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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, December

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twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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new Lesson study series. God's love and justice are like

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how those go together their balanced God's love and justice

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and our ca option for today is beyond reasonable expectations.

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Beyond reasonable expectations. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to

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you and ask you to go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. I need you to join our online community.

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Make sure that you get the Companion Guide. Get the

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Companion Guide, and also click that number seven. It's a

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special place to continue to grow in your spiritual development.

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But certainly get that get that guide because we will

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make reference to it in the community and sometimes when

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we are engaging here. Okay, this is all at your

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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father

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and Heaven, thank you for this new work weeknd for

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the privilege that you have given us to behold your love,

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the love that you have toward us. Please help us

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to live as though we embrace your love and then

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give it to others freely. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen,

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and a man again beyond reasonable expectations. Okay, So the

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first thing that I wrote in my lesson was the

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word agape. That's one of the four ways that love

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is described in the original language of the New Testament

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agape or agapao, depending on where we are in the text.

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I love you in spite of what you do. I

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love you in spite of what you do. That is

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that is unconditional love. It's it's the fullness of godly love,

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the fullness, the fullest expression of godly love. For God's

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soul loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,

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that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have

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everlasting life. Okay, And so the question is is it

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reasonable to expect God to love us to the degree

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that when his children, the children of Israel, erected the

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Golden Calf while he was up in the mount or

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really he had Moses up in the mountain, then into

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the cloud, giving him the Ten Commandments for his people,

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giving him the blueprint for the plan of salvation, that

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is the sanctuary. Is it reasonable for God to love

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his people when they created a false God, right while

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he was teaching them not to have any gods before him,

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right after he is delivering them from Egyptian captivity slavery,

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right as he is making them holy, they are making

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themselves unholy. Moses thinks they're at war, and God is like, no, No,

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that is not the sound of war. That is the

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sound of my people turning their backs on me. They

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are false worshiping another God. Is it reasonable for us

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to expect that God would love them after that, And

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really we need to personalize it immediately, like, is it

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reasonable for God to continue to love me? When I

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have promised over and over again? Father, if you will

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get me out of this I'm talking about the collective eye,

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like all of us have done one or many of

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these things. If you get me out of this problem,

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then I will fill in the blank. Lord. If you

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will do X, then I will do why. And then

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we break our promises. Father, I won't do X again.

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Just please help me, and then we break our covenant

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with God. Is it reasonable for God to continue to

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love me in that regard? Well, of course the answer

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is absolutely not. Is it is unreasonable? But this is

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not the standard. Reason is not the standard. We don't

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worship reason. We don't use intellect and reasonability to try

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to describe God.

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Speaker 1: Like.

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Speaker 2: God does things that are beyond our expectations. You see,

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humans would turn our backs on each other. God does

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not turn his back on us. Huh. Humans would only

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give us what we deserve. But God does not give

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us what we deserve. Humans would would say, okay, you

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take one step and I'll take two or whatever. But

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God does not do that. God makes all of the

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first steps to empower us to step lively into a

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relationship with Him. And so God has a perfect track

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record of love. And we can read now what Moses

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was experiencing while the people of God were turning their

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backs on God. And in the Bible Book of Exodus,

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chapter thirty three, we read beginning at verse fifteen, and

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he said, unto him, if thy presence go not with me,

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carry us not up hence, for where shall it be

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known here that I and thy people have found grace

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in thy sight? So he's looking for the favor of God.

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He is looking for the grace that comes from God,

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the approval of God. How am I gonna know that

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you're really literally with us? God, Please do not let

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us go into this mess of a life without you.

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Do not let us go into the wilderness. Do not

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take us up out of Egypt unless we know that

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we have your favor. And the Bible continues. The Bible continues,

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and the Lord said, unto Moses, verse seventeen, I will

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do this thing. I will do this thing also that

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thou hast spoken for, thou hast found grace in my sight.

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And now I know thee by name. And he said,

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I beseech THEE show me thy glory. What a lofty request,

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Show me thy glory. And he said, I will make

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all of my goodness past before THEE, and I will

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proclaim the name of the Lord before THEE, and will

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be gracious to whom I will be gracious. See Moses

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didn't fully understand this yet until the Golden Calf incident.

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While he was up in the mount. He was listening

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to this conceptually. But when he went down and saw

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his brother leading that ridiculous circus of false worship, he

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could realize, Oh, wait a minute, God actually will have

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mercy on those he will have mercy. He will be

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gracious to those he will have grace upon. And the

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Bible continues in verse twenty and he said, thou canst

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not see my face. See he's even showing grace here.

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Moses said, show me thy glory. But if you've seen

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all of the glory of God. I said, all of

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the glory of God in the fullness, then you're gonna die.

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The Bible says, there shall no man see me and

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live verse twenty one, and the Lord said, behold, there

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was a place by me that thou shalt stand upon

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a rock, and it shall come to pass while my

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glory passeth by that I will put thee in the

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cliff of the rock, and will cover thee with my

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hand while I pass by. Moses craved the presence of God?

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Do you crave the presence of God? Are you looking

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for an opportunity every day to experience God in the

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fullness of what He can reveal to you so you

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can overcome those doubts, overcome those fears, be overcome with

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God's love. Are you looking for an opportunity for God

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to manifest himself in and through you. I'm talking about

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in your spiritual development, in your personal development, huh, in

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those relationships at your workplace or in your business. This

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is why I have this application guide, the Life application Guide. Again,

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go to your Daily Portion dot com to pick it

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up and look at today's lesson for that and so

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really the outcome that we're looking for, or let's just

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pick in the relationship setting. The next best move would

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be to make an intentional effort to show grace to

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someone in your life this week, whether by forgiving an

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offense or reaching out in kindness. Let God's unconditional love

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be your guide let's go into the professional application for

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the next best move. There are three items generally, but

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let's go to the next best move. Take action by

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offering grace in a workplace situation where it's needed. Whether

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it is a second chance or a simple word of encouragement.

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Let your actions mirror God's love. God's love is beyond

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reasonable expectations.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,