1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:03,839 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too 2 00:00:03,919 --> 00:00:07,759 much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy 3 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:11,560 for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,080 yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,000 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,879 going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,920 today and receive the power we need to live healthy, 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,839 vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, 9 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:33,079 author speaker, Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,119 --> 00:00:35,759 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, it is Monday. It's 11 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:40,039 June nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,679 David Harris. I am your host, and this is your 13 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:46,439 Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,039 and today is no exception. We are continuing in our 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,560 lesson study series how to study the Bible Prophecy, and 16 00:00:54,719 --> 00:01:01,759 our caption for today is Ruth and Boaz. Ruth and Boaz. 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,920 We'll get into that in just a moment, but first 18 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,519 I'd like to just say welcome to you and ask 19 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,920 you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com, 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,439 please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily 21 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:17,200 Portion Life application guide, and also please let us know 22 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,840 where you are in the world at your daily portion 23 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,920 dot com. This is one of the ways that we 24 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,640 continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, 25 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,079 We thank you for this new morning and for the 26 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:36,280 privilege to come together in this manner again. All over 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,680 the world, in so many countries, we are now converging 28 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:44,079 upon this point to study and to know your word 29 00:01:44,239 --> 00:01:47,280 and to be connected with you. Please help us to 30 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:51,200 be that way with you, like connected and covered by you. 31 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:58,120 In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and DayMen again Ruth 32 00:01:58,239 --> 00:02:02,879 and Boaz, pardon me, And so now we jump into 33 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,359 the part of the story where the relationship, if you 34 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,080 want to say, between Ruth and Boaz, is developing. There's 35 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,479 so much to say here, but let me just ask you. 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,039 When you are going through your greatest trials, when you're 37 00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:24,599 going through your greatest difficulties, what name do you give yourself? 38 00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:29,879 I said, do you give yourself? Because what happens is 39 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:34,199 just like Naomi, that was Ruth's mother in law or 40 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,159 PA's mother in law. Yeah, she gave her name something 41 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:42,199 that magnified her problem. Let me just say that one 42 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:49,120 more time, slower. Naomi gave herself a name that magnified 43 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:53,639 her problem. What I want to implore all of us 44 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,560 to do is, when we are going through our greatest trials, 45 00:02:56,599 --> 00:03:01,680 we need to engender or embody the name that will 46 00:03:01,719 --> 00:03:05,400 be written in our foreheads. Uh oh, we talked about 47 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:09,319 this not long ago. The name that is written in 48 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,280 our foreheads is the name that is above every name. 49 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,840 That at the name of Jesus, every need shall bow 50 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:20,400 and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord 51 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,680 to the glory of God the Father. And you're like, 52 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:25,520 but David, it says that your father's name will be 53 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,240 written in your forehead. Did you know that Jesus and 54 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,000 the Father are one? The Holy Ghost, Jesus and the 55 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:34,039 Father are one. The point is the name that we 56 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,240 should accept, whether we're going through a wonderful time or 57 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,080 a difficult time, is the name of our God. Why 58 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:47,479 because if we name ourself based on our problems, then 59 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:51,719 that is what will be magnified in our lives. We 60 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:56,159 want to magnify the Lord. Go the Bible says, magnify 61 00:03:56,599 --> 00:04:00,240 the Lord. And this is what our lives should be. 62 00:04:00,919 --> 00:04:04,639 A magnifying of the Lord. Now, I fully intended to 63 00:04:04,759 --> 00:04:08,639 read from the Bible Book of Ruth two verses five 64 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:11,560 through twenty. But I need you to do that in 65 00:04:11,599 --> 00:04:15,080 your spare time, and let's just see what message we 66 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:18,759 can get from those passages, and then we'll wrap a 67 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,079 nice bou on this and let you go. So in 68 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,720 verse two, chapter two and verse five, we see now 69 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:30,439 that then said Boaz unto his servant, whose damsel is this? 70 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:34,920 This is after Naomi is giving Ruth some guidance about 71 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,920 how to get the attention of the kinsman redeemer, the 72 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,879 one that would, if he noticed her, would also take 73 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,480 care of her. Can I just say that God notices you? 74 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:52,439 Can I say that before you were created and put 75 00:04:52,519 --> 00:04:56,360 into your mother's womb, he knew you well, he knew 76 00:04:56,399 --> 00:04:59,120 that you would be whatever it is that he called 77 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,360 you to be. This is what God knows. And so yes, 78 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:08,639 if we do what God says, he's noticing through the 79 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:13,600 Holy Ghost, and that means that we belong to him. 80 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,959 See Boaz is trying to figure out, like, how can 81 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:18,800 I be connected to her? But let me just make sure. 82 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:22,800 Let me just make sure that she's not connected into 83 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:29,079 someone else. And so God notices when we serve faithfully. 