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 Thursday, January
twenty 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
Lesson study series, God's love and justice. In our caption
for today is compassionate and passionate. Added another layer today,
compassionate and passionate. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
day and for intrusting this moment of time to us.
Please teach us to maximize the time with you and
be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Please make
us compassionate, make us passionate in the way that you
are in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and a men again.
Compassionate and passionate. So the lesson writer says, the God
of the Bible is compassionate and passionate, and these divine emotions.
Did you hear that these divine emotions are supremely exemplified
in Jesus Christ. God is sympathetic. He's deeply affected by
the sorrows of his people and willing to hear answer
and comfort. Can you identify with that reality? Have you
experienced God's sympathy. There are times that you have wept,
you have cried real tears, because you are separated from
somebody that God never intended for us to be separated from.
You have a spouse, or had you have a parent,
or had God forbid, You've had a child who've passed away.
We've all suffered loss and in those moments that we
were deeply sorrowful, in those moments that we were having
indescribable pain, and we were questioning our existence because these
people we love back to back are no longer with us.
They're resting in the grave. God, are you listening to me?
And God, he is sympathetic, he is compassionate toward us.
He's the comforter. He's the one in the person of
Jesus Christ when the people were hopeless and they did
not really understand the character of God, when Lazarus had
passed away, and He's like, I'm the resurrection and the life,
i am right here, and these people are completely distraught.
Jesus wept because God is compassionate. He's deeply affected by
the sorrows of his people, but he's also willing to
hear answer and comfort. Have you ever called out to
God and said, God, if you're up there, would you
please hear my prayer. Hear my prayer, oh Lord, and
climb thine, ear to me and grant me your peace.
Have you ever cried out like David in Psalm chapter
forty two, where he said, why art thou cast down?
Oh my soul? Why art thou disquieted? Within me? Hope
thou in God? He was going through a lot, King
David wise. And then we know that God hears, and
he even answers the prayers that we would have prayed.
Could we have answered that, could we have prayed them?
If we could have prayed them, we would have prayed them,
And He even hears those. And you're like, come on, Dave,
I want you, if you have an opportunity, to look
up the book Desire of Ages. The Desire of Ages
in the chapter titled at Capernaum, And I'm thinking about
the man that was fully overcome by the devil, who
could not exert his own will, because because the enemy
would exert his will over his and suppress his will, he,
for a few reasons that are outlined in that chapter,
had yielded himself in a way that caused him to
be overcome by the devil. And in that writing we
understand that that God actually in christ like, he looked
through and said, if this dude could actually make a request,
this is likely what the request would be. And therefore
I'm going to honor that request and I'm going to
deliver him. Aren't you glad that God does not wait
for us to pray the prayer just write and tweak
it in a way that we think is perfectly clear,
because the Bible does say that we do not know
what we should pray for as we ought, but the
Holy Ghost. Somebody please say thank God for the Holy
Spirit in the chat. Go ahead and type it in
the chat. Thank God for the Holy Spirit. Thank you
for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit owns in groanings
that cannot be uttered because the mind of God is
in sync. And if you had the sense, if I
had the sense enough to pray a certain way, God
is answering in that reality even though I don't know
how to pray, even though I don't know how to pray,
and all things work together for my good. I think
there's a song that says He's intentional, never changing. All
things are working together for the good of those, to
those who are the called according to His purpose. Okay,
so God is compassionate, he is passionate. And in the
chapter in First Corinthians that is called the Love chapter,
I'm going to read from First Corinthians chapter thirteen, beginning
at verse four, and the Bible reads, love is patient.
We're talking about godly love. Now, love is kind. It
is not envious. It does not brag, it is not
puff up. It is not rude, it is not self serving.
It is not easily angered. Oh my word, Lord help us.
It is not easily angered or resentful. It is not
glad about injustice, but rejoices in truth. It bears all things,
believes all things, hopes, all things, endures all things. Love
never fails. Love never ends. But if there are excuse me, prophecies,
they will be set aside. If there are tongues, they
will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
And then, of course at the end of the chapter,
at the end of the chapter, and now these three
remain faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these
is love or charity. And so we see that God
God's passion and his compassion is reflected here in this
chapter about love that is not self serving. God is
always looking for a way to satisfy the needs of
his people while at the same time glorifying himself. He's
glorifying himself and satisfying the actual needs of the people.
Not what we say we need, not what we think
we need, not what we have miscalculated and purported to need.
God is giving us what we need that is for
our good. And so I'm going now into for these
few moments here into our Companion Guide. You can get
it at your Daily Portion dot com. And we're going
to look at the personal application Personal application on a
page sixty five Personal Application w what is important now?
We all desire to be loved in the way that
one Corinthians thirteen describes, but it's important to strive to
be the kind of person for others as well. Understanding
this love starts with recognizing our own need for God's
transformative power in our lives. I internalize the insight. Think
of a relationship in your life where you may struggle
to show love, patience, or kindness. Acknowledge your limitations and
surrender them to God, asking him to change your heart
and help you reflect his love more fully in that relationship.
You're going to have to go to the book to
get the end so that we can complete the win
in the personal application set. But we thank God that
he is compassionate and passionate and he is willing to
make us just like him.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to 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,