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01 11 2026 Christ Will Be Magnified · 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 Sunday, January eleven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. 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, and our caption for today is Christ will
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  Speaker 2: be Magnified. Christ will be Magnified. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide. Please please
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  Speaker 2: also click that donate button if you are so inclined
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this new day in this workweek that
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  Speaker 2: you've entrusted to us. Please make us great stewards of
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  Speaker 2: the time. Please help us to be faithful and help
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  Speaker 2: us to do your will In Jesus name, I pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again Christ will be magnified. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to use our, of course, our Life
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  Speaker 2: Application Guide again today. I just want you to get
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  Speaker 2: accustomed to going there while you're studying the quarterly or
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  Speaker 2: the Adults Study Guide as we now call it. But
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  Speaker 2: today today I want to go to the professional application.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the four ways that we apply the study.
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll go right back into the lesson. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we're going with professional using the acronym or framework
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  Speaker 2: when when, and we're beginning with W. What is important
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  Speaker 2: now based on what we studied in the lesson, this
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  Speaker 2: for today, recognizing that your patients cheerfulness and faithfulness in
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  Speaker 2: difficult circumstances are a continual sermon. Let me say it again,
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  Speaker 2: recognizing your patience, Oh, cheerfulness, and faithfulness in difficult circumstances
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  Speaker 2: are a continual sermon. Some people say that your life
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  Speaker 2: will be the only Bible that people read. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying they should only read you as the Bible, because
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  Speaker 2: God's given us a real bible, write His actual word.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes you are the entering wedge. Your life is
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  Speaker 2: let your light so shine before human beings, so that
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  Speaker 2: when they see your good works, they will glorify your Father,
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  Speaker 2: which is in heaven. That is the goal. Okay, But
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  Speaker 2: your life needs to be My life needs to be
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  Speaker 2: a continual sermon, okay. And to internalize the insight we
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  Speaker 2: are focusing on. Paul's patience and cheerfulness during his unjust
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  Speaker 2: imprisonment were a continual sermon that glorified God and revealed
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  Speaker 2: the truth of the Gospel. Some of you are noticing
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  Speaker 2: that the internalized part I've lengthened. I used to only
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  Speaker 2: give you a couple of sentences, but I really want
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  Speaker 2: you to internalize. Let me continue your response to unfair treatment,
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  Speaker 2: difficult colleagues or challenging work conditions. Speaks loud than words.
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  Speaker 2: I could preach an entire series of sermons on this alone.
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  Speaker 2: In a few I would say about about seventeen years
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  Speaker 2: of my work life. That really have to illustrate this
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  Speaker 2: in my reality. Faithful Christians who maintain integrity and joy
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  Speaker 2: under pressure? Are you under pressure at work? Are you
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  Speaker 2: under pressure at work? Type of one in the chat?
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  Speaker 2: Let me just ask you. Are you at pressure? In
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  Speaker 2: under pressure at work? Now? Have you yielded? Let's not
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  Speaker 2: just stop there. I don't want to get stuck there.
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  Speaker 2: Have you yielded that pressure to God? Well, you're submitting
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  Speaker 2: it to God and saying, God, I can't handle this.
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  Speaker 2: You can. Let me continue. Faithful Christians who maintain integrity
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  Speaker 2: and joy under pressure are perhaps the most powerful witness
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  Speaker 2: for Christ in the workplace. For you do all of
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  Speaker 2: those organizing, all those Bible studies, not saying they're bad.
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  Speaker 2: I've done it, I've done it. But be cheerful under pressure,
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  Speaker 2: joyful under pressure. Jesus was at the work bench. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to research that time of his life when
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  Speaker 2: he would work and they would put too much on him.
