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12 07 2025 Commitment · 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: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, December seven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host in 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 Commitment. Commitment. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'll 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: amount is helpful and let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the blessing that you have given us to be committed
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  Speaker 2: to You. Help us to be committed to you. Please,
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and a man again.
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  Speaker 2: So for those who often wonder, like how we do
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  Speaker 2: this program, we don't go through the lesson word for
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  Speaker 2: word because you already have that. You've already probably watched
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  Speaker 2: other programs for all I know that do exactly that,
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  Speaker 2: reading it as it is and giving commentary on it.
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  Speaker 2: So what I like to do is to pull out
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  Speaker 2: the principles there and then give us ways to apply
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  Speaker 2: based on other areas of scripture and more resources. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so this is why we do it the way
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  Speaker 2: we do. So first I'd like to read I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to read from the book Testimonies for the Church, Volume eight,
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  Speaker 2: page two hundred and forty two, where it reads because
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  Speaker 2: remember our captionist commitment, wholehearted service to God will unify
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  Speaker 2: the people of God when self dies. When Christ lives
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  Speaker 2: in the heart, discord fades and prayer becomes the bond
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  Speaker 2: of perfect nests. How often do you pray brothers and sisters?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to type it in the chat?
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  Speaker 2: Are you living like Enoch who walked with God, who
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  Speaker 2: prayed with the Bible? Say, pray without ceasing? Are you
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  Speaker 2: one of those? Do you pray with brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 2: who are in the faith, with your family, etc. You know?
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  Speaker 2: So this is one of the things that drives us
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  Speaker 2: to wholehearted service. Now let me read something else from J. N.
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  Speaker 2: Latinborough from February eighteen, eighteen sixty two, reviewing Herald. Union
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  Speaker 2: among believers comes when all labor with a single eye
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  Speaker 2: to the glory of God. Separate aims divide, a higher
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  Speaker 2: calling unites. So really, the big looming question is what
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  Speaker 2: is your higher calling? Is it the mission of Christ?
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  Speaker 2: Now let's go with our lesson number one. True commitment
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  Speaker 2: serves God first from the Bible Book of Ephesians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: six and and verse seven. Ephesians chapter six and verse seven.
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  Speaker 2: With good will, doing service as to the Lord and
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  Speaker 2: not to men. We have said this before, now we
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  Speaker 2: are bringing it up again. Why Why because this Greek
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  Speaker 2: word for service means devoted ministry. Now from the lesson,
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  Speaker 2: the Eastern tribes fought for six to seven years. Why
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  Speaker 2: did they do this because they understood that they were
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  Speaker 2: serving Yahweh, blessed be his name, not merely assisting their
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  Speaker 2: fellow Israelites. That's what this is all about. This is
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  Speaker 2: we're doing this as unto God. It's great that we
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  Speaker 2: think about what we're doing in the body of believers.
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  Speaker 2: It's great that we have fellowship with humans. Yes, that
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  Speaker 2: is a goal. Like God said, you know through Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He said, this is the way that they will know
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  Speaker 2: that you are my disciples, if you have love one
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  Speaker 2: toward another. But in this text we see that service
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  Speaker 2: when it is rendered to God first, then sacrifice becomes faithfulness.
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  Speaker 2: Sacrifice becomes faithfulness. Some people see it as a burden.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what I've had to give up. That's not it.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action step is begin every task today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about this day on the seventh day of
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  Speaker 2: December today, saying Lord, I do this for you. When
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  Speaker 2: you're washing the dishes and cleaning the bathroom, when you're
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  Speaker 2: doing something that you feel like you shouldn't be responsible
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  Speaker 2: for because somebody else neglected to do it at work. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: when you are going out and doing some kind of
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  Speaker 2: ministry for people to bring them closer to God. All
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  Speaker 2: of this, God, I'm doing this for you, And let
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  Speaker 2: this mindset reshape your commitment and your endurance. There are
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  Speaker 2: times that you get tired, all of us do, but
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  Speaker 2: this will help us.
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  Speaker 1: God.
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  Speaker 2: This is in your honor. So please abide in me
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  Speaker 2: like you said. You said, if I abide in you
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  Speaker 2: and your word abide in me, then I can ask
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  Speaker 2: what I will and it will be done. Unto me. God,
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  Speaker 2: I need your grace, I need your strength, I need endurance.
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  Speaker 2: I need commitment to the next level because I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: weary now. Lesson number two. Unity grows when we share
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  Speaker 2: each other's battles. From the Bible, Book of Romans, Chapter
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  Speaker 2: twelve and verse ten, the Bible reads, be kindly affectioned
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  Speaker 2: one to another, with brotherly love in honor, preferring one another.
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  Speaker 2: And so that term that we get Philadelphia from that
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  Speaker 2: has to do with affection. It means like family or
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  Speaker 2: brotherly style of affection. The Rubinites, the Gadites, the half
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  Speaker 2: tribe of Manasse risk their lives to secure the inheritance
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  Speaker 2: of the other tribes. They had filial love.
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  Speaker 1: Hm.
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  Speaker 2: They had that kind of love. Their commitment proved that
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  Speaker 2: God's people cannot thrive in isolation. Mission succeeds only when
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  Speaker 2: the community stands together, fights together, and trusts together. The
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  Speaker 2: action step find one person in your faith fellowship to
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  Speaker 2: support intentionally. Is it with prayer? Is it with encouragement?
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  Speaker 2: Is it from some style of practical help? Are you
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  Speaker 2: going out to the grocery store for them? Are you
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  Speaker 2: having to share your financial means with them? Is it time?
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  Speaker 2: Do you need to read for someone who has difficulty seeing?
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  Speaker 2: What is it that you need to do to cut
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  Speaker 2: someone's yard whose grass is out of control and they
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  Speaker 2: seem not to have someone to assist. What is it
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  Speaker 2: that we can do in the faith community to show
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  Speaker 2: this kind of brotherly love like these tribes did for theirs.
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  Speaker 2: Now we go to lesson number three, as we come
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  Speaker 2: to a swift close faithfulness flows from a higher calling.
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  Speaker 2: I've already mentioned that to you. Now we read it
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  Speaker 2: from Colossians chapter three and verse twenty three, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, and whatsoever ye do do it heartily as
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  Speaker 2: to the Lord your boss is getting under your skin.
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  Speaker 2: Do it heartily as unto the Lord. You're in church
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  Speaker 2: and the people are complaining and griping and murmuring, and
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  Speaker 2: you're tired. Do it heartily, as unto the Lord and
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  Speaker 2: not unto men. And that word heartily actually means with
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  Speaker 2: your whole being. Joshua reminded the departing tribes that their
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  Speaker 2: success came because they had served God heartily or wholeheartedly.
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  Speaker 2: When believers keep their divine calling in view, discouragement loses
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  Speaker 2: power and duty becomes our devotion to God. So write
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  Speaker 2: down your why in Christ, keep your calling in front
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  Speaker 2: of you as motivation when challenges can will and do arise.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful that God has given us a higher standard,
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  Speaker 2: a higher calling to seal our commitment. I think somewhere
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  Speaker 2: else in the scripture that's called covenant. Keep your covenant
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  Speaker 2: with God and with His people.
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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,