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 Wednesday, November fifteen, twenty twenty three. 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. God's mission,
my mission, and our caption for today is loving others as we love
ourselves, Loving others as we love ourselves. We'll get into that in just
a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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is a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get to underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you
for giving us this new day, and thank you for your word. Thank
you for giving us the privilege to love, and please help us to do
so, help us to live in that way, become that in Jesus name.
I pray, Amen and damen again, loving others as we love ourselves.
And I know, I know there are people who say, but there
are people who don't love themselves. Are we supposed to love ourselves that way?
I love people that way. Well, No, Jesus is always making
of the ideal. He's speaking of the ideal. He's not speaking about our
brokenness. Some people do demonstrate hatred for themselves. Obviously, that is not
a godly principle. So let's just get that one out as soon as possible.
But first, let's go ahead and read from the book of the book
Excuse me, Christ's object Lessons, page forty nine, and it reads,
love is the underlying principle of God's government in heaven and earth. And it
must be the foundation of the Christian's character. Did you get that love must
be the foundation of the Christian's character. This alone make and keep him steadfast,
This alone can enable him to withstand trial and temptation. That's love.
Love is the principal element of life. Brothers and sisters, Love is a
great I shouldn't say great. Love is the best motivator, not somebody with
a microphone, not somebody on your YouTube channel or a social media post.
Love the kind of love that transforms us, the kind of love that makes
us move from unholy sinners to righteous saints. And you're like, but Dave,
how can we become righteous saints? Like everybody makes mistakes. That's not
what we're talking about. We're talking about the quality of life that says not
I but Christ, the kind of life that says, I submit, I
surrender all. And the Bible says John talked about this because he knew under
the Holy Ghost that you would ask something like this, right, he said,
my little children, these things write I unto you that you sin not.
And if any man sins, of course any woman sins, then you
have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous, and so God is
able to transform us. And if God forbid during that transformation's experience, we
make mistakes, we sin, then we have an advocate with the Father.
If we will surrender our will again, you see how that works. Yeah,
if we confess our sins again, John said, then he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
So don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Let's read now
from the Book of Matthew chapter twenty two, beginning at verse thirty seven,
and the Bible reads Jesus said, unto him, thou shalt love the Lord
thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. So miraculously
we are able to love God. Jesus is answering somebody who's, you know,
trying to make a mess of things and trip him up talking about marriage
and commandments and all kinds of stuff, right the resurrection. Yeah, and
Jesus is like, okay, So the great, first and great commandment is
to love God with everything. That's miraculous, Like, we cannot do that
on our own and the Bible continues, and the second is like unto it.
You see, the first was miraculous. We were born in sin,
shaping in iniquity, right. We were not born with the mindset that leans
or tends toward God. Yeah, as soon as we're born, it seems
that the selfishness gene just follows us mine mind, mind, closed fist mind.
Yeah. But God can transform us and so so miraculously we can learn
to love God. The second we can also miraculously do, which is thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law
and the prophets, right, And so the first four commandments are about loving
God. The final six commandments are about what. Yeah, I know most
people are going to say about loving others, right, loving our neighbors,
But it's about loving God and our neighbor. Right. So we don't have
to segment in the sense that the final six has nothing to do with loving
God. Of course, it has to do with loving God. But now
we begin to see the miraculous focus to loving others. Right, and so
the first action is to prioritize loving God. That's our action item loving God
with your entire being, reflecting that love on how you treat others. Make
this the central focus of your daily living. After you have received your daily
portion, You see what I did right there. After you have received your
daily portion, then turn that portion whatever God gives to you, turn it
out and give to others. Ask God, how do I live in such
a way that freely I have received, I also now can freely give and
invariably and without fail. God will do that. Okay, and so let's
go now to Micah, the book of Micah. What is the last time
he read Micah? In Micah Micah chapter six and verse eight, and the
Bible reads he hath showed thee, O man, what is good? And
what doth the Lord require of thee? What is it? What is it?
You want to know what makes God happy? You want to know what
God has required? Hmmm, well it says here to do just lee.
I just say that justice just lee means righteousness in almost every case in the
Bible. So to do justly or to do righteously, right, live righteously,
and to love mercy, oh my, not to love only to receive
mercy, you understand, loving to give mercy, loving to be merciful.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall what obtain. Okay, So I
think you know where we're going with this, and to walk humbly with thy
God. God wants us to walk humbly with him. Don't run away from
God, right, don't come to God with your own agenda. Don't write
him a prescription. When you need an answer to prayer. Lord, do
it exactly this way. And once you have done it that way, you
will have proven yourself to me. No, walk humbly with your God.
With your God, humble yourself before God and walk with Him. Wherever thou
leadest ie will follow. Isn't that right? Yeah? Okay? And we'll
read also from Galatians chapter five and verse fourteen, which says, for the
for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this, you shall
love your neighbor as your self. I'm going to give you a big word
like externalization. I'll say it this way. Externalize your internal faith. Let
the faith that is in you, that lays hold on the power of God
transform you to the degree that it leaks out, it overflows into other people's
lives. Whatever God gives you, let it radiate, let it leak,
let it overflow into other people's lives. I wish I had the time.
And then, of course, genuine love over empty rituals is another principle for
today, have a wonderful day, peace, Thanks for joining us listening to
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,