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05 03 2024 God is WITH Us · 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, May three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is God is with and I want to underscore that word
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  with God is with us. Do you realize that God is with you?
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  I'm just saying like it's a good question. It's a way to start our
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  day. God is with us. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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  joining us for the very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion
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  dot com. Please join our online community and let us know where you are
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  in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. Let me just say one
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  thing about the online community in case you missed it. It's for you to
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  ask your questions or have discussion about the lesson. Okay, we're not necessarily
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  going to broadcast into that group. You already see me on so many different
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  platforms. You're listening on the radio, right, you're watching on TV,
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  and so it's not for you to watch again because it's already online so many
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  places. It's for you to begin the discussions, and then of course I
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  will weigh in so it can be a two way street. Right now,
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  it's a one way street because I'm the one with the microphone and the camera
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  and you're the ones over there with your two thumbs. So what we want
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  to do is open it up so that I can respond to you, because
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  clearly, at this moment, I'm kind of in the middle of something.
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  I can't respond to everything that's going on while we're live, all right,
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  So let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father in
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  Heaven, thank you. For giving us this day and for the time of
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  preparation that you have entrusted to us, for the Sabbath that is coming,
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  and for the time, for the time that is upon us as Jesus is
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  about to come. Please help us to know with everything that we are,
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  that you are with us in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again
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  for those excuse me for that sound for those who are joining us for the
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  first time. We are going through some discussion surrounding the Protestant Reformation, and
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  then we throw out some names I shouldn't say throughout, but we throw out
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  some names of reformers were who were showing how faith in God can get us
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  through any time of trial and how God is leading his people. Right now,
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  we're going to focus a little bit on Martin Luther again, but I'm
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  going to have to read some things to you from the book reviewing Harold.
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  Really, it wasn't the great controversy a pardon me great controversy page two hundred
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  and nine, with powerful foals, when powerful folds were uniting to overthrow the
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  Reformed faith. Remember, more than five hundred years ago, the people of
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  God stood together to say, you know, there is something that God would
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  require of us. There is a way that He would have us to be
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  relating to him right. And there is no way that we are going to
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  yield our faith because some power as that we are to do it their way.
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  We want to do it according to the scriptures, so like the way
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  the scriptures say, and not the way that humans say. And so when
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  powerful, powerful foes were uniting to overthrow the Reformed Faith, and thousands of
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  swords seemed to be unsheathed against it, this is what Martin Luther wrote.
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  I want you to get this. Satan is putting forth his fury, ungodly
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  pontiffs are conspiring, and we are threatened with war. Exhort the people to
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  contend valiantly before the throne of the Lord. Did you get that? So
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  you have people who are who are doing things that are threatening to people physically
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  and spiritually. And so now what Martin Luther is saying is that we need
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  to use the weapons of our warfare which are spiritual and not carnal. Here's
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  what he said again, exhort the people to contend valiantly before the throne of
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  the Lord by faith and what prayer, so that our enemies vanquished by the
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  spirit of God, may be constrained to peace. Where was he focusing He
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  was focusing on prayer. He was focusing on connecting with God as with a
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  friend, and knowing that if we have God for us, then nothing can
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  be against us. So he is saying that if we will pray, pray
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  until we move the hand of God, then again the enemies, our enemies,
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  will be vanquished by the spirit of God and constrained to peace. Let
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  me continue, our chief want, our chief labor is prayer. Here comes
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  that word again. You see, Missus White said that prayer does not bring
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  us bring God down to us. It brings us up to God. You
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  see, prayer brings us into the very atmosphere of God's presence. Prayer elevates
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  us above the din and movement of the street and the confusion of war.
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  Like prayer, when we are connecting to God, real and true, we
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  are now being elevated to a place where the enemy has no power. Let
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  me continue, Let me continue our chief labor is prayer. Let the people
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  know that they are now exposed to the edge of the sword into the rage
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  of Satan, and let them pray. Let them pray, Let me ask
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  you the same question that I asked myself as I was reading this. How
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  is your prayer life? Brothers and sisters, how is your prayer life?
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  How was your prayer life? You see again from page two hundred and eight
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  of the same book Great Controversy. God's faithful servants were not toiling alone.
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  While principalities and powers, and wicked spirits and high places were leagued against them.
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  The Lord did not forsake his people. Could their eyes have been opened,
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  they would have seen as marked evidence of divine presence and aid as was
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  granted to the profit of old which one here it comes. When Elisia's servant
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  pointed to his master the hostile armies surrounding them and cutting off all opportunity for
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  escape, the prophet prayed, Lord, I pray the open his eyes that
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  he may see. And this is coming from tewod Kings, chapter six and
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  verse seventeen. Ah, and Lo, the mountain was filled with chariots and
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  horses of fire, the army of heaven stationed to protect the man of God.
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  Thus did angels guard the workers in the cause of the Reformation. End
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  of quote. See in twenty twenty four. God is still with his people.
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  Did you hear what I just said? In twenty twenty four, God
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  is still with his people. If we could see like God sees hah,
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  if we could see in the way that in this moment Elisha was able to
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  see and wanted the servant to see, we would know that there is a
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  retinue of angels hah. There are scores and legions of angels that are excelling
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  in strength, that are here to protect us come what may. So when
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  your trials come, when your temptations seem too difficult to bear, and maybe
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  they are no certainly they are in our own strength, they are too difficult
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  to bear. But let us let us see with the eyes of God through
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  the power of the Holy Spirit, that He has not left us alone.
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  That when Jesus promised that he will never leave us nor forsake us, he
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  wasn't playing games. He wasn't telling a joke, He wasn't causing us to
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  just feel good about what he was saying. He is true as true in
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  twenty twenty four, as he was in the days of Elisha, as he
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  was in the days of the Reformers. While you go through your go through
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  No that God is with you, and so I'm thanking God that he has
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  given us the facility of prayer, the pavilion of prayer, so we can
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  talk to him and say, God, we're here to do your will.
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  Will you protect us? The answer is yes, God is with us.
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with El David Harris, make it a
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  great day. Yeah,