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11 20 2025 Changed by Contemplation · 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, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty five. 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is changed by contemplation, changed by contemplation. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com,
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion Life Application guide, and
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  Speaker 2: let us know where you are in the world. At
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, the web address is going to be
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  Speaker 2: right here until the end of the program. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and for keeping us
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  Speaker 2: until now. Father, please please help us to behold you
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  Speaker 2: and become like you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and amen again, beholding and becoming like God really changed
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  Speaker 2: by contemplation, and so listen, listen, listen. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: read a passage from Second Corinthians, chapter three and verse eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: Two Corinthians, chapter three and verse eighteen, where the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but we all with open face beholding as in a
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  Speaker 2: glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the
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  Speaker 2: same image, from glory to glory, even as by the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of the Lord. Let me read it another translation,
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  Speaker 2: and we all with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord are being transformed into the same image, from
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  Speaker 2: one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: who is the spirit. Okay, let me say it to
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  Speaker 2: you like this. The people of God had an unbelief problem.
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  Speaker 2: They had an unbelief problem, and so when Moses went
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  Speaker 2: up into the mount with God and invested those forty
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  Speaker 2: days and forty nights, and he came back all a glow,
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  Speaker 2: like he came back as what we really are supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be. The Bible says, we are to shine as
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  Speaker 2: lights in this wicked and perverse generation, where to be
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  Speaker 2: lights in the world. Let your light so shine. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, let your light so shine before men, so
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  Speaker 2: that we may see His good, our good. So when
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  Speaker 2: they see our good works, will they will glorify our Father,
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  Speaker 2: which is in heaven. When people see us, they will
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  Speaker 2: glorify God. They will see the light that God is
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, and they will aspire to that and say, God,
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  Speaker 2: how are you so good? If you can change him,
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  Speaker 2: if you can change her, then you can also change me.
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  Speaker 2: And so that is the privilege that we have to
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  Speaker 2: behold the glory of God and become like God. But
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  Speaker 2: the people, when Moses came down all a glow, they
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  Speaker 2: were fearful. They said, cover that up, like cover that
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  Speaker 2: glow up. We're fearful, like cover that up. It was
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  Speaker 2: because Paul said, it was because of their unbelief. And
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  Speaker 2: so what the Bible is saying here is that when
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  Speaker 2: we unveil our faces and experience the brilliance of who
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  Speaker 2: and what God is, and then begin to reflect that
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  Speaker 2: out there we are being transformed by the Holy ghost.
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  Speaker 2: The light that God is emanates from his people out
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  Speaker 2: into the world. You see. So the question really is
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  Speaker 2: what are you beholding? What are you watching? What are
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  Speaker 2: you listening to? What are you experiencing? What is it
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  Speaker 2: that you're doing for long periods of time that are
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  Speaker 2: becoming a part of who you are? You see where
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  Speaker 2: this is going. So God is welcoming us into us
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  Speaker 2: presence so that when we rew we receive the brilliance
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  Speaker 2: of who He is, what He does right into our lives.
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  Speaker 2: That we now will shine that light out into the
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  Speaker 2: world and others will learn to love God too. And
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  Speaker 2: so and so you come, what you behold is lesson
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  Speaker 2: number one from the Book of Hebrews, Chapter twelve and
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  Speaker 2: verse two. The Bible reads, we are to be looking
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  Speaker 2: unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. So
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  Speaker 2: do we really need to say that looking to Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the goal? We watch Jesus, we do what Jesus did.
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  Speaker 2: We ask God to make us holy like Jesus. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and so and So the Bible is saying, like a
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  Speaker 2: mirror catching the light, we reflect what we face. I
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  Speaker 2: like it. Like that. Let me say it again, we
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  Speaker 2: reflect what we face. The more our gazes fixed upon
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the more our character glows with his glory.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So when we fix our attention on Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: something supernatural happens. I love it. We begin to reflect
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  Speaker 2: what we repeatedly revere. What we watch shapes what we worship.
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  Speaker 2: The Prince is simple and yet profound. Our focus determines
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  Speaker 2: our formation. Our focus. The reason why some people are
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  Speaker 2: so violent on the road road rage is because they're
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  Speaker 2: beholding violent things, violent activities, violent thoughts, violent music, violent conversations.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, Yes, they're assimilating violence from their community. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: our community. Sometimes I wish I had the time to
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  Speaker 2: talk to you about what I assimilated as a young
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  Speaker 2: guy from age fourteen to twenty three. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: assimilated fully what was going on in my community. The
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  Speaker 2: more we look upon the character and compassion and courage
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  Speaker 2: of Christ, now that's the opposite. We're beholding this, we're studying,
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  Speaker 2: we are appreciating, we are revering. All of this about
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  Speaker 2: Christ is the more His likeness begins to appear first
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  Speaker 2: in our thoughts, of course, in our words, and also
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  Speaker 2: in our actions. In our thoughts, in our words and
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  Speaker 2: in our actions, we thank God. We thank God. Our
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  Speaker 2: lesson number two, Our lesson number two is the world conforms,
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  Speaker 2: but Christ transforms. And of course it takes you right
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  Speaker 2: to Roman chapter twelve and verse two that it says,
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  Speaker 2: be not conformed to this world, and that actually means
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  Speaker 2: do not allow this world to squeeze you into its mold,
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  Speaker 2: and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed
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  Speaker 2: by the renewing of your mind. Don't be conformed to
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  Speaker 2: this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of
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  Speaker 2: your mind. So transformation begins in the mindset. Can we
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  Speaker 2: just start with that, Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only way
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  Speaker 2: that I can I can be transformed is that I
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  Speaker 2: yield my mindset to God and say, Lord, Now, this
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  Speaker 2: mind is worldly. This mind thinks about about things that
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  Speaker 2: are earthly. This mind is more apt to sin than
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  Speaker 2: to be saved. And so I yield this to you.
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  Speaker 2: So my I exercise the right that you have given
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  Speaker 2: us to make a decision. And my decision is to
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  Speaker 2: submit to You and Therefore, God, I'm letting. I'm letting
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  Speaker 2: you make your mind inside of my head. Let this mind.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, be in you, which was also in
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. Right and then and then Paul talked about
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  Speaker 2: what that mindset was like. It was humility to the
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  Speaker 2: point of even giving his life for us. He died
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  Speaker 2: the death that we deserve, so we can live the
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  Speaker 2: life that he deserved. And so transformation begins when we
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  Speaker 2: surrender our minds to the Holy Spirit. It continues as
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  Speaker 2: we daily choose to dwell on what is pure lovely. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I think you know this passage and true. Just as
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  Speaker 2: constant exposure to noise dulls your hearing, I'm always in
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  Speaker 2: these headphones right here, you see these. I'm always in
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  Speaker 2: these headphones, and I'm always adjusting. You see me, look
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  Speaker 2: to the right. It's because I'm adjusting the volume. Like
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  Speaker 2: am I speaking so loud that I'm dulling my own hearing?
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  Speaker 2: Because I can hear myself in these headphones. And so
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, tune our ears and focus to him
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  Speaker 2: and will be transformed into His image.
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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,