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02 12 2026 Keys for Contentment · 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 Thursday, February twelve,
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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 Uniteing Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Keys for Contentment, Keys
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  Speaker 2: for Contentment. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: get underway. Father. We thank you for this day and
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  Speaker 2: for the privilege that you have entrusted to us to
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  Speaker 2: open your word. I love this. Thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people every day that join us
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  Speaker 2: over the airwaves, over the internet, over the podcasting space. Father,
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  Speaker 2: please make us ambassadors for you and teach us to
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  Speaker 2: be content in You. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. I neglected to ask you as we're
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  Speaker 2: beginning here, did you come to prayer school last evening?
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  Speaker 2: For those who are on the radio, you have to
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  Speaker 2: evening we have prayer school for just about thirty minutes
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  Speaker 2: or fewer at seven pm my time. Okay, so please
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  Speaker 2: type a one in the chat. Were you there last night?
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  Speaker 2: Did you learn anything?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right, all right? Yeah, keys for contentment
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  Speaker 2: I digress. I'm going to read before we get into
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. I'm going to read from a Reviewing Herald
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  Speaker 2: article in eighteen seventy eight. From eighteen seventy eight, He
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  Speaker 2: who trusts the providence of God in all things will
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  Speaker 2: find calmness in trial God, patience in delay, and contentment
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  Speaker 2: in poverty. And you think I'm gonna stop right there,
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  Speaker 2: because Christiane speaking people seem to on one side. It's
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  Speaker 2: almost like two political parties within christiandom, right, the ones
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  Speaker 2: who are excited about being poor and the ones who
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  Speaker 2: are excited about being abundant. Okay, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: interrupt this again. I'll read it from the top so
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  Speaker 2: we can get the balance here. He who trusts in
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  Speaker 2: the providence of God in all things will find calmness
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  Speaker 2: in trial, okay, patience in delay, and contentment in poverty
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  Speaker 2: or abundance, contentment in God. Whether we have a lot
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  Speaker 2: or we have a little bit, we're content. I have
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  Speaker 2: said to people in coaching that I am not I'm
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  Speaker 2: neither an optimist. I'm neither optimist nor a pessimist. And
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  Speaker 2: I made up something. I made it up. It's nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: I made it up. I'm an always sufficientist, meaning that
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  Speaker 2: the cup is not half empty. The cup is not
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  Speaker 2: half full. I know that when I lift up that cup,
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  Speaker 2: if I am to receive water, since God is the
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  Speaker 2: water of life, that when I tip that cup, that
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have the abundance of water that I
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  Speaker 2: need in that moment. Always sufficient, God is sufficient. He
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  Speaker 2: will supply all my need according to His riches in glory,
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  Speaker 2: you see. And so we begin now from Philippians chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll read parts of verses eleven to thirteen Philippians
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  Speaker 2: chapter four, beginning at verse eleven. For I have learned,
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  Speaker 2: you see, he wasn't born with this. It wasn't something
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  Speaker 2: that just came with him. It wasn't a part of
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  Speaker 2: the package when he was born. For I have learned
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  Speaker 2: in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. Some
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  Speaker 2: of us need to learn that or relearn that. I
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  Speaker 2: know both how to be abased, that's humility, that's down.
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  Speaker 2: I know how to abound that's up. You're you're affluent,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe you're overflowing. Maybe you're abundant. Maybe your bank
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  Speaker 2: account looks exceptional. Maybe your pantry, your food pantry is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you have more than one vehicle, you understand. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you have more than one set of clothing. You got
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  Speaker 2: clothes for today and close for tomorrow. Maybe that's your reality.
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  Speaker 2: You know exactly where lunch is coming from. At this
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  Speaker 2: time of the morning, you have breakfast, Yes it's coming on,
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  Speaker 2: but you also know that at twelve o'clock or twelve
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  Speaker 2: thirty you're gonna have lunch. You're in abundance. He's learned
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  Speaker 2: how to be abased, and in abundance. Verse thirteen, I
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  Speaker 2: can do all things. Oh, now there's a context for
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  Speaker 2: the verse that sometimes people misapply. I can do all
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  Speaker 2: things through Christ, which strengthens me. It doesn't matter in
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  Speaker 2: what state we find ourselves. If we are in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: through Christ, he will strengthen us to do all things,
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  Speaker 2: whether in abundance or in what we consider to be lack.
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson is contentment grows when dependence on
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  Speaker 2: Christ becomes stronger than dependence on circumstances. And I think
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  Speaker 2: it was last month, last month or the month or
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  Speaker 2: the end of December. We did one of the prayer
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  Speaker 2: school one of the prayer schools on Wednesday evening that
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  Speaker 2: talked about give us this day our daily bread in
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  Speaker 2: this same discussion here and so and so, the word,
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  Speaker 2: the Greek word for contentment means self sufficient. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: inwardly satisfied through God's provision. Inwardly satisfied through God's provision.
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  Speaker 2: Paul's contentment was not natural, I said. He wasn't born
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  Speaker 2: with it. It was learned. It was formed from both
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  Speaker 2: lack and abundance, through continual reliance on Christ's strength rather
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  Speaker 2: than personal capacity. So what do we need to do
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  Speaker 2: with this? What do we do with this? Identify one
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  Speaker 2: area where you feel unsettled. If there is, in fact
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  Speaker 2: a place like that, you may not have this struggle
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  Speaker 2: at all. So don't try to force it. If you
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  Speaker 2: are like Paul was, then praise God. Show somebody else
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  Speaker 2: how to do it. Identify one area where you feel unsettled.
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  Speaker 2: Pray specifically, Jesus, will you strengthen me to be content
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  Speaker 2: in this place today? All right? Philippians, Chapter four and
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  Speaker 2: verse nineteen. The Bible reads, and I've said it before,
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  Speaker 2: But my God, who my God supply? What will he do? Supply?
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  Speaker 2: What will he supply? All? How much of it? All?
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  Speaker 2: All of what your need? Singular? According to his riches
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  Speaker 2: in glory in Christ Jesus. Does God have a problem
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  Speaker 2: in his bank account? Has it ever been overdrawn? Has
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  Speaker 2: he ever had a debt? Has God ever been without
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  Speaker 2: what we all need throughout the universe, not even on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. Since God is infinitely wealthy in every possible way,
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  Speaker 2: materially and spiritually. Since that's the fact, and he is
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  Speaker 2: our need, then we are wealthy in him whatever we
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  Speaker 2: need at the time. If we need a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: he has that is, he has that. If we need
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  Speaker 2: a lot, he has that because He is what in
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  Speaker 2: finite in terms of his capacity, and so we are
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  Speaker 2: not without out. We do not have lack, because in God,
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  Speaker 2: lack is never the final word. Needs are met according
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  Speaker 2: to God's abundance and not our earthly limitations. So do
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  Speaker 2: one thing, one thing, list three needs God has already supplied,
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  Speaker 2: and thank Him aloud for each one. I want you,
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  Speaker 2: as I've said many times before, to spy on God,
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  Speaker 2: and when you discover that He's been good yet again,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to be the first one to thank him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be racing you. I'm going to be rushing
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  Speaker 2: to do the exact same thing. God gives us the
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  Speaker 2: keys for contentment. That's gratitude, peace. 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,