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01 28 2026 Proven Character · 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 Wednesday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth, twoenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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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 proven Character,
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  Speaker 2: Proven Character. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father Wei, thank you, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for loving us and giving us everything we need.
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  Speaker 2: Please make us holy, give us the character and characteristics
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ in our lives today. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and amen again. Proven character, proven character.
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  Speaker 2: So let me go ahead and begin with a quote
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  Speaker 2: from way back into eighteen hundreds like I do sometimes
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  Speaker 2: here eighteen seventy five review and Herald article by John
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  Speaker 2: Nevin's Andrew JA and Andrews and it reads, character is
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  Speaker 2: not formed in ease. Can I just pause right here
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  Speaker 2: for a moment. There are times that people complain, like
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  Speaker 2: when you go to the gym, you're in pain and
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  Speaker 2: you complain about the pain. Well, that's part of growth.
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  Speaker 2: When you are in business. Sometimes there are difficulties that
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  Speaker 2: come as you increase your sales or you're seeking to
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  Speaker 2: and your marketing seems to need a new like a
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  Speaker 2: tune up or you're having challenges with your allies, not
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  Speaker 2: even your enemies like your allies, or you're going through
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  Speaker 2: other growing pains when you move into a new tax bracket. Well,
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  Speaker 2: all of that stuff comes to create a new level
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  Speaker 2: of character for us. Nothing that is worth having is easy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's simplicity of it. We don't need to complicate it.
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  Speaker 2: But all pain, even if it's the stuff that we
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  Speaker 2: don't want while we're living on planet Earth, that stuff
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  Speaker 2: will continue to form character only in those who are
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  Speaker 2: submitted to God. So quit the complainant. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time. Character is not formed in ease. God
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  Speaker 2: leads his people where difficulty presses. Did you hear that
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  Speaker 2: God is leading us where difficulty presses? Why? Why, mister Andrews,
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  Speaker 2: that your faith may be tested and their true worth
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  Speaker 2: be made manifest. That's what That's the refiners fire, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters. That's being under the guidance and molding of
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  Speaker 2: the potter. Huh. How can the pot or the pottery
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  Speaker 2: say to the potter, why have you made me this way?
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  Speaker 2: That is right in the Bible, everybody. Okay, let's read
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  Speaker 2: from My Life Today, page ninety two. Trials are Christ's
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  Speaker 2: workmen to reform, to refine, excuse me and purify us.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it again. I'm being passionate here. Pardon me.
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  Speaker 2: Trials are Christ's workmen to refine and purify us. Every trial,
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  Speaker 2: how many trials? Go ahead and type in the chat?
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  Speaker 2: How many trials did? I just read? Every trial? Guess
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  Speaker 2: what well endured? My God makes the character stronger and
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  Speaker 2: the faith purer. Married it one more time. Every trial
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  Speaker 2: well endured makes the character stronger and the faith purer.
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  Speaker 2: You want a stronger faith muscle, so that when you
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  Speaker 2: pray and you say to God, please move this mountain. Huh,
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  Speaker 2: move this mountain? You command the mountain to be thou
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  Speaker 2: removed in cast into the sea, then it shall be
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  Speaker 2: done unto you. Like that comes only as our character
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  Speaker 2: is proven. So our first lesson for today is coming
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  Speaker 2: in from Philippians, chapter two and verse twenty two. But
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  Speaker 2: ye know the proof of him that as a son
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  Speaker 2: with the Father, he hath served me in the Gospel.
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  Speaker 2: So we are talking about brother Timothy as he was
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  Speaker 2: being proven to be a minister that could be of
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  Speaker 2: service to God through Paul. And so God builds proven
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  Speaker 2: character through trials that reveal who we are on the inside.
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  Speaker 2: And this proven is to demonstrate having been tested our character,
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  Speaker 2: having been tested for genuineness after trial. And so today
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  Speaker 2: the action step for this lesson is identify one current hardship.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you'll have a problem doing that, and
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  Speaker 2: intentionally respond with a christ like attitude. Your hardship may
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  Speaker 2: have to do with people. Somebody may be getting on
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  Speaker 2: your very last nerve under your skin, up under your skin,
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  Speaker 2: and you are tired. Well, intentionally respond with a christ
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  Speaker 2: like attitude. Ask God to do that in you, letting
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  Speaker 2: it shape your character rather than sour your spirit. Stop
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  Speaker 2: your complaining about the thing that's happening. Don't, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible writer said, under the unction of the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost like, don't act like when these things happen, it's
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  Speaker 2: some strange thing, the trial of your faith. Work with patience.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course we continue in that text and
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  Speaker 2: so God is saying that when things happen to you,
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  Speaker 2: happy are ye? Because great as your reward in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Because they persecuted the prophets which were before you. Hah,
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  Speaker 2: those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get you excited about it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to make you feel like, Okay, we'll bring
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  Speaker 2: on the suffering, like that doesn't make sense, Like that's foolish.
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  Speaker 2: What I am saying is that when it happens, though
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  Speaker 2: though you slay me God, yet well, I trust in you.
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  Speaker 2: I used to see you by the hearing of the year,
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  Speaker 2: but now I understand and have a real experience with you,
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  Speaker 2: as brother Job said at the end of his ordeal. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so please, please, please just take this to heart.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's going to go through something today, on this day,
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  Speaker 2: on the twenty eighth day of January, and you're going
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  Speaker 2: to remember, Oh, oh, that guy on the TV, that
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  Speaker 2: guy on the radio, that guy in my YouTube channel
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  Speaker 2: Facebook was yelling at me this morning. Now I know why,
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  Speaker 2: because God was trying to get through to me somehow.
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  Speaker 2: Lessen Number two. True spiritual reliability grows through consistent faithfulness,
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  Speaker 2: not occasional devotions. Some of you are too occasional. Some
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  Speaker 2: of you are in spurts. You don't focus, you don't
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  Speaker 2: consistently do what God's called you to do, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a work item, whether it's in your relationships, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: something personal that should be helpful and beneficial to you.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is like. If you don't have a consistent character,
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  Speaker 2: a consistent style, give it to God and say God,
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  Speaker 2: I'm all over the place I was born this way God,
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  Speaker 2: and so I know it's not a sin, but I
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  Speaker 2: need you to help me because I'm more people centric.
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  Speaker 2: I'm more task oriented, but I am driven by other things.
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  Speaker 2: But I just can't focus so that I stay here
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  Speaker 2: consistently until I move on to the next thing that
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  Speaker 2: I should be doing consistently. Give it to God. Brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, and those of you who are consistent, ask
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  Speaker 2: God for balance. But the Bible reads here in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse seventeen. For this cause, I have
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  Speaker 2: sent unto you Timotheus, who's shall bring you into remembrance
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  Speaker 2: of my ways, which be in Christ. I've been Timothy before,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Timothy now. Really. Yeah, when I work with et
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  Speaker 2: the ettor doctor Eric Thomas, there are there are things that,
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  Speaker 2: because we are opposites, that I am his Timothy. For
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  Speaker 2: i'm his Timothy, I represent his voice in a certain sphere,
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  Speaker 2: in certain particular things that I'm assigned. Specifically, only those
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  Speaker 2: things that I'm assigned and it's because God. God showed
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  Speaker 2: me how to be consistent and do whatever it is
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  Speaker 2: that's beneficial to the cause. So please please choose one
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  Speaker 2: discipline as a prayer, study, or service and give it
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  Speaker 2: to God. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,