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 Sabbath, June eight, 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 with Lesson number
eleven, the Great Controversy under the caption the Impending Conflict, The Impending Conflict.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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concerning God's word as we study together, let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us
this new Sabbath morning and for the blessing that you have been to us until
now. Please, Father, help us to be ready for the crisis.
But Father, I know that some of us are always thinking negatively, always
bracing for something. But more than that, teach us to worship you.
Please in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again. All right,
So our key for this Sabbath morning is where whenever we are facing conflict,
God's word provides the solution. May I say it again, Whenever we
are facing conflict, God's word provides the solution. Yeah, there are times
that people are overwhelmed with the trials of the certain politics that are happening in
your particular country. Right, who will lead? Who will not lead?
Like what party will be the ones in power or not? Right? You
know, wherever there is conflict, God's Word gives us the solution. May
be wondering, like what's going to happen in your Christian fellowship, like your
faith community, because you see some things that you just don't agree with,
and you're like, but God, how is this happening under your watch?
Remember, whenever we are facing conflict, God's word provides the solution. And
so we see, based on what we've been studying for the last several weeks,
that even conflict had even started in heaven, in the courts of Heaven
near the throne of God. But at the appropriate time, at the appropriate
time, when there was war in heaven and mike Al and his angels fought,
and the dragon fought, the Bible says there was no place found for
the devil. Right, the dragon and his angels had to leave why Because
God's word was that only peace and love and everything that has to do with
Godliness must reside in heaven, abide in heaven. And so since they that
they did not want to repent, they had to go conflict averted. Conflict
ended, I should say, in heaven. And now we see that the
conflict is on planet Earth. What will happen the same thing. God will
let this conflict run its course and at just the right time. I told
you, God's timing is not our timing, Ah, But just the right
time, God will end that conflict once and for all. And then one
pulse of love will go throughout the universe that says again, God is love.
And so the listen writer wants us to focus today on a simple passage
that really comes from a prayer that Jesus was praying to his father. Sanctify
them by your truth. Your word is truth. Who is the them?
These are the people that Jesus said that God, our Father gave to him,
the people who love God, the people who follow God's word, the
people who, in these last days in twenty twenty four, love the Lord
and keep his commandments. Because God's commandments become ten promises when we have love
for God, and perfect love casts out fear, so we don't have to
worry about fear or torment or being condemned, because there is no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus, and so God wants us to be set
aside. He is setting people aside for a holy use. And in fact,
in the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and nineteen and verse fifteen,
the Bible reads, I will meditate on thy precepts, Ah, and
have respect unto your ways. You see, this is a step, one
of the steps for us to wholeheartedly worship God in spite of the conflict that
is looming, the conflict that is even going on between God and Satan right
now. But there is a bigger one, a looming that will come to
a head a point critical mass. But remember, if I meditate on God's
precepts and have respect unto his ways, Ah, then I will internalize his
truths. His truths will become who I am. Remember some people said that
we are what we eat, So if we eat God's word, they become
a part of the fiber of our being. And when that happens, then
we have no problem connecting and staying connecting, connected with God. But he
also says, God says in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter ten and verse
twenty five, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some
is by exhorting one another, but of exhorting one another, and so much
more as you see the day approaching, let me use it in another translation,
not abandoning our own meetings, that is, God's people coming together to
worship God in the beauty of holiness, where two or three are gathered together
in God's name. There He is in the midst that kind of a thing.
Okay, not abandoning this kind of a fellowship, in these kinds of
meetings as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other.
And even more so because you see the day drawing near. What day the
day of the arrival of Jesus Christ, the day of the end of the
world. And so we thank God that he allows us to have relationship with
Him so that we can meditate on his words, meditate on his laws,
and become one with Him and also become one with other believers. And of
course we have been talking about the Seventh Day Sabbath a lot in the last
several weeks, because that is the focal point, because God said that if
the word of God is truth, and we are sanctified by his truth.
It also says in the Old Testament, in the Book of Exeits the Book
of Ezekiel, that the Law or the Sabbath and in the Law is a
sign between God and his people that he sanctifies us. So he's keeping the
promise. He's keeping the promise that Jesus prayed about, sanctify them by thy
truth. Thy word is truth. Part of God's word has to do with
keeping holy the seventh day Sabbath, because God said to remember, even though
so many people are forgetting now. The Bible does also say in the Book
of Matthew, chapter twenty five and verse forty, insomuch as ye have done
it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, you have done
it unto me. And so God wants us to think about the people,
the lane, the main, the blind ah, the halt, the people
who are not able to do for themselves, those who are incarcerated, and
others. The least of these in air quotes people that are often for gotten
dejected, rejected, God is saying that if you want to be connected with
me, huh, then you take care of these people. You don't leave
them on their own. If you're a worshiper, this is what you will
do, because you will do it as if you were doing it toward Jesus
himself. And then finally, in Revelation, chapter twelve and verse eleven,
the Bible reads, and they overcame him, meaning the devil, by the
blood of the Lamb Jesus Christ, and by the word of their testimony.
The Bible continues, they love not their lives, even to the point of
death. So people who are true worshippers, who are sanctified by God's truth,
those individuals who take care of God's children also have a testimony. 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,