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. Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath, Good
morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sabbath, June fifteen,
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
Lesson study series. This is Lesson number twelve, the Great Controversy. Our
coption for today is Earth's Closing Events. Earth's Closing Events. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Bather
and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new morning, and for the
privilege that you have entrusted to us to be together in this manner for so
many years. Thank you for giving us your word. Please help us to
live by those words. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen
again. Earth's closing events. Now, Jesus had a conversation with his disciples
one time. He was telling them about an impending challenge that was about to
happen with the destruction of Jerusalem, etc. Et cetera. And his disciples,
in sort of a perplexed manner, said, but Jesus, tell us,
when these when shall these things be? What shall be the sign of
Thy coming and of the end of the world. And then Jesus began to
teach them not to be deceived, to connect to God and remain connected to
God. And here are a battery of events that will take place. But
don't be troubled, don't be troubled. People will be disrespectful to God through
you. Aha, did you get that people will be disrespectful to God through
you? They will persecute you. They will do all manner of evil against
you, and say all kinds of stuff against you falsely for God's sake.
But he said, rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward
in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. And
please don't give up. Don't give up, because this gospel of the Kingdom
shall be preached into all the world for a witness. And then and only
then shall the income. So you have one more main assignment to preach the
great news of deliverance to the captives, to those who are bound to all
kinds of sin and sickness, intellectual and mindset type sickness. God has the
key to that, and he wants everybody to be free. And so sometimes
believers are satisfied with simply naming events when we study these lessons, name the
events and then roll credits move on to the next thing. But we need
to really be focusing on like connecting with God. Once we know that all
of these things are happening. We know what the implications are. How do
we weather the storm and remain connected to God? And so what we're going
to do is begin at the beginning m HM with Matthew chapter six and verse
thirty three. Matthew chapter six and verse thirty three, and a quick quiz
question while you're going there, like who created the heavens and the earth?
Who in the beginning said let there be light? And there was light?
Who, while he lived on planet Earth, said take up your bed and
walk? And immediately people took up their beds and walk. Who said go
and sin? No more like? And the people had the power to go
and live victorious lives. You see where we're going, And therefore therefore,
as we see in Matthew chapter six, we read, but seek ye first
the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, And all of these things shall be
added unto you. All of the food and water that you need, all
of the material resources that you need, the health and comfort that you need
when you're going through trials. He will provide those things, the mundane,
the spiritual, the philosophical, whatever you need. All things needful will be
added unto you. So don't take any thought brothers and sisters, when you're
going through these difficult tribula, don't take any thought of what you'll eat,
what you'll drink, what you'll put on, where you will live. The
gentiles like people who don't know God. That's what we're going to call the
gentiles this morning, people who do not know God. They're the ones that
worry about these things. But God is saying that even though you know that
there will be all kinds of wars and rumors of wars, ah and earthquakes
in diverse places, even though people will turn their backs on God and deception
will be in its highest gear, even though the waves and seas will roar
and the tempests will rage. Even though all of that will happen, and
more people will persecute you. Religious and political powers and religial political powers will
all fire and aim their proverbial weapons toward you, brothers and sisters and me.
God said, just seek Him first, and He'll take care of everything
else. So maybe that's an action item for your morning. Seek God first.
God, would you have me do today? How can I serve you?
Thank you? All right, let's move on to the next one.
We're going to the Book of Proverbs, chapter three and verse five, and
the Bible reads trust. That's a big word. I have trust issues brothers
and sisters with humans, and I'm hoping that it doesn't leak into my relationship
with God. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not
unto thine own understanding. Of course, the Bible continues that if in all
our ways we acknowledge him, we bring him into into the conversation, and
we listen for his voice and ask him what would he have us do?
He will do what make our paths straight. He will direct our paths,
which happen to be the paths of righteousness. And so I thank God that
we can trust him with everything that we are, and we can turn away
from our own understand because things get so confusing in the last days. We
can't even believe our own eyes. We can't believe our own ears. If
we have been confused about that in the past, we need not be confused
now, especially considering technology. Forget about anything super spiritual, like even with
technology, you can't believe your eyes. You see somebody on the screen screen
speaking, you think it's an actor or an actress that you've been watching for
decades. And you figure out it's a machine that has been programmed to sound
and speak and gesture and whatever else like them. So we know that the
enemy has power. If technology can do that, then the enemy has even
more power, you see. And so we want to trust God in everything
and he'll guide us. And then we pray without ceasing. I think that's
self explanatory. Pray without ceasing, remain in an attitude where we are in
communion with God, not kneeling down every moment of every day, because then
we wouldn't get anything done. Right. What we're saying is that we need
to remain connected to God to the degree that we are having communion with Him
in every situation. As I am speaking to you right now and looking into
this camera and letting this microphone do what it does, and having all of
the computer stuff surrounding me, I am still remaining connected to God. While
you're preparing in your day for whatever it is that you're going to do before
hopefully you go into a corporate worship setting, you are hopefully having direct communion
with God. Do you see where we're going with this? And then,
of course we want to find strength in God's word. According to Psalm's chapter
one hundred and nineteen and verse twenty eight. The Bible reads, my soul
melteth for heaviness, strength, and thou me according to thy word. Let
me read it in another place from the Net version of the Bible. Color
from grief, Grief, sustain me by your word. If you are aggrieved,
if you are having some kind of challenge that seems insurmountable, the comfort
that you need through Christ is in his word. And finally, for today,
because I think we're running out of time, we'll read from first Thessalonians,
chapter five and verse eighteen. In everything, give thanks, where this
is the will of God concerning you in Christ Jesus. Yeah, in everything,
give thanks. Be grateful to God, even during earth's closing moments.
Make it a great day. 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,