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02 21 2025 God With Us · 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, February
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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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. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series, God's Love and Justice. We are surrounding
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  Speaker 2: our week under the caption God with Us, God with Us.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. I want you to go over to
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. Please please join our online community.
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  Speaker 2: and also pick up this book, this book, the Your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion Companion Guide for this quarter's lesson. And again
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  Speaker 2: if we continue, if we're going to continue producing this
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  Speaker 2: life application guide, then it needs to be extremely successful
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  Speaker 2: because I do not believe in wasting time or energy
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  Speaker 2: on something that people don't actually need. Okay, I know
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  Speaker 2: a few of you out there, well a good number
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  Speaker 2: of you out there are using the Companion Guide. But
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  Speaker 2: let's just see if we will continue. It's all up
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  Speaker 2: to you. Pick it up at your Daily Portion dot com.
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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: then we will get underway. Father, we do thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that you have given us to prepare, to prepare for
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath, prepare for the coming of our Lord and savior,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Please teach us your presence in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and amen again. You see, God has
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  Speaker 2: given us the privilege to be in his presence. God
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  Speaker 2: has given us the privilege to be in His presence,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm thankful because this really manifests itself in so
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  Speaker 2: many different ways, one of which is when God is
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  Speaker 2: saving us, Jesus gets down into what we experience in
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  Speaker 2: order to elevate us. Can I say it another way?
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  Speaker 2: God is saving us, therefore he sent Gus to be
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  Speaker 2: in our experience so he can elevate us. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so let me just go ahead and begin reading from
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  Speaker 2: from the book Desire of Ages, page twenty two to
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  Speaker 2: get our discussion started. And then we will go into
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  Speaker 2: our companion guide for a second. Okay, And so it
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  Speaker 2: reads the plan of our redemption is not an afterthought.
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  Speaker 2: May I just sit right there for a moment. When
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden after
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  Speaker 2: God told them, if you eat from the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: this garden of this tree, you will surely die. If
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  Speaker 2: God had the plan of salvation as an afterthought, then
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  Speaker 2: they would have been neutralized immediately, extinguished immediately. But thankfully,
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  Speaker 2: and it just wants you to say thank God with me, like,
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  Speaker 2: thankfully God had a plan of salvation waiting in the
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  Speaker 2: wings in the event that those humans chose to go
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  Speaker 2: the wrong direction and so they got a stay of execution.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's not the best way of communicating it. But
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  Speaker 2: that's what's coming to my mind right now. They received
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  Speaker 2: a stay of execution. Let me keep reading. A plan
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  Speaker 2: formulated after the fall of Atom. Okay, so the plan
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  Speaker 2: of Redemption was not an afterthought, a plan formulated after
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  Speaker 2: the fall of Atom. Now we know why that couldn't work.
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  Speaker 2: It was a revelation of the mystery which have been
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  Speaker 2: kept in silence through times eternal. It was an unfolding
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  Speaker 2: of the principles that from eternal ages have been the
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  Speaker 2: foundation of God's throne. From the beginning, God and Christ
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  Speaker 2: knew of the apostasy of Satan. Notice what the inspired
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  Speaker 2: writing says they knew of the apostasy of Satan. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't say that they ordained. It didn't say that they created.
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  Speaker 2: It said they knew of the apostasy of Satan and
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  Speaker 2: of the fall of humankind through the deceptive power of
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  Speaker 2: the apostate. God did not ordain that sin should exist,
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  Speaker 2: but he foresaw its existence and made provision to meet
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  Speaker 2: the terrible emergency. Can I just say this, please and thanks.
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  Speaker 2: There is no sin that you can commit that God
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  Speaker 2: has not foreseen and given the antidote for your ability
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  Speaker 2: to sin. My ability to sin does not exceed God's
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  Speaker 2: ability to say. Now, this is not in any way
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  Speaker 2: that I want to minimize sin. But I think the
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  Speaker 2: Bible writer said, where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound.
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  Speaker 2: And so all we need to do is yield our
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  Speaker 2: will to God, and he will keep his promise to
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  Speaker 2: write his life in our hearts and on our minds,
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  Speaker 2: so that we will live like Jesus lived. Let me
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  Speaker 2: keep going, Let me keep going. God did not ordign
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  Speaker 2: that sin should exist, but he foresaw its existence and
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  Speaker 2: made provision to meet this terrible emergency. So great was
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  Speaker 2: his love for the world that he covenanted to give
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  Speaker 2: his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should
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  Speaker 2: not perish but have everlasting life. Aren't you glad that
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  Speaker 2: God has a plan for your life before there was
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  Speaker 2: a beginning. He had a plan for your life, before
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  Speaker 2: you were in his mother, your mother's womb. He knew
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  Speaker 2: you well. He knew that He would call you to
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  Speaker 2: the nations to be what is it a prophet, a king,
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  Speaker 2: a queen?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: What is it like? What is it that God would
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  Speaker 2: have had you to do? And as you continue to
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  Speaker 2: live your life day after day, day after days, God,
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  Speaker 2: what would you have me to do? Who would you
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  Speaker 2: have me to be? I was speaking to a friend.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just call my friend joy. The joy of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is our strength. You know. Some months ago and
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about purpose and my friend and I,
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  Speaker 2: while we were talking about purpose, said, so are you
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  Speaker 2: saying that I am in filling the blank place, filling
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  Speaker 2: the blank position to just be? And then we talked
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  Speaker 2: about the details of my friend and how my friend
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  Speaker 2: is and I was like, yes, but we don't minimize
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  Speaker 2: when God creates us to be a certain way in
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  Speaker 2: spaces that He entrusts us with, we don't minimize that reality.
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  Speaker 2: We don't ever minimize the fact that if if you, brother,
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  Speaker 2: you sister are there to bring joy, then you bring joy.
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  Speaker 2: You're being joyful in the space because God put joy
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  Speaker 2: in your heart. If you are to be there to
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  Speaker 2: provide structure, because that's who you are, You're a structural individual,
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  Speaker 2: then be structural in the space that God has called
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  Speaker 2: you to be. If you're there to be an encourager,
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  Speaker 2: a motivator, if you're there to be someone who undergirds
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  Speaker 2: and supports others, listen, that is what God has called
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  Speaker 2: you to do. For his glory. I could go down
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  Speaker 2: through a list, and so when God is showing you
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  Speaker 2: who you are, he's also making provision for you to
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  Speaker 2: operate in that reality at the highest levels, and we
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  Speaker 2: give God thanks as a result. So now we are
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  Speaker 2: going into our our Companion guide of course for today's date,
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  Speaker 2: that is page one hundred and thirty one. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: to the personal application and we'll just go to the
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  Speaker 2: next best Move part. Okay, when is the acronym we
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  Speaker 2: use every single day. We apply in four key areas.
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  Speaker 2: Today we'll talk about about personal application. Let's just do
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  Speaker 2: the end in when Okay, next best move, write down
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  Speaker 2: a prayer of trust and surrender for that uncertain area.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you'll have to go to the W and
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  Speaker 2: the I to see what that means. Place it somewhere
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  Speaker 2: visible as a reminder to trust God's eternal plan for
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  Speaker 2: your life. You want purpose, trust the one who came
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  Speaker 2: to be with us so he could train.
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  Speaker 1: You to be Thanks for joining us listening, friends, Always
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  Speaker 1: remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  Speaker 1: word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  Speaker 1: been your daily portion with l David Harris. Make it
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  Speaker 1: a great day. Yeah,