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08 13 2026 Faith, Hope, and Love · 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, the
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  Speaker 2: thirteenth day of August in twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the books
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  Speaker 2: of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is faith, Hope and Love, Faith, hope and Love. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: assessment and you'll get a blueprint once you are done
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  Speaker 2: completing that. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful because God has
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  Speaker 2: made himself clear that there is a way to know
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  Speaker 2: how he has wired us and what He's called us
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  Speaker 2: to do, and this is an opportunity to get closer
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underwigh. Father in Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this opportunity to consider the truth
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  Speaker 2: of your love, but beyond that, to be transformed by You,
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  Speaker 2: to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. God,
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  Speaker 2: fill us please with your Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray a man, a man and a man again. Faith, hope,
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  Speaker 2: and love. Faith is the substance of things hoped for.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that what the Bible teaches us, the evidence of
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  Speaker 2: things not seen? And of course those who have hope
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  Speaker 2: in God will not be disappointed, because God has given
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  Speaker 2: us such a measure of faith that we can hope
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  Speaker 2: for the things that He has prepared for us. But
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  Speaker 2: the Bible teaches us something very interesting, And before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I want to share what the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing is to me in this lesson, and faith, hope,
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  Speaker 2: and love define the fullness of the life of a
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  Speaker 2: believer until Jesus comes. Love is the greatest because it
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  Speaker 2: alone describes the nature of God himself. Yesterday I said
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  Speaker 2: that God is love. And since that is the case,
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  Speaker 2: we get it like the epitome of what love is
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  Speaker 2: is God. If you want to know or judge your
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  Speaker 2: relationships by the measure of love, then you know that
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  Speaker 2: is the measure of the character of God. In First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen and verse eight we find our first lesson.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads charity faileth, never faileth. Pardon me, Charity
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  Speaker 2: or love never faileth, or never ends. But whether there
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  Speaker 2: be prophecies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues they
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  Speaker 2: shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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  Speaker 2: This means to fall away or to drop off, like
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  Speaker 2: a leaf from a branch. Paul uses the word for
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  Speaker 2: what will happen to prophecy tongues knowledge. They will fall
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  Speaker 2: away when their purpose is complete. I think you're probably
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  Speaker 2: catching up with me. You see, all of those have
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  Speaker 2: a reason. They point toward God. But love is God.
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  Speaker 2: God is Love. The epitome of all things godly is Love.
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  Speaker 2: All things lovely is God. And so whereas those things
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  Speaker 2: point forward to God, this is a manifestation of God.
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  Speaker 2: That is love, that is love. And so every spiritual
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  Speaker 2: gift is temporary, given for this age, given for this mission,
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  Speaker 2: given for this need. Love alone carries into eternity because
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  Speaker 2: love is the character of God and God does not change.
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  Speaker 2: Investing in love is the only investment that never depreciates.
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  Speaker 2: That means the value continues to increase and improve throughout
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  Speaker 2: the ceaseless ages of eternity. You don't drive love like
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  Speaker 2: a car off of the new car lot, and then
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  Speaker 2: it begins to lose value immediately. No love elevates us,
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  Speaker 2: ennobles us. It draws us closer to our God or God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father, And so ask yourself today, what are you
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  Speaker 2: building your life around? Is it around gifts? Is it
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  Speaker 2: around your knowledge or your achievements? Or is it love?
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  Speaker 2: And then ask God to make love the foundation that
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  Speaker 2: outlasts everything else. Our second lesson comes in from First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen and verse twelve. First Corinthians, Chapter thirteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse twelve. The Bible reads, for now we see through
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  Speaker 2: a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I
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  Speaker 2: know in part, but then I shall know even as
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  Speaker 2: I am also known. You see right now it is
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  Speaker 2: as if we are not seeing the fullness of what
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  Speaker 2: God has called us to be. You see what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: And then looking at God as well, looking at his character.
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  Speaker 2: We are seeing him through our limited lenses. And God
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  Speaker 2: is saying that when Jesus comes, we will see and
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  Speaker 2: experience the fullness of love to the degree that we
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  Speaker 2: will see him face to face, face to face. The
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  Speaker 2: hymn writer wrote, face to face with Christ my savior,
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  Speaker 2: right and I'm looking for to that day because I'm
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  Speaker 2: really tired of looking through a glass darkly. I'm tired
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  Speaker 2: of bowing my head and closing my eyes. I don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily always close my eyes. But you understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I am tired of the so called posture of prayer,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not trying to be sacrilegious. What I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: is we have these postures of prayer because we are
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  Speaker 2: not seeing God. We're not seeing him, we're not feeling
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  Speaker 2: his breath on our cheek. We are not able to
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  Speaker 2: hug him and to experience the sound of his voice.
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  Speaker 2: In reality, Yes, he manifests himself, Yes he reveals him throughoutself,
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  Speaker 2: through his word and through the wise counsel of godly people. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: through the still small voice of the Holy Ghost. But
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  Speaker 2: one day we're gonna actually experience God in the same
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  Speaker 2: way that we can experience each other today, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to again, not trying to be sacrilegious, But
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  Speaker 2: you can shake his hand like you can give him
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  Speaker 2: a fist bump, like you can hug and embrace. You
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  Speaker 2: can do what people do when they are happy to
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  Speaker 2: see one another. One day and we'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: look directly in his face and still live well. Partial knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: this is the lesson partial knowledge we carry now is
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  Speaker 2: not a failure. It is a foretaste, a foretaste of
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  Speaker 2: glory Divine. You remember the hymn. It's a foretaste, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: what a foretaste of glory Divine. Every glimpse of God
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  Speaker 2: in his life, in this life is a promise of
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  Speaker 2: the full vision that is coming. God is not going
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  Speaker 2: to leave us in this place of darkness. He's not
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  Speaker 2: going to leave us where we still have to imagine
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  Speaker 2: what he looks like or or his voice sounds like.
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  Speaker 2: One day we will see him as he is, and
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  Speaker 2: faith and hope carry us through the partial until the
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  Speaker 2: time of completion arrives. What is the action, Let incompleteness
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  Speaker 2: of your present knowledge, deepen your longing for Christ's return,
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  Speaker 2: Rather than frustrate you with what you don't yet understand,
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  Speaker 2: hold what you know in faith and let hope carry
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  Speaker 2: the rest. Yeah, I think we will pause right here.
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  Speaker 2: Faith very good, Hope exceptional. But love. This is transcendent.
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  Speaker 2: This will go out throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity
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  Speaker 2: because God himself is Love. Make it a great day. Peace.
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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.