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 --> 00:00:15,039
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
00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,560
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Monday. It's

11
00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:39,640
January twenty seven, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

12
00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,320
El David Harris. I am your host, and this is

13
00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:45,600
your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

14
00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:49,439
single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

15
00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:54,200
in our Lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and

16
00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,560
our caption for today is God is Slow to Anger.

17
00:00:57,719 --> 00:01:02,039
God is slow to Anger. We'll get into that in

18
00:01:02,119 --> 00:01:03,960
just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome

19
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,599
to you and ask you to go over to your

20
00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,959
Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please

21
00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,480
pick up the Your Daily Portion companion guide to this

22
00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:18,760
quarterly like listen if this continues to be successful, then

23
00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:22,079
we will create it every single quarter. This is the

24
00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,280
second quarter, so I'm still testing it out to see

25
00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,519
if it makes sense, if it's worth the time and energy,

26
00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,560
and only you can determine that. So please pick that

27
00:01:31,719 --> 00:01:35,280
up and I'll let you know as the time progresses

28
00:01:35,359 --> 00:01:38,480
what we'll do for the next quarter. Also, please click

29
00:01:38,519 --> 00:01:40,680
that number seven. I'm not asking you to type a

30
00:01:40,799 --> 00:01:44,359
number seven. I'm saying click the number seven in the

31
00:01:44,439 --> 00:01:48,000
platform at your Daily Portion dot com. Please become one

32
00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,840
of the subscribers there. I need ten thousand of you

33
00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,359
to click and subscribe there. And this is one of

34
00:01:54,359 --> 00:01:58,400
the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

35
00:01:58,719 --> 00:02:02,159
Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

36
00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,400
Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new

37
00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,879
day and for the privilege that we have to open

38
00:02:07,959 --> 00:02:10,800
up your word together. And Father, I'm asking you now

39
00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,680
to give us your spirit, give us your mentality, your mindset,

40
00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,479
so that we can live according to your principles. In

41
00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:25,319
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I have

42
00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,360
a question for you. Are you slow to anger? Are

43
00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,680
you slow to anger? It's a real question, not asking

44
00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:36,599
you to type it in the chat, I'm asking you

45
00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:42,919
to determine, like in your spirit, do you get angry

46
00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:48,479
quickly or slowly? Okay? And so of course now we're

47
00:02:48,479 --> 00:02:51,680
talking about God, and I'm going into the book of

48
00:02:51,759 --> 00:02:54,159
Jonah in a moment. But it just occurred to me

49
00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,039
that I need to share just a little bit out

50
00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,039
of the book of Exodus, chapter thirty four, so that

51
00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,560
we can see, so that we can see how God

52
00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:10,039
sees himself like the reality of God. And so Moses

53
00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:12,719
is speaking to God and he's you know, he's going

54
00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:16,719
through some things in his mind spiritually and emotionally, and

55
00:03:16,759 --> 00:03:20,039
he's saying, God like, here's the thing. You're asking me

56
00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,800
to do a lot here. And if you are asking

57
00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,680
me to do this, please be with me. And if

58
00:03:26,719 --> 00:03:29,719
you're not going to be with me, please do not

59
00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,280
send us. Don't send us to do what you have

60
00:03:34,479 --> 00:03:37,240
just said. And by the way, if I have found

61
00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,680
favor in you, please will you show me your glory?

62
00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:45,240
Or I should say, if you have found favor in me,

63
00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,319
will you show me your glory? And so the Bible

64
00:03:48,439 --> 00:03:51,840
basically teaches us in Exodus chapter thirty four, we're not

65
00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:55,360
going to stay there, so I can't fully develop the story.

66
00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,840
But the Bible says, and the Lord descended verse five

67
00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:03,919
in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed

68
00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,360
the name of the Lord. So we hear the Lord

69
00:04:06,479 --> 00:04:10,039
proclaiming his name, his own name. And the Lord passed

70
00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,599
by before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God,

71
00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:21,800
merciful and gracious, long suffering, that's patient and abundant in goodness,

72
00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:28,000
in true and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity

73
00:04:28,319 --> 00:04:33,279
and transgression and sin, and that will by no means

74
00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:37,399
clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon

75
00:04:37,439 --> 00:04:42,480
the children and upon the children's children unto the third

76
00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:45,360
and fourth generation. And then Moses did the only thing

77
00:04:45,399 --> 00:04:48,399
that he could do. And Moses made haste and bowed

78
00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,199
his head to the earth and worshiped. And he said,

79
00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,000
if now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord,

80
00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:00,600
let my Lord, I pray thee go among us, for

81
00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:04,439
it is a stiff necked people, and a pardon and

82
00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,839
part in our iniquity and our sin, and take us

83
00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:14,839
for thine inheritance. And so God did say very clearly

84
00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:20,519
that he is long suffering and merciful, and that means

85
00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:25,680
he's slow. He's slow to anger. And God is manifesting

86
00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:28,600
this reality because he knows that the people that he

87
00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,480
has to deal with are stiff necked and stubborn and

88
00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,920
do not do what he says when he says to

89
00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,879
do it. Until sometimes we are we are convinced somehow

90
00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,199
or converted, you see. And so this is the privilege

91
00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:46,000
that we have. We have the privilege of being like God.

