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08 23 2026 Thanksgiving · 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 Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty third day of August in twenty twenty six. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is Thanksgiving Thanksgiving. Before we get into that, to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you and ask you to please go
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  Speaker 2: stop guessing what to do with your life, discover God's
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  Speaker 2: design for your life. There are many of you who
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  Speaker 2: are still grappling with why am I here? Why has
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  Speaker 2: God given me these certain desires and a drive in
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  Speaker 2: a certain way. I don't know what to do with this. Well,
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  Speaker 2: God has given all of his children spiritual gifts under
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost, and so this is an avenue for
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  Speaker 2: you to actually come away with a personal blueprint, a
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  Speaker 2: your daily portion ministries. We are a listener and viewer supported.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this Sunday morning. Thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the love of Christ. Thank you for the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: time we had yesterday where we were able to come
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  Speaker 2: aside and connect with you in a way that cannot
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  Speaker 2: happen any other time throughout the week. Father, Will you
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  Speaker 2: fill us with your Holy spirit and the grateful heart
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  Speaker 2: that you love so much. In Jesus' name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: a man and a man again, So Paul, according to
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  Speaker 2: the Lesson writer, his thankfulness focuses on the comfort that
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  Speaker 2: God provides for those who are suffering. I'm very grateful
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  Speaker 2: that God provides comfort when we are suffering. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you have suffered loss recently, people that you love so much,
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  Speaker 2: and you miss them dearly, and all you can do
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  Speaker 2: is remember their voices saying the things that you are
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  Speaker 2: familiar with, or the activities that you used to do together.
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  Speaker 2: You remember how you grew up together. Or for you
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  Speaker 2: who are were married, you remember that you pledged to
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  Speaker 2: grow old together and then death came in and stole
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  Speaker 2: that from you. Well, Paul is saying that when God
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  Speaker 2: is able to comfort you, he Paul gives thanks. How
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  Speaker 2: many have given thanks recently to God. I have been
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  Speaker 2: going through some trials. I'm not saying me now while
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking, I'm saying in that in that voice, I've
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  Speaker 2: gone through some trials and God showed me that He
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  Speaker 2: was with me, and that was good enough for me.
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  Speaker 2: Type of one in the chat. If you have been
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  Speaker 2: you have been through trials, or you're going through a
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  Speaker 2: trial and you know that God is with you. How
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  Speaker 2: about those who have gone through trials and you see
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  Speaker 2: that God has taken you through and out on to
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  Speaker 2: the out to the other side of those trials. You
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  Speaker 2: give God thanks and praise for that type of two
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  Speaker 2: In the chad m h. God gives us whatever we
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  Speaker 2: need in the moment that we need. So we're going
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  Speaker 2: with our first lesson from tewod Corinthians, Chapter one, verses
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  Speaker 2: nine and ten, where the Bible reads, Indeed, we felt
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  Speaker 2: as if the sentence of death had been passed against us,
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  Speaker 2: so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God,
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  Speaker 2: who raises the dead. He delivered us from so great
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  Speaker 2: a risk of death, and we and he, pardon me,
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  Speaker 2: will deliver us. We have set our hope on him
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  Speaker 2: that he will deliver us again. So the same God
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  Speaker 2: who delivered you in the past is able to do
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  Speaker 2: it again, the same God who delivered your brother, your sister,
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  Speaker 2: your friend, your neighbor, how your child. You have seen
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  Speaker 2: how God has worked in the past, and you know
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  Speaker 2: now that God will continue to work in that way
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  Speaker 2: today and into the future. You understand, Yeah, I remember
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  Speaker 2: reading back in the day, and of course it's not
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  Speaker 2: the last time I read it. But we have no
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  Speaker 2: fear for the future, except we forget how God has
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  Speaker 2: led us in the past. And so what are we
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  Speaker 2: talking about when it comes to hope. We hope that
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  Speaker 2: God will lead us in the way that He has
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  Speaker 2: led in a good way in the past. We hope
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  Speaker 2: that God will keep his promises. We hope to see
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  Speaker 2: ourselves go through on to the other side, safe and
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  Speaker 2: sound well. That word hope El Pizzo in that text
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  Speaker 2: is to set one's expectation on a future certainty. I
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  Speaker 2: think we got hope twisted. We got hope all mixed up.
