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07 05 2024 Remain Connected to God · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, good morning.
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  It is Friday, July five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our new Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Mark, and our caption for today is remain connected to God. I need
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  you to remain connected to God. Really, you need you to remain connected
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  to God. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I
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  like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com join our
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  online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let us know where
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  you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a
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  way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for
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  giving us the opportunity to open your word again and to become connected with you
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  and then remain connected. Father. Please give us your holy spirit and help
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  us not to intellectualize away the beauty of an experience with you. Help us,
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  Father, to live holy lives. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. Have you ever been connected to God? Connect it
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  to God? And I know that sometimes people wonder, well what does that
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  mean? Like, how do we get connected with God? And let me
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  just give a simple definition of faith. Besides what the scriptures say very clearly
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  in the Book of Hebrews chapter eleven, I want to give an illustrative explanation.
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  Okay, so think of faith as a wire. Right some of you
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  have cell phones, many of you do, and you have you have a
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  wire that connects to your cell phone and on the other end it connects to
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  the power source. Okay, So faith is that wire. If the faith
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  is connected the wire is connected to the power source, and then that wire
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  is also connected to your life. Then the faith works. You see,
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  it is functional, it is useful. It causes the phone to be able
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  to do whatever the phone was created to do. You can call people,
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  you can answer text messages. You can even switch on a light and use
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  it like a like a like a flashlight. You can take pictures and videos
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  and audio. That phone only remains functional or useful as long as it is
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  in good working order and it remains connected at the appropriate times, connected to
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  the power source through the wire we're calling that faith. Did you get that?
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  And so as long as we are connected with God by faith, our
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  faith is connected to God and the and the faith is coming from us and
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  we're now connected with God, that passageway that can do it. That wire
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  called faith is useful. And so so we need to be asking God to
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  keep us connected with him. We need to be asking God to help our
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  faith to be strong, not fraid, not broken. Have you ever had
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  a wire that reverse charged your phone? Like your phone started to lose current,
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  lose power when you connected it with that wire. And if you've not,
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  then let me just tell you when that happens. It's because the wire
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  is broken, something is crossed up in the wiring, something went very wrong,
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  and then your phone heats up and it starts to go down instead of
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  go up. That's because that's not the right kind of faith. There are
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  times that people believe in things that are attributed to God, but it's not
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  really God speaking, you understand. And so we need the kind of faith
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  that Jesus is the author and finisher of, the one that Jesus gives every
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  human a measure of the kind of faith that works by love and purifieth the
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  soul, purifieth our lives. That kind of faith. As we connect that
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  to God and we lay hold of it for ourselves, that will give us
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  the power that we need to continue to live according to God's principle. So
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  hopefully that made sense. It was visual, it was practical to you.
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  And so what we're going to do now is consider a few ways that we
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  can remain connected with God. Okay. And so in the Bible Book of
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  Revelation, chapter fourteen and verse six, the lesson writer wanted us to take
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  a peek at it again. The Bible reads, and I saw another angel
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  fly in the midst of heaven having something specific though, what did this angel
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  have the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth. Do
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  you live on planet Earth? I think so to every nation. So it
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  doesn't matter. There are hundreds of nations represented who listen and watch, listen
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  to and watch your daily portion. You're on two hundred radio stations on multiple
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  devices, You're on satellite radio, television, on thirty platforms online. Everybody
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  on all of those platforms and all of those languages and dialects in all of
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  those geographic locations. This gospel, everlasting Gospel, is for you and kindred
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  and tongue and people. And so what we need to do is embrace this
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  everlasting Gospel. Before you were born, this gospel existed because Jesus Christ,
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  as the Bible says, was slain before the foundations of the world. So
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  the plan of salvation, what would be necessary to save humans in the event
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  that humans to choose to sin, was already in place even before Adam was
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  created, even before Eve was created. Mm hmm. So this plan of
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  salvation, this everlasting Gospel, was here as long as God was here,
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  because his mind is eternal in his mind ready to go in the event that
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  it would be necessary to save humans from our sins. And I'm thankful that
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  God was not reactive. I'm thankful that he didn't have to figure out something
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  on the fly when things went wrong in the Garden of Eden, at the
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  Tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil. I'm thankful that he had the
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  foreknowledge and insight and plan so that we could be saved and not have to
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  pay the penalty that we deserve to pay if we have faith in him.
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  Okay, And so the next one we want to look at is in the
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  verse seven and saying with a loud voice, fear God. That is reverential
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  awe, that is respect for God. Fear God, and give glory to
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  him. That means that we are allowing his life and light to shine through
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  our lives. Give glory to him, so when people see us, they
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  see him. Let your light, the Bible says, so shine before humans,
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  other humans, right, other pece people, so that when they see
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  your good works, they will glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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  So it says, fear God and give glory to him, for the hour
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  of his judgment is come, and worship him. The only one that could
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  have made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters. So
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  we are thankful that we have the privilege to worship the one who created us.
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  We're thankful that we have the ability to say thank you and live a
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  life of thanks, to live thanks to the one who created us, and
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  help other people to get so connected to God that they will learn how to
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  worship Him in everything that they say and do as well. Okay, another
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  one comes from the Book of Mark, Chapter one, verses fourteen and fifteen.
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  Now the Bible says, now after that John was put in prison,
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  Jesus came into Galilee preaching the what gospel of the Kingdom of God. I
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  think we just heard something like that, saying the time is fulfilled, the
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  Kingdom of God is at he and repent ye and believe the gospel we read
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  about that this week. And so what God is saying is that now we
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  have the power to respond to his call to discipleship. We have the power
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  now in our lives to turn away from those things that normally would have separated
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  us from Him and to turn toward helping other people to do His will.
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  We learn how to do his will day by day, step by step,
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  by faith, we're empowered to do His will, and then we assist others
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  in doing the same. So much to say, so little time, But
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  let me just say we all have the privilege and we all must if we're
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  going to live, remain connected with God. Make it a great day.
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,