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03 19 2026 Walking in Wisdom · 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 Thursday, March nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El 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 Walking in Wisdom, Walking
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  Speaker 2: in Wisdom. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: this is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: get underway. Father, We thank you for your wisdom. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being wisdom to us. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: ask and receive in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. So I have shared with you a few
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  Speaker 2: times that a prayer besides Lord, please give me your
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, a prayer that I pray every day is Lord,
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  Speaker 2: give me please double the wisdom of Solomon. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have the time to tell you why I pray that
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  Speaker 2: prayer in particular, but it's based on my calling, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so God is wanting us to walk in wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Solomon said, I don't know how to lead this your people,
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  Speaker 2: so please will you give me the wisdom that I need.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible writer said that if we lack wisdom, we
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  Speaker 2: need to ask of God who will give us liberally
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  Speaker 2: and will not will not withhold any and so and
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  Speaker 2: so it is important for God's people to continue to
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  Speaker 2: ask for wisdom. And Proverbs chapter eight, if you study
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  Speaker 2: it closely, when you get toward, you know, the middle
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  Speaker 2: to the last part of the chapter, you will notice
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  Speaker 2: that the attributes of the person or what's being personified
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  Speaker 2: there absolutely, uncategorically is Jesus Christ. And so when we
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  Speaker 2: ask for wisdom, we are really asking for Christ to
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  Speaker 2: be in our lives. And you're like, well, can you
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  Speaker 2: prove it outside of Proverbs chapter eight. Well, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Paul actually taught us in First Corinthians chapter one, verses
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  Speaker 2: thirty and thirty one, among other things, Jesus is our wisdom, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so our first lesson comes in from Colossians chapter
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  Speaker 2: four and verse five. Colossians chapter four and verse five,
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  Speaker 2: where the Bible reads, walk in wisdom toward them that
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  Speaker 2: are without redeeming the time. Let me say it another way,
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  Speaker 2: conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders. Do you have encounters
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  Speaker 2: with people who are not yet children of God, who
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  Speaker 2: have not yet said yes to God and live for
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  Speaker 2: Him today? When you encounter them, the Bible writer is saying,
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  Speaker 2: to conduct yourselves with wisdom. Well, where do we get
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  Speaker 2: the wisdom we ask of God? Are we sure that
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  Speaker 2: we will have the wisdom so we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: make up stuff? You know what? There are times, as
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  Speaker 2: I ask that question, there are times that Christian Eese
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  Speaker 2: speaking people make up all kinds of new machinery, all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of trying to contrive new methods. We sit in
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  Speaker 2: committee meetings sometimes trying to reinvent the wheel. And in
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  Speaker 2: fact God is saying, to come to me, I will
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  Speaker 2: show you the wisdom, especially the wisdom toward people who
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  Speaker 2: do not yet have faith in God. And as you
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  Speaker 2: lift up Jesus, I will draw people to myself. And
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  Speaker 2: so conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most
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  Speaker 2: of the opportunity. So our lesson number one is wisdom
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  Speaker 2: has lived and not just known. Wisdom is lived and
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  Speaker 2: not just known. We are not asking God to make
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  Speaker 2: us a sage. We're not asking God to have us
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  Speaker 2: to be mounted atop the pinnacle of somewhere where people
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  Speaker 2: will look up to us and say, all thou with wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: endow us with filling the blank. No, we are asking
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  Speaker 2: God for his wisdom because in his presence, we are
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  Speaker 2: able to help people who don't yet know God. Paul
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  Speaker 2: places wisdom in motion. Truth revealed must become the truth
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  Speaker 2: we live or practice. The focus here is not life
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  Speaker 2: inside of the church building those edifices that we created,
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  Speaker 2: but life before those who don't yet believe. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about at the gym. I'm talking about in that taxi.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about in other public transportation. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: when you're in the supermarket. I'm talking about when you
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  Speaker 2: are at Carnation Market or Linsted Market, or the market
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  Speaker 2: in Montego Bay, or wherever it is in the world
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  Speaker 2: that you buy your produce. I'm talking about in our
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  Speaker 2: day to day activities, maybe on your job. Outsiders often
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  Speaker 2: encounter the gospel first because of you and for those
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  Speaker 2: listening on the radio, we're still here. I just need
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  Speaker 2: that to settle in because of you, not because of
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  Speaker 2: Like sometimes I drive by billboards. I've purchased billboards before.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the big ones that big like a
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  Speaker 2: bus big billboards. Sometimes I walk by billboard or drive
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  Speaker 2: by billboards that have interesting messaging that's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: like godly messaging, but I don't have time to deal
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  Speaker 2: with the ones that I'm talking about in my head.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes people think if they splatter these these stark
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  Speaker 2: and like arresting things on a billboard, that somehow somebody's
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  Speaker 2: going to get converted. And maybe you know, God will
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  Speaker 2: do something in spite of us, but it will be
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  Speaker 2: indeed and in fact in spite of us, considering some
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  Speaker 2: of the ones that I'm talking about, Like some people
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  Speaker 2: think that the outsiders driving by the KFC sign will
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  Speaker 2: also see that other sign that they made up and
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  Speaker 2: suddenly become holy. Well, that makes daily behavioral witness. We
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  Speaker 2: need to be. We need to live among the people
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  Speaker 2: and live like Jesus lived like brighten the corner where
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  Speaker 2: we are. And if you're going to put up a billboard,
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  Speaker 2: at least put up the message that God has given
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  Speaker 2: to us. I digress, I digress. So this walking means
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  Speaker 2: to conduct, It means to live, to order one's life,
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  Speaker 2: to move through daily conduct. And so what God wants
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  Speaker 2: us to do and this action is to be intentional
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  Speaker 2: about how you live in public spaces. Let consistency, integrity,
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  Speaker 2: and calm reflect Christ before words are ever spoken. And
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  Speaker 2: when I say like I hate that, I have to
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  Speaker 2: qualify everything, but we kind of do. When I said
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  Speaker 2: in public spaces, I'm saying that because that's where the
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  Speaker 2: people observe us. That is not to the exclusion of
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  Speaker 2: our personal devotion. I used to ask this question back
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  Speaker 2: in the day when I was teaching the Bible, even
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  Speaker 2: more than I do now. Can you believe it? I
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  Speaker 2: remember asking people like, if I am locked up, I
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  Speaker 2: made this up? Like if I'm locked up in a
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  Speaker 2: room where nobody is and no one ever will know
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  Speaker 2: what happens in that room, only my own brain, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe I don't even utter what's in my brain, so
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  Speaker 2: no sound is attached to what I'm about to say next,
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  Speaker 2: How does it impact other people? So if I am
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  Speaker 2: entertaining wicked thoughts, it doesn't matter which one it is,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm entertaining those in my mind, so I'm sinning
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  Speaker 2: in my brain and I don't ever act it out.
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  Speaker 2: I made this up. Does it have an impact on
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  Speaker 2: other people? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Or no?
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  Speaker 2: If I'm locked up in a room, it's just me
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  Speaker 2: and my brain, and I don't speak or act on
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  Speaker 2: the things that I'm doing in my brain that are
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  Speaker 2: not according to God's will? Does it have an impact
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  Speaker 2: on other people? And of course, the answer is yes,
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  Speaker 2: because when people come to us, when people experience us,
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  Speaker 2: it's only as we are in full alignment with God
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  Speaker 2: in our thoughts that our conduct can have the impact
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  Speaker 2: that it needs to have.
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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 el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,