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06 21 2024 Prepared · 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
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Friday, June twenty one, twenty twenty four. My name
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  is El David Harris. I am your noisy host. I thought mute,
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  Mike was muted. I apologize. And this is your Daily Portion where we
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  give you God's word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  are continuing in our lesson study series the Great Controversy for just over a week
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  now, and our caption tea on this preparation day is prepared prepared. That
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  is our caption for today. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, join our
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  coaching program, let us know where you are in the world. And this
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  is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. We have said
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  so much over the last twelve solid weeks. Today we're going to talk about
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  preparation, and yeah, let's go ahead and pray first, and then we
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  will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  to be prepared, to be able to know that we are in connection with
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  you, knowing that whatever happens in the final moments of the last days are
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  what you've already told us would happened, and our preparatory for us to be
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  in the Kingdom with you and with you wherever you are for the rest of
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  eternity. Maybe that's not even a good way of saying it throughout the ceaseless
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  ages of eternity. Please make us holy in Jesus' name. I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. I am fascinated, but not in the not for
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  the reason that some might hear why I'm saying. I'm not saying something that
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  you might be thinking. I am fascinated by preppers. Preppers. I'm talking
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  about people who buy large properties and dig giant holes in the ground and create
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  bunkers and have all kinds of survival style preparations, basically partially because some things
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  happen way back in the day where people needed bomb shelters, or some people
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  are paranoid. Some people think that armageddon is something that you can prepare for
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  on planet Earth, and then when you know a lot of people are just
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  gone all of a sudden, then they can come out of their bunkers and
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  be prepared. And I know I may be given preppers a bad rap,
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  respect I'm just saying I want to be prepared for the coming of the Lord,
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  because it's not going to be that all of the food on planet Earth
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  will go away. It's not going to be that all of the water or
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  a lot of the powdable water supply is going to be somehow tainted. And
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  then where those who are prepared will be safe and those who are not won't
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  be It's not going to be some strange kind of takeover with wicked people who
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  are taking over the world and you who are able to prepare yourselves with let's
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  call it protection. Because I think the social media platforms are really interesting these
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  days. Looking for certain words but you if you protect yourself in a certain
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  way, then you're good to go. And then the rest. I don't
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  know what to tell you. Sorry, No, this is not what I
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  want to be prepared for, because really and truly God has already told us
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  what will happen, how it will happen, and we're seeing signs of when
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  those things become closer. And so I want to give you just a few
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  keys, a few keys to prepare for the final crisis or crisis, really
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  the final crisis, and then this will all be over. Okay. So
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  let's do it basically like we're going to do fundamentals today. Nothing too deep,
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  but I promise it'll change your life if you if you espouse it.
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  Okay. And so we're going to the Bible Book of Matthew, chapter twenty
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  four, and we are reading four and five verses four and five. And
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  Jesus, in answer to a question that his disciples had asked him about the
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  things that he was talking about, when shall these things be and the sign
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  of thy coming and of the end of the world, he said, watch
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  out that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name claiming
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  I am Christ and will deceive many. So God is saying that we need
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  to be in a deeper relationship with Him to know his voice, to know
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  when God is pouring into us, so that when anything or anyone speaks and
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  claims to be God huh or manifests itself even before your eyes, you will
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  be able to discern whether it is Jesus or whether it is not, Whether
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  it is God's voice or whether it is the Enemy's voice. They're the only
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  two options. Everybody is either on as on one or the other of the
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  two sides. So strengthen your faith, brothers and sisters, I'm saying it
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  to me through regular prayer, regular Bible reading and study, and fellowship with
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  other believers who have the same goals. A community of believers and a strong
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  connection with God will transform your life. Hear the voice of God by listening
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  for him every day through prayer, through his word, and then of course
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  the collective of believers we come together and we discern His voice. Now,
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  of course you want to have a grasp of Bible prophecy as much as you
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  can in the last days as well. And so we get the idea just
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  really quickly from the Book of Daniel, chapter two, and the Bible reads
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  that he changed, He changes times and seasons. He disposes kings, deposes
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  kings. I didn't mean disposes, deposes kings, and raises up others.
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  He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. Of course,
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  in that time we were seeing a discussion where nepichad Nezzer why he was having
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  an interesting time because he was rejecting God because he thought he was God.
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  And then God introduced himself basically, and the fact is that God does.
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  He raises kings, he raises presidents and other leaders of our countries, and
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  he brings them down. And Daniel the prophecies and Daniel and in Revelation show
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  how all of these stand up and they sit down. According to Daniel chapter
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  eleven, they're up and then they're down. And then we see in Daniel
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  chapter twelve, at some point very soon we will see mi kl him stand
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  up for God for his people. And the next time that there is a
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  sitting down, he is sitting down on the univers's throne and throned as king
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  of kings and Lord of lords. Blessed be his name. And so we
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  want to understand Bible prophecy, and how God is in the affairs of humans,
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  even the ones that lead the world, and how it impacts on the
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  rest of us, and what we need to do in order to lead people
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  closer to God so that hopefully they will decide, yes, I love Him
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  just like you do, and then they will serve him. Okay. So
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  study the prophecies, not just for facts and information, not just for times
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  and timelines, not just for an understanding of the symbol, but to have
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  a close relationship with God, knowing that He is still in the affairs of
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  human kind. Okay, And so we want to live a life of obedience.
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  In Revelation, chapter fourteen and verse twelve, the Bible reads, here
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  is the patience of the saints. Here are they that do what keep the
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  commandments of God. We don't want to gloss over that and make it seems
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  like it's not a big deal. It's just a basic principle. No,
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  He has given us ten commandments to let us know what his will and pleasure
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  is for our lives, a transcript of his character. And so when he
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  says be holy, for I the Lord thy God, am holy, he's
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  saying, this is the measure of holiness. This is the measure of love.
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  Those who love God will keep his commandments because his love empowers people to
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  keep his commandments. Are you getting this? And so a life of obedience
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  is key right here? That keep the commandments of God. How do they
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  do that? They have the faith of Jesus. They have the faith.
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  We have the faith of Jesus. Okay. And then, of course we
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  want to build a community or be a part of the community of believers of
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  faith. In Hebrews Chapter ten, verses twenty four and twenty five, it
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  says, and let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love
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  and good deeds, not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit
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  of doing, but encouraging one another. And all the more as we see
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  the day approaching, this is some of what we need to do. How
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  we must live in order to be prepared. Are you prepared? Peace?
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,