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08 02 2026 Varieties of 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: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, August two,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Varieties of Gifts, Variety
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  Speaker 2: Teas of Gifts. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: for your life. Stop guessing what to do with your life.
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  Speaker 2: This is especially appropriate during this week's study since we
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  Speaker 2: are looking at spiritual gifts from the Bible. This is
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  Speaker 2: the designed to serve assessment that will get you on
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  Speaker 2: the right track. Right now you're wondering, like why am
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  Speaker 2: I this way? How did God call me to go
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  Speaker 2: into the world? And there are some things that you'll
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  Speaker 2: learn about yourself that I've not seen in any other assessment.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I'd say that, but it's true. And please
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pray and get underwear. God, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this new week and for the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: time that you entrusted to us yesterday. Please will you
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  Speaker 2: help us to live according to the gifts that you
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  Speaker 2: have placed in our lives? Please and thanks in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen, Amen, and a man again. Varieties of gifts.
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  Speaker 2: So much to say, so little time for me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: The most important thing is that the Holy Ghost distributes gifts.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that does it. To each believer individually.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking about something collective. He didn't put us
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  Speaker 2: into a bowl, mix us up and say all right,
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  Speaker 2: boom and then just drop something sort of willy nilly
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  Speaker 2: or or random into the bowl and whatever you come
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  Speaker 2: out with. That's what it is. God was very intentional
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  Speaker 2: as he gave you gifts. Every single one is necessary.
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  Speaker 2: I said that yesterday when we were reading from First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twelve and verse twelve. No gift is wasted. So
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna say anymore, I just fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 2: I am just filling the blank. I just do X.
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  Speaker 2: But he does why she does Z. I just because
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  Speaker 2: when you minimize in that way, you hide, you draw
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  Speaker 2: back in that way, you are being disrespectful. I know
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  Speaker 2: some people are like, that's confrontational language, LD I know
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  Speaker 2: it is. Sometimes we have to be confronted with our foolishness.
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  Speaker 2: We are being disrespectful to God and especially through the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost, when we minimize what God has placed in us,
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  Speaker 2: because somehow we have waited these things and we have
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  Speaker 2: decided like what's important and what's less important in all
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. So we're not going to do
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. No gift is wasted, and no believer is
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  Speaker 2: without at least one spiritual gift, and of course we
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  Speaker 2: generally have way more. In First Corinthians, Chapter twelve, verses
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  Speaker 2: four through six, we read, now there are diversities of gifts.
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  Speaker 2: I read this yesterday, but the same spirit and we
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  Speaker 2: are all we have. There are differences in administrations, but
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  Speaker 2: the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations. But
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  Speaker 2: it is the same God, which worketh in all, worketh
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  Speaker 2: in all. I'm going to introduce a word about service.
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  Speaker 2: It's ministry, the work of waiting on others. Paul uses
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  Speaker 2: this word as he is teaching us about spiritual gifts
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  Speaker 2: to show that spiritual gifts are not platforms of prominence.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see this is going? So if you have
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  Speaker 2: this certain spiritual gift, a charismatic gift most of the time,
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  Speaker 2: that's what happens here, a charismatic gift or a gift
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  Speaker 2: of giving financially, then usually people will put you on
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  Speaker 2: a pedestal, a pedestal, and God is saying, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not what the hope, that's not the point. Like
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  Speaker 2: all of the gifts that God gave, he gave for
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  Speaker 2: his purposes, and therefore to Him, they are all mission
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  Speaker 2: critical and there are different results. The Bible teaches us right,
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  Speaker 2: they are assignments for the service of the Body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: for the glory of God. And so God is the
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  Speaker 2: source of every gift, every ministry, every activity in his body.
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  Speaker 2: What looks like human diversity in the church is actually
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  Speaker 2: the work of the Father Son and Holy Spirit moving
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  Speaker 2: through many different life lives toward one unified purpose. So
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  Speaker 2: when you think of spiritual gifts, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: think of the unity of the Father Son and the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. When you think of spiritual gifts, I want
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  Speaker 2: you to think of the many, many in the retinue
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  Speaker 2: of angels that God created. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: millions or billions. I don't know what the number of
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  Speaker 2: angels is, but there's a whole lot of them. And
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  Speaker 2: God has given those angels charge over us to what
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  Speaker 2: keep us in all our ways less at any time
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  Speaker 2: we dash our foot against the stone. These angels that
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  Speaker 2: excel in strength are also a manifestation of the diversity
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  Speaker 2: that God has placed out there as he created beings
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  Speaker 2: so that He gets glory and the world and the
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  Speaker 2: people of God can be edified. And so we ask
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  Speaker 2: God today to help us to see our gifts as something,
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  Speaker 2: not as something I possess, but as something He is
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  Speaker 2: working through me for the sake of others.
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  Speaker 1: M h.
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  Speaker 2: And again I'm gonna keep pumping this up. I need
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  Speaker 2: you to take the assessment at your Daily portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It's the design to Serve assessment. Take that assessment, and
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  Speaker 2: I promise you, if you pray over it, You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: learn some new things about you and how God has
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  Speaker 2: called you to go into this world for His glory. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so now we go into verse three of First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twelve for our second lesson. Wherefore I give you
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  Speaker 2: to understand that no man, speaking by the spirit of
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  Speaker 2: God calleth Jesus a cursed and that no man can
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  Speaker 2: say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy ghost hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And so God is the one that reveals who, in
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  Speaker 2: fact Jesus is. And of course we know that this
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  Speaker 2: lord that is being spoken of here in the Greek
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  Speaker 2: is curios and that means master, sovereign ruler. Jesus is master.
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  Speaker 2: He is sovereign ruler. In the Roman world, this title
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  Speaker 2: belonged to the Caesar. Right for a believer to say
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is Lord was costly, spirit given. It was
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  Speaker 2: a declaration that placed Jesus above even every earthly ruler.
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  Speaker 2: So in certain dispensations listen, it was it was risky
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  Speaker 2: to say that Jesus Christ is lord. Remember when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was on the cross, they they put over his head
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  Speaker 2: a superscription Jesus the King of the Jews. They were
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  Speaker 2: they were trying to pit him against the Caesar, even
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  Speaker 2: though Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world.
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  Speaker 2: If it were of this world, then would my servants fight,
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  Speaker 2: and so and so it was costly to declare in
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  Speaker 2: my life in twenty twenty six, it pays rich dividends.
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  Speaker 2: But it is also costly to declare that Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: is Lord, because that means I'm turning away from every
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  Speaker 2: earthly paradigm that steps into the way of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson is the most basic gift of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit of God is faith, the ability to confess
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  Speaker 2: Jesus as Lord when the world demands a different kind
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  Speaker 2: of loyalty. Every other gift flows from this foundation. And
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  Speaker 2: so we're asking God to help us to declare that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is Lord today in my life, in specific situations
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  Speaker 2: where loyalty is competing in a place in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,