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06 23 2026 The Bride · 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, June.
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  Speaker 2: Why did I say January June twenty three, twenty twenty six. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: My name is El 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 about growing
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  Speaker 2: in a relationship with God. This is our final week
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Bride. Ooh, the Bride.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: button because your daily portion Ministries is a listener and
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  Speaker 2: viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, We thank you for making
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  Speaker 2: us your bride. Yeah, please help us to live like
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  Speaker 2: we're looking forward to the day of Jesus's arrival in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Ooh, the bride,
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  Speaker 2: the bride, the bride. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just go ahead and begin by reading from the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of Revelation, Revelation chapter twenty one, and I will
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  Speaker 2: read verses nine and ten, and the Bible reads, come hither,
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  Speaker 2: and I will show the the bride the Lamb's wife.
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  Speaker 2: And he carried me away in the spirit and showed
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  Speaker 2: me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem. Now, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to just keep this very simple because there's so much
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  Speaker 2: in this. I know that somebody was like, wait, what
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  Speaker 2: you just showed me the Holy City, the New Jerusalem?
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  Speaker 2: How is that? The bride. I thought we were the bride.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to keep this very short. There are aspects
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  Speaker 2: of the judgment that are represented in the discussion of
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  Speaker 2: the bride and who is the bride. And then there
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  Speaker 2: is the last of the last at the edge now
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  Speaker 2: where God now is reuniting his people with the city
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  Speaker 2: of God, beginning the thousand years that we I mean,
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  Speaker 2: following the thousand years that we are in heaven. And
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  Speaker 2: finally the Holy City New Jerusalem comes down from God
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  Speaker 2: out of Heaven. Okay. And so the ideal is and
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  Speaker 2: this is the goal, the whole purpose of everything that
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  Speaker 2: we do, that God's people who are made in the
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  Speaker 2: image of God, who are now restored into his image
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  Speaker 2: because we sinned and fell short of the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: But through Salvation's plan through Christ, now we become the
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  Speaker 2: children of God and we begin to look like Him again.
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  Speaker 2: In that moment, God is saying, you are my bride. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you are my bride. But we are made of the
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  Speaker 2: same material, if you want to say, spiritually, of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy City New Jerusalem, the same way that Adam and
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  Speaker 2: Eve were taken out of the ground, Adam was formed
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  Speaker 2: from the dust of the earth. God breathed into his
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  Speaker 2: nostrils the breath of life, and man human became a
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  Speaker 2: living soul. And then God took from Adam a rib
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  Speaker 2: and then formed he a woman now we know as Eve,
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  Speaker 2: and she now a living soul, both of them perfect
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  Speaker 2: in that similar way, I should say God is forming
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  Speaker 2: his people from the material of New Jerusalem. So when
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  Speaker 2: human beings who are now restored also reunite with the
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  Speaker 2: Holy City New Jerusalem, we have the fullest picture of
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  Speaker 2: the bride. There's so much there. I don't have the
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  Speaker 2: time to teach and why I needed to segment it
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  Speaker 2: that way, But I'm grateful that we are reunited at
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  Speaker 2: that time, and it feels my God so good. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads in Revelation chapter twenty one and verse two,
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  Speaker 2: and I John saw the the Holy City New Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And so
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  Speaker 2: God is using this image of a bride to show beauty,
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  Speaker 2: to show preparation, to show the union that God wants
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  Speaker 2: to have with us, the union he wants us to have.
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  Speaker 2: By being able to live in that New Jerusalem Holy City,
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  Speaker 2: the relationship between God and his people will finally be complete.
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  Speaker 2: And restored. And so the action step is I know
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  Speaker 2: I said a lot, and you're like, what all of
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  Speaker 2: that in the bride story? Yeah, there's so much in it.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much in it when we study Revelation twenty
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  Speaker 2: one and verse and chapter nineteen together. H But the
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  Speaker 2: action step for today is to prepare your heart for
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  Speaker 2: your future union by living in faithfulness and readiness. Number two.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads in John chapter fourteen, Versus two and three.
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  Speaker 2: John Chapter fourteen, Versus two and three, and by the way, again,
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  Speaker 2: go to your Daily portion dot com and ask your question.
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  Speaker 2: There is a button there to ask your questions, so
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  Speaker 2: I can unpack this for you. If you are like, WHOA,
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  Speaker 2: what did you just say? Okay, here we read in
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  Speaker 2: my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so,
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  Speaker 2: I would have told you I go to prepare a
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  Speaker 2: place for you. And if I go and prepare a
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  Speaker 2: place for you, I will come again and receive you
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  Speaker 2: unto myself that where I am there. Ye. Maybe. Also
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  Speaker 2: in Colossians chapter three and verse two, we read set
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  Speaker 2: your affection on things above and not on the things
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  Speaker 2: of this earth. As we see it now, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is teaching us not to set our minds on the
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  Speaker 2: things that happen down on planet Earth, not to folks
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  Speaker 2: is here, not to make this our final destination, but
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  Speaker 2: to direct our thinking to the things above, where God is.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is actively preparing a place. I'm talking about literally,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever had a home built, or have you
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  Speaker 2: ever heard of people whose homes were being built? Or
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  Speaker 2: have you seen as you moved up and down around
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  Speaker 2: the earth and seen in communities where homes were going up,
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  Speaker 2: somebody was building these homes. This is what Jesus is doing,
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  Speaker 2: actively preparing a place. This is not spiritual, it's not symbolic,
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  Speaker 2: like there's literally going to be a place where you
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  Speaker 2: will be able to be, where you can plant. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, the Old Testament Bible writer says, you will
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  Speaker 2: be able to plant and nobody will harvest. Yes, you
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  Speaker 2: will be able to build and nobody will inhabit. The
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  Speaker 2: true believer prepares by focusing the mind on eternal realities,
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  Speaker 2: real place, call it real closets, which your real white
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  Speaker 2: robe hanging up in the closets, real crown to be
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  Speaker 2: set on your head, your real head when you see
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  Speaker 2: Jesus face to face. And so what does the action step.
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  Speaker 2: Then shift your thoughts today toward eternity.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Reduce distractions that pull your focus away from God. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: that takes. Please do that and thank you. From the
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  Speaker 2: book The Great Controversy, page six hundred and seventy five,
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  Speaker 2: No finite mind can comprehend the glory of the paradise
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  Speaker 2: of God. Some of you live in some beautiful places,
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  Speaker 2: and I do too. I live in Jamaica, Land we love.
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  Speaker 2: It is a beautiful place. You go to, certain places
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  Speaker 2: you see, you can see God's handiwork amazing. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you live in on other islands of the sea. Some
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  Speaker 2: of you live in the mountains, some of you live
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  Speaker 2: down on the seaside. Some of you live in some
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  Speaker 2: of the most beautiful places. But your mind cannot even
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  Speaker 2: comprehend what God is preparing for us. What God is
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  Speaker 2: preparing for us, I'm looking forward to that. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: some stuff, brothers and sisters, in the Caribbean. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: some things in Colorado amazing, some things in West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: in the United States of America that I can't even
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  Speaker 2: fully explain. But that is not even close to what
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  Speaker 2: God is preparing. And so one day, brothers, and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: The bride will finally be united in the fullest sense God,
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  Speaker 2: his children, the New Jerusalem, and finally we will move
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  Speaker 2: into eternity with God. 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.