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 Tuesday, December
thirty one, twenty twenty four. 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
new lesson study series, God's Love and Justice. Our caption
for today is Love Freely Given, Love Freely Given. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
like to say welcome to you and ask you to
please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
join our online community. I want you to hit that
number seven to enhance your spiritual development. There is a
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pick up the Your Daily Portion companion guide for this
quarter's lesson. We will be referencing it, we'll be using
it in the community. You know that you get to
at your Daily Portion dot com to enhance our understanding
and application more importantly of the quarterly Okay, so 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
and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new day
and for giving us the privilege of coming together in
this manner. Thank you for loving us and protecting us.
Please teach us to receive your love freely and then
give love freely. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again, love freely given. And So I have a
question to begin our discussion today, and this is one
that I have been pondering for over twenty years. I
wrote a Bible study guide some years ago and ask
my mom a question because she my late mother, she
had struggles, like she had struggles with self esteem, she
had some other challenges, and one of the things that
she struggled with that the lesson that I had written
helped her with was does God love me? I said,
does God love me?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 2: Is God love? Or is God loving? Or did God
so love the world? Does God love you? But does
God love me? And she or like shuddered like and
she had difficulty, like many people in the world do
accepting that God loves me? Fill in your name here.
So I'm gonna ask you a question. Does God love you?
Does God love you? Are you able without stuttering, able
without pausing, able without thinking about the things you have
or have not done? Are you able to say categorically
God loves me? And then, if so, like, what does
that look like? What does his love look like in
your life?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Give an example? You can type it in the chat
or you can come into the online community that you
can click into it your Daily Portion dot com. But
what does a living color example of God loving you
as an individual look like? Again, I'm not interested in
the thing theoretical part, like about God loving the whole
world and using language that is focusing on just generalities
about people. I'm talking about your name. So when you
type into that community, I want you to just add
your name. I know God loves l David Harris or
ld as the case may be because I accept the
love that God has for ld because and I see
him working in this specific way in my life. God
loves me, and this is how I see it manifest. Okay,
So please do that, Please do that. And so from
the Book of Revelation chapter four, we see that this
same God, who is loving and kind and full of mercy,
full of justice, he does not clear the guilty who
chooses not to turn toward him and submit. But this
same God is being referenced here in a worship setting
in heaven in Roman in Revelation chapter four. And wish
I had time to deal with Revelation chapters four and five.
But the Bible reads, Thou art worthy, o Lord, to
receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created
all things, and for thy pleasure they were all created.
And so this is before Jesus Christ is revealed in
the scene as the one who was worthy, who comes
from the midst of the throne and receives these same
accolades and honor. But this is speaking in this context
of our Father, right of our Father, who is also
our creator, like he for all of his pleasure, he
created me, and yet he loves me. He loves you.
Jesus loves me. This I know, yes. And God, our
Father loved us so much that he gave us Jesus Christ.
It's only begotten son, that whosoever are you one of
the whosoever whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but
have everlasting life. And the Bible continues in Psalm chapter
thirty three and verse six. By the word of the Lord,
where the Heaven's made hallelujah, and all of the host
of them by the breath of his mouth. It is
the same breath that God breathed into your nostrils, so
you now are a living soul. It's that same breath
that He uses in order to inspire the word of
God that we now have in these sixty six blessed books,
like the same breath that he breathed on his disciples.
Jesus breathed on his disciples before he went back to Heaven. Yes,
he went and gave his life for us. He rested
on the Sabbath day according to the commandment. He took
up his life again on that Sunday morning, and then
after a time, having connected with his people, he went
back to heaven. But before he did, he breathed on them.
He inspired them like he. But again the Bible says,
by the breath of his mouth did he create all things?
And then verse seven, verse seven of the same chapter,
he plies the water of the sea. He puts oceans
in storehouses. Let the whole earth fear the Lord. Let
all who live in the world stand in awe of him.
Are you in awe of God, the one who loves you?
Are you in awe of God, the one that sees
you in all of your situations when you are going
through trials and tribulations, the one who did not choose
to deliver you from those trials, but he decided to
be with you through those tribulations. I'm saying, do you
stand in awe of the God who delivered you from
that relationship that was so destructive to your self esteem?
It was so destructive to your body and your mind,
and he delivered you. Do you stand in awe and
in amazement about the same God who gave all so
that you can be saved? The Bible continues the same
creator verse nine, For he spoke and it came into existence.
He issued the decree, and it stood firm. Verse ten,
The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations. He nullifies
the plans of the peoples. The Lord's decisions stand forever.
His plans abide throughout the ages. No matter how you vote,
or if you vote, you should. But if you don't vote,
or whatever way that you vote, you understand. The Lord's
decisions stand forever. His plans abide through the ages. How
blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the
people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.
Verse thirteen. The Lord watches from heaven. He sees all
people from the place where he lives. He looks carefully
at the earth's inhabitants. He's looking at you right now,
nine minutes into our broadcast. He's looking at your life,
and he has plans for you. He knows exactly where
he wants to take you. He knows exactly why he
is taking you through. Whatever he's taking you through, the blessings,
the trials, the tribulations. I said, the blessings, the tribulations,
the trials He's taking you through. And verse fifteen, he
is the one who forms every heart and takes note
of all their actions. God is good He gives us
love freely, and sometimes sometimes when we rebel God forbid,
we have to go through chastisement, yes, and difficulty. But
when we give our hearts to God, he does something
very special. He transforms our lives and then He uses
our testimonies to help other people love freely.
Speaker 1: 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 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,