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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 Monday, January nineteen,

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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 Lesson

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study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is the Source of you Unity. Really,

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this should only take us about ten seconds, but well

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we'll invest the entire time together the Source of Unity.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to just say

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welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for

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the very first time. I'm asking you to go over

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and

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Please click that donation button as well at your Daily

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Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that

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

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we thank you, Thank you for giving us the opportunity

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to do your will, help us to be unified in

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the spirit. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a

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men again. I did say very quickly in the beginning

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that this should only take us ten minutes, Like what's

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the source of unity? The Holy Spirit? All right, we

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can credits and be done with this program today, because

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you know, sometimes I think people take the Holy Spirit

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for granted and make it seem as if we can manufacture,

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manufacture the kind of unity that pleases God. That is

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the caveat, Like that is the qualifier, the kind of

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unity that pleases God, that is what we're after. Like

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we take it for granted sometimes because the people at

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the Tower of Babel were unified. They're people who've done

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all kinds of heinous acts around the world, and even

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in twenty twenty six, still continue to do all kinds

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of heinous acts that are unified. But so we're not

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talking about humility unity in a vacuum. We're talking about

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the kind of unity that comes through and by the

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power of the Holy Ghost. So can we just be

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clear there and stop taking these things for granted. What

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I'd like to do is go ahead and jump in

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with a quote, a quote that is coming in from

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way back when a teen fifty one Joseph Bates, true

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humility binds believers together. Pride scatters them, Pause for just

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a moment. True humility binds believers together. So even Joseph

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Bates way back when was giving a caveat two, true humility. Okay,

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pride scatters them. Guess what the spirit of Christ alone

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brings that unity which Heaven approves. You see what I mean. Like, so,

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he wasn't taking it for granted when he was writing

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back then that we're just talking about unity, and everybody

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jumps up and says hip it parae. Somebody says, hey man,

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everybody plays the music and rolls credit. It's like, no,

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there's a kind of unity that puts us at odds

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with God. There are people who hate God who were

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unified in their hatred, so we get again. I'm not

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taking it for granted. You can if you choose, but

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I would advise against it. We're talking about the kind

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of unity that Heaven approves, and therefore our lesson number

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one comes in from Philippians, chapter two and verse three.

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This is something about what it looks like. This is

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somehow it looks In the Bible, it reads, let nothing

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be done with strife or motivated by self ambition with okay,

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so let nothing be done through strife or vain glory,

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But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better

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than themselves. Let me read it in the New English translation.

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Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each

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of you should, in humility be moved to treat one

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another as if more important than yourselves. Oh mind, oh mind,

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humility of mind, lowliness of attitude. This is one of

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the markers of the kind of humility that God approves.

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And so the action step here is to practice this humility.

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Having submitted our will to God over and over every

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single day, we continue to submit our will to God.

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Practice humility by choosing to listen fully before responding to someone. Today,

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one of the things that really really burns my candle.

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I promise you it burns my candle that when I

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am processing, because I am analytical, it takes me time.

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I speak quickly to you all because I've planned everything.

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I know exactly around about what I'm going to talk about.

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I know how long it should take. I've planned it out.

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But if we're having an impromptu discussion or an extemporaneous situation,

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it takes me time to process because I'm an analytical person,

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and it burns my candle when people interrupt, I'm like, bro,

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can you give me a second to finish? Like, help

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me with allowing me to process my thoughts before I

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blurt them out. I'm not so fast at blurting out

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out my thoughts, and so I want you to practice

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humility even though even though you think the person may

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be too slow. Maybe you think you know the answer already.

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Maybe you think you've heard enough already. I get it, Like,

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but practice humility by choosing to listen fully before responding

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to someone today. Listen Number two. Unity grows when believers

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intentionally look out for the needs of others Verse four Philippians,

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Chapter two. Look not every man on his own things

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but every man also on the things of others. Let

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me read it another way. Each one of you should

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be concerned not only about your own interests, but the

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interests of others as well. Look beyond yourself, and I

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guess we can just go ahead and jump right in

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right there. The action step is identify one person's need

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today and take one practical step to support them. Sometimes

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you have to do like on an airplane where it says,

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the unlikely event that this cabin should lose pressure, there's

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going to be a thing to drop out from the top.

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It's going to be where you get your oxygen from.

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Put it over your nose and mouth and breathe freely,

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even though it won't inflate. I want you to breathe

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freely before you try to help other people. That's the

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problem sometimes with Christianize speaking people. Sometimes we will go

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without enough oxygen, we will go without enough energy, we

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will go without being fully connected with God. And God

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is saying, no, I want you to breathe freely of me.

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I want you to be inspired by Me to the

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degree that you can go out now and be of

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service to someone else, to be helpful to them. Then

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you can identify that person's need under the Holy Spirit,

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and then make practical steps towards supporting them, not just

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saying I'll pray for you, brother, even though you should pray,

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but there are times that I will pray for you, brother,

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I will pray for you sister. Means God, what do

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I need to do for the brother or sister? What

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do I need to do for them that they are

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not able in this moment to do for themselves? Lesson

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number three and final, unity is maintained through the Holy

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Ghost who calms conflict and aligns hearts to Christ. Ephesian

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chapter four and verse three, the Bible reads endeavoring to

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keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of

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what peace, making every effort to keep the unity of

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the Holy Ghost and the bond of peace. Some of

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you are too quick to let go of the bond

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of peace. Sometimes people are too quick to remove that unity.

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And so I am saying, based on this scripture, that

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we need to lay hold of that which ties and

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binds and holds us together spiritually. What is it that

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you want for us to do? God? That's through prayer,

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ah being on the lookout for when God answers yes,

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being humble enough to say, Okay, well that wasn't really

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according to my will, but I see that it's according

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to God's will, and so okay, God, let me do

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what you have called us to called me to do

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in this reality. And so the action step in this

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case is to pray specifically for the Holy Ghost to

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bring peace into one strained relationship in your life. And

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even if it's not a relationship between you and someone else,

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you may be a spiritual crime interrupter. Maybe in your

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faith fellowship you are espousing Blessed are the peacemakers, for

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they shall be called the children of God. And you

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are interrupting spiritual crimes in your church, whatever it is.

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Ask God to show you how to be a peacemaker.

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Make it a great day, Peace. 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,