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09 03 2026 Comfort and Joy · 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: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Thursday, September 3, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. 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 1 and 2 Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is Comfort and Joy. Comfort and Joy. and joy.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: because your daily portion ministries is a listener and viewer
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  Speaker 2: supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for giving us this new day and
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  Speaker 2: the privilege you have entrusted to us to open your
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  Speaker 2: word and to shine as lights in the world. Father,
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  Speaker 2: will you please give us the kind of comfort and
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  Speaker 2: joy that you desire for us? You promised us the comforter.
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  Speaker 2: You promised to give us full joy. So please help
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  Speaker 2: that to be our reality. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen, amen,
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  Speaker 2: and amen. Again, comfort and joy. So for me, the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing today is that godly sorrow produces repentance.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about the kind of sorrow that when God
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  Speaker 2: puts it into our minds, it's based on like when
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  Speaker 2: we have deviated from the path that he has marked
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  Speaker 2: out for our lives. There's some people that either for
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  Speaker 2: reputation's sake, they manufacture a sorrow. You know, they got
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  Speaker 2: caught with their hands in the cookie jar, like they
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  Speaker 2: got caught doing the thing that they shouldn't do. And
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  Speaker 2: so they have that crocodile tears, as some people will say.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking about that kind of a thing. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the kind that goes... from the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: into our lives. He leads us into all truth. And
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  Speaker 2: then in that moment, we become repentant. That's the gift
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  Speaker 2: from God, according to Romans chapter 2. And God is
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  Speaker 2: giving us the kind of sorrow where whether we got
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  Speaker 2: caught or we didn't get caught or whatever it is,
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  Speaker 2: we're just thinking, but how could I have separated myself
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  Speaker 2: from God like this?
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  Speaker 1: Hmm? Hmm?
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  Speaker 2: And then when we do repent under God, then we
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  Speaker 2: have joy, like fullness of joy, because there is now
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  Speaker 2: no separation between us. In the one who repents, that's us,
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  Speaker 2: and in everyone who loves them, this is the fruit
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  Speaker 2: of authentic ministry. So, okay, so we're reading this from
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  Speaker 2: Paul's perspective because, of course, there were a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that he cared for spiritually, right? And so in
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  Speaker 2: 2 Corinthians, we get his testimony in chapter 7 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 4. The Bible reads, I am filled with encouragement
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  Speaker 2: or filled with comfort. I am exceeding joyful in all
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  Speaker 2: your tribulation or in the midst of all our suffering,
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  Speaker 2: our suffering. Okay, and so really Paul was overflowing with
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  Speaker 2: joy in the midst of suffering, not after it ended.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't waiting for it to be over. I think
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  Speaker 2: the songwriter said, don't wait till the battle is over.
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  Speaker 2: You can shout now because we know in the end
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  Speaker 2: we're going to win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So he wasn't waiting until the end of all of that.
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  Speaker 2: The comfort of God does not wait for circumstances to improve.
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  Speaker 2: It fills the believer while the pressure is still on.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of joy only can come from God. And
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  Speaker 2: so when he would see the people of God finally repent,
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  Speaker 2: when he would see them hold on, take hold of
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  Speaker 2: the truths that he and his cohorts would teach, he
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  Speaker 2: would become joyful, even though he would be suffering. because
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  Speaker 2: it was like he was on a cross all the
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  Speaker 2: day long, every day of sorts, because of the gospel
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  Speaker 2: ministry that he accepted from God and on the behalf
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  Speaker 2: of the people. And it would, boy, even though it
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  Speaker 2: caused trials and tribulations to come his way, when he
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  Speaker 2: saw people's lives transformed, he was like, this is good.
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  Speaker 2: Count it all joy when you enter into all of
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  Speaker 2: these kinds of trials and tribulations, because there is an
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  Speaker 2: outcome that God has working in your life. And so today,
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  Speaker 2: just ask God to fill you with his comfort in
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  Speaker 2: whatever tribulation that you're going through, whatever suffering that you
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  Speaker 2: happen to be in, not after it passes. This is something,
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  Speaker 2: this is like the next level, brothers and sisters, that
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  Speaker 2: we're asking God to help us to be, like Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: blessed are those— in a different context— Blessed are those who
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  Speaker 2: believe without even seeing. And so I can hear him saying,
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  Speaker 2: blessed are those who see the light at the end
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  Speaker 2: of this trial and tribulation. They can see the sun
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  Speaker 2: on the horizon. And they're saying, God, I thank you
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  Speaker 2: for what you have promised to do and what you
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  Speaker 2: are indeed doing now, even though I'm not feeling it yet.
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  Speaker 2: Because you said that he who began a good work
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  Speaker 2: in me is able to complete it. And we are
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to the completion, okay? And so it fills
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  Speaker 2: the believer while the pressure is still on. And that
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  Speaker 2: kind of joy, it only comes from God. So in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of all of those trials and as a
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  Speaker 2: testimony that he is present and sufficient, count it all joy,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, right now. You will cry sometimes. You
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  Speaker 2: will be sad sometimes. But don't cry or be saddened
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  Speaker 2: as those who have no hope. Know that God, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: is with you. And we go into 2 Corinthians 7,
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  Speaker 2: verses 9 and 10. That makes more sense of what
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  Speaker 2: I said in the beginning as the main point. And
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  Speaker 2: we are reading, Now I rejoice, not that you were
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  Speaker 2: made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the real stuff now, not the ones when the
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  Speaker 2: camera's are on, and somebody forced it so you can
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  Speaker 2: keep your job. Not that. For ye were made sorry
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  Speaker 2: after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage from
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  Speaker 2: us in nothing, so you wouldn't be harmed by us
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  Speaker 2: in any way. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation,
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  Speaker 2: not to be repented of. Let me read it another way.
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  Speaker 2: For sadness, this kind of sadness, and as intended by God,
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  Speaker 2: produces a repentance that leads to salvation. It doesn't lead
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  Speaker 2: you out like Judas to go hang yourself. It does, however,
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  Speaker 2: lead you like with Peter, as the cock did crow,
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  Speaker 2: and he did realize that just as Jesus said, He
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  Speaker 2: would betray him, and when Jesus' eyes met him and
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  Speaker 2: met his eyes, he realized, oh my word, all that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was doing, I betrayed him. God, why am I
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  Speaker 2: like this? Will you forgive me? That is the kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing, and we see that Peter's life was transformed,
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  Speaker 2: and he walked according to God's principles after that, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so there's no regret in that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 2: according to the same scripture, but worldly sadness, like in
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  Speaker 2: the case of Judas, brings forth death. And so repentance,
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  Speaker 2: this is a complete change of mind and direction. It's
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  Speaker 2: a right about turn. It is walking in the opposite
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  Speaker 2: direction of the sin in the mindset and in the actions.
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  Speaker 2: It's the opposite walk. It's 180 degree correction and an
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  Speaker 2: inner transformation. Godly sorrow does not stop at feeling bad.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that can cry and
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  Speaker 2: feel bad. I get it. And that sorrow does come,
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  Speaker 2: and it may be deep. It may be a sincere sorrow,
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  Speaker 2: but is it the kind of sorrow that is willing
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  Speaker 2: to surrender its will to God, our will to God?
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  Speaker 2: It produces a decisive turning. Worldly sorrow circles around itself
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  Speaker 2: in guilt and despair, but godly sorrow moves forward into
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  Speaker 2: the arms of God. That is the goal, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: in comfort and joy. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.