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08 01 2026 Spiritual Gifts · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and Happy Sabbath at Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: August one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host in this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion, where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Spiritual Gifts. Spiritual Gift.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, i'd like to welcome you
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  Speaker 2: to your Daily Portion dot com. The one thing I
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  Speaker 2: am focusing on this week is for you to stop
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  Speaker 2: guessing what to do with your life. There's a button
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  Speaker 2: there click here to discover God's design for your life.
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  Speaker 2: And that is appropriate, especially this week talking about spiritual gifts,
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  Speaker 2: because I've worked on this for a couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: well after twenty years of consideration and training and that
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  Speaker 2: kind of a thing. And finally, finally we have an
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  Speaker 2: assessment in house that is more than an assessment. It's
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  Speaker 2: really a blueprint. It's designed to serve. It's the designed
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  Speaker 2: to serve blueprint. Okay, And so please please go there
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  Speaker 2: so you can get with God and say, God, why
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  Speaker 2: have you made me this way? What have you called
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  Speaker 2: me to do? And when you have an opportunity, please
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  Speaker 2: please also make a contribution to your daily portion ministries
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  Speaker 2: because we our listener and viewer supported. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then we will get underwighing. Father in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us the Sabbath morning and for
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  Speaker 2: designing us to serve you in a particular way. God,
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  Speaker 2: will you please show us who we are. Please drive
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  Speaker 2: as many people to this design to serve assessments so
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  Speaker 2: people can get connected with you and get about the
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  Speaker 2: work that you created them to do. Father, today, give
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  Speaker 2: us your wisdom, get glory in our lives. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen, Amen, and a men again. Spiritual gifts,
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  Speaker 2: spiritual gifts, and listen. I don't want people to get
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  Speaker 2: mixed up and put this together with talents, okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so in the Bible, talents is not what you think
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  Speaker 2: it is. Talents was about money, That's what it was,
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  Speaker 2: right and what we use in our modern language talents.
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  Speaker 2: Those are things that we're just born with, okay. And
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  Speaker 2: if I had to oversimplify, spiritual gifts are what God
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  Speaker 2: has given us to glorify Him and to edify other people,
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  Speaker 2: I'm oversimplifying building up the Kingdom of God to glorify
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  Speaker 2: Him and to edify others. And I'm speaking of this spiritually.
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  Speaker 2: So the most important thing for me this morning is
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  Speaker 2: that God did not give spiritual gifts to divide the church. Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Let that settle in the radio has not lost its signal.
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  Speaker 2: The reason God gave us spiritual gifts was not so
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  Speaker 2: that you could look at my gifts and say, oh
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  Speaker 2: my goodness feel in the blank positive or oh my
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  Speaker 2: goodness feeling the blank negative. Nope, it's not for me
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  Speaker 2: to look at you and then begin to disqualify myself
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  Speaker 2: and I say, I wish I had the gifts that
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  Speaker 2: she had. It's not for that. But He gave us
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  Speaker 2: spiritual gifts to build his faith, fellowship, his community, his church,
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  Speaker 2: his body up. Every gift finds its purpose and love,
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  Speaker 2: and the goal is unity. And so we begin our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson from First Corinthians, Chapter twelve, verses four through six,
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  Speaker 2: type of one in the chat. If you've taken my
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  Speaker 2: designed to serve assessment, yet the your daily portion designed
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  Speaker 2: to serve assessment type of one in the chat. If
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  Speaker 2: you've already done so, okay, let's continue. Let's continue. Now.
