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01 04 2026 Fellowship in the Gospel · 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.
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  Speaker 2: 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.
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  Speaker 3: It is Sunday, January fourth, twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 3: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 3: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 3: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 3: are continuing in our new Lesson study series uniting Heaven
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  Speaker 3: and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians. Before we get
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  Speaker 3: into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 3: that we can all be transformed by God. So the
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  Speaker 3: book is just a little bit longer, I admit it,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see what God does with it through all
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  Speaker 3: of our lives. Also, please, please, if you have been
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  Speaker 3: inclined by the Holy Goals, go ahead and click that
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  Speaker 3: donate button. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 3: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we
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  Speaker 3: thank you for this day. Thank you for loving us
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  Speaker 3: so much that you listen to us. Thank You for
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  Speaker 3: uniting heaven and Earth through Christ, Lord, so we can
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  Speaker 3: be saved. And I just pray God that we will
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  Speaker 3: indeed experience fellowship with you. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen,
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  Speaker 3: and a men again. Fellowship in the gospel. Fellowship in
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  Speaker 3: the Gospel. What does fellowship mean to you? What is fellowship?
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  Speaker 3: What does fellowship mean to you? And I'd like for
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  Speaker 3: you to type it in the chat? Type it in
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  Speaker 3: the chat what does fellowship mean to you? If you're
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  Speaker 3: listening on the radio and you're like, what chat? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: we're live on YouTube right now and on a few
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  Speaker 3: Facebook channels. You can come back to it. Okay, what
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  Speaker 3: does fellowship mean to you? Is it a lunch that
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  Speaker 3: happens after church on Sabbaths or something else. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 3: what God is showing us is that he wants us
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  Speaker 3: to have unity and agreement going in the same direction
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  Speaker 3: with God and with each other. With God, that's the
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  Speaker 3: vertical relation and with one another. That is what God
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  Speaker 3: wants for us. Okay, And so we're going to the
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  Speaker 3: Bible Book of Philippians. Of course I've oversimplified, oversimplified into
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  Speaker 3: the Book of Philippians Chapter one, Philippians Chapter one, and
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  Speaker 3: I will read verses three through eight Philippians Chapter one,
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  Speaker 3: Versus three through eight, and the Bible reads, I thank
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  Speaker 3: my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every
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  Speaker 3: prayer of mine for you, all making requests with joy
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  Speaker 3: for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day
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  Speaker 3: until now. So let me look up the word fellowship
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  Speaker 3: here koinanea plot twist Coinania. I remember we had a
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  Speaker 3: ministry like that at the Community Praise. Now it's called
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  Speaker 3: Community Praise Church. Back then it was Community Praise Center
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  Speaker 3: in Alexandria, Virginia. And that means one's partnership. That is
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  Speaker 3: literally participation or social intercourse or benefaction to communicate, to
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  Speaker 3: have communion. And of course this has to do with
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  Speaker 3: joint partnership, that is the intimate experience we can have
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  Speaker 3: with God and with one another, to where we know
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  Speaker 3: how each other think, how we feel, how we breathe,
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  Speaker 3: what our connections are. It's not one of those sort
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  Speaker 3: of passing situations where we just happen to know one
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  Speaker 3: another's name and follow each other on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Not like that.
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  Speaker 3: So God wants that for us, and we see it
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  Speaker 3: in Paul's writings verse six. Being confident of this very
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  Speaker 3: thing that He which hath begun a good work in you,
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  Speaker 3: will perform it until the day of Christ. Yeah, Kynannia,
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  Speaker 3: that fellowship may be a part of the good work
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  Speaker 3: that God has begun in you. If you're an introvert
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  Speaker 3: like me and generally not look for new relationships, not
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  Speaker 3: generally looking for ways to socialize even spiritually, that now
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  Speaker 3: you know, right I have. I'm an introvert with very
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  Speaker 3: public gifts. God has given me public responsibilities with an
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  Speaker 3: introverted mindset, and it's like, okay, so you want me
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  Speaker 3: to grow.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. God, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: So you want me to grow, So you give me
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  Speaker 3: public gifts where I have to interact with human beings
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  Speaker 3: on a regular basis. And yet I am a solitary naturally,
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  Speaker 3: a solitary person. And so God wants us to grow.
