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01 25 2026 We Work Out What God Works In · 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 Sunday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in
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  Speaker 2: Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is is
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  Speaker 2: I love this one. We work out what God works in.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it again. I was too excited. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not joking, Like, we work out what God works in.
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  Speaker 2: This is good. This is really good. This is really good.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I like to say, welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: red button. And this is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray. Father, We thank you, Thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for working in our life lives. You're intentional,
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  Speaker 2: as the songwriter said, never changing. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: cooperate with you. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. We are working out what God is working in.
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  Speaker 2: I remember there was a quote from Blackaby. I forgot
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  Speaker 2: what his first name is, but the Blackaby who wrote
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  Speaker 2: Experiencing God. He said that we are to work where
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  Speaker 2: God is already working. It's early, but I need your
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  Speaker 2: mind to be active. We are to work where God
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  Speaker 2: is already active. And the lesson writer, we work out
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  Speaker 2: what God works in. Where is God working? Join him?
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  Speaker 2: That's the goal for today join him. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and begin with a quote. A quote from the Signs
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  Speaker 2: of the Times. It's an article from eighteen ninety one E. J. Wagoner.
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  Speaker 2: Faith works because God works in the believer. Sometimes our
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  Speaker 2: focus is on our faith rather than on the God
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  Speaker 2: of our faith. Our faith lays hold upon the power
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  Speaker 2: of God. Faith works because God works in the believer.
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  Speaker 2: So if I have faith, if I say I have
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  Speaker 2: faith and I'm sitting on my hands, if I say
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  Speaker 2: I have faith and the things that I do are
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  Speaker 2: contrary to God's work or his will, then that means
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  Speaker 2: that the faith quote that I have is not genuine faith.
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  Speaker 2: The obedience that follows is the fruit, never the root
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  Speaker 2: of salvation. So we are looking at the manifestation of
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  Speaker 2: our faith, our faith in God. When we live according
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  Speaker 2: to God's principles. We're living according to God's principles because
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  Speaker 2: of God, and our faith lays hold of the power
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  Speaker 2: of God. You see the priority there, God is priority.
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  Speaker 2: We need God. So He's given us a vehicle, a
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  Speaker 2: conduit through which His power can and must flow. What
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  Speaker 2: is that vehicle. It's called faith. When the faith on
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  Speaker 2: one end is connected to God, the power source and
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  Speaker 2: then faith, on the other hand, is connected to us.
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  Speaker 2: We now see how faith actually works and from the
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  Speaker 2: Booksteps to Christ, page eighteen. Man cannot transform himself by
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  Speaker 2: the exercise of his will. That is not where the
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  Speaker 2: transformation happens. He must submit to the working of God.
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  Speaker 2: A divine power will unite with human effort. So sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people through willpower. I mean, that's a whole paradigm. Back
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  Speaker 2: when I was young, in the seventies and eighties, early eighties,
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  Speaker 2: that was a thing, like everything was about willpower. But
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that we are to work out our
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  Speaker 2: own salvation. You know what, Let me not get ahead
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  Speaker 2: of my skis, let me get let me get to
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  Speaker 2: that first lesson. Lesson number one. As we work out
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  Speaker 2: our salvation, because God is already working in or within us,
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  Speaker 2: Our obedience is a response to God, not the cause. Philippians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two, verses twelve and thirteen. The Bible reads, work
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  Speaker 2: out your own salvation with fear and trembling. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people get stuck there. A lot of people begin
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  Speaker 2: there right. For it is God which worketh in you,
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  Speaker 2: both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get that? For it is God which worketh
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  Speaker 2: in you both to will and to do of His
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  Speaker 2: good pleasure. The only way that you can work out
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  Speaker 2: your own salvation with fear and trembling is because God
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  Speaker 2: is already working in you. He's working it out as
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  Speaker 2: the gospel song writer. He's working it out for me,
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  Speaker 2: and I would add in me. And so this work,
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  Speaker 2: the kind of work that we're talking about, means to energize, energize,
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  Speaker 2: to activate, to produce power inwardly. So God is the
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  Speaker 2: one that works in us so we can do his
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  Speaker 2: good pleasure, his good pleasure. Our action step is to
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge one area. Want you just find that one area
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  Speaker 2: where God is prompting you to obey and take a
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  Speaker 2: single concrete step in that direction. I think I said
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  Speaker 2: this to you recently. Eric Thomas e. T, the hip
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  Speaker 2: hop preacher. He says that when people are like floundering
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  Speaker 2: and trying to figure it out and they're all confused,
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  Speaker 2: like I don't know what to do next, he said,
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  Speaker 2: go back to what God told you to do that
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  Speaker 2: you didn't do. That's the next step. Whatever He told
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  Speaker 2: you to do ten minutes ago that you did not do,
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  Speaker 2: that you did not execute on whatever he told told
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  Speaker 2: you yesterday that you did not execute on it is
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  Speaker 2: now now is the time that you do it. It's
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  Speaker 2: very simple. We don't have to be confused. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have to spin around, spin around three times, touch our
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  Speaker 2: neighbor and tell them sixteen different ways. God is working
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  Speaker 2: it out for me. No, you need to do what
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  Speaker 2: God has already told you, with the power that He's
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  Speaker 2: already working in you to do his good pleasure. Let's
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  Speaker 2: move on before I get a little bit too passionate
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  Speaker 2: lesson number two. Salvation is entirely God's work. Yes, I'm
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  Speaker 2: beating on my desk. Salvation is entirely God's work. Grace
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  Speaker 2: originates in him, flows through him, and finishes through him.
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting that pathway? God's work is salvation, that's him,
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  Speaker 2: all him. Grace originates in him. That's the power to
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  Speaker 2: do God's will. Huh. And unmerited favor that comes from him.
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  Speaker 2: It flows through him. So if you think you're going
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  Speaker 2: to get around him, be like, Okay, I got this,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it from here and keep it pushing. Nope,
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  Speaker 2: that's not how this works and finishes through him. He's
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  Speaker 2: the author. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith,
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  Speaker 2: He who began a good work in you, will also
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  Speaker 2: complete it until the end. And so in Ephesians chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse eight we read four by grace, are
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  Speaker 2: ye saved through faith? I'll pause right there. Verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: not of works, lest any man should boast. Grace means
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  Speaker 2: our curists unearned favor, divine power freely given. I said
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  Speaker 2: that quickly, but I didn't tell you that that's the
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  Speaker 2: actual theological term. Our action step is reject one subtle
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  Speaker 2: form of self trust today and rest your confidence entirely
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  Speaker 2: in Christ's righteousness. Reject one subtle form of self trust today.
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  Speaker 2: It could be that you've done all that you need
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  Speaker 2: to do. You paid your car insurance, you lock the doors,
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  Speaker 2: you locked your windows, and you expect that that's going
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  Speaker 2: to protect you. Well, no, I mean you do those
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  Speaker 2: things because they're sensible, but really it's God that will
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  Speaker 2: take care of you. You see where that's going. And
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  Speaker 2: then we can move that into our spiritual lives. The
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  Speaker 2: concept into our spiritual lives. Our lesson number three and
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  Speaker 2: final for today is while works cannot save us, the
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  Speaker 2: saved are recreated unto good works that God himself prepares.
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  Speaker 2: While works cannot save us. The saved are recreated for
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  Speaker 2: good works that God himself prepares.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. 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,