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01 06 2026 Spiritual Discernment Applied · 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, January sixth,
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Spiritual Discernment applied.
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  Speaker 2: The spiritual discernment applied. It doesn't make sense that God
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  Speaker 2: shows us something and then we don't actually do anything
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  Speaker 2: with it. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: you to That's okay, and this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: open up your word today and to do your will.
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  Speaker 2: Please fill us with your holy spirits name I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Spiritual discernment applied. Let's find a
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  Speaker 2: quote that can be useful to us. In the book
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  Speaker 2: The Ministry of Healing, page four hundred and seventy one,
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  Speaker 2: we read trials are often permitted to accomplish a work
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  Speaker 2: that otherwise would never be done. Oh, trials are often
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  Speaker 2: permitted to accomplish a work that otherwise would never be done.
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  Speaker 2: Can I get just give one example? The Early Church,
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  Speaker 2: the first century Church. One of the reasons that they
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  Speaker 2: spread far and wide was because they were being persecuted,
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  Speaker 2: and they moved from place to place to attempt to
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  Speaker 2: escape persecution, and they would share the Gospel everywhere they went.
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  Speaker 2: Trials are often permitted to accomplish a work that otherwise
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  Speaker 2: would never be done. My brother and friend, Pastor TJ. Tias,
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  Speaker 2: and his wife, they suffered a tragic loss of their daughter,
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  Speaker 2: whom they adopted and loved until she again passed away,
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  Speaker 2: and the ministry of the Tias family has expanded in
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  Speaker 2: a great manner, in a great way because of the loss.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's not the right way to say it, but
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  Speaker 2: I think you understand where I'm going. There was a
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  Speaker 2: way that our brother is ministering today based on the
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  Speaker 2: experience that God allowed him. Trials are often permitted to
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  Speaker 2: accomplish a work that otherwise would not be done. So
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  Speaker 2: our lesson number one today is Paul viewed his imprisonment
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  Speaker 2: all as an opportunity for the Gospel to advance. This
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  Speaker 2: is why he could say rejoice in the Lord all
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  Speaker 2: way and again I say rejoice. Wow, that's a special
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  Speaker 2: kind of fate that we all can have. But in Philippia,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse two, while the Bible reads, but
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  Speaker 2: I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which
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  Speaker 2: happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance
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  Speaker 2: of the Gospel. Let me say it another way. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation
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  Speaker 2: has actually turned out to advance the gospel. I think
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  Speaker 2: it was Joseph that said that what you meant for
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  Speaker 2: evil you speaking to his brothers, God meant it for good.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: And so this word for advance or whatever means did
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  Speaker 2: I say or whatever I shouldn't have said, that progress
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  Speaker 2: forward movement. That means to continually move forward in movement.
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  Speaker 2: So the action is look at one difficulty today, one
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  Speaker 2: of the difficulties you're going through, and ask God to
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  Speaker 2: show you how it can move his mission forward. Is
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  Speaker 2: God using you as a case study like he did? Job?
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  Speaker 2: Is it that somebody is going to be encouraged by
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  Speaker 2: your response to the thing that's going on. You're being
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  Speaker 2: open and honest and they know what you're going through
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  Speaker 2: and the way that you're responding to it is also
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  Speaker 2: going to lead someone closer to the kingdom. H So
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  Speaker 2: that's your action step for lesson number one. Less a
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  Speaker 2: number two is coming in from Philippians chapter one, Versus
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and fourteen, and the Bible reads, so that my
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  Speaker 2: bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and
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  Speaker 2: in all other places, that many are much more bold
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  Speaker 2: to speak the word without fear. So the lesson is
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  Speaker 2: that Paul saw every guard he's locked up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: every visitor, every restriction as part of his assignment. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't just pick the stuff that was good and the
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  Speaker 2: things that he enjoyed and loved. He didn't just pick
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that was rosy and light. Every single thing
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  Speaker 2: he saw as a part of his assignment in spreading
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  Speaker 2: the gospel. We're talking about boldness and fearless confidence. Now
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  Speaker 2: the action step is to speak one word of faith
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  Speaker 2: today where you would normally hesitate. Ah. Let me say
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  Speaker 2: it again, speak one word of faith today where you
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  Speaker 2: would normally hesitate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before I start preaching,
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  Speaker 2: let me move to lesson number three. And it's coming
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  Speaker 2: in from verse eighteen of Philippians chapter one, And here
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  Speaker 2: is some of it. Christ is preached, and I therein
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  Speaker 2: do rejoice, yay, and will rejoice. Let me say it
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  Speaker 2: another way. In every way they're in pretense, oh, or
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  Speaker 2: in truth, Christ is being proclaimed. And in this I rejoice. Man.
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  Speaker 2: I just say that this is one of the it
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  Speaker 2: may seem simple to you, but one of the texts
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  Speaker 2: that perplex me a little bit, because he's like, if
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  Speaker 2: by pretense or by truth, Like, there are times that
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, but God, like, we can't just be out
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  Speaker 2: here playing with this gospel here, and he's like, that's
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  Speaker 2: not your business. Like when other people appear to you
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  Speaker 2: that they're playing with the gospel, whether by pretense or
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  Speaker 2: by truth, Christ is being proclaimed. And in this this
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  Speaker 2: brother right here who was inspired by the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: full of the Holy Ghost. Yeah, he rejoiced in that.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, ah, so we shouldn't be judging what
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  Speaker 2: we see when people are teaching or preaching the gospel
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  Speaker 2: or somehow manifesting the Gospel in a way that we whoops,
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  Speaker 2: don't prove. It's not your business, he said, whether in
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  Speaker 2: pretense or in truth. So they're contrasting just so nobody
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  Speaker 2: tries to go real, you know, academic and look for
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  Speaker 2: what does the Greek word for pretense mean? And see
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  Speaker 2: your misunderstanding. M M no, no, no, no, no, he's
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  Speaker 2: literally saying what we read pretense or truth. I think
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  Speaker 2: it was the disciples that Jesus was speaking to and
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  Speaker 2: they were like, hey, you want us to go and
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  Speaker 2: stop them from preaching, And Jesus was like, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: don't do that, No, don't do that, because whoever is
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  Speaker 2: proclaiming my name cannot say speak or do evil against me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just pause right there. Our action step, then, is
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  Speaker 2: to choose joy today, even when motives or circumstances around
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  Speaker 2: you are imperfect. Choose joy. Big shout out to Mignon
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  Speaker 2: Francois my baby, says, I call her the boss Lady.
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  Speaker 2: Choose joy. Choose joy today, even when motives or circumstances
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  Speaker 2: around you are imperfect. Wow. Let me read one more
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  Speaker 2: quote before I bring us down to a swift close.
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  Speaker 2: Faith sees in every crisis a call to greater trust
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  Speaker 2: and deeper service. Faith sees in every crisis a call
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  Speaker 2: to greater trust and deeper service. Is that your reality?
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  Speaker 2: This is how we apply the spiritual dessernment that God
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  Speaker 2: gives us. 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,