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  Speaker 2: There are diversities of gifts. That means many different gifts,
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  Speaker 2: but the same spirit, which spirit, the Holy Spirit. And
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  Speaker 2: there are differences in administrations, that is how God puts
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  Speaker 2: that into his body and then out into the world,
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  Speaker 2: But the same Lord. There are diversities of operations, but
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  Speaker 2: it is the same God which worketh all in all.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we look at the gift, the gift charisma,
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  Speaker 2: it's a gift of grace, a divine endowment God is
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  Speaker 2: giving us freely. Every spiritual gift traces back to the
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  Speaker 2: same source, the triun God, God, our Father, God, the
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  Speaker 2: Son and God, the Holy Ghost. And every gift is
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  Speaker 2: given for the benefit of the entire body, not for
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  Speaker 2: the elevation of the individual. Can I just say that
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  Speaker 2: that is built into the definition of the term. Can
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  Speaker 2: you understand this, It says, not for the elevation of
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  Speaker 2: the individual. So there are some things that you do
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  Speaker 2: very well because God made you this way. Some things
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  Speaker 2: you do very well because under the Holy Ghost you
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  Speaker 2: are have been excuse me, developing in those key areas,
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  Speaker 2: but it has never been to elevate you. And so
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  Speaker 2: our listen is the diversity of gifts within God's body
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  Speaker 2: is not a problem to be managed. It is a
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  Speaker 2: reflection of God himself. And when I say this, I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Father, the Son,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost and the Father. The Father, the Son,
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  Speaker 2: and the Holy Ghost, all three the unified ones who
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  Speaker 2: are divine and eternal. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: work in perfect unity through different expressions, and the Church,
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  Speaker 2: the people of God, are designed to mirror that unity.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see what's happening here? There is no division
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  Speaker 2: in God. There is no division in God. The Son
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  Speaker 2: isn't crying about why did you? Why do I have
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  Speaker 2: to be the one to go down there and save
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  Speaker 2: the people. The Holy Spirit is not talking about, well,
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  Speaker 2: why do I have to be the one to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that the people know whatsoever Jesus commanded? Other's not
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  Speaker 2: saying why couldn't I be the one on the cross
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  Speaker 2: dying to save the people from their sins. They are
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  Speaker 2: all together, all eternal, all completely and self existently powerful.
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  Speaker 2: I just kind of made it up the way I
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  Speaker 2: said it. But they are self existent and eternal and
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  Speaker 2: independently powerful. And yet the three who are one are
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  Speaker 2: here in many ways so that you can be saved,
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  Speaker 2: and we get to mirror that unity. And so what
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  Speaker 2: do we do? We thank God today for the specific
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  Speaker 2: gift or gifts that God has placed in us and
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  Speaker 2: ask him to show you the way to use it
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  Speaker 2: this week for the benefit of someone else in the body.
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  Speaker 2: So in about seventeen minutes, I need to see these
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  Speaker 2: assessments coming through, coming through at rapid pace, because you
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  Speaker 2: are seeking, you are praying, you are asking God, like,
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  Speaker 2: what have you called me to do? Our second lesson
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  Speaker 2: is coming in from verse twelve First Corinthians, Chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, for as the body is one and
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  Speaker 2: hath many members, and all the members of the body
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  Speaker 2: being many are one body, so also is Christ. So
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  Speaker 2: Paul is teaching us that the human body is the
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  Speaker 2: divine defining excuse me, image of the church. One organism,
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  Speaker 2: many parts, every one of them essential, none of them
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  Speaker 2: are expendable, all dependent on others to function as God designed.
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson is that no member of the
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  Speaker 2: body can say to the other one like the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that I don't need you, No member of the body,
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  Speaker 2: just like the Bible says, can say, well, y'all don't
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  Speaker 2: need me because I only I just The gift you
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  Speaker 2: carry is not complete without the gift your brother or
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  Speaker 2: sister carries. Hunity is not the same as uniformity. God
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  Speaker 2: is not saying that we are to walk and talk
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  Speaker 2: the same way. It is not about that. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: it's interdependence. It's interdependence where we all depend upon God
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  Speaker 2: and together we depend on one another in order to
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  Speaker 2: give Him glory in the earth. And I'm so grateful,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so grateful. So much more we could say, when
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  Speaker 2: you have an opportunity, go into the Bible Book of Ephesians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and read eleven and twelve and see what
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  Speaker 2: God has to say there. Make it a great day peace.
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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,