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. 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, February eighteen,
twenty twenty five. 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 to Love God. I love this subject today.
To Love God is our caption. Actually our series is
God's Love and Justice. We'll get into that in just
a moment, but before we do, I'd like to say
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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 morning and for
your love, which is amazing. You are amazing Father. Teach
us to live according to your principles of love and
to do your will. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again to love God. And immediately I wasn't
planning this, but immediately as Mac was do the opener,
I was thinking about a song by the late Eleanor Wright,
the late Eleanor Wright, do you Love God more than Anything?
And I'll play just a little bit of it, and
then we'll jump into the Bible text.
Speaker 3: Do you love God more than anything? Do you love God?
Do you love God more than anything? Do you love God?
Speaker 2: Love is all God.
Speaker 3: We'll ask in return for that He has given, and
love will be the endless theme, love the host of Him. Man.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, Now, you all who know me know me,
realize that I can play music the entire time. But
that's not why you're here. But that is a question though,
with which we must contend. Do you love and I'm
asking me that, like, do you love God more than anything?
And it's our privilege to love God. But interestingly, God
can't force anyone to love him? Can I just say
that again, God cannot. I know what word I just
used advisedly. I said God cannot force anyone to love him,
and that means that that would actually be the antithesis
of love. If he forced, then it's not love. And
so when people say God can do anything, I understand.
I understand what we mean when we say that. But
the truth is God cannot fail. God cannot force our
will because if he forced our will, then that would
be antithetical to his character, you understand. And so in
the same vein, he does not force love God. He
gives us the privilege to love him freely. Now he
does give the command though, he does give the clear
guidance that there are two great commandments. One is to
love the Lord your God. The number one, love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your mind and everything that you have, all of your strength.
And the second is like unto it. He says to
love your neighbor as yourself. And so I'm going into
the Bible Book of Deuteronomy, the Bible Book of Deuteronomy,
chapter six, and I will begin with verse one. You see,
sometimes people are so accustomed to abuse and force and
authoritarian rule and domineering personalities that it is it is
weird for people to say, well, wait a minute. You're
saying that people can freely give, freely love, have the
choice to love or not to love. Yes, And the
Bible reads, now, these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances
that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you.
This is Moses speaking, so that you may carry them
in out in the land where you are headed, and
that you may so revere the Lord your God, that
you will keep all his statutes and commandments. That I
am giving you, you, your children, and your grandchildren all
your lives to prolong your days. Pay attention to Israel,
and be careful to do this so that it may
go well with you, and that you may increase greatly
in number. As the Lord, the God of your ancestors
said to you, you will have a land flowing with
milk and honey. Beginning at verse four, now here, oh Israel,
the Lord, our God is one lord. You see, God
is unified God, the Father God, the Son, God, the
Holy Ghost are all on the same page with everything
that matters in the universe. They are unified. And the
Bible continues, And thou shalt love the Lord, thy God
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy might. You see, God gives us the
power and privilege to love him. You see, he is
empowering us. The Bible says, we love him be cause
he first loved us. So he is the cause of
our ability to love him. You see where this is going.
He is the cause of our ability to love him.
And so and so when he says that we shall
love the Lord our God with everything we have and
everything we are, he is also promising us that if
we love him, he is going to live out his
love through our lives, and we will be able to
also keep his commandments. Verse six. These words I am
commanding you this day must be kept in mind, and
you must teach them to your children, and speak of
them as you sit in your house, and as you
walk along the road, and as you lie down, and
as you get up. You shall tie them as a
reminder on your forearm, and fasten them as symbols on
your forehead inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses
and your gates. If I were to write anything on
my screens, my computer screens, my devices here, my mobile device,
on my YouTube account, on my social media platforms. As
I am consuming, I don't do a lot of consumption.
But if I am consuming, then I need to put
these words on the doorposts of all of my devices.
Because if I am teaching my child Josiah to them
as I sit in our house and walk along the
road and lie down the commandments of God, then that
also gets into my entertainment choices, that gets into my
relationship choices, that gets into how I do business. You see,
these devices are the portal for me, I'm saying, for me,
the portal to the world. That's how I do business.
That is how I relate to people that are my clients.
That's how I move out into certain aspects of ministry.
And so with all of this as the door on
the doorframes of my house, my gates, my devices, my life,
then that means that I will actually learn to love God.
And if I love God more than anything, one day
I'll get to see Him as he is. Peace.
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.
Speaker 3: Yeah,