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  Speaker 2: Inspiration teaches us that he would sing psalms and the people,
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  Speaker 2: the wicked people who were pressuring him would find themselves
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  Speaker 2: singing the same thing that he was singing, and don't
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  Speaker 2: realize when they even started. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: The next best move in this regard is to examine
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  Speaker 2: how you have responded in one recent difficulty at work
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  Speaker 2: and ask God to help you respond with patience and
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  Speaker 2: cheerfulness that magnifies Christ in future challenges. Now let's go
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  Speaker 2: into our teaching directly out of the lesson that was application.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's teach a little bit less a number one.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number one. Paul expected deliverance, and yet his highest
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  Speaker 2: goal was that Christ would be magnified, whether by life
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  Speaker 2: or death. In Philippians Chapter one Philippians Chapter one and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty, the Bible reads that in nothing I shall
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  Speaker 2: be ashamed, but that Christ shall be magnified in my body,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be by life or by death. To magnify
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  Speaker 2: means to exalt, to make great. So Paul wanted his
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  Speaker 2: life to exalt God, to exalt Christ with an a
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  Speaker 2: A ex alt, not ult alt that word, to magnify Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: To make great in the eyes of the people, Your
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  Speaker 2: God must be great, because I see how you are suffering.
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  Speaker 2: You're under pressure, and yet you're still joyful. And yet
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  Speaker 2: somehow you are still staying connected to God, and yet
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  Speaker 2: you still represent God without fail because God must be great.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action step is respond only after you
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  Speaker 2: ask God this question, will this magnify Christ through me?
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  Speaker 2: My God? Before responding to any challenge? Today, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: ask will this magnify Christ through me? There are many
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  Speaker 2: things that I refrain from doing that I really want
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  Speaker 2: to react to. I'm talking about nuclear like nuclear reactor style, like,
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  Speaker 2: there are things that I want to react to. But
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  Speaker 2: when I ask that question, I'm like, Okay, God, I
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  Speaker 2: got it. I got the message. Cease and desist, Like,
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  Speaker 2: do not do that because it does not represent Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The lesson number two Paul viewed believers as his spiritual
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  Speaker 2: children and cared for them with deep pastoral love. And
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  Speaker 2: in First Corinthians, chapter four and verse fifteen, we read
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  Speaker 2: in Christ, Jesus, I have begotten you through the Gospel.
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  Speaker 2: Does that not bring a responsibility when they are people
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  Speaker 2: who are either younger than you in age or younger
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  Speaker 2: than you in the faith, no matter the age, or
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  Speaker 2: people like me I'm here. I have this time with
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  Speaker 2: you every single day and I have for years, and
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  Speaker 2: even another program we did before this, So it's been
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  Speaker 2: it's been well over a decade that daily thoughts in
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  Speaker 2: worship at Message Magazine, we did that every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and so when I'm doing my life, I'm thinking about you,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, how will this impact them? When
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  Speaker 2: my mommy passed away. When my mother passed away and
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  Speaker 2: I still had this program, I was thinking about you
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  Speaker 2: and like, how is this going to impact them? Even
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  Speaker 2: though I was grieving to the extreme during Hurricane Melissa,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about you, Like, God, how is this going
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  Speaker 2: to impact them? We must not miss a beat. You're
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  Speaker 2: on two hundred radio stations, You're in countries around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and not to mention the internet. How will this impact them?
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  Speaker 2: And so this is the care that Paul had, and
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  Speaker 2: so the action step is to reach out to someone
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  Speaker 2: you've spiritually influenced and encourage their walk with Christ. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you're encouraged to walk with Christ because of our
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  Speaker 2: time here together. I hope that there is somebody on
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  Speaker 2: this in the chat right now that has been encouraging
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  Speaker 2: you and you are coming as a result of them
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  Speaker 2: encouraging you and then you do the same. And we're
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  Speaker 2: just doing this in concentric circles and welcoming people into
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  Speaker 2: relationship with God. That's what Paul did, so please do
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  Speaker 2: that actively and intentionally so Christ will be magnified in
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  Speaker 2: your life. 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,