84 00:05:29,399 --> 00:05:33,000 This may make more sense once you have fully fully 85 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,120 read through Ruth chapter two. And now in verse eleven, 86 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,480 it hath fully been showed me how thou hast left 87 00:05:42,879 --> 00:05:46,199 thy father and thy mother. I think the Bible says 88 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,160 that a man shall leave his father and mother and 89 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,560 cleave to his wife. I think that the Bible says, 90 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,160 Paul speaking, I show you a mystery. I'm not talking 91 00:05:57,199 --> 00:06:02,519 about just regular relationships here talking about Christ and the Church. 92 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:06,240 But it says here thou hast left thy father and 93 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:10,639 thy mother aren't and aren't come unto a people which 94 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:15,040 thou knowest not. And so the lesson for me is 95 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,279 that the story of Ruth is known by Boaz because 96 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:25,639 he's inquiring. Her character went before her and then opened 97 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:30,800 doors under God. And so your quiet integrity, it doesn't 98 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,279 have to be all on the internet. On the internet, 99 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:40,399 your quiet integrity and can travel farther than your voice 100 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:46,160 ever could. And so her integrity was manifest in how 101 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:49,680 she lived. And now in verse ten, why have I 102 00:06:49,759 --> 00:06:53,920 found grace in thine eyes? Seeing I am a stranger. 103 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:56,680 I believe the Bible teaches us. I'm saying that for 104 00:06:56,759 --> 00:07:00,399 a fact, the Bible does teach us in Isaiah fifty 105 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:03,839 six that when people keep covenant with God. When we 106 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:07,560 keep covenant with God, we should not call ourselves strangers. 107 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,600 We should not call ourselves a dry tree. We're not 108 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,839 you nux. We are not torn. We are not separated 109 00:07:13,879 --> 00:07:17,720 from God. If we keep covenant with God, we keep 110 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:21,399 the sabbath to make it holy. Yet keep it holy 111 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,800 when we are connected to God and covenant. He said 112 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,920 that I will give you a name that is greater, 113 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:29,600 that is better than of sons and of daughters. It 114 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,680 is a name that will remain forever. Why because my house, 115 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:38,319 God's house is a house of prayer for all people. 116 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,399 The Bible says, why have I found grace in thine eyes? 117 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:44,839 Seeing I'm a stranger? Well, you ain't no stranger, no more, 118 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,680 Sister Ruth. The Bible says that this moment pivots the 119 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:55,639 entire book from sorrow to hope. Ruth expects to be 120 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:01,480 ignored or dismissed, but instead receives favor. Some of you 121 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:03,680 are going through that right now. You're wondering, is God 122 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:06,480 listening to you when you pray, when you are crying 123 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:10,079 in the night season, when you feel separated from Him, 124 00:08:10,439 --> 00:08:14,040 when you feel like a stranger in a strange land. 125 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,839 The Bible is teaching us that God's grace always exceeds 126 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,639 our expectations. Let me hurry up here. In verse twelve, 127 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,959 the Bible reads, the Lord recompens thy work, and a 128 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:31,480 full reward be given thee you see bo As praise 129 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,360 blessings over Ruth, I think, the Bible says, and a 130 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:41,200 song actually highlights that God spreads his banner over us, 131 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,000 which is love Ezekiel, I think it. Chapter sixteen talks 132 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:48,600 about the relationship God has with his people and how 133 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:52,120 he is covering us, and the Bible says teaches us 134 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,759 that he speaks Boas speaks into her future, a future 135 00:08:56,879 --> 00:09:03,919 tied to God's providence. A God benefactor doesn't only provide, 136 00:09:04,759 --> 00:09:08,159 they also will cover and speak over your life. They 137 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,799 will cover you. They will cover you. And so I 138 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,639 wish I had the time. But let me just say 139 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,960 this part very closely and clearly from Ruth chapter two 140 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:23,080 and verse twenty, the Bible teaches us that Boaz, in 141 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,240 his generosity and good character, sees a woman who also 142 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:33,799 has good character. And the long story short, Jesus Christ 143 00:09:33,919 --> 00:09:37,960 actually comes through this line. And now we know this 144 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,360 story has always been always been about how God redeems 145 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,039 us through Christ. Make it a great day. 146 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot 147 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,600 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 148 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 149 00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279 portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.