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08 07 2026 Go Forward with God · 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, the
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  Speaker 2: seventh day of August twenty twenty six. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our Lesson study series through the books of
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  Speaker 2: First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: forward with God. We're going forward with God. I actually
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  Speaker 2: forgot the title go forward with God. We don't want
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  Speaker 2: to get stuck, so we go forward with God. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: you and ask you to please go over to your
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  Speaker 2: Also click that big red button that says click here
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  Speaker 2: to discover God's design for your life. Stop guessing what
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  Speaker 2: to do with your life. It is a special blueprint
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  Speaker 2: that God has given me over a few years, really
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  Speaker 2: being a part of thirty years of experience, and God
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  Speaker 2: is opening up the eyes of his people about what
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  Speaker 2: we are supposed to do within the Body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: So please go ahead and click that. And also please,
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  Speaker 2: Portion ministries, because your Daily Portion Ministries is a listener
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  Speaker 2: and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: get underwigh. Father in heaven, thank you for this day
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  Speaker 2: and for the time of preparation that you've given us.
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  Speaker 2: We're preparing for the coming of Jesus Christ, but today
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  Speaker 2: we are preparing for the Sabbath. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: prepare our hearts. Our clothes is cool, our shoes are cool.
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  Speaker 2: To cars and food and all of that. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: The bathrooms, that's great. But God, will you help us
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  Speaker 2: to prepare our minds so that we can have that
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  Speaker 2: special encounter with You among the congregation during the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: hours in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen, Amen, and a
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  Speaker 2: man again. We are going forward with God. And so
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing for me considering today's lesson is
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  Speaker 2: God does not call the equipped, he equips the cold.
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  Speaker 2: Have you heard that over the years. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if people say that anymore, but back in the eighties
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  Speaker 2: I remember hearing that a lot. God does not call
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  Speaker 2: the equipped, but he equips the called. So stop looking
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  Speaker 2: at what you lack, and look and focus on look
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  Speaker 2: at and focus on your leader. Stop focusing on your lack,
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  Speaker 2: focus on your leader. God does not call the equipped,
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  Speaker 2: but he what equips the called. I remember Pastor Henry
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  Speaker 2: Monroe Wright had us at a retreat as elders many
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  Speaker 2: years ago, and his topic was why you elder. I
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  Speaker 2: can hear him in my mind right now, Why you elder?
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  Speaker 2: And immediately he began to poke holes and really put big, giant,
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  Speaker 2: gaping holes in the argument that perhaps God called us
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  Speaker 2: because we're so good at what we do. We have
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  Speaker 2: proven faithful over the years. Therefore he is using us,
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  Speaker 2: and it seems logical, it doesn't seem entirely unbiblical. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time he said God is equipping the
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  Speaker 2: called because he wants to save you. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: could say it exactly how he said it, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't. But he said that God wants to save you,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Whenever he has called you to do
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  Speaker 2: something for the kingdom, he is as much after your
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  Speaker 2: heart as he is the ones that you will serve.
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  Speaker 2: Why you because God is seeking to save you, and
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  Speaker 2: He will also save you through the process of you
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  Speaker 2: helping others to get closer to God. And so our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson is coming in from Ephesians chapter four. That's
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  Speaker 2: the Bible book of Ephesians, chapter four, And I will
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  Speaker 2: read verse seven, and the Bible reads but unto every
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  Speaker 2: one of us is given grace. That's God's power to
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  Speaker 2: do his will according to the measure of the gift
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. Well, how great is the measure of Christ?
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  Speaker 2: Like how big is Jesus Christ? And if God has
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  Speaker 2: given gifts to that measure, what is the limit on
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  Speaker 2: the gifts? Do you see where we're going here? So
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  Speaker 2: the measure is Christ. Okay, okay, okay. So a gift
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  Speaker 2: that's freely given is the term doraea. Doraea, It's the
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  Speaker 2: Greek term from the passage we're reading a grant requiring
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  Speaker 2: nothing in return. Somebody's just getting it, especially those who
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  Speaker 2: have sought grants for your companies, your organizations. Right, this
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  Speaker 2: is a gift, a grant requiring nothing in return. Every
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  Speaker 2: believer has received grace measured out by Jesus Christ himself.
