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04 23 2024 Courage to Stand · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect 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 going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good
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  morning. It is Tuesday, April twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion 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 study series the Great
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  Controversy. Our caption for today is Courage to Stand. Courage to Stand.
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  We'll get into that in just the moment, but first I'd like to say
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  welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot
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  com, join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion dot Com,
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  pick up your Daily Portion book. Excuse me, and also let us
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  know where you are in the world at your daily portion dot com. This
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  is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underwig bather and Heaven. Thank you
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  for giving us this day and our daily bread. Please Lord, help us
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  to eat freely from your table and not waste our food or energy on things
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  that don't matter, but to please be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
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  In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Courage to
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  stand. God wants us to stand up, stand up for Jesus. Remember
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  that song when we were young, Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
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  Ye, soldiers of the Cross. That's what God wants us. He wants
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  us to hold up the royal banner. We shall not suffer loss. I
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  love that song. I love that song. What great memories. Let's go
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  ahead and begin our discussion with a question. Do you lack courage? Like?
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  Are you fearful in these days? And I know I keep saying in
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  the last days, in the last days, because really and truly we are
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  living at the edge of time. Brothers and sisters, Jesus is coming soon.
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  Are you standing in a position where you are faithful or are you fearful?
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  Are you faithful or are you fearful? Remember when Adam sinned? The
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  Bible says that God came into the garden as usual, and the Bible says
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  that he, as Adam heard the voice of God walking in the garden,
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  he was hiding. Adam said, God said, where are you? And
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  Adam said, I was hiding. I'm naked. I hid myself. I'm
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  fearful. Why, like, who told you you were naked? Adam?
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  Did you eat of the fruit that I commanded that you should not eat of?
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  And he said well, And of course then Adam starts to blame Eve,
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  and then the story just goes crazy after that. But God wants us
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  not to be fearful and hiding in the last days. No, he wants
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  us to be courageous and stand stand as faithful people who are still in right
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  relationship with God. So we don't need to hide in the bushes. We
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  do not have to blame anybody for what we have done or not done.
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  But we can say God, thank you for being so faithful to me,
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  and then live in a right relationship with him. And so that is why
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  we begin now our discussion in the Book of Acts, the Book of Acts,
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  chapter five, and I will read beginning at verse twenty eight. Now,
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  the people of God, a few of God's men were having a little
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  challenge, and I'm really understating it. They were having a challenge because they
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  were doing exactly what God said, but the people around them persecuting them for
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  that purpose. And so the Bible says here we gave you strict orders not
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  to teach in this name, speaking about Jesus. You were not supposed to
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  teach in Jesus' name. Look out, look, you have filled Jerusalem with
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  your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood on us. But
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  Peter and the apostles replied, we must obey God rather than people. You
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  have that kind of faith that no matter what is going on around you,
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  you would obey God rather than people. Yes or yes Verse thirty. The
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  God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging
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  him on a tree. God exalted him to his right hand as leader and
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  savior to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. So God did not
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  will not hold any sin against anyone that we confess. That is agreement with
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  God. Confession and holiness, that is agreement with God that if we confess
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  our sins, he will not hold it against us. But the people that
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  did not love God at that moment, even though they said that they were
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  God's people, were still indicting the apostles as if the apostles were charging them
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  with a crime that they didn't do, and they felt they felt guilty,
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  they felt guilty. And so now they're faced with the decision, are they
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  going to repent, turn away from their sin and their guilty thoughts and feelings,
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  and then just come into rite connection with God right so that the same
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  Savior that they don't love can forgive them because look at it. Look at
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  it. It says here that He was giving repentance to his people and forgiveness
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  of sins. Or are they going to continue with their dogged foolishness and decide
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  to continue to walk away from God Verse thirty two. And we are witnesses
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  of these events. So is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to
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  those who obey him. You see, the question really is who is our
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  enemy in these circumstances when human beings are so vehement and against you and God,
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  who is our real enemy. The Bible says here in the Book of
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  Ephesians, chapter six, beginning at verse ten, Finally, my brethren,
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  be strong in the Lord, and then the power of his might, put
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  on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against
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  the wiles of the devil who is our enemy. Brother Paul Well, he
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  says, for we wrestled not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
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  against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
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  wickedness and high places. And so God has given us the antidote, like
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  he told us that we Since our enemy is supernatural and spiritual, then the
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  weapons of our warfare are also spiritual. They are not carnal, they are
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  not martial arts. They are not Brazilian jiu jitsu. They are not boxing,
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  they are not self defense kravma. God, they are not target practice
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  with your firearm license firearm. None of the actual enemy that has against our
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  soul cannot be beaten by those earthly implements of war. God is saying that
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  our enemy is spiritual, and therefore we yield ourselves to the Father of spirituality.
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  That is God our Father. In fact, in fact, in Revelation
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  chapter three, the Bible says, behold, I come quickly verse eleven.
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  Hold that fast that thou hast that no man take thy crown. So do
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  not allow humans to get in the way. Do not allow those principalities and
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  powers and rulers of the darkness of this world, the spiritual wickedness and high
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  places, to get in your way. Yield your will to God because verse
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  twelve, to those who overcome, will I make a pillar in the temple
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  of my God. He shall go no more out. And I will write
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  upon that person the name of my God and the name of the city of
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  my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from
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  my God. And I will write upon that person my new name. He
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  that hath an ear, let him hear the spirit saith unto the churches.
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  So this is a promise to all of us. And if we will just
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  be faithful, and I said, just be faithful, if we will allow
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  God to put in our bosom the courage to stand, come, what may
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  in these last days, when people want you to steal in order to get
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  notoriety, When people want you to become an influencer in social media or on
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  YouTube with things that do not please God. Ah, when people are asking
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  you and showing you that they want you to go against the guidance that God
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  has given us in the scriptures regarding worship and commitment to God, he wants
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  us to standgeously. He wants us to stand courageously. Here are a couple
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  of things that you can consider as we come to a swift close. Emphasize
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  God's authority over human commands. God's authority, and then strengthen your spiritual resolve
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  to live according to God's principle. Engage in spiritual warfare wisely. Remember we're
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  not going in there to fight a human war, an earthly war. We
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  are in a fight of our lives, eternal lives. That means that the
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  captain of our soul is the chief who will vanquish our foe. That we
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  need to yield our will to God so he can do it in our lives.
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  A wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David
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  Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,