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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy.

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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: It is Sunday, January fourth, twenty twenty six. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I am your host, and

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this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's

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word every single day, and today is no exception. We

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are continuing in our new Lesson study series uniting Heaven

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and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians. Before we get

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into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm

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

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Please join our online community pick up the new Your

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Daily Portion Life application Guide. We have adjusted the approach

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just a touch, just a touch, some of you will notice,

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some of you won't. But I'm always looking for a

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way to improve how we do what we do so

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that we can all be transformed by God. So the

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book is just a little bit longer, I admit it,

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and we'll see what God does with it through all

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of our lives. Also, please, please, if you have been

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inclined by the Holy Goals, go ahead and click that

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donate button. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we

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thank you for this day. Thank you for loving us

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so much that you listen to us. Thank You for

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uniting heaven and Earth through Christ, Lord, so we can

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be saved. And I just pray God that we will

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indeed experience fellowship with you. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen,

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and a men again. Fellowship in the gospel. Fellowship in

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the Gospel. What does fellowship mean to you? What is fellowship?

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What does fellowship mean to you? And I'd like for

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you to type it in the chat? Type it in

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the chat what does fellowship mean to you? If you're

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listening on the radio and you're like, what chat? Yes,

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we're live on YouTube right now and on a few

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Facebook channels. You can come back to it. Okay, what

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does fellowship mean to you? Is it a lunch that

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happens after church on Sabbaths or something else. Yeah, So

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what God is showing us is that he wants us

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to have unity and agreement going in the same direction

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with God and with each other. With God, that's the

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vertical relation and with one another. That is what God

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wants for us. Okay, And so we're going to the

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Bible Book of Philippians. Of course I've oversimplified, oversimplified into

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the Book of Philippians Chapter one, Philippians Chapter one, and

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I will read verses three through eight Philippians Chapter one,

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Versus three through eight, and the Bible reads, I thank

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my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every

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prayer of mine for you, all making requests with joy

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for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day

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until now. So let me look up the word fellowship

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here koinanea plot twist Coinania. I remember we had a

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ministry like that at the Community Praise. Now it's called

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Community Praise Church. Back then it was Community Praise Center

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in Alexandria, Virginia. And that means one's partnership. That is

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literally participation or social intercourse or benefaction to communicate, to

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have communion. And of course this has to do with

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joint partnership, that is the intimate experience we can have

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with God and with one another, to where we know

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how each other think, how we feel, how we breathe,

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what our connections are. It's not one of those sort

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of passing situations where we just happen to know one

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another's name and follow each other on social media.

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Speaker 2: Not like that.

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Speaker 3: So God wants that for us, and we see it

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in Paul's writings verse six. Being confident of this very

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thing that He which hath begun a good work in you,

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will perform it until the day of Christ. Yeah, Kynannia,

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that fellowship may be a part of the good work

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that God has begun in you. If you're an introvert

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like me and generally not look for new relationships, not

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generally looking for ways to socialize even spiritually, that now

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you know, right I have. I'm an introvert with very

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public gifts. God has given me public responsibilities with an

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introverted mindset, and it's like, okay, so you want me

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to grow.

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Speaker 2: I get it. God, I get it.

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Speaker 3: So you want me to grow, So you give me

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public gifts where I have to interact with human beings

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on a regular basis. And yet I am a solitary naturally,

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a solitary person. And so God wants us to grow.

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And he's saying that I can even perform a better

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work in you in terms of.

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Speaker 2: Fellowship verse seven.

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Speaker 3: Even as it is meet for me to think this

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of you all, because I have you in my heart,

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inasmuch as both in my bonds and in defense and

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confirmation of the Gospel, you are all partakers of my

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grace for God is my record Verse eight. And final,

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how greatly I long after you all in my bowels

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of Jesus Christ. So much more to say, so little

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time fellowship in the Gospel. You see, our first lesson

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is that God thanked or Paul thanked God for the

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Philippians because they shared in the work of the Gospel

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with him. Okay, So coiinnanea. Fellowship is also about the

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great commission, all of us being united in order to

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win as many people to Christ as possible.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: And so I've already shared with you what coynanea means

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and so the action step today for this is to

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reach out to one other believer. Yeah, sometimes we don't

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do that. Sometimes we are so obsessed and I don't

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mean it in a negative way, it's just what it is,

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so obsessed with evangelism and reaching out that we do

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not build our relationship within the current body of Christ.

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And sometimes it actually impacts how we can be evangelistic

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because sometimes we bring people into broken situations because we

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have not resolved maybe if there are conflicts or we

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have not grown enough in our love. Jesus said, they

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will know that you are my disciples if you have

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love one toward another. And so I'm grateful that God

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has given us the privilege to do what. Reach out

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to one believer today, just one and express gratitude for

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how they support your spiritual walk. I'm going to do

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it too, Okay. Lesson number two comes in from Philippians,

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chapter one and verse six. The Bible reads, being confident,

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okay of this very thing. I read it already, but

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reading it again, that he which hath begun a good

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work in you will perform it until the day that

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Jesus of Jesus Christ. Paul assured and reassured the people

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in Philippi that God would come complete his work in them.

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You see, too many of us are overthinkers. Too many

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of us are hurry up and stop type people. Too

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many of us just literally get distracted and move on

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to something else before what is in front of us

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is complete. And what God is showing us here through

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Paul is that God will complete. He will complete. It

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means to bring to completion. The word there for complete,

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to finish fully, not halfway, not leaving something for someone

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else to do. You see my brother and friend Moose

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Mustafa Mustafa Gonem, he talks about something that I really

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espouse and have for many years, but he's making it

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a big thing in the company that he is running,

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and I'm like, okay, I love it. It's following something

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through unto completion. It's full ownership.

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Speaker 1: It.

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Speaker 3: It is distributedly leadership. And when I have a task

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or I have an area where I work, I do

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as much of that process that it takes to get

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it through the finish line.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: And that's what God wants to show us, that God

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takes everything to the finish line. The action step is

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give one area of your spiritual growth to God today

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and trust that He will continue to shape you until

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He has completed his work in you and finally our

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lesson number three, Paul carried the Church of God on

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his heart with the affection of Jesus Christ and prayed

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for them with joy. We can learn a lot from

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brother Paul Peace.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make

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it a great day. Yeah,