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01 02 2026 Standing Firm in Faith · 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, January two,
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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 that this is your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion where we give you God's Word every single day
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians, and our caption for today is standing Firm
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  Speaker 2: in Faith, Standing Firm in Faith. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 2: Life Application Guide up. I'm not talking about the quarterly
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  Speaker 2: we know we have those, but I'm asking if you
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  Speaker 2: how many people have the Life Application Guide. If not,
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  Speaker 2: And also please let us know where you are in
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  Speaker 2: the world at your Daily portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the preparation time that you give us
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  Speaker 2: right before the Sabbath every single week. And I pray
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  Speaker 2: that our minds will be preparing, that we will be
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  Speaker 2: preparing to see you face to face one day soon. Father,
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  Speaker 2: please give us faithfulness in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. So the lesson writers has given us
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  Speaker 2: a quote from the Youth's instructor November ninth, eighteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read just a little bit of it and then
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  Speaker 2: jump into our lesson number one for today, and it reads,
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  Speaker 2: God has chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the
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  Speaker 2: spirit and belief of the truth. God has chosen you,
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  Speaker 2: not just the youth, but He's chosen you too. I
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  Speaker 2: know most of the people who are listening and watching
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  Speaker 2: me this morning are elders. Even to me. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: my fifties and you could be my parents. Many of you,
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  Speaker 2: about seventy four percent of you are elders to me.
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  Speaker 2: But God has chosen you to salvation through sanctification, to
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  Speaker 2: be set apart for a holy use by the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost and belief of the truth. Therefore, this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be very encouraging for people who are becoming weary
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  Speaker 2: in well doing. Some of you are tired of seeing
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  Speaker 2: what's happening in our world through the news cycle. You're like,
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  Speaker 2: how many times do we need to go through this
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  Speaker 2: or the other thing? Well, the inspired writings say, therefore
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  Speaker 2: stand fast. If you serve God faithfully, you will meet
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  Speaker 2: with prejudice and opposition. This is going to happen. Brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters. No need to get tired now, this is
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. But do not become provoked when
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  Speaker 2: you suffer wrongfully. Oh what so, some of y'all need
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  Speaker 2: to turn your social media pages right off. Turn them off.
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  Speaker 2: It was one thing back in the eighteen nineties when
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  Speaker 2: this was written. You know, it took some time for
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  Speaker 2: the message to get out when people would yield to
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  Speaker 2: provocation and then write it down, and she Auntie Ellen,
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  Speaker 2: would say, listen, don't give voice to the wickedness by
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  Speaker 2: putting it into our papers, meaning our publications like don't
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  Speaker 2: do that. So we should really follow that guidance today
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  Speaker 2: where it's so much faster and you can't take it
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  Speaker 2: back and the internet never forgets. Do not use the
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  Speaker 2: internet or social media in particular as a spiritual therapist.
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  Speaker 2: Stop putting every thought and feeling out there, especially when
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  Speaker 2: you're being provoked. When you suffer wrongfully, she said, do
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  Speaker 2: not retaliate. Hold fast your integrity in Christ. Set your
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  Speaker 2: face as flint heaven word that means, don't lose focus.
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  Speaker 2: Don't lose focus. Let others speak their own words and
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  Speaker 2: pursue their own course of action. It is for you
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  Speaker 2: to press on in meekness and lowliness of heart. You're
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  Speaker 2: not going to be able to control what people say
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  Speaker 2: and do. Run forward with Christ. She's saying, do your
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  Speaker 2: work with steadfast purpose, huh, with purity of heart, with
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  Speaker 2: all your might and strength, leaning on the arm of God.
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  Speaker 2: The true and exalted nature of your work you may
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  Speaker 2: never know the value of your being. You can measure
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  Speaker 2: only by the life given to save you. That means
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  Speaker 2: that the measure of your soul is not the way
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  Speaker 2: people see you, not the way people either applaud for
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  Speaker 2: you or disrespect you. The measure is that Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: gave his infinite of infinite value life for you. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to say it because I didn't write
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  Speaker 2: it down first. Yeah, of an inestimable value is the
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  Speaker 2: life of Christ, and this is what he gave so
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  Speaker 2: that you can be saved. Brothers and sisters, So switch
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  Speaker 2: the social media thing right off, especially when you are
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  Speaker 2: feeling emotional. Let me just pause right there, Pause right there,
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  Speaker 2: and let's jump in with our lesson Number one. God
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  Speaker 2: calls believers to stand firm through sanctification and of course truth,
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  Speaker 2: as we already read. Let's read again from Second Bessalonians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two and verse thirteen, and we find the principle again.
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  Speaker 2: God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
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  Speaker 2: sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth. That's
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  Speaker 2: where it came from, Okay, And that sanctification means the
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  Speaker 2: same as consecration. It means to be set aside because
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  Speaker 2: God has something he wants you to do that requires holiness.
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  Speaker 2: It does not only read a quoier skill. It does
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  Speaker 2: not only require the way He wired you behaviorally like
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  Speaker 2: behavior style wise. It doesn't only mean through your experiences
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  Speaker 2: as you've lived on planet Earth for fifteen twenty thirty
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  Speaker 2: seventy ninety years on planet Earth, it is that the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost has set you aside as a child of
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  Speaker 2: God and a follower and an ambassador for him. You
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  Speaker 2: represent the King of kings and Lord of lords. Blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name. And so that's what God wants for you.
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  Speaker 2: He's chosen you from before there was a beginning. Less
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  Speaker 2: of number two. Faithfulness invites opposition. That's what happens, like
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  Speaker 2: we become magnets of opposition. Yet integrity must remain unshaken.
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  Speaker 2: In First Peter, Chapter two, verses nineteen and twenty, it reads,
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  Speaker 2: for this is thankworthy if a man of conscience toward
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  Speaker 2: God endure Oh, no grief m hm, suffering wrongfully my God? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If when ye do well and suffer for it, ye
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  Speaker 2: take it patiently. This is acceptable to God. So suffering
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  Speaker 2: because of our own evil not acceptable huh, being punished
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  Speaker 2: because we have turned our backs on the law of
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  Speaker 2: God and it leaked into our practical lives, and the
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  Speaker 2: law of the land comes to deal with that. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about justly. I don't mean injustly justly well, that's
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  Speaker 2: not acceptable. God doesn't That is not God's intention for
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  Speaker 2: our lives. But if in this life we have to
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  Speaker 2: suffer for the time being, for the time being, not forever,
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  Speaker 2: but for the time being because of doing what God
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  Speaker 2: says that the Bible says is acceptable. I know it
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  Speaker 2: runs counter to our thought process. It seems unjust, and
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  Speaker 2: in fact it is. But the fact is that God
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  Speaker 2: is going to repay. He will bring retribution to the
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  Speaker 2: wickedness on planet Earth in one day. He will set
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  Speaker 2: justice as the standard. Our action for today is to
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  Speaker 2: respond to one unfair oh God, or irritating situation today
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  Speaker 2: with patience instead of retaliation. God wants to transform our
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  Speaker 2: minds and transform our lives. Brothers and sisters, we give
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  Speaker 2: God thanks. We give God thanks. He wants us to
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  Speaker 2: stand firm in the faith, but Jesus did it before
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  Speaker 2: we did, and now we can too. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day. Peace see you today. 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,