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  Speaker 2: Many times people hope because they are saying I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if this or that, So I'm guessing that if
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  Speaker 2: by chance God decides, then possibly That's what hope looks
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  Speaker 2: like to a lot of people. It's like hoping in
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  Speaker 2: a dream and God is saying no. This is expectation
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  Speaker 2: on a future certainty. Paul uses the past, the present,
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  Speaker 2: and the future tenses of God's deliverance in a single verse.
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  Speaker 2: He delivered, he delivers, and he will deliver. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you noticed that hope is not wishful thinking.
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  Speaker 2: I could have just said that a little bit earlier,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't die. Yeah, it is confidence built on God's track record.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, it's God's track record, his resume, is
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  Speaker 2: good with us. We know that he has kept every
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  Speaker 2: single promise. We know that he will keep his promises again.
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  Speaker 2: And so God brought Paul to the edge of death
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  Speaker 2: so that he would stop trusting in himself and trust
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  Speaker 2: in God, who raises the dead. The most severe pressures
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  Speaker 2: God allows are the ones that transfer your confidence from
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  Speaker 2: your own resources to His resurrection power. So what should
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  Speaker 2: we do in this case? I want you to remember
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  Speaker 2: or recall one time, just one time, that God delivered
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  Speaker 2: you from something you could not have survived on your own,
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  Speaker 2: and let that memory build your confidence that He will
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  Speaker 2: do it again, that He will deliver you again in
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  Speaker 2: whatever you are facing now. I want to read from
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  Speaker 2: the book The Ministry of Healing, page four hundred seventy one.
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  Speaker 2: The Ministry of Healing, page four hundred seventy one, where
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  Speaker 2: we read trials and obstacles are the Lord's chosen methods
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  Speaker 2: of discipline and his appointed conditions of success. He who
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  Speaker 2: reads the hearts of men knows their characters better than
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  Speaker 2: they themselves know them. He sees that some have powers
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  Speaker 2: and sensibilities which rightly directed, might be used for the
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  Speaker 2: advancement of His work. And so God will use these trials,
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  Speaker 2: these tribulations to more form our characters so that we
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  Speaker 2: can be faithful through anything that comes our way, and
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  Speaker 2: of course bring that to the gospel, the gospel work
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  Speaker 2: as we continue to grow together before Jesus comes. And
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  Speaker 2: so we're going to read also from Second Corinthians chapter
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  Speaker 2: one as we come to a close Second Corinthians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: one and verse eleven. The Bible reads, and you also
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  Speaker 2: are helping us by prayer so that many people will
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  Speaker 2: give thanks on our behalf for the gracious gift given
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  Speaker 2: to us through the prayers of many. So this means
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  Speaker 2: to work together, to work alongside, to labor in partnership.
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  Speaker 2: This kind of praying is laboring in partnership. He describes
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  Speaker 2: intercessory prayer as an active partnership in the work of
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  Speaker 2: the ministry. Are you at joining yourselves with people in
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  Speaker 2: ministry and praying for them, especially when you see them
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  Speaker 2: going through trials and tribulations? Are you? Are you those
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  Speaker 2: who pray for a servant of God are co laborers
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  Speaker 2: in everything that that servant accomplishes. So for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who are saying, well, I don't I can't preach,
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  Speaker 2: I can't sing, I can't evangela whatever. If you can
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  Speaker 2: pray for someone who is in the midst of these,
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  Speaker 2: then you are a partaker in those gifts. Peace.
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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,