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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 Monday, December thirty,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our brand

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new lesson study seriads God's Love and Justice. I love

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the balance there, God's love and justice, and our caption

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for today is unrequited love. We'll explain that in just

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a second. Unrequited love. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to

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Daily Portion dot com. I need you to Listen carefully.

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Listen carefully. We have a companion guide to the SABA

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School lesson, so I want you to go there and

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pick it up. It's a Life Application companion guide, and

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you

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for this new day and for getting us thus far

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in our work week. We're in day number two and

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you have given us the privilege to connect with people

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to connect with you. Please draw us into your love

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so that we can love you and love others. In

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. There is

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so much going on in this lesson. And again when

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you go into our community, you go into the community page,

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I want you to tell me what you see based

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on the life application from our guide. Okay, the Life

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Application Guide. We'll get into a little bit of that

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in just a while. But the question is do you

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love God in return? And this is something that you

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need to resolve within yourself. Be honest, do you love

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God in return, or is this a one way street?

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Is it that God is always in pursuit of you,

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He's always wooing you and telling you how much he

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loves you, always trying to correct your pathway so that

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you can go toward him because you're really going against him. Like,

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do you love God in return? Or is his love

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a one way street? Have you been in a relationship

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before where you were the pursuer and the other person

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didn't find you attractive or didn't find being in your

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presence to be a thing that they really desired, and

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you just felt like, why is it that I'm always

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in pursuit? Or maybe they said with their mouths, they

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said with their mouths, yes I do love you, Yes

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I do like having you in my presence, but yeah,

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and then you realize that, yeah, it was just mouthservice,

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lip service. They were just saying it, and really they

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were never showing it. How does that feel?

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Speaker 1: You?

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Speaker 2: See? So unrequited love is about how God is in

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pursuit of his people, and sometimes sometimes people don't show

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that love in return. That doesn't have to be any

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of us, Like we can actually love him because he

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first loved us. And so the Bible says in First

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John chapter four, beginning at verse eighteen, there is no

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fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because

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fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect

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in love. We love him because he first loved us.

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He is the cause. His love is the impetus, the

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power behind our ability to love him and return. Okay,

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And so now we can go into with that backdrop,

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that foundation. We can go into the Bible Book of

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Hoseiah Hoseiah chapter one and verse two, and the Bible

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reads when the Lord first spoke through Hoseiah, he said

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to him, go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate

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children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual

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prostitution by turning away from the Lord. I wish I

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really had the time to drill this. But this is

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not the only time in the Old Testament that God

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has shown us that we when we are not submitting

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our will to God, that we when we think that

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our ability to sin is greater than His ability to save,

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like when we put ourselves first and God less, and

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yet still say that we are His children, yet still

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say we are His people. God is in pursuit of us.

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But he's saying that you're moving like a prostitute. You're

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moving like an unfaithful wife to a husband. You're moving

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as if the relationship means absolutely nothing to you. Your

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actions are speaking louder than your words. And so he

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is saying, Okay, Joseah, I'm going to use your situation

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to show my people that I am in pursuit of them. Yeah,

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I want you to do that. And then in Joseiah

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chapter fourteen, beginning at verse one, the Bible reads, return

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oh Israel to the Lord, and so now we have

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we have the heart of God. Like he is in pursuit,

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he is begging. He is on his knees, if you

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want to say proverbially, he is saying, please please come

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back to me, Return oh Israel to the Lord your God.

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For your sin has been your downfall. I've seen all

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that you have done at those parties. I've seen all

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that has happened when you've been drinking and smoking and

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using illicit drugs in other ways, when you have promised

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that you would never turn your back on me again,

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and you come home with the smell of harle try

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on your body. But that is your downfall, but please

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verse to return to the Lord and repent. I'm still here,

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brothers and sisters. God is saying, he is still here.

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He is willing to receive you. He is willing to

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bathe you with his love. He is willing even though

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you have pri missed over and over and over again. God,

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if you will get me through this trial, I will

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not get myself into this mess again. God, if you

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will get me through this trial and fix my relationship,

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I'll never step out again. And God is saying I'm here.

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Say to him, this is what I need you to say.

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When you're feeling hopeless. Brothers and sisters, You've done that

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thing you promised not to do again. Your guilt is

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overwhelming you. You are in a bad state and maybe

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it has gotten you into some super hot water. Maybe

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you're incarcerated because of your behavior, and he wants you

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to do this. Say unto him completely, forgive our iniquity,

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accept our penitential prayer. Just call unto him. You don't

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have to be desperate in your feelings. Just talk to God.

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Huh completely forgive our iniquity. God, please accept our penitential

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prayer that we may offer the praise of our lips

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as sacrificial bulls Assyria cannot save us. We will not

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ride war horses. We will never again say our gods

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to what our own hands have made. We're not going

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to make alliances with the world. We're not going to

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think that money is our god. We're not going to

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say that the things that we have created, the money

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that we have earned, the relationships that we should never

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have had but we have worshiped, we will not call

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them our gods anymore. We won't call the millions of

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followers that we have created on foolishness and jesting in

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social media and on YouTube, we will not call those

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our god. The wealth that we have amassed in those

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homes that we got because of really like sleight of hand,

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by manipulating people and extorting people and holding their secrets

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against them. I wish I had the time. We will

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not use those and say these be our gods.

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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 2: For only you, God, only you, show compassion to orphan Israel.

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Just fill in your name here verse four and final,

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I will heal, this is what God says. I will

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heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger

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will turn away from them. God loves you. I need

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you to hear this. I need you to say it

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to yourself. God loves me. God loves Put your name here.

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God loves you. There are times that you do not

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repay him with love, but he loves you. Just repent,

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He'll accept you. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,