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  Speaker 3: And he's saying that I can even perform a better
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  Speaker 3: work in you in terms of.
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  Speaker 2: Fellowship verse seven.
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  Speaker 3: Even as it is meet for me to think this
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  Speaker 3: of you all, because I have you in my heart,
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  Speaker 3: inasmuch as both in my bonds and in defense and
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  Speaker 3: confirmation of the Gospel, you are all partakers of my
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  Speaker 3: grace for God is my record Verse eight. And final,
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  Speaker 3: how greatly I long after you all in my bowels
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  Speaker 3: of Jesus Christ. So much more to say, so little
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  Speaker 3: time fellowship in the Gospel. You see, our first lesson
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  Speaker 3: is that God thanked or Paul thanked God for the
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  Speaker 3: Philippians because they shared in the work of the Gospel
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  Speaker 3: with him. Okay, So coiinnanea. Fellowship is also about the
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  Speaker 3: great commission, all of us being united in order to
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  Speaker 3: win as many people to Christ as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And so I've already shared with you what coynanea means
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  Speaker 3: and so the action step today for this is to
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  Speaker 3: reach out to one other believer. Yeah, sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 3: do that. Sometimes we are so obsessed and I don't
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  Speaker 3: mean it in a negative way, it's just what it is,
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  Speaker 3: so obsessed with evangelism and reaching out that we do
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  Speaker 3: not build our relationship within the current body of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes it actually impacts how we can be evangelistic
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  Speaker 3: because sometimes we bring people into broken situations because we
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  Speaker 3: have not resolved maybe if there are conflicts or we
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  Speaker 3: have not grown enough in our love. Jesus said, they
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  Speaker 3: will know that you are my disciples if you have
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  Speaker 3: love one toward another. And so I'm grateful that God
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  Speaker 3: has given us the privilege to do what. Reach out
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  Speaker 3: to one believer today, just one and express gratitude for
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  Speaker 3: how they support your spiritual walk. I'm going to do
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  Speaker 3: it too, Okay. Lesson number two comes in from Philippians,
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  Speaker 3: chapter one and verse six. The Bible reads, being confident,
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  Speaker 3: okay of this very thing. I read it already, but
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  Speaker 3: reading it again, that he which hath begun a good
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  Speaker 3: work in you will perform it until the day that
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  Speaker 3: Jesus of Jesus Christ. Paul assured and reassured the people
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  Speaker 3: in Philippi that God would come complete his work in them.
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  Speaker 3: You see, too many of us are overthinkers. Too many
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  Speaker 3: of us are hurry up and stop type people. Too
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  Speaker 3: many of us just literally get distracted and move on
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  Speaker 3: to something else before what is in front of us
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  Speaker 3: is complete. And what God is showing us here through
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  Speaker 3: Paul is that God will complete. He will complete. It
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  Speaker 3: means to bring to completion. The word there for complete,
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  Speaker 3: to finish fully, not halfway, not leaving something for someone
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  Speaker 3: else to do. You see my brother and friend Moose
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  Speaker 3: Mustafa Mustafa Gonem, he talks about something that I really
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  Speaker 3: espouse and have for many years, but he's making it
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  Speaker 3: a big thing in the company that he is running,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, okay, I love it. It's following something
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  Speaker 3: through unto completion. It's full ownership.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 3: It is distributedly leadership. And when I have a task
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  Speaker 3: or I have an area where I work, I do
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  Speaker 3: as much of that process that it takes to get
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  Speaker 3: it through the finish line.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what God wants to show us, that God
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  Speaker 3: takes everything to the finish line. The action step is
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  Speaker 3: give one area of your spiritual growth to God today
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  Speaker 3: and trust that He will continue to shape you until
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  Speaker 3: He has completed his work in you and finally our
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  Speaker 3: lesson number three, Paul carried the Church of God on
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  Speaker 3: his heart with the affection of Jesus Christ and prayed
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  Speaker 3: for them with joy. We can learn a lot from
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  Speaker 3: brother Paul Peace.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,