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02 10 2026 Rejoice in the Lord—Always · 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: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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, February ten,
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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 Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our option for today is Rejoice in the Lord always,
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  Speaker 2: Rejoice in the Lord always. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: i'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: see what we're doing on YouTube. Anyway, long story, thank
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  Speaker 2: so let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for this day. Please help us to rejoice
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  Speaker 2: in You. In Jesus' name, I pray amen and Amen again,
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  Speaker 2: rejoice in the Lord always. Now we have identified this
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  Speaker 2: and focused on this a few times, but let's take
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  Speaker 2: another look. Okay, and before we get too tight into it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read a quote from eighteen seventy eight,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen seventy eight reviewing Harold. The Christian may pass through storms,
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  Speaker 2: and you have to think of how people wrote in
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  Speaker 2: the eighteen hundreds. That means that you will. That's what's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. We know that this is going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And then comes this contrast of thought like, Okay, the
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  Speaker 2: Christian may pass through storms. Yep, that's true, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: But the peace of God within is a calm harbor
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  Speaker 2: into which no tempest can enter. Oh, I need you
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  Speaker 2: to think about that very clearly. Think of it very clearly.
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  Speaker 2: The Christian may pass through storms, that's going to happen, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but the piece of God within is a calm harbor
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  Speaker 2: into which no tempest can enter. What does that mean
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  Speaker 2: all of the storms whirling around us can have no
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  Speaker 2: appreciable impact when we're we are in the calm harbor
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  Speaker 2: of God's care. Oh, I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. Let me read from
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  Speaker 2: another place. October eleven, nineteen oh five, signs of the Times.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect peace will be ours as we learn to leave
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  Speaker 2: every That's a big word, y'all look it up if
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  Speaker 2: you've not seen it lately. That means to the exclusion
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  Speaker 2: of everything else, like all like God wants us to
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  Speaker 2: give everything to him. Don't leave anything out. We need
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  Speaker 2: to learn to leave every perplexity in his hands. Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: and here comes another one, and trust him fully. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Everything you have a little ache or a pain, you're
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  Speaker 2: tempted to talk to people about it. I mean, of course,
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  Speaker 2: if you need to go to the doctor, you need
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  Speaker 2: to talk to the doctor about it. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: But apart from that, like telling people that you have
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  Speaker 2: aches and pains, waste of time. Give that perplexity to him.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to figure out what's good, what's your month
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  Speaker 2: and your money, and it's not balancing out. Go to
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  Speaker 2: God first, before you even think about going to a human.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, before you even think about going into your
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  Speaker 2: mind and strategizing. We understand this is what you must do,
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  Speaker 2: but don't do it. First, go to God first, trust
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  Speaker 2: him fully. You have a disease or you have a
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  Speaker 2: new diagnosis, and you don't know what to do as
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  Speaker 2: you were getting your consultations from wise counselors that know
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  Speaker 2: God and people who may in the medical world or
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  Speaker 2: in the naturopathic world, depending on the pathway that you
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  Speaker 2: must take. I'm not trying to give you guidance on that.
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  Speaker 2: But before you do any of that, go to God,
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  Speaker 2: leave that perplexity in his hands, and trust him fully.
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  Speaker 2: And so our lesson number one is coming in from
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  Speaker 2: verse four of Philippians chapter four. We've read it over
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  Speaker 2: and over again. Let's go again. Rejoice in the Lord
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  Speaker 2: always and again. I say rejoice in case you didn't
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  Speaker 2: get it the first time, even though I'm locked up
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  Speaker 2: in prison. Paul is saying, even though that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that rejoicing in the Lord is a choice
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  Speaker 2: rooted in trusting God, not worrying about my circumstances, my
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  Speaker 2: my mind, and so and so the word rejoice means
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  Speaker 2: to be glad and to delight. In case somebody's like, ah, well,
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  Speaker 2: rejoice doesn't mean rejoice, it means something else, because how
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  Speaker 2: could you rejoice if you're going through you understand well
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  Speaker 2: the text means what it means. Under inspiration Brother Paul,
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  Speaker 2: while he was locked up, Brother Paul, when things were
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  Speaker 2: not always just so peachy clinking, he said, be glad
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  Speaker 2: and delight. Rejoicing is not an emotional denial. This is
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  Speaker 2: what some people do. Like I've had people say, like,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing today? And maybe I'm sad because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I remember when my mom passed away, and I say,
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  Speaker 2: I may say I'm sad or whatever, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: quickly people would say, don't claim that, brother, Like claim what?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean by claim? Don't claim the sadness?
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? I don't even understand. When Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was in the garden of Gysemite, he was sweating as
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  Speaker 2: it were great drops of blood. When he was on
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  Speaker 2: the cross, he cried out, Father, my God, my God,
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  Speaker 2: why hast thou forsaken me? So we're not turning our back,
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  Speaker 2: we're not burying our heads in the proverbial sand. We're
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  Speaker 2: not acting as if things are not going the way
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  Speaker 2: they're going. But we are still learning. It is a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual act that places confidence in God before situations change,
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  Speaker 2: and so the action step is to speak one sentence
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  Speaker 2: of praise. I know it's like, what, that's so wow,
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  Speaker 2: so regimented. Why are you so particular? Because some people
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  Speaker 2: are in the clouds and you're stuck in inspiration mode
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  Speaker 2: or receiving information mode, and you're not going to do
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  Speaker 2: nothing with it. So I'm just trying to give you
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  Speaker 2: a prescription here. It is, speak one sentence of praise
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  Speaker 2: aloud today before asking God for anything. That's a good practice.
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  Speaker 2: Anchor your prayer in trust. Anchor your prayer to God
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  Speaker 2: in trust. Lesson number two, verse six Philippians, chapter four.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful or anxious for nothing right instead, in every situation,
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  Speaker 2: through prayer and petition or supplication with thanksgiving, tell your
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  Speaker 2: requests to the Lord supplication. Supplication means the Greek word
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  Speaker 2: for it actually means urgent request in deep need. So
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  Speaker 2: again we're not burying our heads in the sand. We
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  Speaker 2: do have urgent requests. We do have deep needs. There
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  Speaker 2: are things that are really getting under our skin that
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  Speaker 2: we cannot manage, and God is saying, through Paul, take
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  Speaker 2: that to God with thanksgiving. And so the lesson is
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  Speaker 2: that prayer with thanksgiving is the divine antidote to anxiety,
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  Speaker 2: opening the heart to God's peace. And what is the action.
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  Speaker 2: The action is to write down a current worry, put
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  Speaker 2: it right before you. Really, you're putting it before God.
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  Speaker 2: Pray over it with thanksgiving that God has already received
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  Speaker 2: your request. I want you to study I didn't think
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  Speaker 2: about this before, but study Daniel chapter ten, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: have to circle back on that principle Daniel chapter ten
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  Speaker 2: in this vein. 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,