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. It's
February ten, 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, and our caption
for today is there are many things we do not know.
I want to say it again in a different way.
There are many things that we just don't know, like seriously, seriously,
and some of those things we're arguing about, can you imagine. Yeah.
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Our Father and our God, we do
thank you for this new day and for giving us
the privilege of coming into your presence. Please teach us
when we are in your presence to yield ourselves to you.
Teach us, Father, when we're in your presence, to listen
more than we speak. Help us to know your will
and then do it in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again. So listen. I am I think unique
in some ways when I talk about job. Job. That
man that God said with his own words, his own mouth,
he said, have you considered my servant job? There is
none like him. When the devil was was trying to
flex his spiritual muscles. He was with all of the
bravado that he could muster. When God asked him in
a meeting. When God asked him in a meeting, where
you where you're coming from? Where you're coming from? And
he's basically saying, as he said, I'm going, I'm coming
coming from going up and down and to and fro
in the earth. What he's trying to say is that
I'm going wherever I want to go. This is what
he's saying, like with base in his voice, like in
his chest. He's going to God, wagging his head and
pointing his diabolical finger in the face of God, saying,
because those humans that you have down there, that you
love so much are a big deal to you. I
just let you know I've defeated them. So I'm going
anywhere I want to go and doing anything I want
to do. And God is saying, I do understand that
every one of them has sinned at least one time.
I do understand. I'm very clear that Adam Adam jumped
into sin. I'm very clear that Eve was deceived. I
understand you deceived her. That's true, But have you considered
my servant Job. There's none like him in all the earth.
And the Bible says that he Job learned to turn
his back on sin. He learned to switch off the
proverbial pipe or faucet that was flooding his life with sin.
Like the rest of the humans, he decided that today
is the day that I choose to serve Jesus. I
choose to serve God with everything that I have, everything
that I am. Just like we understand what the New
Covenant does when God writes his laws in our hearts
and on our minds. And even still, even still, when
God allowed the enemy to buffet Job. And it's an understatement,
I mean he dogged his heels. What a mess. Now,
the Bible teaches basically that Job kept his holiness. He
continued to walk with God. But in the meantime, though,
even though he continued to walk with God, even though
you cannot point at a point where he turned his
back on God, even while he would struggling with the
discussion of like what is going on in my life?
Even while he was calling out and saying, I need
a daze man, I need somebody to speak to God
on my behalf, I need some help because I if
I could think of a sin that I committed and
did not repent of, if I could think of a
sin that I committed and did not confess, then I
would go right now and confess what is going on
in my life. And he had so many questions. And
these four knucklebucks, I call them foolish people are coming
into his life telling them all kind of sanctimonious stuff
that is rubbish full rubbish. Careful who you quote, by
the way, when you're quoting some of this poetic stuff
that you read in the scriptures, sometimes it's from its
ill advised people giving bad advice. And it sounds so good,
almost like some church board sometimes some committee meetings. It
sounds so good on the surface. But I digress. So
what I'm saying is is that these individuals were not
of any help to job, and in fact, they needed
him to become a day's man for them, like he
needed to offer sacrifice for them. This is what God
told them. But again I digress. But even with all
of his holiness hidden with God, he did ask some
questions that wait a minute, now you're a human, you
are covered in my righteousness but you're a human, so
be careful the stuff that you're talking about. And so
God checks him. God checks him. And what I'm going
to do is let faith comes by hearing audio Bible
read from chapter thirty eight of the Book of Job,
beginning verse one.
Speaker 3: Job, chapter thirty eight. Then the Lord answered Job out
of the whirlwind, and said, who is this? That darkness?
Counseled by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins
like a man, for I will demand of thee and
answer thou me where wast thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding, who
hath laid the measures thereof? If thou knowest? Or who
hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereupfastened?
Or who laid the cornerstone thereof when the morning stars
sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Or who shut up the sea with doors when it
break forth as if it had issued out of the womb.
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick
darkness a swaddling band for it, and break up for
it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and
said hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. And here
shall thy proud waves be stayed. Hast thou commanded the
morning since thy days, and cause the day spring to
know his place, that it might take hold of the
ends of the earth.
Speaker 2: Wow. Can we just pause right here and say that
God was giving Job, the Holy Man of God, a
lesson about Job's humanity and God's sovereignty. God has everything
under control. And when we talk to God, we need
to be very clear who is the human and who
is the sovereign Almighty God. Bless it be his name.
And so what I need you to do, brothers and sisters,
and me too. And by the way, go into the
community at your daily portion dot com. And if I
don't remember, please ask me to post these responses. But
there are some things that we need to keep in mind.
Number One, when things are not going the way that
we anticipate in life, we need to maintain a regular
prayer routine. I said routine, but it's prayer, it's connecting
with God. From first Thessalonians, chapter five, beginning of verse sixteen,
I wish I had the time to read, but I don't.
And then we want to study the scriptures from the
Bible Book of Psalm chapter one nineteen, verse one oh five,
keeping that in our in the forefront of our minds.
Number three, to seek fellowship and support among the believers
of God, and then to engage in our personal worship
with God in Psalms chapter thirty four and verse one.
And then of course we ask God how to serve others. See,
we need to be patient and practice according to the
holiness that God has put into our bosom. Like when
there are things that we don't know, then we should
yield more to the will of God and don't question him. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 3: Yeah,