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01 24 2025 Looking Unto Jesus · 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, 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. It is Friday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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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 day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. Our caption four today is
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  Speaker 2: looking unto Jesus, looking unto Jesus and those who listen
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  Speaker 2: and watch every day, You're like, hold on, But that
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  Speaker 2: just changed how we do things. I know we are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our Lessons study series God's Love and Justice.
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  Speaker 2: God's Love and Justice. But before we begin, I would
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  Speaker 2: like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: for the very first time. I'm asking you to please
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  Speaker 2: our online community. Pick up the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that is allowing us to apply, apply
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  Speaker 2: what we study, apply what we listen about and speak about,
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  Speaker 2: apply into four key areas of our lives. So go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pick that up. And I'm asking ten thousand
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  Speaker 2: of you to click the button that's seven. It's the
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand of you to please join and subscribe there
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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's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for this preparation day, for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the privilege of coming together to worship you. Father.
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  Speaker 2: I pray now that this worship will result in transforming
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  Speaker 2: our lives. That we will live according to what you
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  Speaker 2: have called us to live. And please please help us
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  Speaker 2: to discern your will and then help others do it
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  Speaker 2: while we do it. In Jesus' name, I pray a
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  Speaker 2: man and a man looking unto Jesus. I love it,
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  Speaker 2: I love it, I love it. I was just thinking
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  Speaker 2: about a hymn that I shared with you probably a
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  Speaker 2: month ago, just about a month ago, almost to the day. Really,
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  Speaker 2: turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face,
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  Speaker 2: and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in
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  Speaker 2: the light of his glory and grace. And so when
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  Speaker 2: we look to Jesus, according to the writings of Paul,
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  Speaker 2: we are seeing the author and finisher of our faith.
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  Speaker 2: When we're looking to Jesus, we are seeing the model
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  Speaker 2: for how we can, will and must live. Shout out
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  Speaker 2: to e T the hip hop preacher. Like when we
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  Speaker 2: look unto Jesus, we are seeing what God wants us
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  Speaker 2: to be. And he is giving us the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: following in Jesus's footsteps. And you're like, what you want
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  Speaker 2: us he wants us to become? On Dave, that's sacrilegious.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to pay keen attention. Let me slow
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  Speaker 2: it down, see Paul said in another place, he said,
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  Speaker 2: let this mind be in you. What mind, Paul, the
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  Speaker 2: one that was also in Christ Jesus. Oh, So when
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  Speaker 2: I see Jesus, I see the mindset that I can have. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I see the example that I should follow in his footsteps. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: humility and service to others glaw sorry for the name
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  Speaker 2: of God and honor in our lifestyles. Yes, so Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is our example. Looking unto Jesus, He's the author and
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  Speaker 2: the finisher of our faith. And faith lays hold on
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  Speaker 2: the power of God. This is the function of faith,
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  Speaker 2: to actually lay hold on the power of God. Not
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  Speaker 2: for us to talk about being faithful, not for us
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  Speaker 2: to say my faith is strong, not for us to say, well,
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  Speaker 2: if I have faith, then I will know more about God.
