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03 16 2026 Parents and Children · 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 Monday, March sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is parents and Children, Parent
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  Speaker 2: and Children. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and get under way. Father, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day. Teach us if we are parents, to
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  Speaker 2: be better parents. Please. If we are children, there are
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  Speaker 2: a few young people who do watch on this program,
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  Speaker 2: Please make them holy children who love their parents and
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  Speaker 2: honor them in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and a
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  Speaker 2: man again. Parents and children, may I just begin here. Parents,
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  Speaker 2: it's a privilege to see our children as a heritage.
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  Speaker 2: This is what the Bible says in the King James version,
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  Speaker 2: heritage from the Lord. That means inheritance. When you think
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  Speaker 2: of inheritance. You think of a treasure, you think of, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, I hit the jackpot. And I know some
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  Speaker 2: people won't like my illusion. That seems like gambling, but
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  Speaker 2: that's not the only way you can hit the jackpot.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that we have blessings lavished upon us
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  Speaker 2: to the degree that it is like I started out
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  Speaker 2: with zero dollars in my bank account and now I
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  Speaker 2: am wealthy chuching like that is how we should see
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  Speaker 2: our children. Where God gives us the best possible gift
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  Speaker 2: outside of salvation and has entrusted it to our care,
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  Speaker 2: to the degree it's like a treasure. It's like a treasure.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's how I see Josiah, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that that is how Simone sees Josiah as well, our son.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm going to begin with one of the least
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  Speaker 2: understood passages regarding our children, next to the one that says,
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  Speaker 2: and the little child shall lead them. Can I just
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  Speaker 2: pause right here on my soapbox and say, stop using
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  Speaker 2: that as a leadership text that literally has to do
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  Speaker 2: with children in our next life in eternity, leading action,
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  Speaker 2: leading actual animals, Like you know how you put like
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  Speaker 2: a little rope on around the you know, like a
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  Speaker 2: leash or something, and you're guiding the animal like to
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  Speaker 2: wherever you want the animal to go. Like, that's a
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  Speaker 2: literal text for our new experience in God, after Jesus
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  Speaker 2: comes to take us to heaven and then gives us
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  Speaker 2: the earth made new. That is not a leadership text.
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  Speaker 2: So that's for me the number one miss appropriated text
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  Speaker 2: where children are concerned. A little child shall lead some
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  Speaker 2: animals that normally would have chewed their faces off because
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  Speaker 2: they in this life were predators, and now they're not
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  Speaker 2: in the next life. Okay, so that's number one. But
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  Speaker 2: the second one is this in Proverbs. Somebody's like, what
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  Speaker 2: that text doesn't have to do with leadership, No, has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with that. Let me go now to
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  Speaker 2: the second misunderstood text, which is Proverbs, chapter twenty two
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  Speaker 2: and verse six, and the Bible reads, train up a
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  Speaker 2: child in the way he should go, and when he's old,
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  Speaker 2: he will not depart from it. Let me just jump
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  Speaker 2: in and say what this really actually means. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to see this, like in an agrarian situation, or
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  Speaker 2: in an agricultural situation, you have a plant that's growing,
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  Speaker 2: or a small tree that is growing outside your house,
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  Speaker 2: and you bend it just a little bit, just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, not too much. You're not breaking the branch.
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  Speaker 2: You're just training it. That's what to train. Look that
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  Speaker 2: up to train. You're bending it just a little bit
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  Speaker 2: so that it will go in a particular direction, in
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  Speaker 2: a way that it would normally go. But you're just
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  Speaker 2: guiding it a little bit, and I promise you that
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  Speaker 2: it will continue to do that. You have some plants
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  Speaker 2: that are called runners, and when you attach it to
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  Speaker 2: maybe a stalk or a stick or something or another tree,
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  Speaker 2: then it'll just run and run and run and run
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  Speaker 2: and run. And you're like, oh my goodness, this thing
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  Speaker 2: took on to the pathway that I was guiding it into,
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  Speaker 2: and it will not depart. It's not going to stop
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  Speaker 2: running that direction because you have done it according to
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  Speaker 2: its bent. You've done it according to its nature. You
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  Speaker 2: did not break it, You did not form it in
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  Speaker 2: a way that it was not already forming. You have
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  Speaker 2: trained it in the way it should go. So what
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  Speaker 2: does that mean for our children? If you read it
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  Speaker 2: literally like how it should read in the original, it
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  Speaker 2: would be more like train your child, discover your child's
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  Speaker 2: bent and then guide it in that direction. And if
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  Speaker 2: we think about it like spiritually, whatever way God created
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  Speaker 2: the child, you are to ask God what that is,
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  Speaker 2: discover that have that kind of holy interest in your child,
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  Speaker 2: and then guide that in the holy way that they
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  Speaker 2: should go and they won't depart. So Josiah loves music
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  Speaker 2: to the extreme, just like his mommy and daddy. But
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  Speaker 2: he loves to play music like his daddy used to
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  Speaker 2: and his grandma, my late mother did. He plays, plays
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  Speaker 2: and plays for hours. He just keeps going, keeps going,
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  Speaker 2: keeps going. So I should see that and say, oh God,
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  Speaker 2: you made this little boy who's now his voice is
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  Speaker 2: deeper than mine, hands likely stronger than mine, feet bigger
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  Speaker 2: than mine. You've made him a musical child. How do
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  Speaker 2: I train him in the way he should go? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't tell him you can't play music anymore. I
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  Speaker 2: need you to be a doctor, I need you to
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  Speaker 2: be a lawyer. You will not be a musician. That
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  Speaker 2: is not training him in the way he should go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm discovering with Simone his bent, his bent is toward creativity,
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  Speaker 2: His bent is toward music. Okay, Well, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: That means that I now need to say as a
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  Speaker 2: Christian parent, Oh, let me make sure that I'm guiding
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  Speaker 2: him on the righteous side of this thing, where he's
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  Speaker 2: not going to to focus on things in music that
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  Speaker 2: are displeasing to God. So I'm guiding him. I'm guiding him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guiding him. There's literally nothing I can do to
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  Speaker 2: break music out of him, because I've discovered with Simone
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  Speaker 2: his bent or his propensity toward his inclination and love
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  Speaker 2: to ward music. And now we're saying, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 2: how you honor God in music. That is how you
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  Speaker 2: train your child. It does not mean, now that I've
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  Speaker 2: invested the time, it does not mean that if you
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  Speaker 2: guide your child to the Christian lifestyle that they are
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  Speaker 2: not going to be lost. That doesn't even make sense. Lucifer,
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  Speaker 2: the one who was previously called the Sun of the Morning,
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  Speaker 2: had the best father in the universe, That's God, the Creator.
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  Speaker 2: He gave Lucifer everything Lucifer could possibly have needed in
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  Speaker 2: order to continue to be holy. Just a quick quiz question, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: is Lucifer the former Lucifer who is now called the
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  Speaker 2: devil and Satan and the Dragon and the Father of Lies,
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  Speaker 2: is he going to be saved in the end. The
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  Speaker 2: answer is no. Was there a problem with God's parenting?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not, And so what we do need to do
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  Speaker 2: is to discover what God has placed in our children,
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  Speaker 2: dedicate that to God and encourage our children and growth,
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  Speaker 2: and they will not depart from it. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,