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01 09 2026 Trusting God’s Plan · 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 Friday, January nine,
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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 Trusting God's Plan.
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  Speaker 2: Trusting God's Plan. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 2: that donate button, click and get the Life Application Guide
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  Speaker 2: and let us know where you are in the world
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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 me just say also that I'm welcoming you to
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  Speaker 2: this evening's let's call it a musical Bible class. I've
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  Speaker 2: been trying to figure out how do we say it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm calling it a musical Bible class where we go
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  Speaker 2: back through the lesson, one day at a time, using
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  Speaker 2: music to teach the lesson. And of course, as always,
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  Speaker 2: these are songs that only exist here in your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion Land. Is that a real place? Yes, in your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion Land. And we will continue to worship together
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  Speaker 2: this evening at seven pm Jamaica time. If the Lord
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  Speaker 2: spears life, let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day of preparation. Please draw us into
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  Speaker 2: your presence, help us to do your will and live
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  Speaker 2: according to your principles. In Jesus name, I pray a
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  Speaker 2: man and a man again, trusting God's plan. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I want to do is go ahead and use
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  Speaker 2: our Life Application Guide to open us up and then
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  Speaker 2: we will read some of what is in the lesson. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're going to make application where relationships are concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully you will have read what is in Friday's lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, we'll talk about some of that in
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but we're using the relationship's application. And if
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  Speaker 2: you've not gotten your life application guide, then we use
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  Speaker 2: an acronym or a framework win win because we are
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  Speaker 2: after success, spiritual success to win. Okay, w What is
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  Speaker 2: important now relationally cultivating a habit of thanksgiving that helps
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  Speaker 2: you recognize more reasons to be grateful than you initially realize.
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  Speaker 2: So I want you to build a habit like that's
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  Speaker 2: important to build and cultivate a habit of gratefulness so
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  Speaker 2: that as you are giving thanks as you are are grateful,
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  Speaker 2: God will open up your eyes and say, hey, did
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  Speaker 2: you notice this over here? Did you notice that over there?
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  Speaker 2: And then your vantage point and perspective are changing in
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  Speaker 2: real time because God is like, yes, I inhabit the
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  Speaker 2: praises of my people when people are grateful. Like in
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  Speaker 2: the case of the ten lepers that Jesus healed and
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  Speaker 2: one came back, he said, where the nine did I?
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  Speaker 2: Why not did I not heal ten of you where
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  Speaker 2: are the nine? But since you're here, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give you a special blessing, And so I want you
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  Speaker 2: to cultivate the atmosphere, the environment, the media medium in fact,
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  Speaker 2: where you are grateful, and then God will open up
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  Speaker 2: your mind to more ways that He has been. He
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  Speaker 2: has been so kind and good to you. Internalize the insight.
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  Speaker 2: When you take time or invest time to list what
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  Speaker 2: you're thankful for, and I want you to do this actively,
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  Speaker 2: you often discover more blessings than you first recognize. Like
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  Speaker 2: I just said, gratitude shifts your focus from what is
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  Speaker 2: missing to what God has already provided. Did you get
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  Speaker 2: that what He's all ready provided? This habit not only
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  Speaker 2: strengthens your relationship with God, but also makes you more
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  Speaker 2: aware of the people and provisions He has placed in
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  Speaker 2: your life. Best move in this regard write down five
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  Speaker 2: things for which you are thankful from this past week
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  Speaker 2: and share at least one of them with someone who
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  Speaker 2: contributed to your gratitude. How is that for action? I'll
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  Speaker 2: say it one more time. Write down five things for
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  Speaker 2: which you are grateful from just this week right, and
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  Speaker 2: share at least one of them with someone who contributed
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  Speaker 2: to your gratitude. Was it someone here in social media
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  Speaker 2: or on YouTube? Was it someone at your workplace, someone
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  Speaker 2: at the taxi, in the taxi with you, someone who
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  Speaker 2: is at the bus stop waiting with you, someone on
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  Speaker 2: the bus itself, like somewhere a person came and served
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  Speaker 2: your home. Was it a pipe that burst and it
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  Speaker 2: was fixed a jps if you're here in Jamaica or
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  Speaker 2: wherever you are in the world, the power company, when
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  Speaker 2: the people came and fixed something, even those like, my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: how long could it should it take to do this?
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the case, I want you to share that gratitude
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  Speaker 2: with the person or one of the people who actually
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  Speaker 2: contributed to whatever it is for which you are thankful. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson writer actually guided our minds to
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  Speaker 2: the book Ministry of Healing, page four hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: eight and four seventy nine. Many are unable to make
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  Speaker 2: definite plans for the future. Their life is unsettled. They
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  Speaker 2: cannot discern the outcome of affairs, and this often fills
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  Speaker 2: them with anxiety and unrest. Let us remember that the
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  Speaker 2: life of God's children in this world is a pilgrim life.
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  Speaker 2: So people like me looking for stability. Sometimes we won't
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  Speaker 2: find stability down here. It's just the fact. It's a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact. Let me continue the quote. We have
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  Speaker 2: not wisdom to plan our own lives. It is not
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  Speaker 2: for us to shape our future by faith. Abraham, when
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  Speaker 2: he was called to go out into a place which
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  Speaker 2: he should after receive for an inheritance, what did he do?
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  Speaker 2: He obeyed, He went out, not knowing whither he went.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Jesus, Jesus, in his life on earth, made
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  Speaker 2: no plans for himself. He accepted God's plans for him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember this quote. Honestly, I've read the Ministry
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  Speaker 2: of Healing. I don't even remember this one. This is good.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't make any plans for himself. He accepted God's
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  Speaker 2: plans for him, and day by day the Father unfolded
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  Speaker 2: his plans God. Let me adopt that as of now?
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  Speaker 2: Should so should we depend upon God? That our lives
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  Speaker 2: may be simply an outworking of His will. As we
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  Speaker 2: commit our ways to him, he will direct our steps.
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  Speaker 2: This quote gets even better. I have to continue reading.
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  Speaker 2: I had no intention of reading at all, But look
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  Speaker 2: at this. Look at this too. Many in planning for
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  Speaker 2: a brilliant future make an utter failure. Let God plan
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  Speaker 2: for you, as a little child, to trust to the
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  Speaker 2: guidance of Him who will keep his feet of the
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  Speaker 2: keep the feet of his saints. God never leads his
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  Speaker 2: children otherwise than they would choose to be led if
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  Speaker 2: they could see the end from the beginning and discern
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  Speaker 2: the glory of the purpose which they are fulfilling as
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  Speaker 2: co workers with Him. What an incredible reality. And so
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  Speaker 2: with the little time that we have left, let me
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  Speaker 2: just let me just give give one final, one final lesson.
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  Speaker 2: God faithfully keeps the feet of his saints as they
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  Speaker 2: walk in His purposes. So what I want you to
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  Speaker 2: do is take one deliberate step brothers and sisters today
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  Speaker 2: that reflects trust in God's protection and guidance. Yeah, one
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  Speaker 2: of those steps can be to cancel your plans. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I remember reading years ago that we should dedicate ourselves
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  Speaker 2: to God in the morning and we present our plans
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  Speaker 2: before God and we say, you know, this is the
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  Speaker 2: life that you have given me. Here are my plans
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  Speaker 2: for you to help me to execute or to walk
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  Speaker 2: away from, as your providence may indicate. So take that
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  Speaker 2: step today deliberately and ask God to guide your footsteps 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,