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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, February four,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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 God's Changeless Character, God's Changeless Character. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.

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Pick up your Daily Portion companion guide. It goes with

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the quarterly. It's not the quarterly. It goes with the

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to click that number seven and subscribe. Please and thanks.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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

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

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for giving us this new day and for loving us

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beyond our capacity to comprehend. We are grateful Father that

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you have given us every spiritual blessing. In Christ. Jesus,

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please help us to know and live according to the

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truth that you do not change. In Jesus' name, I

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pray Amen and a man again. God's changeless character. What

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does that mean to you that God's character does not change.

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I will tell you that based on my behavior style,

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and I don't even mean from a spiritual perspective, just

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the way that God has wired me. I love the

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fact that his character doesn't change. I like things to

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be consistent. I like stability. I like a certain level

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of predictability. And please don't take me too too far

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with that one. But I like the fact that when

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I wake up in the morning, let's talk about something else.

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That the ground is where I expect for it to be.

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When I take my feet, I spin around and I'm

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barely awake, and I put my feet down. I like

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the fact that the floor is there. And then beneath

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the floor and the foundation of my home, the ground

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is right where I left it yesterday. And I say

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I left it, Yeah, for a fact, but it's still

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where I thought it would be, because it's consisting instantly there.

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And God's character of love, his character of justice and

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drive for righteousness. I love the fact that I don't

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have to be confused from day to day. Does God

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still love me? I don't need to be confused about that?

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Is He still holy? I do not need to be

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confused about that. Has He changed his mind about filling

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the blank X or filling the blank? Why? I don't

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need to be confused about that? And the Bible says

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here in the Book of Malachi Malachi chapter three, so much.

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In Malachi chapter three it says, for I am the Lord,

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I change not. Therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

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What wait a minute, God doesn't change and that's why

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we're not consumed. Wow, there is so much to say there.

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But let's go to the Bible. Book of James James,

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chapter one, and we will read verse seventeen the Bible

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Book of James, chapter one, and we will read in

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verse seventeen, Every good gift, how many good gifts, Every

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good gift, and every perfect gift is from above and

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cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom is

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no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Let me read it

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in another version. All generous giving and every perfect gift

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is from above. So if you are looking for a

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spiritual blessing, it comes from God. If you need something

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practical and temporal in your life, you need food, water, clothing, shelter,

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you need comfort or peace. God is the one that

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gives this. It comes from Him, coming from the Father

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of Lights, with whom is no variation. And I just

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want to stick right there for a moment. We see

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the moon has phases. Look at your calendar, and if

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you're not able to see it in the sky with

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your naked eye, just look at your calendar. Look at

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a moon phase calendar. You see that the way that

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we see the moon from planet Earth has phases, and

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the light doesn't look the same depending on the face. Also,

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we have clouds that even cover the sun from our perspective.

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When we're looking up to the sky, there are times

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that there are clouds that seem to make the sun

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go away, except the sun hasn't gone anywhere. But with God,

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there is no variableness when we see him. It is

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always light, when we see how he moves in and

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among people, even if we don't fully understand it, it

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is always light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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Let me continue, there is no variation or the slightest

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hint of change. Let me go to verse eighteen. By

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his sovereign plan, he gives us birth through the message

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of truth. And so we know now the standard of

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this truth, this reality is truth, that we would be

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a kind of first fruits of all he created. So again,

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I happen to like the fact that he doesn't change.

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You mean, even when you want him to do something

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and you've asked him for something in prayer and he

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doesn't do it. Yeah, And even when you go back

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to him and he doesn't change his mind. Yes, I

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like that, even if I don't like necessarily the discussion

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that we're having at the moment. And I know from

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his changeless character perspective that all things are working for

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my good, because this is a baseline, This is a

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foundational truth. All things are working for my good because

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God is intentional, never changing, in the sense that what

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he does or does not do is so that He

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is glorified, and that I am edified as a human being.

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That God is glorified, and I am edified both and

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at the same time, I'm thankful. I'm thankful for this.

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And so the lesson writer says God does enter into

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back and forth relationships with his creation, but through all

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such back and forth relationships and through everything else, God's

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character is constant. So yes, there is a conversation. You see, Moses.

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There was a time when God said, come here, Moses,

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I need to talk to you. I'm about to destroy

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my people, and listen, I can create a new nation

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from you. I'm going to create a new nation, but

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I'm gonna destroy this one. And Moses is saying, but God, please,

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please don't do that, like block me out of your book. God,

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block me out of your book, rather than to do that.

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And by the way, like if you do that, then

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the people in the surrounding your enemies will say that

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you brought your people out of captivity to destroy them.

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Like they will be confused about your character. And then

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the Bible says that God did not destroy his people.

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Now there's a long story about whether God was going

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to destroy or not, but I won't get into that today.

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But the fact is, even that discussion, back and forth,

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back and forth, at the base of it, at the

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foundation of it was God's constant and consistent character. God

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is not the source of evil. He is not the

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source of confusion. And so I really want to just

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jump in now to the companion Guide, the Your Daily

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Portion Companion Guide. Let's go to page ninety ninety three

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and go with the personal application doub in the acronym

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for when dou w what is important now. God's unchanging

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character reassures that he is dependable even when everything around

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us shifts. This gives us confidence to face life's challenges

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with the assurance that God's love and support will not waiver.

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I internalize the insight. Identify areas in your life where

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you have felt uncertain or anxious. Recognize that while circumstances

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may change God's character and promises, do not allow this

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truth to bring peace and comfort. I want you to

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go into the community a little bit later, go ahead

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and type in the next best move and we will

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continue to win together 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,