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, January
twenty three, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle
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 uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians
and Colossians, and our caption for today is the Infinite
Love of God, the Infinite Love of God. 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'm asking you to go over to your Daily Portion
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dot com. This is one of the ways that we
continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank
you for this time of preparation. Please prepare our hearts
for a better connection with you, an eternal connection with you.
Maybe that's the better way to say it. And Lord,
thank you for loving us. Please teach us to appreciate
your love and be transformed by your love. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. So let's go ahead
into our life application guide for today and we will
use one of the four one of the four application
spaces this time will use the Relationships application. Okay, and
for those who do not have it, go ahead and
pick it up at your Daily Portion dot com and
also follow with us here. Okay. So we're using a
framework a win win wn W. What is most important
or what is important now? Choosing humility and avoiding selfish
ambition or conceit to work through challenges to unity. Sometimes
we hold on to too much. We are grasping for
power control. I don't know what it is our feelings
to be perfect according to our estimation, not worrying about
other people. And so we need to choose humility and
avoid selfish ambition or conceit to work through challenges of unity.
Internalize the insight whatever challenges to unity, the people of
God face a willingness to be humble and not do
anything through selfish ambition or conceit is a great way
to start working through the issues. Humility opens the door
to understanding, reconciliation, and cooperation. When you approach conflicts with meekness,
that's power under control. With meekness and lowliness of mind,
you reflect the character of Christ and create a space
for the Holy Ghost to bring unity. Remember, let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
And then we see that even though he's God one
hundred percent divine, just like the Father, just like the
Holy Spirit, he took on human form, not saying are
you kidding me? Look at me, I'm divine, Like, why
would I go down? No, He took on himself the
form of a servant. And then humbled himself to death
upon the cross. Okay, And so this is that mindset
that God wants us to have. And so the next
best move then in relationships is to identify one challenge
to unity in your faith, fellowship, or community and take
a step toward addressing it with humility and willingness to
put aside selfish ambition or conceit. You know what you're thinking,
you know what you're feeling when you're when you're seeing
things disunified. So please please just pray about that, and
don't just pray only also make your steps toward that outcome. Okay.
And so now we will read just a little bit
of what is in the lesson for today and then
get some more application. Okay. So all paternal love which
was which has come down from generation to generation through
the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness
which have opened in the souls of men, are but
as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean when compared
to the infinite, exhaustless love of God. Tongue cannot utter it,
pen cannot portray it. You may meditate upon it every
day of your life. You may search the scriptures diligently
in order to understand it. You may summon every power
and capability that God has given you in the endeavor
to comprehend the love and compassion of the heavenly Father.
And yet there is an infinity beyond. You may study
that love for ages, Yet you can never fully comprehend
the length and the breadth, and the depth and the
height of the love of God in giving his son
to die for the world. Eternity itself can never fully
reveal it. And on the quote continues, Hi, are you
sensing the love of God here? I read somewhere that
we will study this the plan of salvation throughout the
ceaseless ages of eternity. Can you imagine never being able
to drill to the final depth of the love of
God and all that He did to save you, to
save me from my sins? Praise God? Okay, and so
our lesson Number one in that regard is the love
of God is immeasurable, eternal, and beyond human comprehension. And
so I want you to invest a few minutes today today,
while you are doing all kinds of preparation. Those of
you who are Sabbath keepers, I wish all of you
were but for whoever are Sabbath keepers. You may be
preparing your food for tomorrow, you may be preparing your clothing,
You may be preparing your shoes, your bathroom, your living room,
your stuff, your vehicle. But please do not miss preparation
of self. So invest a few minutes today meditating on
one aspect of God's love that overwhelms you with gratitude.
And I just want you to rehearse that mindset, rehearse
that space when you are feeling in sensing gratefulness. I
want you to be present in that space and go
there as many times as it's necessary, because the living
down here on planet Earth, quite frankly, gives you a
lot of things that you think you should be complaining about,
a lot of problems, trials and tribulations that put you
in the mind space of doubt and again complaints. If
we if we intentionally rehearse gratitude related to God's love,
that will NULLI fly all complaints. Let's go to lesson
number two. The more we study Christ, the more humility
grows because his love reveals our true need. Let me
say like this, one of the reasons why his love
is so magnanimous is that a word is because the
love is delivering us from the depths of sin, and
we can't really estimate how far sin has dragged humanity
down until we see Jesus face to face, until we
see Adam again like the first atom again, the first
atom again, and see the breadth of the minds that
they had before we sind and the stature. We're gonna
actually see people at their original height. Can you imagine
what the people back then, the Antediluvian's how big and
strong they were, my goodness, And so Jesus humbled himself
and became obedient to death, even the death upon the cross,
and he was self forgetful in his service. So we
need to practice one intentional act of lowliness, serve quietly
without expecting recognition. For the majority of you, maybe that's
not a big deal, but there is still a percentage,
maybe twelve percent of the world's population that really struggles
with this pride thing to the extreme. So please please
do that today and we'll continue tomorrow or really tonight
if they are phrase.
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.