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, February
twenty one, 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. We are surrounding
our week under the caption God with Us, God with Us.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
very first time. I want you to go over to
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I want you to click the number seven at that
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and also pick up this book, this book, the Your
Daily Portion Companion Guide for this quarter's lesson. And again
if we continue, if we're going to continue producing this
life application guide, then it needs to be extremely successful
because I do not believe in wasting time or energy
on something that people don't actually need. Okay, I know
a few of you out there, well a good number
of you out there are using the Companion Guide. But
let's just see if we will continue. It's all up
to you. Pick it up at your Daily Portion dot com.
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 do thank you
for giving us this new day and for the privilege
that you have given us to prepare, to prepare for
the Sabbath, prepare for the coming of our Lord and savior,
Jesus Christ. Please teach us your presence in Jesus name.
I pray, Amen and amen again. You see, God has
given us the privilege to be in his presence. God
has given us the privilege to be in His presence,
and I'm thankful because this really manifests itself in so
many different ways, one of which is when God is
saving us, Jesus gets down into what we experience in
order to elevate us. Can I say it another way?
God is saving us, therefore he sent Gus to be
in our experience so he can elevate us. Okay, And
so let me just go ahead and begin reading from
from the book Desire of Ages, page twenty two to
get our discussion started. And then we will go into
our companion guide for a second. Okay, And so it
reads the plan of our redemption is not an afterthought.
May I just sit right there for a moment. When
Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden after
God told them, if you eat from the fruit of
this garden of this tree, you will surely die. If
God had the plan of salvation as an afterthought, then
they would have been neutralized immediately, extinguished immediately. But thankfully,
and it just wants you to say thank God with me, like,
thankfully God had a plan of salvation waiting in the
wings in the event that those humans chose to go
the wrong direction and so they got a stay of execution.
Maybe that's not the best way of communicating it. But
that's what's coming to my mind right now. They received
a stay of execution. Let me keep reading. A plan
formulated after the fall of Atom. Okay, so the plan
of Redemption was not an afterthought, a plan formulated after
the fall of Atom. Now we know why that couldn't work.
It was a revelation of the mystery which have been
kept in silence through times eternal. It was an unfolding
of the principles that from eternal ages have been the
foundation of God's throne. From the beginning, God and Christ
knew of the apostasy of Satan. Notice what the inspired
writing says they knew of the apostasy of Satan. It
didn't say that they ordained. It didn't say that they created.
It said they knew of the apostasy of Satan and
of the fall of humankind through the deceptive power of
the apostate. God did not ordain that sin should exist,
but he foresaw its existence and made provision to meet
the terrible emergency. Can I just say this, please and thanks.
There is no sin that you can commit that God
has not foreseen and given the antidote for your ability
to sin. My ability to sin does not exceed God's
ability to say. Now, this is not in any way
that I want to minimize sin. But I think the
Bible writer said, where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound.
And so all we need to do is yield our
will to God, and he will keep his promise to
write his life in our hearts and on our minds,
so that we will live like Jesus lived. Let me
keep going, Let me keep going. God did not ordign
that sin should exist, but he foresaw its existence and
made provision to meet this terrible emergency. So great was
his love for the world that he covenanted to give
his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish but have everlasting life. Aren't you glad that
God has a plan for your life before there was
a beginning. He had a plan for your life, before
you were in his mother, your mother's womb. He knew
you well. He knew that He would call you to
the nations to be what is it a prophet, a king,
a queen?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What is it like? What is it that God would
have had you to do? And as you continue to
live your life day after day, day after days, God,
what would you have me to do? Who would you
have me to be? I was speaking to a friend.
I'll just call my friend joy. The joy of the
Lord is our strength. You know. Some months ago and
we were talking about purpose and my friend and I,
while we were talking about purpose, said, so are you
saying that I am in filling the blank place, filling
the blank position to just be? And then we talked
about the details of my friend and how my friend
is and I was like, yes, but we don't minimize
when God creates us to be a certain way in
spaces that He entrusts us with, we don't minimize that reality.
We don't ever minimize the fact that if if you, brother,
you sister are there to bring joy, then you bring joy.
You're being joyful in the space because God put joy
in your heart. If you are to be there to
provide structure, because that's who you are, You're a structural individual,
then be structural in the space that God has called
you to be. If you're there to be an encourager,
a motivator, if you're there to be someone who undergirds
and supports others, listen, that is what God has called
you to do. For his glory. I could go down
through a list, and so when God is showing you
who you are, he's also making provision for you to
operate in that reality at the highest levels, and we
give God thanks as a result. So now we are
going into our our Companion guide of course for today's date,
that is page one hundred and thirty one. Let's go
to the personal application and we'll just go to the
next best Move part. Okay, when is the acronym we
use every single day. We apply in four key areas.
Today we'll talk about about personal application. Let's just do
the end in when Okay, next best move, write down
a prayer of trust and surrender for that uncertain area.
Of course, you'll have to go to the W and
the I to see what that means. Place it somewhere
visible as a reminder to trust God's eternal plan for
your life. You want purpose, trust the one who came
to be with us so he could train.
Speaker 1: You to be 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 l David Harris. Make it
a great day. Yeah,