92
00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,519
Now sometimes we're not like him. And the Bible says

93
00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,000
here in the Book of Jonah, huh, chapter four, beginning

94
00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,920
at verse one, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly well. What

95
00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,839
displeased Jonah the fact that God was slow to anger?

96
00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,839
What does Jonah not realize that the fact that God

97
00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,480
is slow to anger and is very merciful and abundant

98
00:06:09,959 --> 00:06:12,519
and grace and truth like, does he not realize that

99
00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:15,279
that's the only reason he's still here and he's not

100
00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:20,000
being destroyed? You see. God told him to go and

101
00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,240
to warn and to preach against the city of Nineveh.

102
00:06:23,319 --> 00:06:26,519
But the Bible teaches us that Jonah did the exact opposite.

103
00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,600
Long story short, God said, I'm going to destroy those people.

104
00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,839
You need to go do your part so I can

105
00:06:31,879 --> 00:06:34,639
save them. And He's like, I don't know. I think

106
00:06:34,639 --> 00:06:37,639
I'm going to go do something else because really and

107
00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,240
truly you are not going to do what you said,

108
00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:43,000
and then people are going to think that I'm a

109
00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,680
false prophet because you're not going to destroy the people,

110
00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,879
and I don't want to do that. This is basically

111
00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:51,519
what happened. And so now that God is showing mercy

112
00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,319
to Nineveh for this time, it displeases Jonah exceedingly. And

113
00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,319
he was angry, and he prayed unto the Lord and said,

114
00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,439
I pray thee O Lord. Was not this my saying

115
00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,560
when I was yet in my country. So this dude

116
00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:10,480
is trying to justify not doing what God said. He's

117
00:07:10,519 --> 00:07:13,879
trying to justify He's trying to say, See, I could

118
00:07:13,879 --> 00:07:16,319
have just gone the other way and not wasted all

119
00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,360
this time. God, I knew more than you knew what

120
00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:27,000
m take your time, Jonah. Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish,

121
00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,279
for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful,

122
00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,680
slow to anger, and out of great kindness and repentest

123
00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:39,839
thee of evil. Can you imagine being angry with someone.

124
00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:44,360
I'm talking about really angry with someone to the point

125
00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:47,680
that you want to say something to someone, and the

126
00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,959
best you can do is that I knew you were merciful.

127
00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,399
I knew that you were patient and slow to anger.

128
00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:55,600
I knew that you would be kind, and that you

129
00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:58,000
would repent of the evil, that you don't want to

130
00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:00,680
hurt anybody, that you take no pe pleasure in the

131
00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:03,360
death of those who die. God, I knew that you

132
00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:06,639
would be great. I knew that you would be kind.

133
00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:09,279
I knew that you would be good, And that's why

134
00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:12,639
I didn't want to do your will. What you see

135
00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:16,120
how twisted the human mind can be when we do

136
00:08:16,279 --> 00:08:20,639
not submit our minds and wills to God. The worst

137
00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:25,439
thing he could say about God in his anger is

138
00:08:25,439 --> 00:08:28,759
that God was good. Is God good in your life?

139
00:08:29,199 --> 00:08:32,360
M It's a rhetorical question, really, because if you say

140
00:08:32,399 --> 00:08:35,679
anything otherwise, it's something really wrong. Is God good in

141
00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,080
your life? And if the case, if he is indeed good,

142
00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,440
that means that when He sends you on a mission,

143
00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,960
it doesn't matter what the mission is. When he sends

144
00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,159
you to people, he sends you to a place and

145
00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,360
you don't even understand the details about what he is

146
00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,440
trying to accomplish, especially when it comes to people who

147
00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,080
seem to be stubborn, people who seem to have stiff

148
00:08:59,159 --> 00:09:02,039
necks and don't don't want to do God's will when

149
00:09:02,039 --> 00:09:05,519
he sends you to people who don't yet love God.

150
00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:11,080
Just remember the story of Jonah, remember the story of Moses.

151
00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:14,799
That people, Yes, they are stubborn, they are stiff neck.

152
00:09:14,879 --> 00:09:18,080
But God is slow to anger. He's merciful, and he

153
00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:21,759
wants you to go and to share the ministry of

154
00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,759
mercy to them, even if it's a ministry of warning

155
00:09:24,799 --> 00:09:27,679
for the moment, but he wants the people to know.

156
00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,519
And then the Bible says, therefore, now, oh Lord, take

157
00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,399
I beseech thee my life from me. It's better to

158
00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:37,480
die than to live. What God is slow to anger,

159
00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,039
he is full of mercy. We don't take him for granted.

160
00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:44,399
In that regard, we do give God thanks. Thank you

161
00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:44,960
a great day.

162
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,519
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

163
00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,600
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

164
00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

165
00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279
portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,