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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Thursday, March twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series through the Book

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of Songs. This is our final
week. Can you imagine? Yep punned.

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Our caption for today is Joy Comes
in the Morning. Joy Comes in

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the Morning. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
pray and then get underway. Father and

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Heaven, thank you for this day. And I'm asking you to give us

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the kind of joy, the kind
of joy that should fill our hearts as

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we prepare for the coming of Jesus
Christ. Teach us, Father that even

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though things get difficult down here,
that we should not lose our focus.

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In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Joy comes in

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the morning. In the morning,
have you ever driven through the night?

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I do not like driving, by
the way, and I'm looking forward to

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the day that I can hire a
driver. And I know some people are

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like, that's excessive, bro,
Like just get behind the wheel, start

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up the vehicle, and be thankful
that you're not on public transportation. But

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well, in public transportation, somebody's
driving me. So yeah, I don't

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like to drive and so and it's
really because I can't drive too fast anymore.

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I got a ticket, you know, thirty years ago, thirty one

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years ago, and that ticket was
one thousand dollars back then because I was

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a young in discipline driver speeding,
and because I don't speed anymore, now

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I get really sleepy behind the wheel, and I'm just like, Okay,

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I need someone to drive so that
I can like not get sleepy on the

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road and run into anything. Okay, I digress. But I've driven through

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the nighttime under that whole feeling that
I just tried to describe to you.

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Yeah, And and it felt like
I was hallucinating, except I wasn't really

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hallucinating. I was falling asleep.
And then I got a little peak of

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the sun about to rise, and
instantly I had energy. And then it

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did rise, and I had even
more energy, and I was joyful in

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air quotes why because I wasn't feeling
as off anymore, Like I wasn't feeling

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as though something was going wrong in
my brain, because I had light in

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my life. And now I could
be joyful because I felt safer on the

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road, even though I didn't like
the road. I felt more joyful because

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I felt safe when God is shining
into your life, when the sun sun

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of righteousness, when we see as
Jesus, who is Jesus, Yes,

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when he arises in our lives.
And there was healing in his wings,

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then we can have joy because of
that light that comes from God. And

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so in the Book of Matthew Mark, excuse me, the Book of Mark.

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The Book of Mark, we see
a time of rising, a joy

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that should come in the morning to
those who receive what happened by faith.

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And we will read the story beginning
at verse one. And when the Sabbath

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was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary
the mother of Jesus and Saloni had brought

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sweet spices that they might come to
anoint him. Like why were they going

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to a tomb to anoint Jesus's body
when he said on the first day he

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would be alive, not dead.
But that's a different study. Verse two,

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And very early in the morning the
first day of the week, they

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came unto the sepulcher at the rising
of the sun. We're talking about the

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morning, brothers and sisters. We're
talking about joy. Sometimes people are looking

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for love, or looking for power, or looking for success in dead places.

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And I say that again, it's
a mindset, like sometimes people are

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looking for all of these things in
the wrong places, and they're disappointed when

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they don't find what they're looking for. And so what God is showing us

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here in this rising at the time
that Jesus was to be resurrected to take

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up his life again as he promised. Is that we're not supposed to be

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looking for the living among the dead. We're not supposed to be looking for

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success among dead habits. We're not
supposed to be looking for love in the

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wrong places. And so the rising
of the sun verse three, And they

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set among themselves who should roll us
away the stone from the door of the

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sepulcher. And when they looked,
they saw that the stone was already rolled

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away. Like I said, Jesus
already made a promise. Why were they

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looking for a stone to be somewhere
when he said he was gonna come out

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of there Ah with power in his
hands, It was already there, For

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it was very great, like who
could have done that? Verse five?

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And entering into the sepulcher, they
saw a young man sitting on the right

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side, clothed in a long white
garment. Now do you know who this

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young man would have been or what
kind of being we're referencing here? Obviously

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the scriptures is talking are talking about
an angel, an angel of light was

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just there likely to greet these women
to let them know they're looking in the

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wrong place for what they need.
Their joy came in the morning, but

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for a moment they missed it.
I wish I had the time, and

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they were fearful verse six, and
he said, unto them, don't be

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affrighted. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was past tense crucifier. He

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is right now, present tense risen. He is not here. Why is

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he not here? Because he has
risen. Behold the place where they laid

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him past tents. He was laying
here, he was resting, he was

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dead. He gave his life so
that we could be victorious. He gave

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his life as a ransom for many
so that we could be delivered from sin.

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But he's not here. Why not? Because he's got something to do.

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Brothers and sisters. Jesus was doing
what he had already said he would

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do. But go your way verse
seven. Tell his disciples and Peter that

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he goeth before you into Galilee.
Why because he's risen, Christ the Lord,

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he's risen today. Hallelujah. I
think there's a song that said that,

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yes, he's on his way to
Galilee. There shall ye see him

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as he said, unto you,
stop looking for power, stop looking for

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the promises of God, stop looking
for joy in dark and dismal and dead

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places. Some of those places are
in the dark and dismal minds of the

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people that you go to for advice, the ones who are always raining on

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your parade, the ones who are
always looking at the glass as half empty,

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the ones who are always pessimistic and
negative and looking to things from an

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ominous mindset, like everything is always
going to burn down or explode, like

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everything is always from a negative o
oh. And they're fearful and paranoid.

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And you're going there for the joy
that God says comes in the morning.

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You're going into a tomb looking for
the living. And so the Bible continues

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verse eight. And they went out
quickly. I want you to run away

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from those dark and dismal places,
that dismal place of your past. Run

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away from there, Ah, and
the Bible says, and fled from the

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sepulcher. For they trembled and were
amazed. Neither said they anything to any

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man, for they were afraid they
could not understand what they just experienced.

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Where God sent them a holy messenger
to give them the message of joy and

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peace, the message that he had
kept his promises, the message that Jesus

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was going to lead the way into
the place that they needed to go and

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see him again. So God is
saying to embrace the joy that comes in

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the morning, but don't look for
morning in the night. Season. Wow,

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every wonderful day. Thanks for joining
us listening. Friends. Always remember

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we cannot live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the

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mouth of God. This has been
your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,