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08 25 2026 Changing Plans for Love · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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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 Tuesday, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth day of August in twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is changing Plans for Love. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then we will get underway. Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us another day, another day toward the coming,
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  Speaker 2: another day toward the Sabbath time where we can rest,
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  Speaker 2: come aside and experience you in a special way. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Will you please get glory in our lives right now?
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  Speaker 2: Will you please teach us what it's like to surrender
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  Speaker 2: our will such that or to such a degree that
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  Speaker 2: we would change in altered plans in order for you
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  Speaker 2: to get more glory and people to benefit. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. Some of you are thinking, well,
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  Speaker 2: what in the world changing plans for love? What does
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  Speaker 2: that mean? It could mean anything, right, And yeah, what's
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  Speaker 2: the big deal about changing plans? May I just say
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  Speaker 2: that there are some of us who are so rigid
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  Speaker 2: that a plan, a change of plans, is so disruptive
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  Speaker 2: in our minds that we would rather not like. Some
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  Speaker 2: people are not interested in nothing new or a shift
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  Speaker 2: or a plan or an adjustment. Just literally it's not
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  Speaker 2: in them to do it. And so let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and begin with what I consider for today to be
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing. I'll go from this time. I'll
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  Speaker 2: go from the book Testimonies for the Church, Volume five,
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  Speaker 2: page one sixty nine. This is where I think the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing is true. Love is not a passionate,
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  Speaker 2: fitful emotion. Love is a principle. It is a calm, deep,
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  Speaker 2: settled purpose of the soul which leads to action. Those
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  Speaker 2: who are moved by love will be willing to suffer. See,
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  Speaker 2: you don't plan, don't you don't plan your life from you?
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  Speaker 2: You know your mind is fully developed and you are
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  Speaker 2: going into whatever goals and dreams that you want to
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  Speaker 2: make a reality. You don't go into that thinking, you
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  Speaker 2: know what my plan is to suffer. My desire is
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  Speaker 2: to sacrifice. Okay, let me keep read if need be
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  Speaker 2: for the good of others. And so shifting our mindsets
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  Speaker 2: to the point that we are willing to open up
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  Speaker 2: our minds and say, God, what would you have us
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  Speaker 2: to do, even if it does include shifting sacrificing God, God,
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  Speaker 2: what must I do, even if it includes suffering? Job
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  Speaker 2: went through immense suffering, the Apostles, they went of, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ went through immense suffering, the early believers, and our
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  Speaker 2: four bearers who were the Protestant Reformers went through immense suffering,
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  Speaker 2: even many to the point of death. And so is
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  Speaker 2: that something that you are willing to do if God
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  Speaker 2: will take you along that pathway? And that's between you
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  Speaker 2: and God. And so our first lesson comes in from
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  Speaker 2: the book Second Corinthians, chapter one, And I'll read verses
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  Speaker 2: eighteen and nineteen, something that we could easily just bypass.
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  Speaker 2: And it reads, but as God is faithful, our message
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  Speaker 2: to you is not yes and no. For the Son
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  Speaker 2: of God, Jesus Christ who was proclaimed among you by us,
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  Speaker 2: by Me and Sylvanus and Timothy was not yes and no.
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  Speaker 2: But it has always been yes in him. And so
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  Speaker 2: this is about certainty. This term yes huh nai yes
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  Speaker 2: means certainty. So be it. Paul defends his reliability by
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  Speaker 2: pointing to the character of Christ, because Jesus is who
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  Speaker 2: he is, He's holy, Blessed be his name, he is consistent,
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  Speaker 2: and he is the Lord who changes not. Now that
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  Speaker 2: character is instilled in the life of his people, including
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  Speaker 2: Paul in this case, and so every promise of God
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  Speaker 2: in him is yes. The faithful yes of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: is the standard against which Paul it all, measures his
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  Speaker 2: own integrity. We talked about simplicity yesterday that without a
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  Speaker 2: hidden motive. Now we go into the gospel work, the
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  Speaker 2: ministry to people who need to be saved like God
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  Speaker 2: is calling us in integrity, and it is the ground
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  Speaker 2: upon which every servant of God stands. Now, in this
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  Speaker 2: particular scenario, Paul changed his plans, and that wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: failure of his commitment, because since Jesus is consistent and
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  Speaker 2: his character is manifest in Paul's life, then Paul is consistent.
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  Speaker 2: But he's saying we're about to make a shift, like
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  Speaker 2: we have to make a shift. But that's not because
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  Speaker 2: I'm failing in my commitment. They were an expression of it.
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  Speaker 2: So Paul anchored his reliability not in the circumstances that
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  Speaker 2: are happening, but in his relationship and faithfulness to God
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  Speaker 2: in christ Man, I say it like this, when our
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  Speaker 2: intentions are questions questioned, point to the one that never changes.
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  Speaker 2: You See, there are times that God may call us
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  Speaker 2: to do something and by human committee, it looks like
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to do it for four years. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna make it simple. It looks like that we are
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  Speaker 2: to serve in an office for four years, maybe five years, right,
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  Speaker 2: And then all of what happens in preparation for that,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody who needs to vote does vote. And then
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  Speaker 2: after six months, God makes a shift. We've done everything
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  Speaker 2: we prayed. God said, yes, this is the pathway, but
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  Speaker 2: he didn't tell us every detail of everything. But then
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  Speaker 2: he makes a shift. And when that shift happens, there
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  Speaker 2: are some people who immediately begin to doubt, and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: but if God was leading us, why then the shift?
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  Speaker 2: Because God doesn't change, but plans do. God sometimes has
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  Speaker 2: us to serve in certain capacities, in certain stations in
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  Speaker 2: our lives, certain communities, certain places on the globe, certain
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  Speaker 2: moments and encounters with people, And then he makes an
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  Speaker 2: abrupt shift, and people get confused. Why get confused? God
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  Speaker 2: is the one who is still leading. He said to
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  Speaker 2: his servant Abraham, I need you to get up from
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  Speaker 2: where you are, and I need you to go. I
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  Speaker 2: need you to leave your people, and I need you
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  Speaker 2: to go to a place that I'll show you later.
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  Speaker 2: What The same God who was consistently calling him was
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  Speaker 2: consistently causing him to move forward in faith without him
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  Speaker 2: telling any details. The same one who gave him a son,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful son named Isaac. He said, now go sacrifice, and
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  Speaker 2: then switched it and said, no, don't sacrifice him. Was
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  Speaker 2: it that God was inconsistent? Was it that the man
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  Speaker 2: of God did not hear the voice of God? Or
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  Speaker 2: is it that God has a plan that is greater
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  Speaker 2: and bigger than your thoughts. God's thoughts are much higher
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  Speaker 2: than your thoughts and my thoughts hi Hi, As high
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  Speaker 2: as the heavens are above the earth, are his thoughts
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  Speaker 2: higher than our thoughts? And so when God shifts our plans.
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  Speaker 2: Are we willing to go in the direction that God
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  Speaker 2: is calling for this moment? And so, when your motives
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  Speaker 2: are misread today, when your motives are misread because God
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  Speaker 2: shifted the direction, God shifted the timing. When your motives
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  Speaker 2: are misread today, resist the urge to overexplained or defend yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to give your resume and say, look
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  Speaker 2: at the many times that I've done X or y
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  Speaker 2: anchor your response in the faithfulness of Christ and let
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  Speaker 2: his characters speak, not yours.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,