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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday, January seven,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day. Was

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in twenty twenty four and even now in twenty twenty five.

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I'm still getting used to that. Ah. Yes, And we're

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under the theme God's Love and Justice, and our caption

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for today is convenental relationship. I shouldn't have said that.

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It's conditional relationship. Conditional relationship. I'll get it right. I'll

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get it right, a promise. Yes, So before we begin,

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i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community and want you to pick

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up the your Daily Portion Companion Guide for this quarter.

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We are today on pages thirty and thirty one. We're

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making application application. You need to pick up that guide

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so that we can have more discussion inside of that

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community that you can join at your Daily Portion dot

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com and also apply the lesson in four key areas.

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So please pick it up at your Daily Portion dot com.

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Definitely click that number seven and join and subscribe there

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for enhanced spiritual development. Let's go ahead and pray and

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then we will get underway. Father, we do thank you

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for this new day and for giving us the privilege

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of relationship with you. Please help us to do our part.

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Please help us to recognize your love for us and

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live according to that love principle in Jesus name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Conditional relationship. So I'm going to

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go right into our Companion guide to your Daily Portion

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Companion Guide to the Relationship Application portion and remember we

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use the win approach win. So in terms of the

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relationship part, what is important now considering what we are

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studying today in the lesson number one, what is important now?

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Our relationships with others can mirror our relationship with God.

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I want you to really think clearly here. Just as

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we need to actively respond to God's love, we also

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need to nurture and invest in our relationships with others

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and keep them healthy and strong. So this is really

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just the second part of the decalogue or the ten

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Commandment's law. The second and great commandment is to love

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our neighbor as ourselves. You see. And then we want

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to internalize the insight the eye. Think about a relationship

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in your life that needs attention or may I just

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say it right here? Or repair or restoration. Think about

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that relationship. Is it with a parent, is it with

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one of your children? Is it with your spouse? M

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somebody at work? Question? How can you show love and

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commitment even if the other person has not reciprocated or

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shown it to you? In return? Reflect on God's unending

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love in how you can be a channel of that

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love to others. And now, what is the next best move?

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We conceptualize it about what's important, we're internalizing it, we're

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making sense of it in our minds. Now we need

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to actually move or act the next best move. Reach

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out to someone with whom you have had a strained relationship.

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I've had to do that before, offer a word of encouragement,

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an apology, or a simple gesture of kindness. So I'm

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feeling some work relationships being mended right here. I'm talking

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about the ones when you go. I know this is

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not the professional application portion of our companion guide, but

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what I'm saying is I feel that somebody's going to

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have to do this at work. Let your actions demonstrate

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the love and grace that God has shown you. Okay,

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now we can talk about this. Now we can talk

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about it. In Matthew chapter twenty two, the Bible reads,

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and I gave you an allusion to it from verses

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thirty seven to thirty nine. Jesus said, unto him, thou

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shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart.

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See what is the important, what is the greatest, what

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is the most important commandment? Right and with all thy

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soul and with all thy mind. This is the first

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and great commandment. And the Bible continues, and the second

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is like unto it. I said, like unto it in

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the same way that it takes. It's a miracle for

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us to learn how to love God. Ah in the

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same way that we cannot love God on our own,

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but we love him because He first loved us. He

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is the cause of our ability to love him in

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the same way Verse thirty nine. And the second is

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like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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Let me just say this, Ah, the individual that truly

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loves God has no problem with a loving self. It

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is not unholy or unhealthy self love. It is not

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that you disrespect your life and disrespect yourself anymore. Why

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because you've already begun to keep that first and great

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commandment to love God with everything you are and everything

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you have. I've heard people say, oh, be careful with

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that second commandment, because because people don't love themselves, look

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at how they treat themselves. And this is like, oh,

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but you missed the first one. When we are submitting

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our will to God and we love God like he

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has empowered us to do, then that means our love

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for self is also a holy, healthy kind of self love.

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And then we can love our neighbors in the same way.

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And so God loves us. He accepts all who accept him.

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I wish I had the time. He accepts all who

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accept him but reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him.

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I need to say it one more time, a little

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less passionately so you can get it. God loves us,

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and I think you can go ahead and type in

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amen in the chat like God does love us. He

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accepts all who accept him. And you're like, why did

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you put that condition on there? Because we're talking about

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conditional relationship today. What do you mean by he accepts

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all who accept him. I need you to give keen

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attention here. I need to give you. I need you

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to give keen attention here. You see, he loves everyone,

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but not everybody is going to have an eternal relationship

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with him. Why not because some people will choose to

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break covenant with him. The people will choose not to

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accept his love. Some people will hear the call. In

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Matthew chapter twenty two, around verse fourteen, for many are called,

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you'll hear the call, But the Bible continues, But chosen

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are few. So He accepts all who are the chosen.

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Who are the chosen? The people who accept God into

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our lives. Jesus said, abide in me and I in you,

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or have my word abide in you abide in the Word,

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and let the Word abide in you. And then if

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you ask anything that you will, God will do it

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for you. And so those who accept God, he accepts them,

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but reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him. Why will

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you die, he says to his people. Why he does

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not take pleasure in the death of him that dieth.

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So turn yourselves and live. You see, he's a gentleman.

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He's not an abuser trying to force you to love

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him in return. Hah. He is not trying to force

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an unwilling partner to remain with him. He is not

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going to lock you up in the basement. He's not

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going to put you in a room and say you

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cannot come out. He's not going to set you in

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a trophy case and tell you to smile and let

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people think that you're in a right relationship with him.

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He's a gentleman. He accepts those who accept him, but

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he reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him. Let that

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settle in peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,