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 Friday, January seventeen,
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 fidens. I don't know. I think I
made it up. I think I made that word up.
I don't know, but maybe somebody else did it before me.
God fidense. That is confidence in God. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
say welcome to you and ask you to go over
to your Daily Portion dot Com on this preparation day
and pick up the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide. It
goes with this sable school lesson quarterly. Okay, pick that
up and also let us know where you are in
the world at your Daily Portion dot Com. This is
one of the ways that 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 day and giving us just one more day,
one more step toward the Sabbath time. That is special.
You have given us this holy time to set aside
in a way that we can connect with you unlike
any other day. And I just pray that we will
never lose focus, that we will always have our confidence
in You in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen
again God fedense, God fedense. That's confidence in God. And
so today I want you to go to page fifty
one fifty one of the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide
and we're actually going to talk about it today. Talk
about it today, and we will deal with the personal application. Okay,
personal application, and let's begin. If you've never read in
our Companion guide, we use an acronym WIN. So let's
begin with W. What is important now, embrace your God
given worth. I need you to understand and believe that
the worth or the value that is placed on our
lives comes from God. Okay, embrace your God given worth
and reject negative self perceptions. Remember God values you so
much that he sent his son to redeem you, that is,
to buy you back from the devil so you can
be saved. I wish I had the time. This should
reshape how you see yourself and how you live every
single day. Okay, So that's what's important. Now. I internalize
that reality, that insight. Think about the areas where you
struggle with self esteem or doubt. Remind yourself that your
value is not based on external measures, but on God's
love and purpose for you. Choose to believe that God
said what God says about you rather than your own
negative thoughts. I wish I had the time and then
en Finally, what is the next best move? The next
best move is to invest a moment every morning to
declare a positive truth about yourself based on God's word.
And I'll give you an example. Because some people are like,
I don't know, I don't know dave. Here it is.
Here's an example for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
This comes from Psalm chapter one hundred thirty nine and
verse fourteen. Let this affirmation replace any self doubt with
God fidets. I am fearfully and wonder wonderfully made by whom,
by God. You see where this is going. And so
the lesson writer is using is using for a quote
the book Desire of Ages, page six hundred and sixty eight,
and it reads, the Lord is disappointed. This isn't good.
The Lord is disappointed when his people place a low
estimate upon themselves. You see now why we were applying
what we were reading that way. He desires his chosen heritage.
That's you to value themselves according to the price he
has placed upon him. What is the price that he
placed upon you? What did he What was the value
of the sacrifice that God gave for you? Think about it.
Jesus is all of heaven in one gift. Jesus took
on human form and then allowed his humanity to suffer
and die what we understand to be the Second Death.
What an amazing sacrifice he risked his humanity, sinning like
his humanity could have sinned. What would that have done
to Godhead? If Jesus, in his humanity, God forbid, would
have sinned, would that have meant for the Godhead? So
the risk was incredible, like wow, but he has done
all of this, and we need to now say, okay, well,
if God was willing to do all of that and more,
then I am full of value. And so the Bible,
the Bible, I mean, the lesson continues. God wanted them,
else he would not have sent his son on such
an expensive errand to redeem them. He's talking about you,
he's talking about me. He has a use for them,
and he is well pleased when they make every make
very highest demands upon him that they may glorify his name.
So you don't go to God with those tiny little
prayers and then give him an escape route if that's possible,
and make it seem as if well, God, if you
don't want to do it, then it must not have
been your will. Well, maybe we should really be pressing
Heaven and asking for the largest possible things where our
faith can lay hold upon the promises of God. Like
Eli Shah said, I want double of the power, double
of the Holy ghost that you had Elijah. He pressed
Heaven about this. You see, he didn't speak or pray
tiny little prayers. I want double. I know, I know
you're about to go to heaven and you will only
have been the second person I know of to go
to heaven without tasting death, like who won't need to
be resurrected. You are being translated. I get it, But
I want double the power that you had. You see
what I mean? This is what God wants. It pleases
him when we do this. Let me read it again.
He is well pleased. He is well pleased when they,
meaning us make the very highest demands upon Him that
they may glorify his name. Don't forget that part. So
when you're asking for that raise at your job or
that business success, it's to glorify him. When you are
begging God to deliver that child of yours, that son,
that daughter from the hands of the enemy, it is
to glorify him. When you are asking God to help
you to be more healthy, and maybe you're struggling with
your weight or your perception of your weight. Maybe your
weight isn't in challenge at all, but you perceive because
you have dysmorphic thoughts. When God delivers you. It is
to glorify him. Let me keep reading. They may expect
large things if they have faith in his promises. But
to pray in God's name means much. See, we pray
in God's name, but it means much. It means that
we are to accept his character. Are you accepting his character?
Brothers and sisters in your life manifest his spirit? Are
you manifesting his spirit?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: When people see you, do they see the power of
God at work? Huh, his work and work his works.
The Savior's promise is given on condition if ye love me,
he says, keep my commandments. He saves men not in sin,
but from sin, and those who love him will show
their love by obedience. And the quote continues. So let's
close right here. Do you have the kind of confidence
in God? I'm talking about the brand of confidence that
lays hold upon the promises of God that won't take
no foreign answer. That you're like Jacob who was wrestling
with God and he said, I will not let you
go until you bless me no matter what happens. We
see we can have confidence in God so that we
can be saved. 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. Yeah,