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  Speaker 2: Faith lays hold on the power of God and then
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  Speaker 2: becomes a conduit through which that power comes into our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Like the woman who crawled through the crowd, who had
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  Speaker 2: an issue of blood for twelve years, and the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that when she laid hold upon God, Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: in that regard, the Son of God and God the Son,
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  Speaker 2: when she laid hold and she touched the hem of
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  Speaker 2: his garment, the faith that God had given to her
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  Speaker 2: had become the conduit. To the degree that Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: virtue has left me. You see, his power was transferred,
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  Speaker 2: some power from him. Let me say it that way,
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  Speaker 2: was transferred from him into the life and body of
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  Speaker 2: this woman who had an issue twelve years, and so
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer would have us to read from, had
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  Speaker 2: us to read from thoughts from the Mount of blessing,
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  Speaker 2: Thoughts from the Mount of blessing all who have a
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  Speaker 2: sense of their deep soul poverty. You see, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: blessed are the poor in spirit, and then he tells
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  Speaker 2: us what the outcome will be. If we are all
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  Speaker 2: who have the sense of their deep soul poverty, who
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  Speaker 2: feel that they have nothing good in themselves, may find righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: hold on and strength. Hold on by looking unto Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: You see, it is obvious that I have problems as
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  Speaker 2: a human being. I'm saying. It is obvious that I
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  Speaker 2: am a sinner or have committed sins. Let me put
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  Speaker 2: it that way. It is obvious that I need to
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  Speaker 2: be born again. It is obvious that I am challenged.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what my behavior style. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: if I'm an introvert or an extrovert. All of us
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  Speaker 2: are challenged with pride. Some have Bravado style pride, that
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  Speaker 2: puffed up level of pride. There are others who think
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  Speaker 2: that our problems are bigger than our God. Our ability
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  Speaker 2: to fail is greater than God's ability to deliver us
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  Speaker 2: from every besetting sin. Every human is born with the propensity,
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  Speaker 2: the pre disposition, the tendency to be prideful in one
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  Speaker 2: of those areas or both, depending on what's happening in
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  Speaker 2: our lives. And so what God is saying to us
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  Speaker 2: here is that when we look to Jesus we can
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  Speaker 2: forget about all of that. We allow him to do
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  Speaker 2: what God does. We do what humans do fail fall
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  Speaker 2: need help. When we look to Jesus, then we learn
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  Speaker 2: to lay hold upon the power of God. We learn
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  Speaker 2: to turn our eyes away from ourselves and toward God.
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  Speaker 2: And then something miraculous happens. Let me read it. He says,
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  Speaker 2: come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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  Speaker 2: You see that's the human part. He bids you exchange
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  Speaker 2: your poverty. I'm not talking about money, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: your poverty for the riches of His grace. We are
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  Speaker 2: not worthy of God's love. But Jesus can we just say,
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  Speaker 2: but Jesus type it in the chat. But Jesus, see,
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  Speaker 2: this is the transition point. This is what negates what
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  Speaker 2: came before. I can read It's English right, It's a
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  Speaker 2: conjunction that means. Whatever the poverty, whatever the deficiency, whatever
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  Speaker 2: that thing is that causes me to fall short, whatever
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  Speaker 2: that was. But Jesus, but Christ, our surety is worthy.
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  Speaker 2: See I was unworthy. But Jesus is worthy in my
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  Speaker 2: life and is abundantly able to save all who shall
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  Speaker 2: come unto him. You should be happy about this. Brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, I know they're Bewilderment sometimes overcomes you. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it is difficult for you to keep your mind focused
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  Speaker 2: in this way because in your life you see so
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  Speaker 2: many things that are discouraging in your life. You see
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  Speaker 2: so many ways that you have failed in your life.
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  Speaker 2: You see so many ways that you have caused yourself
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  Speaker 2: to feel really good about you. And then you discovered
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  Speaker 2: some deep, dark secret skeleton in your own closet and
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  Speaker 2: it jumps out on you and you're like, my God,
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  Speaker 2: how it can I be an overcomer? And God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: come on, come unto him whatever you have been in
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  Speaker 2: your past experience. However, I'm continuing the quote discouraging your
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  Speaker 2: present circumstances. If you will come to Jesus just as
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  Speaker 2: you are weak and helpless and despairing, our compassionate Savior
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  Speaker 2: will not might not. Maybe he will meet you a
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  Speaker 2: great way off and will throw about you or around
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  Speaker 2: you his arms of love and his robe of righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that when you look to Jesus, you
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  Speaker 2: don't see condemnation. You look to Jesus, you see the
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  Speaker 2: strength that you need to become.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember
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  Speaker 1: we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  Speaker 1: that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  Speaker 1: your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a
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  Speaker 1: great day. Yeah,