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  Speaker 2: No one is left without a gift. You know how
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people used to get those sweep steaks things in
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  Speaker 2: the mail back in the day. I know, I'm dating myself.
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  Speaker 2: And then on television you would see, you know, people
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  Speaker 2: bump bump bump, knocking on the doors standing outside, and
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  Speaker 2: somebody with a great cheerful smile is outside with a
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  Speaker 2: microphone ready to capture the moment. Of course, the cameras
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  Speaker 2: are present, and balloons and streamers and all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: pomp and circumstance because you have won the so and
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  Speaker 2: so sweepstakes, and people are excited because wow, they received
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  Speaker 2: something after they scratched off something, or they filled out
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  Speaker 2: something that was in a magazine and sent it in,
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  Speaker 2: or they purchased three bars of the same soap and
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  Speaker 2: then put the little little ticket with it and sent
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  Speaker 2: that in and proved that they bought this soap, and
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  Speaker 2: it was a promotional and now you are twenty five
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  Speaker 2: thousand or one million US dollars richer because of your participation.
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, what we really just need is surrender
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  Speaker 2: to His will, and the measure of his calling upon
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  Speaker 2: your life will be equal to the measure of Christ himself.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever he says is appropriate, He's going to doll that
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  Speaker 2: on you with nothing required in return. And I know
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  Speaker 2: it's causing some of you to itch because you're like,
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  Speaker 2: of course, of course there's something required. God requires us
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  Speaker 2: fill in the blank with all of the things related
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  Speaker 2: to God's law et cetera, relationship with God, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: But do you understand that everything that God first requires,
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  Speaker 2: he first gives, He supplies everything, and then requires whatever
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  Speaker 2: he requires from us. And so where cooperation is concerned,
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, I will start you off, I will
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  Speaker 2: empower you, and then I will require your cooperation, your submission,
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  Speaker 2: your activity in return. So God is the one that
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  Speaker 2: gave the gifts, and so the insight is the gift
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  Speaker 2: in the faith, Fellowship of God, the Church of God
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  Speaker 2: did not come from human talent or personal achievement. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't scratch off something and send it in the mail
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  Speaker 2: or buy email to anywhere, or fill out a form online.
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  Speaker 2: Christ measured them out according to his own sovereign grace.
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  Speaker 2: God is sovereign. He knows everything. He knows all of us,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore when he is active, he is active based
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  Speaker 2: on all of his infinite knowledge. Every gift you carry
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  Speaker 2: is evidence of His deliberate investment in you. There's a
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  Speaker 2: song titled intentional. Huh. God is intentional with you, never changing.
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  Speaker 2: He knows exactly what He is doing in and through
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  Speaker 2: your life. So go farward today, brothers and sisters, with
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  Speaker 2: the gifts of God, as according to what He's given
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  Speaker 2: to you, not waiting until you feel ready, not comparing yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I think Paul the Bible writer knocked a big hole
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  Speaker 2: in that one and said, you can't say that you're
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  Speaker 2: not needed. You can't say of others that they are
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  Speaker 2: not needed. Stop comparing yourselves to each other, but trusting
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  Speaker 2: that Christ, who gave the gift, will honor its use.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read, Let me read from the book was
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  Speaker 2: actually not a book, the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
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  Speaker 2: that was a periodical back in the day. April twelve,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen o six. Let no One despise the supposed lesser gifts.
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  Speaker 2: Let all go to work. Let no one fold his
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  Speaker 2: hands in unbelief because he thinks that he cannot do
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  Speaker 2: a mighty work.
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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,