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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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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 Friday, January sixteen, 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 Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth,

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christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today

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is Unity through Truth, Unity through Truth. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion

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Life application guide, and do click that donate link at

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and we will get under way. Father,

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thank you for this day of preparation. Please unify us,

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unify us under your banner in Jesus' name. I pray,

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Amen and a man again. So let me go ahead

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and just begin. We're going to use I think this

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will be a good practice that we will use our

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Life Application Guide, the Life Application Guide from your Daily Portion.

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We'll use that on Fridays for sure, and at least

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tackle one of the four key areas. Okay, and so

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we're going to begin this study with our personal application

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Personal application And for those who don't know, we use

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a framework. It's the win method, the win method WI

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WIN W. What is important now based on what we

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study for today, and I'll circle back to that looking

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unto Jesus, looking to Jesus on the cross as the

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fullest expression of God's love, especially during our worst times,

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when the challenges turn up on us. Then we it's

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important that we look back and say, wait a minute,

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look at what Jesus did for us, Look at the

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suffering that he experienced. Look at the purpose of him

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living on planet Earth for thirty three and one half

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years ah. Look at why his high priestly ministry is

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structured in the way that it is for forgiveness and

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then ultimately for cleansing, so that he can save us.

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He can be just and the justifier of those who

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are yielding to him. So we look to him. We

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keep our minds focused on what Jesus has done in sacrificing,

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being sacrificed for our sins. I let's internalize that same insight.

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The great controversy between Christ and Satan helps you understand

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the terrible reality of suffering in this world. But ultimately

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you must look to Jesus on the crost as the

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fullest expression of the Father's love. When you are facing suffering,

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the cross reminds you that God did not distance himself

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or become indifferent, but has entered into your pain and defeat.

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Did the enemy trust him even when you do not understand.

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I remember a woman her name was Stella. When I

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used to go to the Bladensburg church early on Sunday mornings.

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We would have our Sabbath experience. Yes on Saturdays and

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then early Sunday mornings. We would have prayer meeting every

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single Sunday morning when I was a new believer, early

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in the morning. For hours we were in there growing together.

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And one thing that she used to say was that

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we need to trust Him, meaning God, where we cannot

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trace him. Trust him where we cannot trace him. And

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so our next best move then is when you face

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suffering or confusion today. When you encounter suffering or confusion today, pause,

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meditate on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, asking God to

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help you see his love and try him when the

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answers are not clear. Okay, okay, okay, I think I

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think we're tracking now. So what I want to do

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is read read a quote, Read a quote from RF.

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Speaker 2: Cautrell. From R. F. Cautrell, one of our pioneers.

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Speaker 3: If the gifts were necessary to preserve the unity of

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the primitive church, how much more so to restore unity now.

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When God brings again Zion, his watchman shall see I

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to eye. So we're talking about the people of God

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standing or being on the wall watching so that we

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can do what God would have us do in the

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last days. So we will not compromise, no creeping or

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quick compromises in the last days with evil. If this

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was the way of the believer in the early Church,

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how much more now in twenty twenty six, How much

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more now back in the eighteen hundreds when many of

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the pioneers were alive, this is what they said. How

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much more now as we are approaching the coming of

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Jesus Christ. So we will come, we will not come

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behind in any gift, and we will be more unified

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now than ever before. And so our first lesson today

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is truth produces courage, because the word of God anchors

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the believer even under persecution. And again I'll read we

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read it yesterday, verse nineteen of John chapter seventeen. And

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for their sayings I sanctify myself that they also might

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be sanctified through the truth. And so I want you

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to read one promise of scripture today and speak it

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aloud as your declaration of courage. In Christ lesson number

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two coming in from Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty seven.

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I read many years ago that repetition deepens the impression.

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We're using this passage again, And the Bible reads, only

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conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ.

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So unity comes when we allow scripture, not opinion, to

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shape faith and character. And so this great news of

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the Gospel of Jesus Christ should cause us as we

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act now, as we do what God has us to do,

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to invite the Holy Ghost to correct one belief or

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attitude or mindset in your life.

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Speaker 2: Through the scriptures.

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Speaker 3: There are many times that people are doubting our connection

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with God because we're looking at ourselves for how good

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or less than good we are in air quotes. And

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what we need to do is surrender our will to God,

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ask the Holy Spirit to guide us to the degree

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that we're not looking at ourselves anymore, but we're looking

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unto Jesus, who's the author and finisher of our faith.

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Lessen Number three and final comes in from Ephesians, chapter

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four and verse thirteen, where the Bible reads, till we

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all come in the unity of the faith, that is

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the outcome, that's the desired outcome. The Bible says Jesus

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speaking that they will know that you are my disciples

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when you have love one for another. So the kind

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of love that we're talking about is the kind of

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unity that God has required of us in order for

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the Holy ghosts to give us the fullness of power

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in the last days. And so the lesson is the

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action step, excuse me, is to affirm and support someone

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in your faith community who is exercising a spiritual gift

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for the body's growth. This is the action step. So

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I'm grateful. I'm grateful because God has put us in

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a position that we can see throughout the ages the

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original people of God. We can see the early Church.

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We can see the believers in the eighteen hundreds, yes,

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mid eighteen hundreds, and now the people of God in

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twenty twenty six. We know that God has given us

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the blueprint, and that blueprint is airtight. If we follow

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God's guidance, we will win. One more quote really quickly

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from Acts of the Apostles, page five hundred twelve. From

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the rack the stake the dungeon, from dens and caves

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of the earth, there falls upon his ear the martyr's

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shout of triumph. These yielding up their lives for faith,

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declare to the world that he who they trust is able.

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Speaker 1: To a member. We cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,

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make it a great day. Yeah,