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 Wednesday, September four,
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 Lesson
study series through the Book of Mark. Our caption for
today is the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation. I'm looking
all around because I'm making sure all of my systems
are aligned. I'm making sure, yes, everything is all aligned.
And before we get into this, I would like to
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to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
and then get under weigh Father and Heaven. Thank you
for giving us the opportunity to see and hear from you.
I'm praying that this experience will be an encounter with
God rather than just an intellectual pursuit. Father, please transform
our lives today. In Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and
Amen again. The Great Tribulation, the Great Tribulation. Okay, we'll
get into this straight after. I ask you a question,
how can we overcome times of darkness and distress when
tribulations come? How do we overcome the darkness and distress
when tribulations come? Because in the life of every believer,
it doesn't matter in what age we live in. If
it's the dark ages of the twelve hundred and sixty
years of tribulation that happened to the people of God.
Obviously there was no human that whose life extended through
that entire span, but God's people went through that time.
Jacob went through his great time of trouble. Right, God's
people were in Egypt, and they went through all of
those all of those years of slavery, and then of
course the journey through the wilderness on the way to
the Promised Land. And God's people will go through a
time of trouble right before Jesus comes. I don't mean
hundreds or thousands of years before Jesus comes. I'm saying,
right before Jesus comes, how do we overcome troubles in
our daily lives? Tribulations that will come and must come
during our daily experience? How do we overcome those trials
and tribulations? Well, before we get to that, I'm going
to read from the Bible Book of Mark, chapter thirteen
and begin at verse nineteen. Now you know where I'm
going with this. Now, let's get there and the Bible reads.
For in those days, of course, it's the conversation that
Jesus is continuing from what we were saying yesterday and
will continue some more tomorrow. For in those days shall
be affliction such as was not from the beginning of
creation unto this time, neither shall be so. This is
not speaking of an intensity, necessarily, but of a style,
a style. We will never see that again. Even during
the final final time of trouble that some people call tribulation,
it will not be to the degree, meaning the longevity,
the intensity for the number of years that the tribulation
that is referenced here was okay. And so the Bible
says verse twenty. And except that the Lord had shortened
those days, no flesh should have been saved. But for
the elect's sake, whom he had chosen, he shortened the days.
And if any man shall say unto you, lo here
is Christ, or lo he is there? Believe in not
for false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall
show signs and wonders to seduce, even if it were possible,
even the very elect. But ye take heed, behold foretold
you all these things. And I know that it becomes
confusing when you see the various times of trouble. But
what we are referencing, according to the Lesson writer, of course,
is the time, the time of what we would call
the dark ages. And if you want to understand what
God's people went through for twelve hundred and sixty long years,
I want you to look at the book titled Fox's
Book of martyrs Fox's Book of Martyrs, and you will
see that even though God's people were faithful, even though
no matter what persecution, religious persecution was thrown at them
by unfortunately the religious entity like the power, the Little
Horn power Rome at that time. Even though they went
through all of that, the Bible teaches us and history
teaches us that God's people were faithful. Some of them
many lost their lives. Many many lost their lives. When
you look in the Book of Hebrews, chapter eleven, you
see that there are some people who went through some
terrible tortures and difficulties. And in Fox's Book of Marchers,
I'll tell you one story. There was a guy who said,
as they were about to burn him at the stake,
he was like, well, I have on these I have
on these shoes. It doesn't make sense that you burn
up these shoes. There are people out there that need them.
So take off these shoes and give it to the
people who somebody who needs them. Another guy, as he
was on his way for the same thing. The history
says that he said, if the fire is bearable, if
the fire is bearable, I'm going to clap my hands
three times. And history tells us, and the accounts tell
us that as his skin was melting, you could see
his hands rising up out of the flames, and he
clapped three times. Unbelievable. Well, except that we know that
God was in it. We know that God has a
way of preserving as people, just like he preserved Stephen.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: Though Stephen did die, the Bible teaches us that even
though he went through all that he went through, and
they were stoning him, he looked up into heaven and
saw Jesus standing at the right hand of power. And
so whereas from a human perspective it is unbelievable, all
things with God are possible. So I believe every word.
And so now we are to get some encouragement though
from this, when we are facing life's tribulations that are daunting,
but we want to draw upon the fortitude that the
people of God had in those days. One of the
ways that we can overcome during these times of tribulation
come from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
nineteen and verse one O five. The Bible reads, thy
Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light
unto my path. And so we know now that since
the word of God is his lamp and light for
guiding us that whatever path that He has allowed us
to travel on, is it the path that Job went through?
Is it the path that the children of Israel had?
Is it the path that Daniel or Jacob or Joseph
or others of God's people had? Is it the path
of Abigail of Deborah, the path of Holda the prophetess,
the path of Anna the Prophetess. Whatever the pathway is,
God has a lamp and a light to guide us
along the journey. So when we listen to God in
his word and do what he says, then we will
have the light that we expect. And of course, in
First Thessalonians, chapter five and verse seventeen, the Bible reads
that we should be praying without ceasing. We can live
the lifestyle of Enoch. The Bible says that he walked
with God. Enoch walked with God. He was so connected
to God that it was seen as him walking. He
spoke to God about everything, He consulted God about everything,
especially after he had his son Methuselah. And so we
can continue to walk with God and pray continuously. And
of course we want to look for unity among the
people of God because unity under the right banner meaning Christ,
is irresistible to God. There will be great tribulations, but
we can get through them peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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.