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08 28 2026 Listen to God’s Message · 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, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, August 28, 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, Listen to God's Message.
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: to God's message. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  Speaker 2: go over to yourdailyportion.com. Will you please, please click that
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  Speaker 2: part of the screen where it says stop guessing. Stop
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  Speaker 2: guessing what God has called you to do and then
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  Speaker 2: scroll down and click begin. Begin. Look for that begin
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  Speaker 2: button because that way we can get to know more
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  Speaker 2: and more Again, what God has called us to do
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  Speaker 2: because we have the design to serve assessment there. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like a big word assessment. Yes, spiritual gifts. What
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  Speaker 2: has God called you to do? So go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: do that. And also, please, please, will you hit the
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  Speaker 2: contribute button? Because your daily portion ministries is a listener
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  Speaker 2: and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray. And
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this day and for this time of
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  Speaker 2: preparation that you've entrusted to us. Will you please help
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  Speaker 2: us to take this time seriously and let us be
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  Speaker 2: transformed today. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. And amen again.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to God's message. So today, for me, the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing of all of the things we have here
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  Speaker 2: is that a consecrated life is full of Christ and
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  Speaker 2: leaves a track of light wherever it goes. Remember that song,
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  Speaker 2: Brighten the Corner, Where You Are? Even as children, we
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  Speaker 2: sang that song because God showed us to let our
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  Speaker 2: light so shine before men. So when they see our
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  Speaker 2: good works, they will glorify our Father, which is in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: And so wherever we go, Wherever we go, we're at work,
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  Speaker 2: we're at home, we're at play, we're in school. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter our age, doesn't matter our youth. God is
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  Speaker 2: saying that we are to shine as lights in this
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  Speaker 2: wicked and perverse generation so that people can get closer
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  Speaker 2: to God and by His grace become saved. And so
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  Speaker 2: that is the life God is building in you. And
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  Speaker 2: I want you to personalize it. You can say that
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  Speaker 2: is the life that God is building in me through
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  Speaker 2: every affliction that you have survived. And really, that is
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  Speaker 2: part of the context. There are things that we go
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  Speaker 2: through every day, and it's only by the grace of
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  Speaker 2: God that we get through them. In fact, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads here in our first lesson from Matthew chapter 5
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  Speaker 2: and verse 4, blessed are they that mourn. for they
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  Speaker 2: shall be comforted. So, sometimes the morning comes through trials
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  Speaker 2: because of trials and tribulations. Sometimes the morning comes because
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  Speaker 2: we are being tempted in a way that is so heavy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about tempted to sin, and we are struggling,
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, striving against, what does it say? Striving unto blood,
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  Speaker 2: resisting sin. And that becomes heavy sometimes. until we yield
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  Speaker 2: it all to God. And then sometimes we mourn about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that we are not as close to God
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  Speaker 2: as maybe we had thought that we were. But God
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  Speaker 2: said that he will provide comfort. And so this means
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  Speaker 2: to grieve. That mourning is to grieve, to feel the
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  Speaker 2: weight of loss. Jesus places mourning at the foundation of
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  Speaker 2: blessed life in the Beatitudes or this part of the
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  Speaker 2: Sermon on the Mount. Those who have felt the deepest
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  Speaker 2: sorrow are positioned to receive and carry the deepest comfort.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear that part about receiving? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Receiving and carry. So now we receive freely and then
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  Speaker 2: freely we give. So we carry, we take comfort to
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  Speaker 2: people freely. who are also experiencing that same lack of
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  Speaker 2: comfort that we had once experienced. And so the people
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  Speaker 2: who bring the most light into the lives of others
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  Speaker 2: are usually the ones who have spent, I almost said invested,
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  Speaker 2: but this time spent the most time in the dark. Affliction,
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  Speaker 2: when it is surrendered to God, does not harden the heart.
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  Speaker 2: It opens the heart. It sweetens it and makes it
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  Speaker 2: capable of comfort that untested people cannot give. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times people are speaking from theory, or in
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  Speaker 2: these days, it's beyond that. Now, people speak from AI
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  Speaker 2: and prepare stuff from AI and don't really actually have
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  Speaker 2: lived experience to back up what we're saying. And so
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  Speaker 2: in our cases, when we receive from God that comfort
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  Speaker 2: and we have been tested or even are being tested,
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  Speaker 2: then the Bible says that that we can provide comfort
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  Speaker 2: as well. And so the action in this case is
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  Speaker 2: to ask God to show you how the suffering he
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  Speaker 2: has brought you through is preparing you to carry light
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  Speaker 2: to someone who was still in that same position. And then, like,
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  Speaker 2: go do it. Like, do what God is showing you.
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  Speaker 2: Before I give you another lesson, I'm going to read
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  Speaker 2: from the book God's Amazing Grace, page 122. God's Amazing Grace,
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  Speaker 2: page 122, which reads, A consecrated Christian life is ever
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  Speaker 2: shedding light and comfort and peace. It is characterized by purity, tact, simplicity,
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  Speaker 2: and usefulness. It is controlled by that unselfish love that
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  Speaker 2: sanctifies the influence. It is full of Christ and leaves
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  Speaker 2: a track of light and wherever its possessor may go.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just based on what we said a little
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  Speaker 2: bit earlier, to brighten the corner where you are. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me read from Galatians chapter 6. Hopefully, you have
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  Speaker 2: your Bibles. Galatians chapter 6, and I'll read verses 1
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  Speaker 2: and 2. Galatians chapter 6, verses 1 and 2, and
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  Speaker 2: it reads, Brothers and sisters, if a person is caught
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  Speaker 2: in any Transgression.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Let's take our time here. Caught in any transgression,
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  Speaker 2: you who are spiritual restore such a person in a
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  Speaker 2: spirit of what? Gentleness. Pay attention to yourselves so that
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  Speaker 2: you are not tempted to. You see, sometimes people become
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  Speaker 2: judgmental when we see that there are people who are
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  Speaker 2: struggling through a trial that they caused for themselves. And
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  Speaker 2: judgmentalism is not just identifying what is going on. You know,
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  Speaker 2: God has shown us that we examine the fruit. By
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  Speaker 2: their fruit ye shall know them. So if you see
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  Speaker 2: a rotten fruit, then you know something's not working right
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  Speaker 2: in that situation. So that's not judgmentalism. Judgmentalism is in
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  Speaker 2: that moment, like, how could you be like that? And
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  Speaker 2: then condemning people to hell or condemning people to punishment
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  Speaker 2: that we don't have any control over. That is not
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  Speaker 2: our business. The Vengeance is mine, said the Lord. He,
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  Speaker 2: he said, will repay. And so God is showing us
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  Speaker 2: that when people are caught into a transgression, we need
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  Speaker 2: to think, how can I restore this individual? Because guess what?
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  Speaker 2: We're human beings, and it's possible that we could find
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in the same situation and need the same kind
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  Speaker 2: of grace like Adam and Eve did when they were
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  Speaker 2: cast out of the Garden of Eden. But the same
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  Speaker 2: hand that cast them out of the Garden of Eden
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  Speaker 2: was protective enough of them that he barred them from
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  Speaker 2: the tree of life while they were in their sinful
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  Speaker 2: state or, you know, repentant and especially in that moment state.
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  Speaker 2: And God was leading them to repentance and said, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to let you eat from this tree because
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to extend your sinfulness throughout eternity. Pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to yourselves so that you are not tempted to
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  Speaker 2: carry one another's burdens. And in this way, you now
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  Speaker 2: fulfill the law of Christ. 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: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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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.