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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 Tuesday, December

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thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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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. Our caption

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for today is Love Freely Given, Love Freely Given. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community. I want you to hit that

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number seven to enhance your spiritual development. There is a

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seven there. Hit that number seven. And also please please

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pick up the Your Daily Portion companion guide for this

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quarter's lesson. We will be referencing it, we'll be using

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it in the community. You know that you get to

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at your Daily Portion dot com to enhance our understanding

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and application more importantly of the quarterly Okay, so 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 giving us this new day

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and for giving us the privilege of coming together in

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this manner. Thank you for loving us and protecting us.

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Please teach us to receive your love freely and then

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give love freely. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again, love freely given. And So I have a

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question to begin our discussion today, and this is one

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that I have been pondering for over twenty years. I

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wrote a Bible study guide some years ago and ask

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my mom a question because she my late mother, she

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had struggles, like she had struggles with self esteem, she

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had some other challenges, and one of the things that

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she struggled with that the lesson that I had written

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helped her with was does God love me? I said,

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does God love me?

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Speaker 1: Not?

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Speaker 2: Is God love? Or is God loving? Or did God

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so love the world? Does God love you? But does

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God love me? And she or like shuddered like and

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she had difficulty, like many people in the world do

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accepting that God loves me? Fill in your name here.

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So I'm gonna ask you a question. Does God love you?

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Does God love you? Are you able without stuttering, able

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without pausing, able without thinking about the things you have

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or have not done? Are you able to say categorically

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God loves me? And then, if so, like, what does

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that look like? What does his love look like in

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your life?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Give an example? You can type it in the chat

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or you can come into the online community that you

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can click into it your Daily Portion dot com. But

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what does a living color example of God loving you

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as an individual look like? Again, I'm not interested in

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the thing theoretical part, like about God loving the whole

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world and using language that is focusing on just generalities

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about people. I'm talking about your name. So when you

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type into that community, I want you to just add

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your name. I know God loves l David Harris or

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ld as the case may be because I accept the

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love that God has for ld because and I see

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him working in this specific way in my life. God

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loves me, and this is how I see it manifest. Okay,

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So please do that, Please do that. And so from

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the Book of Revelation chapter four, we see that this

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same God, who is loving and kind and full of mercy,

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full of justice, he does not clear the guilty who

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chooses not to turn toward him and submit. But this

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same God is being referenced here in a worship setting

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in heaven in Roman in Revelation chapter four. And wish

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I had time to deal with Revelation chapters four and five.

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But the Bible reads, Thou art worthy, o Lord, to

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receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created

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all things, and for thy pleasure they were all created.

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And so this is before Jesus Christ is revealed in

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the scene as the one who was worthy, who comes

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from the midst of the throne and receives these same

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accolades and honor. But this is speaking in this context

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of our Father, right of our Father, who is also

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our creator, like he for all of his pleasure, he

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created me, and yet he loves me. He loves you.

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Jesus loves me. This I know, yes. And God, our

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Father loved us so much that he gave us Jesus Christ.

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It's only begotten son, that whosoever are you one of

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the whosoever whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but

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have everlasting life. And the Bible continues in Psalm chapter

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thirty three and verse six. By the word of the Lord,

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where the Heaven's made hallelujah, and all of the host

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of them by the breath of his mouth. It is

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the same breath that God breathed into your nostrils, so

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you now are a living soul. It's that same breath

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that He uses in order to inspire the word of

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God that we now have in these sixty six blessed books,

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like the same breath that he breathed on his disciples.

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Jesus breathed on his disciples before he went back to Heaven. Yes,

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he went and gave his life for us. He rested

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on the Sabbath day according to the commandment. He took

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up his life again on that Sunday morning, and then

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after a time, having connected with his people, he went

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back to heaven. But before he did, he breathed on them.

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He inspired them like he. But again the Bible says,

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by the breath of his mouth did he create all things?

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And then verse seven, verse seven of the same chapter,

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he plies the water of the sea. He puts oceans

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in storehouses. Let the whole earth fear the Lord. Let

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all who live in the world stand in awe of him.

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Are you in awe of God, the one who loves you?

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Are you in awe of God, the one that sees

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you in all of your situations when you are going

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through trials and tribulations, the one who did not choose

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to deliver you from those trials, but he decided to

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be with you through those tribulations. I'm saying, do you

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stand in awe of the God who delivered you from

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that relationship that was so destructive to your self esteem?

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It was so destructive to your body and your mind,

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and he delivered you. Do you stand in awe and

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in amazement about the same God who gave all so

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that you can be saved? The Bible continues the same

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creator verse nine, For he spoke and it came into existence.

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He issued the decree, and it stood firm. Verse ten,

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The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations. He nullifies

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the plans of the peoples. The Lord's decisions stand forever.

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His plans abide throughout the ages. No matter how you vote,

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or if you vote, you should. But if you don't vote,

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or whatever way that you vote, you understand. The Lord's

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decisions stand forever. His plans abide through the ages. How

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blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the

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people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

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Verse thirteen. The Lord watches from heaven. He sees all

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people from the place where he lives. He looks carefully

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at the earth's inhabitants. He's looking at you right now,

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nine minutes into our broadcast. He's looking at your life,

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and he has plans for you. He knows exactly where

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he wants to take you. He knows exactly why he

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is taking you through. Whatever he's taking you through, the blessings,

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the trials, the tribulations. I said, the blessings, the tribulations,

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the trials He's taking you through. And verse fifteen, he

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is the one who forms every heart and takes note

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of all their actions. God is good He gives us

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love freely, and sometimes sometimes when we rebel God forbid,

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we have to go through chastisement, yes, and difficulty. But

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when we give our hearts to God, he does something

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very special. He transforms our lives and then He uses

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our testimonies to help other people love freely.

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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,