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12 30 2025 Paul in Philippi · 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. It is Tuesday, December thirty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 new
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians. I won't say it again. Our caption forour
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  Speaker 2: today is paul In PHILIPI, paul In PHILIPI. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let me just say before I
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  Speaker 2: pray that if the screen is hitching a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: it's because my computer is under pressure right now. It's
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  Speaker 2: doing something else while we are broadcasting here. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: please pardon me if I hitch a little bit. But
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  Speaker 2: we're here. We're here by God's grace. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray. Father, We thank you, Thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: blessing that you are to us. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: learn from the experiences of Brother Paul and to learn
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  Speaker 2: how to connect with you in such a way that
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  Speaker 2: no matter in what situation we find ourselves, we too
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  Speaker 2: will be content and rejoicing in Jesus' name. I pray
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  Speaker 2: a man and a man again, And so we begin
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  Speaker 2: now our first lesson for today by reading from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Acts, the Book of Acts, chapter sixteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse nine. Acts Chapter sixteen and verse nine. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, and a vision appeared to Paul in the
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  Speaker 2: night there stood a man of Macedonia and praying him saying,
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  Speaker 2: come over into Macedonia and help us. We preachers often
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Macedonian call because there are some people
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  Speaker 2: who are out there who really need help for the
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  Speaker 2: word of God, who need a special type of encouragement
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  Speaker 2: because they are wanting to live the life connected with God,
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  Speaker 2: but trials and temptations overwhelmed them, and we need to
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  Speaker 2: be learning like how do we serve in those situations?
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  Speaker 2: And so the word for vision today is or God, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: gave him a vision and appeared unto him is horama,
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  Speaker 2: and it means a vision or a divine revelation. It's simple.
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  Speaker 2: God revealed himself in a way where Paul knew that
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  Speaker 2: there were some people who really needed him. So the
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  Speaker 2: action step really simply today is to ask God to
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  Speaker 2: show you where he wants you to serve today. God
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  Speaker 2: directs his people. God directs his people to places where
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  Speaker 2: the gospel will advance most effectively, Where do you want
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  Speaker 2: me to go? Where thou leadest, I will follow God?
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  Speaker 2: Where are the people most receptive? I remember my wife Simone.
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  Speaker 2: She asked me, how do you know when to stop
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  Speaker 2: helping people? I said, well, I stop helping him when
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  Speaker 2: it's not helpful. It's like what I stop helping when
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  Speaker 2: it's not helpful. See, there are people who have a
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  Speaker 2: habit of rejecting. There are people who have mindsets that
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  Speaker 2: are not receptive to assistance, not ready to yield or
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  Speaker 2: to learn or to receive help in a way where
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  Speaker 2: they are being good stewards of whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: we are sharing. Is it a new mindset, is it
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  Speaker 2: a teaching is it our energy? Who knows what it is?
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  Speaker 2: Financial resources? Whatever it is. And the people, in this
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  Speaker 2: case the Macedonian call, those people were ready. It was
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  Speaker 2: a perfect investment for Paul to direct his attention to
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  Speaker 2: these folks because the revelation of God says these folks
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  Speaker 2: are really ready, and that is a lesson for all
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  Speaker 2: of us. Before I go into my lesson number two,
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  Speaker 2: I would like to read from an article in the
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  Speaker 2: Review in Herald in eighteen sixty the year eighteen sixty,
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  Speaker 2: written by James White, The servants of Christ may meet trials. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: they may meet trials. Yet each trial is but another
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  Speaker 2: step in the path of duty. Yes we will. And
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  Speaker 2: from the book Desire of Ages, page two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. God never leads his children otherwise than they
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  Speaker 2: would choose, if choose to be led, if they could
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  Speaker 2: see the end from the beginning. That's a context for
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  Speaker 2: us as we look at his story. Paul's story in Philippi.
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  Speaker 2: Our lesson number two is God uses strategic locations and
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  Speaker 2: prepared people to expand the mission. Going into verse fourteen
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  Speaker 2: of chapter sixteen of the Book of Acts, and a
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  Speaker 2: certain woman named Lydia. See God is using Lydia right
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  Speaker 2: whose heart the Lord had opened. So God had opened
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  Speaker 2: her heart, much like when Elijah was living on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible says that God prepared a widow for
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  Speaker 2: him in Sidon or Zaidon. That's the same place Jezebel
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  Speaker 2: came from. And then the rest is history. God prepared somebody,
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  Speaker 2: and in this case, God is preparing a woman named
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  Speaker 2: Lydia whose heart the Lord opened, that she attend to
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  Speaker 2: the things which were spoken of Paul. Yeah, he opened
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  Speaker 2: to open fully. That's what the word means dianoigeo, that
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  Speaker 2: is to open fully. God opened up her mind. He
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  Speaker 2: opened up her heart so that she would she would
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  Speaker 2: do she would do what God had said, so the
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  Speaker 2: work and the mission that God had given through the
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  Speaker 2: apostle would move forward. And so the action step for
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  Speaker 2: us in this regard is to pray for God to
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  Speaker 2: open someone's heart through your witness. What is it that
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  Speaker 2: you are doing in the Master's calling? Yeah, How do
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  Speaker 2: you need the people's hearts to open? Like me? I'm
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  Speaker 2: here every single day if the Lord gives me strength
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  Speaker 2: as he has given me strength over many years. We've
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  Speaker 2: been together thousands and thousands of days together consecutively. So
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  Speaker 2: I should be praying for God to open someone's heart
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  Speaker 2: through my witness. And this is not the only way,
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  Speaker 2: but you understand where we're going with this. God opened
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  Speaker 2: their eyes to see you. You promised God that if
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  Speaker 2: we will lift Jesus up, that you would draw people
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  Speaker 2: unto yourself. Would you do it for us? God? Listen?
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  Speaker 2: Number three and final is. Trials are sometimes part of
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  Speaker 2: the assignment God revealed from the beginning. What Yeah, Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the trials are part of the packet because sometimes I'll
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  Speaker 2: just give you an example. Back in the day, God's
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  Speaker 2: people liked to huddle together, huddle together, and they would
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  Speaker 2: not move around the world. Sometime they would just huddle
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  Speaker 2: together too much, and God was like, stop centralizing like that,
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  Speaker 2: hud stop with all the huddling. And we understand in
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  Speaker 2: history that God allowed persecution to hit the church, not
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  Speaker 2: to destroy the church, not to cause the people to
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  Speaker 2: become discouraged, not to harm or in some way imperil
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  Speaker 2: the church. But he allowed some of the persecution to
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  Speaker 2: come in because the persecution and what happened to the
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  Speaker 2: people served as seed for the growth of the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: So it dispersed the gospel. It moved the gospel out
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  Speaker 2: of the little, tiny walls of the the massive edifices
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  Speaker 2: that God's people were keeping, the little communities that only
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  Speaker 2: had like minded people like God wanted to spread beyond
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  Speaker 2: those tiny little walls of structure into all of the world,
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  Speaker 2: and he allowed persecution to cause the necessary spread the advance.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things going on in our world right
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  Speaker 2: now where people are still trying to centralize, still trying
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  Speaker 2: to hold onto the old paradigm, still trying to make
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  Speaker 2: it like it was when they were building temples and
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  Speaker 2: sanctuaries for God to dwell among his people. When God
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  Speaker 2: is saying I need you in small pockets all around
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  Speaker 2: the world, brightening the corner where you are. The people
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  Speaker 2: had to undergo hardship. So commit one difficulty you face
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  Speaker 2: to God and ask Him for the strength to endure
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  Speaker 2: it faithfully and to spread His word wherever you are.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, peace.
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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,