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. It
is May twenty three and 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 how to study
Bible prophecy, and our caption for today is God is Merciful.
I said, God, God is Merciful. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Father, We thank you. Thank
you for this time, this day of preparation that draws
us close to you. Thank you for giving us the
opportunity to pray and to do your will. Thank you
for teaching us how to serve you. I'm asking you
to help us to experience your mercy to the degree
that we will be merciful. You said, blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy in Jesus name. I pray, Amen.
Speaker 1: Men again.
Speaker 2: I almost sounded like a computer there, I heard myself. Anyway,
this is a beautiful day because God has shown us
mercy so many times, countless times, countless times. And let
me just say before I forget, I'll be at Camp Verlely.
I think I told you a few days ago. I'll
be at Camp Verly at the Lord Spear's Life tomorrow,
at the Communicator's Convention. It's not really a convention, but
it is there where people will be learning ways to
experience God. Through evangelism online and share it with other people.
So I'll be there sharing the lesson study. So yeah,
I pardon me. That was an aside. But for those
who are coming, please please just say hello and I'll
be there. But I want you to think about what
the lesson writer has said here. The psalms of David
pass through the whole range of experience. This is critical,
the whole range of experience from the depths of conscious
guilt and self condemnation. Have you ever been have you
ever felt so guilty that you couldn't shake it? Have
you ever felt so guilty for your sins that you
condemned yourself? And even some people have wished that they
were no longer here. Just like Elijah, I've been there.
I've been there to the loftiest faith, so we can
go up to the loftiest faith and the most exalted
communing with God. His life record declares that sin can
bring only shame and woe, but that no, let me
say it again, I've misread that his life record declares
that sin can only bring shame and woe, but that
God's love and mercy can reach to the deepest depths.
That faith will lift up the repenting soul to share
the adoption of the sons of God. Of all the
assurances which his word contains, it is this one. It
is the strongest testimony to the faithfulness and justice and
covenant mercy of God. And so we have run the
gamut personally, of all of the emotions, all of the
thrill being forgiven, all of the shame of finding myself
breaking the promise that I have made to God. God,
if you get me out of this mess, then I
will do X. I will not do why you see.
And so now we see that God is able to
deliver us no matter what we find ourselves in. There
will be trials, there will be tribulations, but He will
get us through. Yeah. So what I'm going to do
is share the personal application from our life application Guy
paid one hundred and forty eight, and we're going to
go to the personal application, I mean professional application, because
when you go to work, when you are executing your
contracts or you're doing whatever you're doing online with your coworkers,
there are some things that have to make sense when
we're studying these words. It's not just something that's super
spiritual and supernatural and that we hold in our minds
and feel okay, I understand it. No, we have to
be able to live this, okay. And so using the
WIN framework or the acronym WIN first is what is important. Now.
Your work environment is not just a space for productivity. Yeah,
shout out to the people who are there to do
your work, like to bury your faces, bury your head,
get your or put your head down and get your
work done. That's true, that's what it's for. But it's
also a space for grace. I know, I know. I
used to work in an environment where my team mates
sometimes would say I don't want to take the blame
for X, I don't want to take the blame for why.
And I'm like, ah, well, that's not really what I'm
here for. I don't really worry about that kind of
thing because I know that when I go to work,
I'm there to do what God has told me to
do according to the blueprint that my work environment has
given and the spiritual power of the Holy Ghost. So
I work for God as I am working for the
humans that are paying me. Okay. And so it's a
space for grace. You can reflect God's mercy on how
you handle here. It comes mistakes, stress, and people, mistakes, stress,
and people. Do you have any of those three things
at your job? Do you have people at your job
or as you work your contracts so you have to
deal with people? Huh? Do you have stress at your workplace?
Do you make mistakes or have you seen people make mistakes? Yeah?
So God's mercy will teach us how to overcome the mistakes,
overcome the stress, and also live in a good way
with people, inasmuch as it is possible. So I internalize
the insight. David's journey reminds us that leadership is not
about perfection. It is about repentance and restoration. Somebody just
got it. It's not about our own perfection. It's not
about our own perfection. God said that we should be
perfect for the Lord, our God is perfect, or because
our Father is perfect. That means that his perfection is
the impetus of our growth in Christ and repentance. That is,
to turn away from sin and to be restored. Of course,
we know that is to become more into His image
till ultimately we are stuck that way and we get
to live with God forever. How might owning your weaknesses
we're talking about at work create room for God's strength
in your her professional life. How might owning your weaknesses
create room for God's strength in your professional life? Well,
let's see next best move. If a colleague or team
member has made a mistake, respond with compassion. I said.
If one of your teammates or team member, a direct report,
your boss, a colleague has made a mistake, respond with compassion.
For example, you could say, we all mess up sometimes.
And I don't know what the language you would use,
depending on the behavior style of the person who's hearing,
but we all mess up. Sometimes. What matters most is
how we move forward. Then you do something super special.
You offer yourself. You offer yourself not as a sacrifice,
but as someone who can help. I am here to help.
May I say it more quickly? We all mess up?
Sometimes what matters most is how we move forward. I'm
here to help. And then sh be quiet and see
how your boss, your colleague, your team member, your teammate,
your direct report responds, and then under God, move accordingly.
I'm so thankful that God has given us so much
mercy that we can be merciful even in our professional lives.
Make it a great day, 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,