Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, January three,
twenty twenty five. 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 new
Lessons study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption
for today is tell the Truth. Tell the Truth. I
need you to tell the truth. I need to tell
the truth, and we'll talk about that in just a moment,
but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
you and ask you to please go over to your
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you to apply apply what we're learning in spiritual development,
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is one of the ways that we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this preparation day,
and I ask you to please draw us into a
right relationship with you so we can live the truth.
We can tell the truth, and we can embrace the
truth all the time, abide in the truth in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. I don't know how
many times I'm going to use the term truth today,
but I hope that you will embrace the truth. And
so we're going to focus on I want you who
have the Companion Guide to focus on pages nineteen and twenty.
My mind is on relationship application, Okay, So you can
put it into the community chat once you've joined, which
of the four that you're focused on? But that's where
my mind is, because the question that comes to mind
for me is does my style of relating to people
reflect the truth? Here it is again, does my style
of relating to people reflect the truth? I remember the
Bible says Jesus speaking that there were two great commandments,
right to love the Lord our God with everything that
we have and everything that we are right. And the
second is like unto it, namely this to love thy
neighbor as thyself. So the second and great commandment, the
final six commandments in the ten Commandments, is about relating
to people, relating to God and people. Okay. And so
does my style of relating to people? How I speak
to and about them? Ah, how I may physically handle
if somebody needs help. Am I relating in the way
that is reflective of the truth in my relationship with
my wife, with my son? Am my abusive toward them
physically emotionally in the way that I speak to them?
Or am I reflecting the truth in my relationship? Okay?
And so this is how we need to become more
and more practical in these studies and so the lesson
writer has quoted from the book Christ's object Lessons, beginning
at page four hundred and fifteen, and it reads, it
is the darkness of misapprehension or misunderstanding of God that
is enshrouding the world. Men are losing or humans people
are losing the knowledge of His character. It has been misunderstood,
It has been misinterpreted. Let me ask you a question,
and I'm asking myself the question, like, when people see you,
are they getting the right view of God? Or is
the darkness and the misunderstanding of God getting bigger? Because
people are like, wait a minute, you said you're a Christian,
Like you say that you love God. Why do you
speak to me that way? Why is it that when
we're if something goes bad on the road, like a
in a while you're driving, is it road rage from
the person of God? Like the brother the sister? How
the people of God do you engage in road rage?
Do you say bad words to people when something doesn't
go quite right? In an interaction in the gym, somebody
wants to use this bench for these weights or this
space over here? How do you respond when things don't
go quite in the way that you desire. Yeah, so
we need to really be thinking about this and asking
God to make us holy at this time. Continuing the quote,
a message from God is to be proclaimed, a message illuminating.
That's light, illuminating in its influence and saving in its power.
So people need to get connected to God, our Father
through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
And sometimes you're the one. Many times you're the one
to give them that invitation. Your life will either enhance
their desire or repel them. Enhance their desire to know God,
solidify the relationship with God, or it'll cause confusion. And
so we need to be answering and asking and answering
that question. Are we living the way that we relate
to people? Is it a testament of the truth of
God or something else? Or something else? Let me continue
his character and I actually underscored this. His character is
to be made known. Well, how how is his character
to be made known? Continuing the quote, Into the darkness
of the world is to be shed the light of
his glory, the light of His goodness and mercy and truth. Well,
how look in a mirror when you have an opportunity,
look in the mirror, And if you don't have a mirror.
Turn on your phone with one of those cameras, the
forward facing cameras. Switch on the camera, look in there
and what you see that is the answer, like, how
will his character be made known in this world? How
into the darkness of the world is the life light
to be shed of his glory, the light of His
goodness and mercy and truth. People are to see this
through you, how God has been good to you, and
how you reflect his glory. Let me continue the quote
straight out of the Bible. This is the work is coming.
This is the work outlined by the prophet Isaiah in
the words, Oh Jerusalem. That's you, brothers and sisters, the
people of God, anywhere you are in the world. Ah,
Oh Jerusalem, that bring us good tidings. Lift up thy voice,
thy voice. Did you get that? It's your voices that
need to be heard, my voice that needs to be heard.
Lift up thy voice with strength, lift it up. Do
not be afraid, say unto the cities of Judah. Behold
your God. Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand,
his arms shall rule for him. And behold, his reward
is with him and his work before him. And that's
out of Isaiah chapter fourty verses nine and ten. And
so the people of God again, the question is how
am I lifting up my voice?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: How are you lifting up your voices? How are you
lifting up your lives to say, behold, behold our God,
Behold your God. So we want to elevate who God
is through our lives and how we interact with people,
so that they will say, you know what, I realize
that something's just not right with my life. I have
been living according to my own terms. I have been
relating to others in a way that is not pleasing
to God. I don't have to be mean, that's not
really what it is. That like, there are people who
are very kind and gentle, but maybe maybe they have
kind of ungodly relationships, like they're sometimes romantic relationships that
are ungodly, Like God wants us to relate in a
certain way only if we're married. And maybe that's not
the way that it's been, you see. And I could
give more examples, but I think you understand. And so,
continuing in the lesson, those who wait for the bridegrooms
coming are to say to the people, behold your God.
The last rays of merciful light. The last message of
mercy to be given to the world is a revelation
of his character of love. So let me just pause
right here, pause right here, to speak directly to those
who have not yet said yes to God, like now
is your opportunity. Now is your opportunity to say, God,
you know what, I have not been connecting with you
in a way that is pleasing to you. Would it?
Please accept me? And I know that He will say yes.
Just submit your will to him today peace.
Speaker 1: 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,