Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good
morning. It is Sunday, April twenty one, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great
Controversy, and our caption for today is persecuted yet triumphin. Persecuted yet triumphin.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
just say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily
Portion dot com, please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily
Portion book, and also please let us know where you are in the world
at your daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that we
continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this
new day and for the privilege that you have entrusted to us to open up
your word. And I'm asking you now to please please go ahead, Please
go into our hearts and take out what you did not put there. Please
go into our lives and put in there what is missing. Please make us
holy today in Jesus's name, I pray Amen. Then damen again. Let
me ask you a question. Have you ever been persecuted? Have you ever
been persecuted? And I'd like for you, if you are in social media
or on YouTube, to go ahead and type yes or no in the chat.
I know those on radio can't do this. Have you ever been persecuted?
And let me ask you another question. Is God faithful? And I
just want you to go ahead and type a yes in the chat For that
one, just type a yes, God is faithful. If you're watching after
the fact, go ahead and type it in the comments section. Yes,
God is faithful. Of course He's faithful. And since God has been faithful
to his people throughout history, we know that he has good credit with us,
that he will be faithful to us. He will be faithful to us,
not because of his commitment to us only, which is incredible, but
because he's good. Like he is good, that is his nature, and
his mercies endure forever. And so God's people throughout history have been persecuted,
we have had challenges. In fact, Jesus said that when people revile you,
and they persecute you, and they do and say all manner of evil
against you falsely for my sake, he said, rejoice and be exceeding glad.
Why because your reward is great for so persecuted day the prophets which were
before you, and so the people of God, like I said, for
many many generations, all the way back to Abel. Abel. I'm talking
about Abel, the son of Adam and Eve. Even from that time until
today, God's people have lived triumphantly, even though we have been persecuted.
And so what I'm going to read is some of what is in the Lesson.
I would invite you to please go to the actual study the Lesson study
and also Sabbath Truth dot Calm Sabbath, truth, dot calm, and look
at some of what happened when the Sabbath was changed, if you want to
say, when someone attempted a power, a religial political power attempted to change
the Sabbath. And so, but I want to focus today on uh.
Here it says whenever God's people remain faithful to him, Satan is enraged.
So, if you're ever wondering why life is the way that it is for
you when you're going through trials and temptations, if you're being faithful to God,
you are praying, and you are asking Him to be in your life,
and you're yielding your will to him as far as you can, and
you're wondering, well, what is going on in my life? Well,
what's going on in your life? Is the same thing that was going on
in the three Hebrew young men's lives, right, the same thing that was
going on in Joseph's life and Job's life, right, the same thing that
went on and Hannah's life as she had hoped and prayed and wanted to have
a child, and she couldn't have one, but until she yielded in a
special way to God, and then he made her fruitful. There are things
that happen in our lives because the devil hates you, roaring lion, seeking
whom he may devour. And so God wants us to armor up, as
in the Book of Ephesians chapter six, with the entire armor of God,
so that we will be able to stand in the evil day. Okay,
And so whenever God's people remain faithful to him, Satan is enraged, persecution
often follows. The prophet Daniel described a time still future to him when the
medieval church would make war and persecute God's people from the Book of Daniel,
chapter seven and multiple verses there. The prophet John described this time period the
same time period as a time when God's Church was forced to flee into what
the Bible calls the wilderness, where she would be nourished for what we understand
now as a time, a times, and a dividing of time. And
then, of course, the Bible continues the twelve hundred and sixty days,
and I'm just reading this so you can go back and look at it again,
because we're not going to be able to really make a lot of sense
of this today because of the time. But the twelve hundred and sixty days
and the time times and half of time in Revelation chapter twelve and verse six
and fourteen are both referring to the same time period three and a half times
or years times three hundred sixty days equals twelve hundred sixty days. And I'm
like, okay, some of you are like, Okay, this is the
first time I'm hearing this. This is this is I don't understand. Like
I said, I want you to please please go to Sabbathtruth dot com and
look at the change of the Sabbath and then you can get more insights.
So Bible prophecy is often been written in symbols, and this is one of
the cases. Okay. And so as William Shay, who is a Bible
scholar, and I have met him. We became quite fond of one another
some years ago when I lived in West Virginia. He gives twenty three lines
of biblical evidence throughout the Old Testament for this day for a year principle in
symbolic Bible prophecy, as in Numbers chapter fourteen and verse thirty four and Ezekiel
chapter four and verse six, and again, the Bible interpreters have used it
throughout the centuries. Now, what I need you to do, because of
the time that we have again, is to go to sabbathtruth dot com look
at the change of the Sabbath, and then you can make more sense of
this. But with the time that we have left this morning, I'm asking
you to do you a favor, not me a favor, not God a
favor, not your family a favor. I need you to make a decision
today that, no matter what the external force is, no matter what the
temptation is, is that you will yield your will to God and be faithful.
And some of you may be thinking, well, how in the world
can I be faithful when my money is shorter than my month? Like how
can I be faithful when people are persecuting me and telling lies about me and
all I want to do is God's will? Like how can I be faithful
when there are challenges in the political system in my home country and I have
been a refugee and I'm feeling like where I fled too is difficult too,
Like how can I be faithful? Well, you can be faithful in the
way that God's people have always been faithful. Just yield and say God,
these times are bigger than me. It is more difficult than anything that I
can handle. But I am willing to serve you. Will you give me
your Holy spirit. That's what we want to focus on, like ask God
to give you his holy spirit and determine that, by God's grace you will
do as will whenever the religial political power comes to ahead in our day,
in the last days, I believe we live in the last days. If
you have already built the habit, if you've built the habit of yielding your
will to God on what we consider to be the small things of life,
that when that great, big, worldwide trial comes, you'll already be faithful.
You'll already be accustomed to hearing the voice of God. You will already
be accustomed to saying, God, no matter what happens, I'm gonna come
and serve you. And God will continue to keep the promise that He's made
to his people from Abele's time until today, that if you will yield to
him, he will keep you safe. And then one day, one day,
when Jesus comes, he will take you into the heavenly King. Peace.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great
day. Yeah,