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 Monday. It's
January twenty seven, 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 God's Love and Justice, and
our caption for today is God is Slow to Anger.
God is slow to Anger. We'll get into that in
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Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new
day and for the privilege that we have to open
up your word together. And Father, I'm asking you now
to give us your spirit, give us your mentality, your mindset,
so that we can live according to your principles. In
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I have
a question for you. Are you slow to anger? Are
you slow to anger? It's a real question, not asking
you to type it in the chat, I'm asking you
to determine, like in your spirit, do you get angry
quickly or slowly? Okay? And so of course now we're
talking about God, and I'm going into the book of
Jonah in a moment. But it just occurred to me
that I need to share just a little bit out
of the book of Exodus, chapter thirty four, so that
we can see, so that we can see how God
sees himself like the reality of God. And so Moses
is speaking to God and he's you know, he's going
through some things in his mind spiritually and emotionally, and
he's saying, God like, here's the thing. You're asking me
to do a lot here. And if you are asking
me to do this, please be with me. And if
you're not going to be with me, please do not
send us. Don't send us to do what you have
just said. And by the way, if I have found
favor in you, please will you show me your glory?
Or I should say, if you have found favor in me,
will you show me your glory? And so the Bible
basically teaches us in Exodus chapter thirty four, we're not
going to stay there, so I can't fully develop the story.
But the Bible says, and the Lord descended verse five
in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed
the name of the Lord. So we hear the Lord
proclaiming his name, his own name. And the Lord passed
by before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God,
merciful and gracious, long suffering, that's patient and abundant in goodness,
in true and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and transgression and sin, and that will by no means
clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children and upon the children's children unto the third
and fourth generation. And then Moses did the only thing
that he could do. And Moses made haste and bowed
his head to the earth and worshiped. And he said,
if now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord,
let my Lord, I pray thee go among us, for
it is a stiff necked people, and a pardon and
part in our iniquity and our sin, and take us
for thine inheritance. And so God did say very clearly
that he is long suffering and merciful, and that means
he's slow. He's slow to anger. And God is manifesting
this reality because he knows that the people that he
has to deal with are stiff necked and stubborn and
do not do what he says when he says to
do it. Until sometimes we are we are convinced somehow
or converted, you see. And so this is the privilege
that we have. We have the privilege of being like God.
Now sometimes we're not like him. And the Bible says
here in the Book of Jonah, huh, chapter four, beginning
at verse one, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly well. What
displeased Jonah the fact that God was slow to anger?
What does Jonah not realize that the fact that God
is slow to anger and is very merciful and abundant
and grace and truth like, does he not realize that
that's the only reason he's still here and he's not
being destroyed? You see. God told him to go and
to warn and to preach against the city of Nineveh.
But the Bible teaches us that Jonah did the exact opposite.
Long story short, God said, I'm going to destroy those people.
You need to go do your part so I can
save them. And He's like, I don't know. I think
I'm going to go do something else because really and
truly you are not going to do what you said,
and then people are going to think that I'm a
false prophet because you're not going to destroy the people,
and I don't want to do that. This is basically
what happened. And so now that God is showing mercy
to Nineveh for this time, it displeases Jonah exceedingly. And
he was angry, and he prayed unto the Lord and said,
I pray thee O Lord. Was not this my saying
when I was yet in my country. So this dude
is trying to justify not doing what God said. He's
trying to justify He's trying to say, See, I could
have just gone the other way and not wasted all
this time. God, I knew more than you knew what
m take your time, Jonah. Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish,
for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful,
slow to anger, and out of great kindness and repentest
thee of evil. Can you imagine being angry with someone.
I'm talking about really angry with someone to the point
that you want to say something to someone, and the
best you can do is that I knew you were merciful.
I knew that you were patient and slow to anger.
I knew that you would be kind, and that you
would repent of the evil, that you don't want to
hurt anybody, that you take no pe pleasure in the
death of those who die. God, I knew that you
would be great. I knew that you would be kind.
I knew that you would be good, And that's why
I didn't want to do your will. What you see
how twisted the human mind can be when we do
not submit our minds and wills to God. The worst
thing he could say about God in his anger is
that God was good. Is God good in your life?
M It's a rhetorical question, really, because if you say
anything otherwise, it's something really wrong. Is God good in
your life? And if the case, if he is indeed good,
that means that when He sends you on a mission,
it doesn't matter what the mission is. When he sends
you to people, he sends you to a place and
you don't even understand the details about what he is
trying to accomplish, especially when it comes to people who
seem to be stubborn, people who seem to have stiff
necks and don't don't want to do God's will when
he sends you to people who don't yet love God.
Just remember the story of Jonah, remember the story of Moses.
That people, Yes, they are stubborn, they are stiff neck.
But God is slow to anger. He's merciful, and he
wants you to go and to share the ministry of
mercy to them, even if it's a ministry of warning
for the moment, but he wants the people to know.
And then the Bible says, therefore, now, oh Lord, take
I beseech thee my life from me. It's better to
die than to live. What God is slow to anger,
he is full of mercy. We don't take him for granted.
In that regard, we do give God thanks. Thank you
a great day.
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,