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02 01 2026 Rejoicing in the Lord · 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, February one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El 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 Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Rejoice in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Rejoicing in the Lord. Before we get into that, i'd
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this new day,
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  Speaker 2: this day that you have entrusted to us to do
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  Speaker 2: your work. Please help us to serve you today. We
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  Speaker 2: need you in Jesus name, I pray a man and
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  Speaker 2: a man again rejoicing in the Lord. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: begin by reading from the Bible Book of Philippians Philippians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three, and I will read beginning at verse one. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. It's amazing. I've said
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  Speaker 2: this to you before that our brother Paul was talking
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  Speaker 2: about rejoicing in the Lord while he was locked up,
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  Speaker 2: and unjustly so. But he said, you, brethren, you brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
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  Speaker 2: things to you to me, indeed is not grievous, but
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  Speaker 2: for you it is safe. Let me read it. Let
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  Speaker 2: me read it in another translation. Finally, my brothers and
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  Speaker 2: sisters rejoice in the Lord. To write this again is
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  Speaker 2: no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
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  Speaker 2: Beware of dogs verse two, beware of evil workers, beware
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  Speaker 2: of those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision.
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  Speaker 2: That just basically means we are God's people. I'll keep
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  Speaker 2: that very simply. The ones who worship by the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely
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  Speaker 2: on human credentials. I think yesterday I talked to you
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  Speaker 2: about having no confidence in the flesh, and talk to
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  Speaker 2: you about how he just really turned his back on
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  Speaker 2: his own resume his own skill set, and said, I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm just gonna submit my will here and accept
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  Speaker 2: God's righteousness through Christ. Okay, so we don't rely on
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  Speaker 2: human credentials verse four, though mine too are significant. See
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  Speaker 2: what that word for significant means. Though I have reason
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  Speaker 2: for confidence in the flesh. Is what that means. In
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  Speaker 2: the footnote, if someone thinks he has good reasons to
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  Speaker 2: put confidence in human credentials, I have more. And then
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  Speaker 2: he goes on, he goes on, and so what we
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  Speaker 2: want to do. I got ahead of my skis, but
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  Speaker 2: I just couldn't stop at verse three. We want to
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  Speaker 2: get back to rejoicing in the Lord our lesson. Number
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  Speaker 2: one in that regard is that joy protects believers from deception.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he said, beware of dogs, beware of all of
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  Speaker 2: these people, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision,
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  Speaker 2: which means mutilation, people who mutilate themselves, and people who
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  Speaker 2: really wouldn't have a problem eating you up and mutilating
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  Speaker 2: you spiritually in the church. Oh my, I digress. So
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  Speaker 2: joy protects the believer from deception because it is rooted
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  Speaker 2: in confidence in Christ and not flesh. And so the
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  Speaker 2: joy that he was talking about is korra. Korra in
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  Speaker 2: Greek used that word specifically. It means not based on circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Karra means that it's not based on circumscs dances, but
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  Speaker 2: on Christ rather, but on Christ. And so what I
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  Speaker 2: want you to do today in that in that vein
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  Speaker 2: is begin with about sixty seconds of intentional rejoicing. Now
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  Speaker 2: some of you are like, come on, bro, I rejoice
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  Speaker 2: for hours. Well you do that. But for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who are struggling, I want you to begin with
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  Speaker 2: just sixty seconds of intentional rejoicing because maybe you have
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  Speaker 2: a habit of complaining. I don't know. Maybe you see
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  Speaker 2: the glass half empty most of the time. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: see the dark side of things. It's natural for you
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  Speaker 2: because maybe it's in your DNA, maybe it's something that
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  Speaker 2: you were socialized with or in. And so I want
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  Speaker 2: you to do that naming three things? How many did
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  Speaker 2: I say? Type it in the chat? I need you
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  Speaker 2: to name three things Christ has already done for you.
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  Speaker 2: He's already done three things, more than three, but just
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  Speaker 2: he coord three things. Write it down. What are the
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  Speaker 2: three things God has already done for you? Lessen number two?
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  Speaker 2: Lessen number two. False confidence produces spiritual danger. False confidence
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  Speaker 2: reproduces excuse me, spiritual danger. True believers trust Christ alone
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  Speaker 2: and reject all flesh based righteousness. Ah, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: see already we read the passage in Philippians, chapter three
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  Speaker 2: and verse three, and so let's go to this confidence concept.
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  Speaker 2: So the word that he used for confidence, it means
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  Speaker 2: trust based in something or someone. Paul rejects all self
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  Speaker 2: confidence as spiritual foundation. So the action step is identify
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  Speaker 2: one area where you rely on personal performance. Oh wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, for spiritual assurance. Oh wait a minute. You
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  Speaker 2: have a habit of praying and then God says yes
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  Speaker 2: and he answers your prayers in the way that you
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  Speaker 2: anticipate many times. Yeah, don't don't listen, don't trust in
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  Speaker 2: your ability to pray, trust in the God to whom
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  Speaker 2: you pray, Okay, and consciously shift that trust to God.
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  Speaker 2: So let me say to you, like this, we are
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  Speaker 2: to have faith. The Bible says that we are to
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  Speaker 2: have faith God. Jesus said when he saw the one dude,
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  Speaker 2: he was like, Yo, I've never seen this kind of
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  Speaker 2: faith nowhere, even among God's people. This is some special faith.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my, Even Jesus said that about about that one brother, right, okay, right,
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  Speaker 2: And so sometimes we get that twisted and we say,
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  Speaker 2: I have so much faith, y'all want to you need
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  Speaker 2: a prayer? Answer like come to me, Like, come to
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  Speaker 2: me and I'll pray for you. And as a result,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get because I know God listens to me. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's true that God listens to you, right, but
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  Speaker 2: you're not the only one, Like, you're not special that
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  Speaker 2: it's not that somehow God has endowed you with something
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  Speaker 2: that is not accessible to every single human being that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus died for. That would be everybody you see, and
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  Speaker 2: so the focus needs to be switched from I have
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  Speaker 2: so much faith and God answers my prayers to I
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  Speaker 2: thank God because He's powerful, and when it is according
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  Speaker 2: to His glory and to my benefit. This is what
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  Speaker 2: God does like it's for your glory, for your name's sake. God,
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  Speaker 2: So focus your attention there less than number three and final,
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  Speaker 2: spiritual vigilance includes rejoicing in the Lord while guarding against
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  Speaker 2: teachings that distort the Gospel. There are so many teachers
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  Speaker 2: and false teachers, false christs, false prophets in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, and many of them are among the faith fellows.
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  Speaker 2: Many of them are sprinkled in among their growing like
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  Speaker 2: tears in the field of God's people. And so what
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  Speaker 2: Paul is saying is to beware of those, beware of
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  Speaker 2: those people, guard against teachings that distort the Gospel. Beware
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  Speaker 2: means to pay attention, to stay alert, a conscious call
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  Speaker 2: for spiritual discernment. Ask God for spiritual discernment. God help
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  Speaker 2: me to see what I naturally cannot see. And so
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  Speaker 2: the action step is to evaluate one teaching, habit or
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  Speaker 2: influence in your life through the scripture alone to confirm
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  Speaker 2: whether it aligns with the gospel. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,