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,
vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sunday, January eleven,
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, and our caption for today is Christ will
be Magnified. Christ will be Magnified. Before we get into that,
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Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We
thank you for this new day in this workweek that
you've entrusted to us. Please make us great stewards of
the time. Please help us to be faithful and help
us to do your will In Jesus name, I pray, Amen,
and a man again Christ will be magnified. All right,
So we're going to use our, of course, our Life
Application Guide again today. I just want you to get
accustomed to going there while you're studying the quarterly or
the Adults Study Guide as we now call it. But
today today I want to go to the professional application.
That's one of the four ways that we apply the study.
And then we'll go right back into the lesson. Okay,
so we're going with professional using the acronym or framework
when when, and we're beginning with W. What is important
now based on what we studied in the lesson, this
for today, recognizing that your patients cheerfulness and faithfulness in
difficult circumstances are a continual sermon. Let me say it again,
recognizing your patience, Oh, cheerfulness, and faithfulness in difficult circumstances
are a continual sermon. Some people say that your life
will be the only Bible that people read. I'm not
saying they should only read you as the Bible, because
God's given us a real bible, write His actual word.
But sometimes you are the entering wedge. Your life is
let your light so shine before human beings, so that
when they see your good works, they will glorify your Father,
which is in heaven. That is the goal. Okay, But
your life needs to be My life needs to be
a continual sermon, okay. And to internalize the insight we
are focusing on. Paul's patience and cheerfulness during his unjust
imprisonment were a continual sermon that glorified God and revealed
the truth of the Gospel. Some of you are noticing
that the internalized part I've lengthened. I used to only
give you a couple of sentences, but I really want
you to internalize. Let me continue your response to unfair treatment,
difficult colleagues or challenging work conditions. Speaks loud than words.
I could preach an entire series of sermons on this alone.
In a few I would say about about seventeen years
of my work life. That really have to illustrate this
in my reality. Faithful Christians who maintain integrity and joy
under pressure? Are you under pressure at work? Are you
under pressure at work? Type of one in the chat?
Let me just ask you. Are you at pressure? In
under pressure at work? Now? Have you yielded? Let's not
just stop there. I don't want to get stuck there.
Have you yielded that pressure to God? Well, you're submitting
it to God and saying, God, I can't handle this.
You can. Let me continue. Faithful Christians who maintain integrity
and joy under pressure are perhaps the most powerful witness
for Christ in the workplace. For you do all of
those organizing, all those Bible studies, not saying they're bad.
I've done it, I've done it. But be cheerful under pressure,
joyful under pressure. Jesus was at the work bench. I
want you to research that time of his life when
he would work and they would put too much on him.
Inspiration teaches us that he would sing psalms and the people,
the wicked people who were pressuring him would find themselves
singing the same thing that he was singing, and don't
realize when they even started. I wish I had the time.
The next best move in this regard is to examine
how you have responded in one recent difficulty at work
and ask God to help you respond with patience and
cheerfulness that magnifies Christ in future challenges. Now let's go
into our teaching directly out of the lesson that was application.
Now let's teach a little bit less a number one.
Lesson number one. Paul expected deliverance, and yet his highest
goal was that Christ would be magnified, whether by life
or death. In Philippians Chapter one Philippians Chapter one and
verse twenty, the Bible reads that in nothing I shall
be ashamed, but that Christ shall be magnified in my body,
whether it be by life or by death. To magnify
means to exalt, to make great. So Paul wanted his
life to exalt God, to exalt Christ with an a
A ex alt, not ult alt that word, to magnify Christ.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: To make great in the eyes of the people, Your
God must be great, because I see how you are suffering.
You're under pressure, and yet you're still joyful. And yet
somehow you are still staying connected to God, and yet
you still represent God without fail because God must be great.
And so the action step is respond only after you
ask God this question, will this magnify Christ through me?
My God? Before responding to any challenge? Today, brothers and sisters,
ask will this magnify Christ through me? There are many
things that I refrain from doing that I really want
to react to. I'm talking about nuclear like nuclear reactor style, like,
there are things that I want to react to. But
when I ask that question, I'm like, Okay, God, I
got it. I got the message. Cease and desist, Like,
do not do that because it does not represent Christ.
The lesson number two Paul viewed believers as his spiritual
children and cared for them with deep pastoral love. And
in First Corinthians, chapter four and verse fifteen, we read
in Christ, Jesus, I have begotten you through the Gospel.
Does that not bring a responsibility when they are people
who are either younger than you in age or younger
than you in the faith, no matter the age, or
people like me I'm here. I have this time with
you every single day and I have for years, and
even another program we did before this, So it's been
it's been well over a decade that daily thoughts in
worship at Message Magazine, we did that every single day,
and so when I'm doing my life, I'm thinking about you,
and I'm like, well, how will this impact them? When
my mommy passed away. When my mother passed away and
I still had this program, I was thinking about you
and like, how is this going to impact them? Even
though I was grieving to the extreme during Hurricane Melissa,
I'm thinking about you, Like, God, how is this going
to impact them? We must not miss a beat. You're
on two hundred radio stations, You're in countries around the world,
and not to mention the internet. How will this impact them?
And so this is the care that Paul had, and
so the action step is to reach out to someone
you've spiritually influenced and encourage their walk with Christ. I
hope you're encouraged to walk with Christ because of our
time here together. I hope that there is somebody on
this in the chat right now that has been encouraging
you and you are coming as a result of them
encouraging you and then you do the same. And we're
just doing this in concentric circles and welcoming people into
relationship with God. That's what Paul did, so please do
that actively and intentionally so Christ will be magnified in
your life. Make it a great day, Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. 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,