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01 13 2026 Being Confident · 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 Tuesday, January thirteenth,
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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: Our caption for today is being confident, Being confident. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to be confident in Christ. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to have godfidence. Yes, before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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  Speaker 2: joining us for the very first time. Please go over
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  Speaker 2: Please pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide
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  Speaker 2: donation button 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, we thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: day and the privilege you have given us to be
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  Speaker 2: confident in You. That we don't have to come behind
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  Speaker 2: in any gift, that we don't have to fear in
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  Speaker 2: the judgment because we are perfected in love. But help
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  Speaker 2: us to keep our confidence in You and not in ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Being confident?
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  Speaker 2: Being confident? Is there a problem with confidence? Let me
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  Speaker 2: just start with that question. I want you to type
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. Type your answers in the chat. Is
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  Speaker 2: there a problem with confidence? Does God want us to
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  Speaker 2: be unsure? Does God want us to second guest life?
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  Speaker 2: Does He want us to be unstable and wavering? Or
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  Speaker 2: is confidence? Okay? So I think there is context to everything.
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  Speaker 2: If our confidence is only in ourselves, then that's where
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  Speaker 2: the problem lies, okay. And so our problem is not confidence.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is wherein do we really center our confidence?
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  Speaker 2: And if it's in what God is doing what God
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  Speaker 2: has done. Yes, even in our own lives, the skills
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  Speaker 2: He has given us, the gifts that He has imparted
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  Speaker 2: to our lives, then we are in a good stead. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We begin by reading from way back in eighteen fifty
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  Speaker 2: eight in the reviewing Harold James White, The sleep of
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  Speaker 2: death holds no terror for the child of God. That means,
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  Speaker 2: don't be afraid, brothers and sisters, for the next moment
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  Speaker 2: brings the waking glory. So if God forbid one of us,
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  Speaker 2: if we are His children in fact, and indeed, if
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  Speaker 2: one of us should die, right we go to sleep
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  Speaker 2: in Christ in the next moment that we know that
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  Speaker 2: our consciousness is given to us will be when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: calls us up from the grave. You understand. So, if
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  Speaker 2: God forbid I die in twenty twenty six, and if
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  Speaker 2: Jesus comes in another year, I'm not pushing his coming
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  Speaker 2: to a year. I don't know when he's coming, but
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  Speaker 2: let's just say arbitrarily that he comes in several years
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  Speaker 2: from twenty twenty six. To me, it's a moment. To me,
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  Speaker 2: it's a moment I'm resting in the grave, and in
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  Speaker 2: the moment that Jesus does return, and I receive my
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  Speaker 2: consciousness and I am raised incorruptible by God's grace, then
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a I have no understanding of the
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  Speaker 2: passage of time. If Paul, dying millennia ago, wakes up
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus, when he wakes up as Jesus comes millennia later,
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  Speaker 2: he only knows that he went to sleep, and then
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  Speaker 2: in an instant, as far as he is concerned, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is here, okay. And so we don't fear death, not
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  Speaker 2: as God's people, because we know that when Jesus does come,
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  Speaker 2: he will awaken us and it'll be all glory for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of eternity. Can I say rest of eternity?
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  Speaker 2: That's that's kind of weird. But throughout the ceaseless ages
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  Speaker 2: of eternity And from the book Desire of Ages, page
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred eighty seven. To the believer, death is but
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  Speaker 2: a small matter. To the Christian, death is but asleep,
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  Speaker 2: a moment of silence and darkness. And so yes, we
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  Speaker 2: will miss our loved ones if one of our loved
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  Speaker 2: ones passes away, because God never intended for us to
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  Speaker 2: be separated. But we do not weep like those who
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  Speaker 2: have no hope. We weep sometimes because we're separated. We
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  Speaker 2: weep because we want their companionship and don't have it
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  Speaker 2: right now. We weep because we desire to hear their
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  Speaker 2: voices in our ears. But for this moment their voice
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  Speaker 2: is silent except through their legacy. But when Jesus comes,
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  Speaker 2: all of that will be resolved for the believer now
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  Speaker 2: Lessen Number one is Paul longed for Christ so deeply
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  Speaker 2: that death felt like a momentary step toward seeing him
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  Speaker 2: at the resurrection. In Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, like, I feel torn between two between
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  Speaker 2: two decisions right because I have a desire to depart
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  Speaker 2: or to rest and to be with Christ. So when
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  Speaker 2: Jesus comes, he wants He's like, if I get some
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  Speaker 2: rest now, in a moment, I will see Jesus. Because
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  Speaker 2: we have no understanding of passage of time when we
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  Speaker 2: are resting, and so to depart actually means to break camp.
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  Speaker 2: It's a metaphor for death as a temporary rest. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action step is reflect on the resurrection, hope
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  Speaker 2: today and thank Jesus for the promise of waking to
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  Speaker 2: see him. If God forbid some of you are facing
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  Speaker 2: terminal illness. This is the reality for you at this moment,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm trying to be to be cognizant that this
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  Speaker 2: could sound terse. So please, just please, just charge any way.
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  Speaker 2: I communicate with you to my head and not my heart. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And if God forbid, if God forbid, he gives you
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to rest. You intended to see your grandchildren
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  Speaker 2: live for another several years before you lay down your
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  Speaker 2: burdens and rest. But if God allows for you to
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  Speaker 2: rest in the near future, in that moment, it is
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  Speaker 2: temporary for you. And one day you'll see and you'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to know what happened, what happened, You'll meet
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  Speaker 2: your loved ones again. So I want you to find
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  Speaker 2: courage in the fact that if you rest, you rest
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  Speaker 2: under the faith of God, and at the appointed hour,
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  Speaker 2: you will hear that trumpet sound. You will hear that
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  Speaker 2: voice as if an archangel. You will hear God call
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  Speaker 2: you from wherever you are resting. And thank God, thank God,
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  Speaker 2: we're looking forward to that day. So reflect on the resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: hope today, thank God for the promise of waking to
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  Speaker 2: see him. Lesson Number two is coming in from First
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  Speaker 2: Thessalonians Chapter four, verses sixteen and seventeen. Paul knew the
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  Speaker 2: dead sleep until the resurrection, and yet he also knew
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  Speaker 2: the next conscious moment after death is Christ's return. You
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  Speaker 2: see how he did that, And so let me just
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  Speaker 2: read part of it from verse sixteen and then jump
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  Speaker 2: over to seventeen. The dead in Christ shall rise first
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus comes back. The dead Christ will rise first,
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  Speaker 2: and then we which are alive and remain, shall be
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  Speaker 2: caught up together with them to meet the Lord in
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  Speaker 2: the air. And there shall we ever be with the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we understand that kum mayol kumayo. It
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  Speaker 2: is the Hebrew word four or koi excuse me, I apologize,
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  Speaker 2: I do not speak coin a Greek. Koi meo means
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  Speaker 2: to sleep. It's the biblical term for death and unconscious rest.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action step for us is to trust
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  Speaker 2: Jesus today with one fear that you have about death
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  Speaker 2: or the future, yield it to him and ask him
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  Speaker 2: for the victory. And our final, our final, our final
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  Speaker 2: lesson is that Paul chose to stay. He rather to
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  Speaker 2: stay alive, not because of benefit for himself. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: the other day, but for the spiritual good of others.
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  Speaker 2: Serve one person today, brothers and sisters, in a way
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  Speaker 2: that strengthens their faith in Christ, and in that case
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  Speaker 2: your life will have been well invested. 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,