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 Tuesday, January seven,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day. Was
in twenty twenty four and even now in twenty twenty five.
I'm still getting used to that. Ah. Yes, And we're
under the theme God's Love and Justice, and our caption
for today is convenental relationship. I shouldn't have said that.
It's conditional relationship. Conditional relationship. I'll get it right. I'll
get it right, a promise. Yes, So before we begin,
i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
Please join our online community and want you to pick
up the your Daily Portion Companion Guide for this quarter.
We are today on pages thirty and thirty one. We're
making application application. You need to pick up that guide
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Definitely click that number seven and join and subscribe there
for enhanced spiritual development. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Father, we do thank you
for this new day and for giving us the privilege
of relationship with you. Please help us to do our part.
Please help us to recognize your love for us and
live according to that love principle in Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Conditional relationship. So I'm going to
go right into our Companion guide to your Daily Portion
Companion Guide to the Relationship Application portion and remember we
use the win approach win. So in terms of the
relationship part, what is important now considering what we are
studying today in the lesson number one, what is important now?
Our relationships with others can mirror our relationship with God.
I want you to really think clearly here. Just as
we need to actively respond to God's love, we also
need to nurture and invest in our relationships with others
and keep them healthy and strong. So this is really
just the second part of the decalogue or the ten
Commandment's law. The second and great commandment is to love
our neighbor as ourselves. You see. And then we want
to internalize the insight the eye. Think about a relationship
in your life that needs attention or may I just
say it right here? Or repair or restoration. Think about
that relationship. Is it with a parent, is it with
one of your children? Is it with your spouse? M
somebody at work? Question? How can you show love and
commitment even if the other person has not reciprocated or
shown it to you? In return? Reflect on God's unending
love in how you can be a channel of that
love to others. And now, what is the next best move?
We conceptualize it about what's important, we're internalizing it, we're
making sense of it in our minds. Now we need
to actually move or act the next best move. Reach
out to someone with whom you have had a strained relationship.
I've had to do that before, offer a word of encouragement,
an apology, or a simple gesture of kindness. So I'm
feeling some work relationships being mended right here. I'm talking
about the ones when you go. I know this is
not the professional application portion of our companion guide, but
what I'm saying is I feel that somebody's going to
have to do this at work. Let your actions demonstrate
the love and grace that God has shown you. Okay,
now we can talk about this. Now we can talk
about it. In Matthew chapter twenty two, the Bible reads,
and I gave you an allusion to it from verses
thirty seven to thirty nine. Jesus said, unto him, thou
shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart.
See what is the important, what is the greatest, what
is the most important commandment? Right and with all thy
soul and with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment. And the Bible continues, and the second
is like unto it. I said, like unto it in
the same way that it takes. It's a miracle for
us to learn how to love God. Ah in the
same way that we cannot love God on our own,
but we love him because He first loved us. He
is the cause of our ability to love him in
the same way Verse thirty nine. And the second is
like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Let me just say this, Ah, the individual that truly
loves God has no problem with a loving self. It
is not unholy or unhealthy self love. It is not
that you disrespect your life and disrespect yourself anymore. Why
because you've already begun to keep that first and great
commandment to love God with everything you are and everything
you have. I've heard people say, oh, be careful with
that second commandment, because because people don't love themselves, look
at how they treat themselves. And this is like, oh,
but you missed the first one. When we are submitting
our will to God and we love God like he
has empowered us to do, then that means our love
for self is also a holy, healthy kind of self love.
And then we can love our neighbors in the same way.
And so God loves us. He accepts all who accept him.
I wish I had the time. He accepts all who
accept him but reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him.
I need to say it one more time, a little
less passionately so you can get it. God loves us,
and I think you can go ahead and type in
amen in the chat like God does love us. He
accepts all who accept him. And you're like, why did
you put that condition on there? Because we're talking about
conditional relationship today. What do you mean by he accepts
all who accept him. I need you to give keen
attention here. I need to give you. I need you
to give keen attention here. You see, he loves everyone,
but not everybody is going to have an eternal relationship
with him. Why not because some people will choose to
break covenant with him. The people will choose not to
accept his love. Some people will hear the call. In
Matthew chapter twenty two, around verse fourteen, for many are called,
you'll hear the call, But the Bible continues, But chosen
are few. So He accepts all who are the chosen.
Who are the chosen? The people who accept God into
our lives. Jesus said, abide in me and I in you,
or have my word abide in you abide in the Word,
and let the Word abide in you. And then if
you ask anything that you will, God will do it
for you. And so those who accept God, he accepts them,
but reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him. Why will
you die, he says to his people. Why he does
not take pleasure in the death of him that dieth.
So turn yourselves and live. You see, he's a gentleman.
He's not an abuser trying to force you to love
him in return. Hah. He is not trying to force
an unwilling partner to remain with him. He is not
going to lock you up in the basement. He's not
going to put you in a room and say you
cannot come out. He's not going to set you in
a trophy case and tell you to smile and let
people think that you're in a right relationship with him.
He's a gentleman. He accepts those who accept him, but
he reluctantly rejects those who stubbornly rejects him. Let that
settle in 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,