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 Monday, December thirty,
twenty twenty four. 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 brand
new lesson study seriads God's Love and Justice. I love
the balance there, God's love and justice, and our caption
for today is unrequited love. We'll explain that in just
a second. Unrequited love. We'll get into that in just
a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
you and ask you to please go over to your
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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 and Heaven. Thank you
for this new day and for getting us thus far
in our work week. We're in day number two and
you have given us the privilege to connect with people
to connect with you. Please draw us into your love
so that we can love you and love others. In
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. There is
so much going on in this lesson. And again when
you go into our community, you go into the community page,
I want you to tell me what you see based
on the life application from our guide. Okay, the Life
Application Guide. We'll get into a little bit of that
in just a while. But the question is do you
love God in return? And this is something that you
need to resolve within yourself. Be honest, do you love
God in return, or is this a one way street?
Is it that God is always in pursuit of you,
He's always wooing you and telling you how much he
loves you, always trying to correct your pathway so that
you can go toward him because you're really going against him. Like,
do you love God in return? Or is his love
a one way street? Have you been in a relationship
before where you were the pursuer and the other person
didn't find you attractive or didn't find being in your
presence to be a thing that they really desired, and
you just felt like, why is it that I'm always
in pursuit? Or maybe they said with their mouths, they
said with their mouths, yes I do love you, Yes
I do like having you in my presence, but yeah,
and then you realize that, yeah, it was just mouthservice,
lip service. They were just saying it, and really they
were never showing it. How does that feel?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: See? So unrequited love is about how God is in
pursuit of his people, and sometimes sometimes people don't show
that love in return. That doesn't have to be any
of us, Like we can actually love him because he
first loved us. And so the Bible says in First
John chapter four, beginning at verse eighteen, there is no
fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because
fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect
in love. We love him because he first loved us.
He is the cause. His love is the impetus, the
power behind our ability to love him and return. Okay,
And so now we can go into with that backdrop,
that foundation. We can go into the Bible Book of
Hoseiah Hoseiah chapter one and verse two, and the Bible
reads when the Lord first spoke through Hoseiah, he said
to him, go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate
children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual
prostitution by turning away from the Lord. I wish I
really had the time to drill this. But this is
not the only time in the Old Testament that God
has shown us that we when we are not submitting
our will to God, that we when we think that
our ability to sin is greater than His ability to save,
like when we put ourselves first and God less, and
yet still say that we are His children, yet still
say we are His people. God is in pursuit of us.
But he's saying that you're moving like a prostitute. You're
moving like an unfaithful wife to a husband. You're moving
as if the relationship means absolutely nothing to you. Your
actions are speaking louder than your words. And so he
is saying, Okay, Joseah, I'm going to use your situation
to show my people that I am in pursuit of them. Yeah,
I want you to do that. And then in Joseiah
chapter fourteen, beginning at verse one, the Bible reads, return
oh Israel to the Lord, and so now we have
we have the heart of God. Like he is in pursuit,
he is begging. He is on his knees, if you
want to say proverbially, he is saying, please please come
back to me, Return oh Israel to the Lord your God.
For your sin has been your downfall. I've seen all
that you have done at those parties. I've seen all
that has happened when you've been drinking and smoking and
using illicit drugs in other ways, when you have promised
that you would never turn your back on me again,
and you come home with the smell of harle try
on your body. But that is your downfall, but please
verse to return to the Lord and repent. I'm still here,
brothers and sisters. God is saying, he is still here.
He is willing to receive you. He is willing to
bathe you with his love. He is willing even though
you have pri missed over and over and over again. God,
if you will get me through this trial, I will
not get myself into this mess again. God, if you
will get me through this trial and fix my relationship,
I'll never step out again. And God is saying I'm here.
Say to him, this is what I need you to say.
When you're feeling hopeless. Brothers and sisters, You've done that
thing you promised not to do again. Your guilt is
overwhelming you. You are in a bad state and maybe
it has gotten you into some super hot water. Maybe
you're incarcerated because of your behavior, and he wants you
to do this. Say unto him completely, forgive our iniquity,
accept our penitential prayer. Just call unto him. You don't
have to be desperate in your feelings. Just talk to God.
Huh completely forgive our iniquity. God, please accept our penitential
prayer that we may offer the praise of our lips
as sacrificial bulls Assyria cannot save us. We will not
ride war horses. We will never again say our gods
to what our own hands have made. We're not going
to make alliances with the world. We're not going to
think that money is our god. We're not going to
say that the things that we have created, the money
that we have earned, the relationships that we should never
have had but we have worshiped, we will not call
them our gods anymore. We won't call the millions of
followers that we have created on foolishness and jesting in
social media and on YouTube, we will not call those
our god. The wealth that we have amassed in those
homes that we got because of really like sleight of hand,
by manipulating people and extorting people and holding their secrets
against them. I wish I had the time. We will
not use those and say these be our gods.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: For only you, God, only you, show compassion to orphan Israel.
Just fill in your name here verse four and final,
I will heal, this is what God says. I will
heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger
will turn away from them. God loves you. I need
you to hear this. I need you to say it
to yourself. God loves me. God loves Put your name here.
God loves you. There are times that you do not
repay him with love, but he loves you. Just repent,
He'll accept you. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,