1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,399 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,079 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, it is Monday. It's 11 00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:39,920 May twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is 12 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,479 El David Harris. I am your host, and this is 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,039 your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every 14 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,880 single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing 15 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:54,320 in our Lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,600 and our caption for today is hope amid turmoil. Hope 17 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,920 amid turmoil. We'll get into that in just a moment, 18 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:05,959 but first I'd like to say welcome to you and 19 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,439 ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. 20 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,280 Please join our online community. Also, let us know where 21 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,319 you are in the world. Please please join the community. 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,280 That has a red button as well. It's a special 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,040 community and this is one of the ways that we 24 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:26,599 continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and 25 00:01:26,599 --> 00:01:30,319 pray and then we will get underway. Father, we thank 26 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:33,040 you for this day and for getting us into day 27 00:01:33,079 --> 00:01:35,840 two of our work week. Thank you for loving us 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,280 enough to give us something meaningful to do. We're listening 29 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,680 to your word, we're studying together, and now we can 30 00:01:42,719 --> 00:01:46,959 go out and do something meaningful to assist somebody who 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,040 needs something from you. Father, Please help us to have 32 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,480 hope a mid turmoil. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen 33 00:01:55,519 --> 00:01:59,519 and Amen again. I just need you to answer honestly, 34 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,480 and I don't want anybody to tide anyone for their 35 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:09,039 honest answers. But do you have hope during times of turmoil? 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: Do you? Do? 37 00:02:11,479 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 2: You go ahead and type in the chat yes or 38 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:17,439 no when you are going through turmoil? And that's a 39 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:21,319 big word. I don't want to understate that word, like 40 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:26,879 when you are going through turmoil? Are you hopeful? How 41 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,240 are you hopeful? I'm going to go to our life 42 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,400 application guide. This is going to be page one hundred 43 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,879 and fifty six and we're going to go to the 44 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:43,599 professional application and use the win win acronym. What is 45 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,280 important now, Yes, I'm jumping in with two feet. We'll 46 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,560 come back to the scriptures in just a moment. What 47 00:02:48,719 --> 00:02:52,199 is important now when you're at work? What is important 48 00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:55,840 when you are doing business? What is important even in 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,599 uncertain economies right now? You have to attest that the 50 00:02:59,599 --> 00:03:03,960 economies are weird right now around the world or broken systems, 51 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,319 your work can still glorify God. And let me just 52 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,840 say it should, it must, it can, it will, it 53 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,960 must still glorify God. Don't be defined about what is 54 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:25,360 falling apart, stand out about how you remain grounded in God. Okay, 55 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,199 so that's what's important. Now. Focus your attention there, not 56 00:03:29,319 --> 00:03:32,800 with where there are. Some of my people are in 57 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,960 the United States of America. Of course I'm here in Jamaica, Land. 58 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,439 We love. Our challenges are different. But the United States 59 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,199 government jobs have been have been under attack, really and truly, 60 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,719 like so many people have lost their employment just in 61 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:53,919 the government sector alone. So the focus is not there, 62 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,680 even though it's easy for me to say, right, it's 63 00:03:56,719 --> 00:04:00,719 easy for me to say, but stay ground like that 64 00:04:00,919 --> 00:04:04,199 is your calling card for now. I wish I had 65 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,199 the time to really really drill that, but internalize the insight. 66 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,039 Are you reacting like everyone else when you are in 67 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:17,600 your workplace, or you are experiencing these challenges when whose 68 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:22,319 piece is anchored in eternity. Let your consistency be a 69 00:04:22,439 --> 00:04:27,079 testimony of hope. And then the next best move is 70 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,240 offer encouragement to someone that's discouraged at work. For example, 71 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,319 share Psalm chapter forty six and verse one. We talked 72 00:04:35,319 --> 00:04:38,279 about that one yesterday with a colleague, and let that 73 00:04:38,399 --> 00:04:43,959 person know that you're praying. You're praying they feel God's 74 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:51,439 strength in the middle of this turmoil or uncertainty. Now 75 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,160 we jump in and say this, I've been waiting to 76 00:04:55,199 --> 00:04:57,439 say it. I wrote it in read letters in my 77 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,480 lesson nobody, I mean nobody can remove God from his throne. 78 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,319 Maybe I should have said that in the beginning, nobody 79 00:05:07,399 --> 00:05:12,879 and I mean nobody can remove God from his throne. 80 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,279 In fact, the Bible says here in Ezekiel chapter one 81 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:20,560 and verse twenty six, above the firmament was the likeness 82 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 of the throne. So do you see that above chaos? 