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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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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

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, January

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twenty three, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series, God's love and justice. In our caption

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for today is compassionate and passionate. Added another layer today,

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compassionate and passionate. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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Your Daily Portion companion guide to this quarter's lesson. We're

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going to reference it today for sure, and also click

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that we can continue to grow in spiritual development as

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the Lord gives us strength. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.

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Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new

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day and for intrusting this moment of time to us.

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Please teach us to maximize the time with you and

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be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Please make

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us compassionate, make us passionate in the way that you

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are in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and a men again.

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Compassionate and passionate. So the lesson writer says, the God

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of the Bible is compassionate and passionate, and these divine emotions.

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Did you hear that these divine emotions are supremely exemplified

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in Jesus Christ. God is sympathetic. He's deeply affected by

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the sorrows of his people and willing to hear answer

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and comfort. Can you identify with that reality? Have you

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experienced God's sympathy. There are times that you have wept,

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you have cried real tears, because you are separated from

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somebody that God never intended for us to be separated from.

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You have a spouse, or had you have a parent,

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or had God forbid, You've had a child who've passed away.

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We've all suffered loss and in those moments that we

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were deeply sorrowful, in those moments that we were having

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indescribable pain, and we were questioning our existence because these

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people we love back to back are no longer with us.

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They're resting in the grave. God, are you listening to me?

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And God, he is sympathetic, he is compassionate toward us.

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He's the comforter. He's the one in the person of

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Jesus Christ when the people were hopeless and they did

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not really understand the character of God, when Lazarus had

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passed away, and He's like, I'm the resurrection and the life,

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i am right here, and these people are completely distraught.

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Jesus wept because God is compassionate. He's deeply affected by

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the sorrows of his people, but he's also willing to

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hear answer and comfort. Have you ever called out to

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God and said, God, if you're up there, would you

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please hear my prayer. Hear my prayer, oh Lord, and

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climb thine, ear to me and grant me your peace.

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Have you ever cried out like David in Psalm chapter

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forty two, where he said, why art thou cast down?

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Oh my soul? Why art thou disquieted? Within me? Hope

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thou in God? He was going through a lot, King

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David wise. And then we know that God hears, and

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he even answers the prayers that we would have prayed.

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Could we have answered that, could we have prayed them?

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If we could have prayed them, we would have prayed them,

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And He even hears those. And you're like, come on, Dave,

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I want you, if you have an opportunity, to look

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up the book Desire of Ages. The Desire of Ages

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in the chapter titled at Capernaum, And I'm thinking about

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the man that was fully overcome by the devil, who

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could not exert his own will, because because the enemy

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would exert his will over his and suppress his will, he,

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for a few reasons that are outlined in that chapter,

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had yielded himself in a way that caused him to

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be overcome by the devil. And in that writing we

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understand that that God actually in christ like, he looked

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through and said, if this dude could actually make a request,

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this is likely what the request would be. And therefore

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I'm going to honor that request and I'm going to

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deliver him. Aren't you glad that God does not wait

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for us to pray the prayer just write and tweak

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it in a way that we think is perfectly clear,

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because the Bible does say that we do not know

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what we should pray for as we ought, but the

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Holy Ghost. Somebody please say thank God for the Holy

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Spirit in the chat. Go ahead and type it in

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the chat. Thank God for the Holy Spirit. Thank you

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for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit owns in groanings

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that cannot be uttered because the mind of God is

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in sync. And if you had the sense, if I

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had the sense enough to pray a certain way, God

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is answering in that reality even though I don't know

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how to pray, even though I don't know how to pray,

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and all things work together for my good. I think

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there's a song that says He's intentional, never changing. All

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things are working together for the good of those, to

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those who are the called according to His purpose. Okay,

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so God is compassionate, he is passionate. And in the

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chapter in First Corinthians that is called the Love chapter,

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I'm going to read from First Corinthians chapter thirteen, beginning

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at verse four, and the Bible reads, love is patient.

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We're talking about godly love. Now, love is kind. It

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is not envious. It does not brag, it is not

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puff up. It is not rude, it is not self serving.

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It is not easily angered. Oh my word, Lord help us.

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It is not easily angered or resentful. It is not

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glad about injustice, but rejoices in truth. It bears all things,

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believes all things, hopes, all things, endures all things. Love

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never fails. Love never ends. But if there are excuse me, prophecies,

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they will be set aside. If there are tongues, they

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will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be set aside.

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And then, of course at the end of the chapter,

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at the end of the chapter, and now these three

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remain faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these

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is love or charity. And so we see that God

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God's passion and his compassion is reflected here in this

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chapter about love that is not self serving. God is

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always looking for a way to satisfy the needs of

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his people while at the same time glorifying himself. He's

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glorifying himself and satisfying the actual needs of the people.

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Not what we say we need, not what we think

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we need, not what we have miscalculated and purported to need.

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God is giving us what we need that is for

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our good. And so I'm going now into for these

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few moments here into our Companion Guide. You can get

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it at your Daily Portion dot com. And we're going

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to look at the personal application Personal application on a

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page sixty five Personal Application w what is important now?

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We all desire to be loved in the way that

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one Corinthians thirteen describes, but it's important to strive to

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be the kind of person for others as well. Understanding

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this love starts with recognizing our own need for God's

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transformative power in our lives. I internalize the insight. Think

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of a relationship in your life where you may struggle

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to show love, patience, or kindness. Acknowledge your limitations and

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surrender them to God, asking him to change your heart

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and help you reflect his love more fully in that relationship.

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You're going to have to go to the book to

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get the end so that we can complete the win

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in the personal application set. But we thank God that

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he is compassionate and passionate and he is willing to

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make us just like him.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,