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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 Sunday, January nineteen,

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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, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study series, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today

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is more than a mother's love, more than a mother's love.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community. Please pick up the Your Daily

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Portion companion guide and also click that number seven. We're

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working for ten thousand individuals to click the number seven

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and join and subscribe there to continue to build your

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spiritual development and to let us know where you are

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in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for

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giving us this new work week and for the opportunity

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to consider and to behold the manner of love that

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you have for us. I pray that we will we

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will be satisfied with you, so that we will not

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go out into this world and do really creepy goofy

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stuff that we'll eat us away from you in Jesus name,

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I pray Amen and Amen again. You see, sometimes God's

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people lose our minds. Can I just start right there?

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Sometimes God's people lose our minds. And what I mean

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is God. There's nothing God can do to more manifest

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his love for us. He already gave us all of

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heaven and one gift in the person and work of

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Jesus Christ. Like He's already positioned us so that we

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can be without condemnation if we are in Christ. Jesus

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like who walk not according to the flesh, but according

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to the spirit. He's already positioned us to be delivered

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from any addiction. He's already positioned us not to have

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to worry about guilt, feelings, and all of those things

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that would normally hold us back in our connection with God.

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He's already positioned us for all of that. And yet

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and still sometimes God's people don't believe that he loves them.

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And I'm saying, don't believe, because if we did believe,

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then we would do what he said. You understand, like

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he said, if you love me, then you'll keep my commandments.

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And it's not just a response to his love. It

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is a manifestation of His power in our lives. Let

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me say it slowly, when we keep his commandments, I'm

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talking about in real life, not just saying it, not

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just outwardly doing it. I'm talking about from the heart

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when that happens. The only way that that is possible

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is because God's love has empowered us to keep his commandments.

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His new Covenant is positioning us so that His laws

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are written in our hearts and on our minds. To

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love God with everything that we have, in everything we

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are and to love his people, his children, as we

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love ourselves. See, that is a manifestation of the love

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of God. Is not like a responsibility, like a requirement

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like people try to make it sound. It is a manifestation.

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It's a manifestation of our love for God because his

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love empowers us to do his will, okay, And so

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he is telling us now that he loves us more

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than a mother would love her child, that she's been

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waiting for for years, even the ones who were barren

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for years, like a Hannah as an example from the Bible,

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whose son was Samuel, one of the greatest prophets we've

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ever seen. So she's waiting and crying and begging and

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wanting and desiring and crying and begging God to give

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her a child. And then he does it. He does it,

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and in her womb for nine months she is carrying

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this boy. And then for two or three years she

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is nursing this boy. He is getting his mommy's breast milk.

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And as soon as she is done nursing him, however

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long it was, even if I have the number of

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years incorrect, now she has given him into the care

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of the high priest under God. Eli she loves that boy.

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She gave everything for him. She begged and cried and

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asked God to give her so that she could know

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love for her own child, so she could no longer

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be shamed in her particular society at that time of

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Earth's history. She wanted this son, and she would have

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done anything for him. And God is saying, well, I

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have love that's greater than that. I have love that's

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greater than that. And so we read now from the

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Bible Book of Psalms chapter one hundred three and verse thirteen,

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like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord

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pitieth them that respect him or fear him. Mm. In

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Isaiah chapter forty nine and verse fifteen, the Bible says,

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can a woman forget her sucking child, that is the

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child who is nursing at her breast, and that she

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should not have compassion on the sun of her womb? Hmm, yeay,

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they may forget. We talked about this the other day.

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I think it was yesterday. Yet I will not forget

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thee And then the Bible continues here in Jeremiah chapter

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thirty one and verse twenty. Indeed, the people of Israel

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are my dear children. They are the children I take

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delight in. God delights in you, brothers and sisters, once

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you are surrendering your will to him. I'm saying not

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because he doesn't love every human that he's ever created.

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But we're talking about a special kind of delight that

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God has for people who are surrendering our will to him.

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Sometimes God forbid, we will bump our heads and make mistakes.

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And the Bible says, my little children, these things write

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ie unto you, that she sin not. And if anybody,

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per chance, God forbid, who's already surrendered our will to God,

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do fall or jump into sin, as the case may be.

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We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the

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righteous One. If we will just confess our sins, He's

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faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to

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cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And see so he it says,

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for even thou I must often rebuke them. Even though

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excuse me, I must often rebuke them, I still remember

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them with fondness. This is what God thinks about you,

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brothers and sisters. He's not waiting for you to be

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just tidy and nice. He's not waiting for you to

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be perfect. In order to demonstrate his love toward you,

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because he said for even before that happened while you

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were yet sinners, while you were without strength. Christ died

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for the ungodly. It says here, I still remember them

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with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them,

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and we'll surely have compassion on them. I the Lord

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affirm it. This is not a license to sin. I

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know somebody wants to type in the chat something about obedience,

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and I get it, like I agree, because God is

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doing his work, so we can live like him, live

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for him in all ways. But listen, and listen very carefully.

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It is not a license to sin. But yet, at

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the same time, God's love over comes sin. God's love

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overcomes sin. He empowers us in our worst and weakest

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state read Mark chapter five, Read Mark chapter one. When

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people were possessed by the enemy, like in our worst

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and weakest state, God empowers us to live godly so

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that we can turn away from everything that separates us

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from God. Because he has the kind of love that

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we've not even begun to understand. He has the love

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beyond even a mother's love, even beyond a father's love.

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So when you have an opportunity, I want you to

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go to our Companion Guide, page fifty eight, fifty eight,

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and then go to our community and let us know

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which of the four ways are you choosing to apply

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the lesson today. Is it spiritual? Is it personal? Is

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it relational? Is it professional? And let us know details

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about that, and of course that's page fifty eight in

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our Companion Guide. Make it a great day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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