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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 Sunday, January eleven,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and 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 our new

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Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians

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and Colossians, and our caption for today is Christ will

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be Magnified. Christ will be Magnified. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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It's a website, Your Daily Portion dot Com. Please pick

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up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide. Please please

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let us know where you are in the world, and

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also click that donate button if you are so inclined

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at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We

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thank you for this new day in this workweek that

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you've entrusted to us. Please make us great stewards of

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the time. Please help us to be faithful and help

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us to do your will In Jesus name, I pray, Amen,

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and a man again Christ will be magnified. All right,

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So we're going to use our, of course, our Life

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Application Guide again today. I just want you to get

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accustomed to going there while you're studying the quarterly or

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the Adults Study Guide as we now call it. But

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today today I want to go to the professional application.

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That's one of the four ways that we apply the study.

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And then we'll go right back into the lesson. Okay,

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so we're going with professional using the acronym or framework

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when when, and we're beginning with W. What is important

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now based on what we studied in the lesson, this

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for today, recognizing that your patients cheerfulness and faithfulness in

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difficult circumstances are a continual sermon. Let me say it again,

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recognizing your patience, Oh, cheerfulness, and faithfulness in difficult circumstances

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are a continual sermon. Some people say that your life

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will be the only Bible that people read. I'm not

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saying they should only read you as the Bible, because

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God's given us a real bible, write His actual word.

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But sometimes you are the entering wedge. Your life is

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let your light so shine before human beings, so that

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when they see your good works, they will glorify your Father,

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which is in heaven. That is the goal. Okay, But

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your life needs to be My life needs to be

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a continual sermon, okay. And to internalize the insight we

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are focusing on. Paul's patience and cheerfulness during his unjust

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imprisonment were a continual sermon that glorified God and revealed

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the truth of the Gospel. Some of you are noticing

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that the internalized part I've lengthened. I used to only

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give you a couple of sentences, but I really want

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you to internalize. Let me continue your response to unfair treatment,

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difficult colleagues or challenging work conditions. Speaks loud than words.

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I could preach an entire series of sermons on this alone.

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In a few I would say about about seventeen years

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of my work life. That really have to illustrate this

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in my reality. Faithful Christians who maintain integrity and joy

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under pressure? Are you under pressure at work? Are you

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under pressure at work? Type of one in the chat?

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Let me just ask you. Are you at pressure? In

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under pressure at work? Now? Have you yielded? Let's not

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just stop there. I don't want to get stuck there.

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Have you yielded that pressure to God? Well, you're submitting

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it to God and saying, God, I can't handle this.

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You can. Let me continue. Faithful Christians who maintain integrity

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and joy under pressure are perhaps the most powerful witness

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for Christ in the workplace. For you do all of

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those organizing, all those Bible studies, not saying they're bad.

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I've done it, I've done it. But be cheerful under pressure,

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joyful under pressure. Jesus was at the work bench. I

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want you to research that time of his life when

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he would work and they would put too much on him.

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Inspiration teaches us that he would sing psalms and the people,

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the wicked people who were pressuring him would find themselves

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singing the same thing that he was singing, and don't

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realize when they even started. I wish I had the time.

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The next best move in this regard is to examine

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how you have responded in one recent difficulty at work

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and ask God to help you respond with patience and

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cheerfulness that magnifies Christ in future challenges. Now let's go

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into our teaching directly out of the lesson that was application.

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Now let's teach a little bit less a number one.

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Lesson number one. Paul expected deliverance, and yet his highest

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goal was that Christ would be magnified, whether by life

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or death. In Philippians Chapter one Philippians Chapter one and

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verse twenty, the Bible reads that in nothing I shall

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be ashamed, but that Christ shall be magnified in my body,

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whether it be by life or by death. To magnify

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means to exalt, to make great. So Paul wanted his

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life to exalt God, to exalt Christ with an a

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A ex alt, not ult alt that word, to magnify Christ.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: To make great in the eyes of the people, Your

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God must be great, because I see how you are suffering.

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You're under pressure, and yet you're still joyful. And yet

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somehow you are still staying connected to God, and yet

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you still represent God without fail because God must be great.

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And so the action step is respond only after you

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ask God this question, will this magnify Christ through me?

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My God? Before responding to any challenge? Today, brothers and sisters,

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ask will this magnify Christ through me? There are many

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things that I refrain from doing that I really want

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to react to. I'm talking about nuclear like nuclear reactor style, like,

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there are things that I want to react to. But

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when I ask that question, I'm like, Okay, God, I

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got it. I got the message. Cease and desist, Like,

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do not do that because it does not represent Christ.

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The lesson number two Paul viewed believers as his spiritual

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children and cared for them with deep pastoral love. And

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in First Corinthians, chapter four and verse fifteen, we read

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in Christ, Jesus, I have begotten you through the Gospel.

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Does that not bring a responsibility when they are people

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who are either younger than you in age or younger

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than you in the faith, no matter the age, or

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people like me I'm here. I have this time with

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you every single day and I have for years, and

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even another program we did before this, So it's been

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it's been well over a decade that daily thoughts in

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worship at Message Magazine, we did that every single day,

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and so when I'm doing my life, I'm thinking about you,

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and I'm like, well, how will this impact them? When

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my mommy passed away. When my mother passed away and

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I still had this program, I was thinking about you

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and like, how is this going to impact them? Even

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though I was grieving to the extreme during Hurricane Melissa,

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I'm thinking about you, Like, God, how is this going

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to impact them? We must not miss a beat. You're

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on two hundred radio stations, You're in countries around the world,

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and not to mention the internet. How will this impact them?

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And so this is the care that Paul had, and

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so the action step is to reach out to someone

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you've spiritually influenced and encourage their walk with Christ. I

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hope you're encouraged to walk with Christ because of our

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time here together. I hope that there is somebody on

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this in the chat right now that has been encouraging

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you and you are coming as a result of them

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encouraging you and then you do the same. And we're

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just doing this in concentric circles and welcoming people into

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relationship with God. That's what Paul did, so please do

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that actively and intentionally so Christ will be magnified in

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your life. 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,