have. I'm an introvert with very
public gifts. God has given me public responsibilities with an
introverted mindset, and it's like, okay, so you want me
to grow.
Speaker 2: I get it. God, I get it.
Speaker 3: So you want me to grow, So you give me
public gifts where I have to interact with human beings
on a regular basis. And yet I am a solitary naturally,
a solitary person. And so God wants us to grow.
And he's saying that I can even perform a better
work in you in terms of.
Speaker 2: Fellowship verse seven.
Speaker 3: Even as it is meet for me to think this
of you all, because I have you in my heart,
inasmuch as both in my bonds and in defense and
confirmation of the Gospel, you are all partakers of my
grace for God is my record Verse eight. And final,
how greatly I long after you all in my bowels
of Jesus Christ. So much more to say, so little
time fellowship in the Gospel. You see, our first lesson
is that God thanked or Paul thanked God for the
Philippians because they shared in the work of the Gospel
with him. Okay, So coiinnanea. Fellowship is also about the
great commission, all of us being united in order to
win as many people to Christ as possible.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: And so I've already shared with you what coynanea means
and so the action step today for this is to
reach out to one other believer. Yeah, sometimes we don't
do that. Sometimes we are so obsessed and I don't
mean it in a negative way, it's just what it is,
so obsessed with evangelism and reaching out that we do
not build our relationship within the current body of Christ.
And sometimes it actually impacts how we can be evangelistic
because sometimes we bring people into broken situations because we
have not resolved maybe if there are conflicts or we
have not grown enough in our love. Jesus said, they
will know that you are my disciples if you have
love one toward another. And so I'm grateful that God
has given us the privilege to do what. Reach out
to one believer today, just one and express gratitude for
how they support your spiritual walk. I'm going to do
it too, Okay. Lesson number two comes in from Philippians,
chapter one and verse six. The Bible reads, being confident,
okay of this very thing. I read it already, but
reading it again, that he which hath begun a good
work in you will perform it until the day that
Jesus of Jesus Christ. Paul assured and reassured the people
in Philippi that God would come complete his work in them.
You see, too many of us are overthinkers. Too many
of us are hurry up and stop type people. Too
many of us just literally get distracted and move on
to something else before what is in front of us
is complete. And what God is showing us here through
Paul is that God will complete. He will complete. It
means to bring to completion. The word there for complete,
to finish fully, not halfway, not leaving something for someone
else to do. You see my brother and friend Moose
Mustafa Mustafa Gonem, he talks about something that I really
espouse and have for many years, but he's making it
a big thing in the company that he is running,
and I'm like, okay, I love it. It's following something
through unto completion. It's full ownership.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: It is distributedly leadership. And when I have a task
or I have an area where I work, I do
as much of that process that it takes to get
it through the finish line.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: And that's what God wants to show us, that God
takes everything to the finish line. The action step is
give one area of your spiritual growth to God today
and trust that He will continue to shape you until
He has completed his work in you and finally our
lesson number three, Paul carried the Church of God on
his heart with the affection of Jesus Christ and prayed
for them with joy. We can learn a lot from
brother Paul Peace.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,