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 Monday, June twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is Elle 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 final week of this lesson
study series, the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is hope in Jesus's
soon return. Hope in Jesus is soon return. We'll get back into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you,
and welcome everybody who's not come to your Daily Portion dot com as yet join
our online community. We are growing by leaps and bounds. We had to
re calibrate, and God is growing the community. This is where you can
ask all of your questions related to the Lesson study, or we can have
discussion. Don't come in there thinking that you're going to post a bunch of
stuff, because that's not the purpose for it. The system will reject posts
that are just generic in nature, even really good ones. It's about the
Lesson study questions that you have discussions related to the Lesson study, and we
will continue to build faith and fellowship there. Okay, that's an opportunity we
have because I just talk you. I talk to you this way. You're
listening to me on the radio, you're watching me on the internet right,
listen to me on podcasts, and you don't have a way to really respond
except for the few moments in chat. No, we come in the community
and that's where we get the real work done. So I'm grateful. Let's
go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father in heaven, thank you
for this day. Thank you for loving us enough to give us hope.
Please help us to embrace the hope in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Let me ask you a question, do you have hope
in Jesus? If you have hope in Jesus, just go ahead and type
of one in the chat. If you're on the internet, or if you
are even in a podcast, go ahead and leave a review and then type
a one during the review and say, I have hope in Jesus's in Jesus.
And now let me tighten it up a little bit based on the caption
for today. Do you have hope in the fact that Jesus is coming and
he's coming soon. He's coming for you brothers and sisters. Do you have
hope that way? Hopefully you do, go ahead and type of one in
the chat. If you have hope in Christ and hope in the reality,
blessed hope that Jesus is coming soon. You see a lot of times people
lose focus and lose hope because they don't know in whom they have their hope.
They've hoped and their friends who have let them down, their family members
have let them down. The bank that they hoped that they would get a
loan from in order to get the home that they need in order to live
comfortably has let them down, and so many other things. The governments have
let them down. M h. And So what God is saying to us
is that in the last days especially, and I know I keep saying those
words, but that's because we're living in the last days. During the last
days, God wants to give us hope, and the same hope he gave
his disciples. Jesus gave his disciples. As Jesus was preparing to give his
life for us, he knew that those people were going to unalive him.
The internet is so crazy. I can't even say what I really mean.
Un alive. You know what that means, right, because it messes up
your channel when you say the words as they really are these days. But
God is saying that as Jesus is preparing to give his life for us and
his disciples are fearful and discouraged, Jesus said this, let not your heart
be troubled. Don't let your heart be troubled. Why not ye believe in
God? Believe also in me. In my father's house, there are many
mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I
go to prepare a place for you. What Yes, He's going to prepare
a place for you. Whether you are homeless today, God forbid. But
if you are, and God bless you, you're listening today, this is
your day to receive hope. Yes, God is going to take care of
you somehow on planet Earth. Yes, but one day he's going to give
you a specific, special place that's just for you among those many mansions in
heaven. If it were not so, brothers and sisters, I would have
told you, I go and prepare a place for you. And if I
go to prepare a place for you, because Jesus is so efficient, he
does not waste energy or time. He said, since I'm going to prepare
a place for you, I'm going to go ahead and come back here.
I'm going to return. If I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there,
ye may be also. So. Yes, there will be a time of
trouble. Yes, it will be challenging. Yes, you will have some
things go on even before that time of trouble that you wish were not happening.
But God said that if you just hope in me, believe in me,
I'm going to come here and I'm going to resolve all of that once
and for all, and in the Book of Titus chapter two. The Book
of Titus chapter two bout, beginning at verse eleven, the Bible reads,
for the grace of God, that's his power for us to do as well.
The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. You're
a people this and sisters, you're a person, so that means you.
It trains us to reject godless ways. See if you're God's children, if
you are King's kids, and He has brought power to your life so that
you can have salvation, then that means you turn away from godless ways and
worldly desires and to live self control. Thank God, you can control yourself
when people say slick stuff out of their mouths to you and you don't like
it, and you really want to tell them something, huh. That has
four letters in it For the English speakers in the house, Yeah, you
say no, no, no, no, no no. God has given
me power. He has saved me. I reject the godless ways that are
creeping up into my mind, and I am able to be upright and have
godly lives in the present age, as we wait for the happy fulfillment of
the hope in the glorious appearing of the Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Did you get that of our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ? Verse
fourteen and final, He gave himself for us to set us free. Are
you sensing your liberty today? Brothers and sisters, to set us free,
set us free from what, set us free from what, from every kind
of lawlessness, and to purify for himself a people who are truly His,
who are eager to do good. I'm grateful, brothers and sisters, because
God has given us hope in this present world that we can live according to
God's principles. And while we wait, we can live abundant lives. He
is able to make us abundant in these last days. Yes, everything is
not toil and difficulty as we await. There are great and bright spots,
sunny spots in our lives that we can live according to His will and Deuteronomy
Chapter twenty eight, beginning at verse one straight through the verse fourteen, the
Bible gives us the blueprint for people who want to live prosperous lives. We
live according to His principles, his precepts, his laws, his judgments,
and we will have blessings upon blessings upon blessings that we can't even contain,
and we give God thanks. The wicked realize though in the last of the
last days, it's a contrast now a consequences of sin, while the righteous
have accepted the marvelous provisions of grace. According to the lesson writer, rebellion
against God leads to fear and guilt, condemnation, and eventually eternal loss,
eternal separation from God, eternal loss. Our response to his saving grace leads
to forgiveness. Thank God that I don't have to worry about my past.
Huh. Peace, Thank God that I am RESTful no matter what is happening,
whether I am abounding or I am in lack for a moment of time,
I can have peace and joy eternally at his glorious return. We look
forward to the day that Jesus will appear and he will resolve all of those
woes. And let me say, in the last moments here from Great Controversy,
page six fifty one, the Cross of Christ will be the science and
song of the Redeemed through all eternity. In Christ glorified, they will behold
Christ crucified. We thank God he has done everything that he needs to do
to save us 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,