83 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,319 Do you see that above the new cycle that's not 84 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:33,160 going so well? Above the politics and politics above disasters 85 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:36,959 that we can we can pause and say that God's 86 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:41,959 throne has not moved, that God himself has not moved, 87 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,759 that he is above the firmament, He's above the heavens. 88 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,600 He is, he is on the universe's throne. And that 89 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,160 means that nobody, even the nations that are raging, even 90 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,639 the kingdoms that are moving. According to Psalm chapter forty six, 91 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,959 verses six and seven, he has uttered his voice, the 92 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,920 earth melted. The God of Jacob is our what safety. 93 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,480 He's our resting place. He is our refuge. The nations 94 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:16,240 are in uproar, the kingdoms are overthrown. God speaks, the 95 00:06:16,319 --> 00:06:22,600 earth melts. The lord who commands armies is on our side. 96 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,959 And so we keep our focus, knowing and trusting that 97 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,720 God is unshakable. His throne will remain where it is, 98 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,759 and he is all powerful. Blessed be his name. And 99 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,120 at the appropriate time, while the earth is shaking, while 100 00:06:39,439 --> 00:06:41,560 things are not going the way that we had hoped 101 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:45,160 or anticipated, at the appropriate time, he is going to 102 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,800 make all things new. Now we can be It's our 103 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,240 privilege to be, and I'm encouraging us to be loyal 104 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,160 to the kingdom that will not fall people are loyal 105 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,439 to all kind of goofy stuff out here, loyal to 106 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,319 relationships that are not mutual, loyal to business operations that 107 00:07:03,399 --> 00:07:07,639 are failing, loyal to politrical I just made that word up. 108 00:07:07,959 --> 00:07:13,199 Politrical politrical games that people play when they are not 109 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,360 for the people, of the people and by the people. 110 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,360 So people are loyal to that. Why not be loyal 111 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:23,959 to God. Remind yourself every single day that your citizenship 112 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,199 is in the presence of God in heaven for that 113 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:30,399 thousand years after Jesus returns, and then in the earth 114 00:07:30,439 --> 00:07:34,720 made new. Your citizenship is in the Kingdom of God. 115 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:38,639 In fact, the Bible says in Philippians chapter three, verse twenty, 116 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:43,240 for your conversation, that is your activity, how you live, 117 00:07:43,319 --> 00:07:48,480 Your conversation is in heaven. From whence also we look 118 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,120 for the Savior, it says in the New English translation. 119 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,279 But your citizenship is in heaven, and we also await 120 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:03,160 a savior from there, the law Lord Jesus Christ. Now 121 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:06,279 we go to Daniel chapter seven and verse seventeen. I 122 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:08,680 know it's like what you're going right there? Yuh. These 123 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,199 great beasts are four kings. We've seen them come and go, 124 00:08:12,759 --> 00:08:16,079 stand up and sit down four kings which shall arise 125 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,040 out of the earth. We have seen them come and 126 00:08:19,199 --> 00:08:22,759 go in Daniel chapter eleven. We've seen thrones and kings 127 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,439 and kingdoms up and down, coming and going. Daniel chapter 128 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:31,480 two representative of world empires, coming and going, standing up, 129 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,799 sitting down, until the day that the Bible says that 130 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,039 Micha Yel Jesus Christ himself will stand up, and he 131 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,639 will not sit down again until he sits on the throne. Ha, 132 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,320 the one that was vacated by by Zedekiah. And you're 133 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,240 like vacated? Really, is that how you want to characterize it. Well, 134 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:52,240 he's no longer there. Ha, the son of David, Jesus 135 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,559 Christ will ascend the throne. Finally, the universe is throne 136 00:08:55,919 --> 00:08:59,679 and be crowned king of kings and Lord of lords 137 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,279 in an new way that we have yet to see. 138 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,639 I'm looking forward to the day. But every earthly power, 139 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:09,039 every king that God has set up, and every king 140 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,919 that He has brought down, every one of those kingdoms 141 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:20,639 is temporary. But God's Kingdom lasts forever and ever and ever. 142 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,240 There is so much more that I would like to say, 143 00:09:23,279 --> 00:09:26,679 but let me just say in Jeremiah chapter four, verses 144 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:30,279 twenty six through twenty three to twenty six. We see 145 00:09:30,279 --> 00:09:32,559 that at some point the earth will be void and 146 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,519 formless again, but that is just a setup. It is 147 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,519 a setup for the new creation that God promised in 148 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,759 Matthew chapter five, that the meek will inherit that new creation, 149 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,639 the new Earth. Make it a great day, peace. 150 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. 151 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 2: Friends. 152 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by 153 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,679 every word that comes from the mouth of God. This 154 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:57,200 has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make 155 00:09:57,279 --> 00:10:00,279 it a great day. Yeah.