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12 08 2023 God Confidence · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It
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  is Friday, December eight, twenty twenty three. Hello, my name is
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  El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  where we give you guns word every single day and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission, my mission,
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  and our caption for today is God Confidence, God Confidence. We'll get in
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  to that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  you and happy happy preparation day. I hope that you are doing well.
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  I know that you are all over the world, and that's a blessing because
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  Jesus said He's coming back. After this gospel is spread into all the world
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  for a witness the Gospel of the Kingdom, like we need to have this
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  done, Like, let's get this done so that Jesus can come. I'm
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  tired of being down here. I live somewhere very beautiful, and you some
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  of you do too. But that, besides, that is besides the point,
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  beside the point. I don't want to be down here like this.
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  I want to go to heaven for a thousand years like God said, and
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  after that, I want to live on this planet the way He intended for
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  it to be. But before I get too far off into that, let
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  me just say welcome to you and ask you to go to your Daily Portion
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  dot com. Look on there. You'll see what I'm asking you to do
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  there and we can continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  pray and then we will get Underwe Father, thank you for giving us your
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  spirit. Please give us confidence in you in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. Yeah. So, one of my friends, his
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  name is Winston. He said that God that people can can effect the two
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  extremes without God, the two extremes, whatever the two extremes are. But
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  in order to find balance, we need the Holy Ghost. So some people
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  are overly confident. That's an extreme. When I say confident, I mean
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  self confident, overly confident in self and your capability. And you're like,
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  Dave, you're trying to give me a complex, Dave, is it that
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  you have a small mindset? No, if you really knew me how,
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  you wouldn't even ask that question. Ah. But if we have too much
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  confidence in ourselves, or we lack confidence all together, and we feel like
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  we can't do anything right, or we're fearful of every little thing. It's
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  always something you're afraid of. You're afraid of success, You're afraid of failure,
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  afraid of what people will say, You're afraid of who knows what else?
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  What if I don't get another opportunity? What if I get hit by
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  a truck? And I'm not making this stuff up, Like this is stuff
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  that I encounter with people all the time. I coach people every single day
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  of my life, well six days a week and multiple times sometimes in a
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  day, and I encounter this. So what God wants us to do is
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  to place our trust in Him. That is to say, have balance,
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  have a lot, a lot a lot of confidence in God. Put your
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  trust in God. Let's read now from the book The Acts of the Apostles,
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  pages two hundred forty and two hundred forty one. We'll get into that
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  now. The words of the Apostle and the description of his attitude and surroundings,
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  as traced by the pen of Inspi, were handed down to all coming
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  generations, bearing witness of his unshaken confidence, his courage and loneliness, and
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  adversity, and the victory he gained for Christianity in the very heart of paganism.
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  Paul's words contain a treasure of knowledge for God's people. He was in
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  a position where he might easily have said that which would have irritated his proud
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  listeners and brought himself into difficulty. Had his oration been a direct attack upon
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  their gods and the great men of the city, he would have been in
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  danger of meeting the fate of Socrates. But in with tact born of divine
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  love, he carefully drew their minds away from heathen deities by revealing to them
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  the true God who was to them unknown. You see self confidence says just
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  fire shots on the lie. You see the lie. Shoot at the lie.
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  You see the lie blow up the lie. You see the lie fill
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  in the blank, just hit it dead on, and it's like, wait
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  a minute, now, it is not necessary to irritate your listeners at all
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  times. Like there are times that because God gives us the power of His
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  Holy Spirit and gives us wisdom, that we are to handle certain situations with
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  kid gloves. Why because we're fearful. No no, no, no no.
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  Our confidence is in God. Ah. We are trying to position people
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  to hear the message my friend Darryl Davis. Darryl Davis taught me many years
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  ago because of where I come from and the way that I used to communicate,
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  because it's a harsh environment. I wasn't born harsh. I'm not naturally
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  harsh. I'm really peaceful. I'm a peacemaker. I don't want any controversy.
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  I don't like controversy. But because of my socialization, there are times
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  that I would just shoot messages straight at the target, bang and say things
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  and people couldn't process it. And I would say, well, what can
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  you What do you not understand about what I said? And it's harsh and
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  it's bold and it's forward, right and what he said was speak so you
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  can be heard, Dave, not just for the sake of speaking. And
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  I said, wait a minute, and he said, your way of doing
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  things, how's that been working for you. You need to speak so you
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  can be heard, not just for speaking sake. And I'm like, okay,
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  I got it. And from that day on, I have not had
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  the challenges that I used to have where communication is concerned. Yeah, things
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  can be mixed up, things can be misunderstood. I got it. But
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  God taught me through Darryl's insightful words, speak so you can be heard.
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  And Paul spoke so he could be heard. Ah. It was born of
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  divine love, and he carefully drew their minds away from those false gods by
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  revealing to them the true God who was to them unknown. What an incredible
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  experience. So here are a few things that we need to keep in mind.
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  One cultural sensitivity. It is not that we will bow and say that
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  it is okay to sin because in the particular culture, then that activity of
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  sin is acceptable. That's not it, that's not it. Paul's approach exemplified
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  that he respected the cultures and culture and belief of his audience, not that
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  he agreed, not that he acquiesced, but that he respected them enough and
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  what God wanted to do in them that he did not unnecessarily notice that word
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  necessarily ruffle feathers. Again, common ground. We talked about this the other
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  day. He also sought common ground, like he could agree with what was
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  true. What was true is that there was one of the so called deities
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  that they worshiped that said that was dedicated this space was dedicated to the quote
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  unknown God. So he could agree that they had one space for the God
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  for something they didn't understand. And it's like, okay, well let's use
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  that. So you worship, I worship, you worship God's I worship God.
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  Oh, here's one that is not familiar to you. I worship the
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  one True and Living God. Let's insert here. So common ground was very
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  very important when he was having this discussion, uh, in terms of faith.
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  And then I want you to think about explaining yourselves, explaining the truth
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  of God's word, the truth about things that lead and tend toward God patiently.
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  Patiently. Some preachers, teachers, people who give testimonies, people with
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  whom you work who are supposed to be believers, are so irritable, always
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  arguing and fighting on social media, always arguing and fighting on the bus or
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  at work about some point of Bible teaching. That's called doctrine. All Bible
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  teaching is called doctrine. I wish I had the time, And God is
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  saying, where are you getting this irritable spirit? That is not the way
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  that I taught you? So patiently explain hah, with meekness and with fear,
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  and of course, of course there must be integrity in the message.
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  Whatever you are sharing, there must be honesty and reverence and integrity in it,
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  because That's God's way. God confidence is what we need. Thanks for
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  joining us listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,