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 Monday, January nineteen,
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 Lesson
study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is the Source of you Unity. Really,
this should only take us about ten seconds, but well
we'll invest the entire time together the Source of Unity.
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
we thank you, Thank you for giving us the opportunity
to do your will, help us to be unified in
the spirit. In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a
men again. I did say very quickly in the beginning
that this should only take us ten minutes, Like what's
the source of unity? The Holy Spirit? All right, we
can credits and be done with this program today, because
you know, sometimes I think people take the Holy Spirit
for granted and make it seem as if we can manufacture,
manufacture the kind of unity that pleases God. That is
the caveat, Like that is the qualifier, the kind of
unity that pleases God, that is what we're after. Like
we take it for granted sometimes because the people at
the Tower of Babel were unified. They're people who've done
all kinds of heinous acts around the world, and even
in twenty twenty six, still continue to do all kinds
of heinous acts that are unified. But so we're not
talking about humility unity in a vacuum. We're talking about
the kind of unity that comes through and by the
power of the Holy Ghost. So can we just be
clear there and stop taking these things for granted. What
I'd like to do is go ahead and jump in
with a quote, a quote that is coming in from
way back when a teen fifty one Joseph Bates, true
humility binds believers together. Pride scatters them, Pause for just
a moment. True humility binds believers together. So even Joseph
Bates way back when was giving a caveat two, true humility. Okay,
pride scatters them. Guess what the spirit of Christ alone
brings that unity which Heaven approves. You see what I mean. Like, so,
he wasn't taking it for granted when he was writing
back then that we're just talking about unity, and everybody
jumps up and says hip it parae. Somebody says, hey man,
everybody plays the music and rolls credit. It's like, no,
there's a kind of unity that puts us at odds
with God. There are people who hate God who were
unified in their hatred, so we get again. I'm not
taking it for granted. You can if you choose, but
I would advise against it. We're talking about the kind
of unity that Heaven approves, and therefore our lesson number
one comes in from Philippians, chapter two and verse three.
This is something about what it looks like. This is
somehow it looks In the Bible, it reads, let nothing
be done with strife or motivated by self ambition with okay,
so let nothing be done through strife or vain glory,
But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem other better
than themselves. Let me read it in the New English translation.
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each
of you should, in humility be moved to treat one
another as if more important than yourselves. Oh mind, oh mind,
humility of mind, lowliness of attitude. This is one of
the markers of the kind of humility that God approves.
And so the action step here is to practice this humility.
Having submitted our will to God over and over every
single day, we continue to submit our will to God.
Practice humility by choosing to listen fully before responding to someone. Today,
one of the things that really really burns my candle.
I promise you it burns my candle that when I
am processing, because I am analytical, it takes me time.
I speak quickly to you all because I've planned everything.
I know exactly around about what I'm going to talk about.
I know how long it should take. I've planned it out.
But if we're having an impromptu discussion or an extemporaneous situation,
it takes me time to process because I'm an analytical person,
and it burns my candle when people interrupt, I'm like, bro,
can you give me a second to finish? Like, help
me with allowing me to process my thoughts before I
blurt them out. I'm not so fast at blurting out
out my thoughts, and so I want you to practice
humility even though even though you think the person may
be too slow. Maybe you think you know the answer already.
Maybe you think you've heard enough already. I get it, Like,
but practice humility by choosing to listen fully before responding
to someone today. Listen Number two. Unity grows when believers
intentionally look out for the needs of others Verse four Philippians,
Chapter two. Look not every man on his own things
but every man also on the things of others. Let
me read it another way. Each one of you should
be concerned not only about your own interests, but the
interests of others as well. Look beyond yourself, and I
guess we can just go ahead and jump right in
right there. The action step is identify one person's need
today and take one practical step to support them. Sometimes
you have to do like on an airplane where it says,
the unlikely event that this cabin should lose pressure, there's
going to be a thing to drop out from the top.
It's going to be where you get your oxygen from.
Put it over your nose and mouth and breathe freely,
even though it won't inflate. I want you to breathe
freely before you try to help other people. That's the
problem sometimes with Christianize speaking people. Sometimes we will go
without enough oxygen, we will go without enough energy, we
will go without being fully connected with God. And God
is saying, no, I want you to breathe freely of me.
I want you to be inspired by Me to the
degree that you can go out now and be of
service to someone else, to be helpful to them. Then
you can identify that person's need under the Holy Spirit,
and then make practical steps towards supporting them, not just
saying I'll pray for you, brother, even though you should pray,
but there are times that I will pray for you, brother,
I will pray for you sister. Means God, what do
I need to do for the brother or sister? What
do I need to do for them that they are
not able in this moment to do for themselves? Lesson
number three and final, unity is maintained through the Holy
Ghost who calms conflict and aligns hearts to Christ. Ephesian
chapter four and verse three, the Bible reads endeavoring to
keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
what peace, making every effort to keep the unity of
the Holy Ghost and the bond of peace. Some of
you are too quick to let go of the bond
of peace. Sometimes people are too quick to remove that unity.
And so I am saying, based on this scripture, that
we need to lay hold of that which ties and
binds and holds us together spiritually. What is it that
you want for us to do? God? That's through prayer,
ah being on the lookout for when God answers yes,
being humble enough to say, Okay, well that wasn't really
according to my will, but I see that it's according
to God's will, and so okay, God, let me do
what you have called us to called me to do
in this reality. And so the action step in this
case is to pray specifically for the Holy Ghost to
bring peace into one strained relationship in your life. And
even if it's not a relationship between you and someone else,
you may be a spiritual crime interrupter. Maybe in your
faith fellowship you are espousing Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the children of God. And you
are interrupting spiritual crimes in your church, whatever it is.
Ask God to show you how to be a peacemaker.
Make it a great day, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,