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 Thursday, March six,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
study series, almost done with lesson number ten, God's Love
and Justice, and our caption for today is limits and
rules and Rules. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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super spiritual, and we don't know how to apply those things.
And so that's why we have published this for the
second quarter in a row now, and we're determining whether
we're going to go into quarter two twenty five with it. Okay,
let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new day.
Thank you for giving us the privilege of prayer. Thank
you for giving us the opportunity to do your will.
Thank you for giving us the fullness of your Holy
spirit in these last days. Help us not to give up. Father,
Help us to trust you, knowing that it won't be long.
It won't be long before Jesus will come and finally
all of these evil things that happen on planet Earth
will be resolved in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
a men again. What I'd like for you to do
pardon that sound. What I'd like for you to do
is type in the chat you're on social media, you're
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so you can put that in the comments section as well.
What are you tired of on planet Earth the way
that it is right now? What are you tired of?
I personally am tired of death and dying. Like I'm
tired of people that we love going to sleep, even
though it is a sleep. And hopefully the people that
we love are connected to God. But we were not designed.
We were not designed to miss our loved ones. We
were not designed to have to have funerals and memorials
and remembrances and thanksgiving services for people who have died.
That is not how God designed us. He designed us
to live with Him forever. But sin has gotten in
the way. I'm tired of the month being longer than
the money for so many people around the world. I've
been there, the month is longer than the money. The
money stops in week two or or day one after
paycheck day, and then the month continues for another thirty days.
I'm tired of that. I'm tired of people being evicted
from their homes. I'm tired of people having to be
convicted of crimes and going to prison. I'm tired of
the pain and suffering that comes through tribal warfare and
other kinds of warfare around the world. I'm tired of
those things. But really, and truly, we don't have to
do this forever. We don't have to be tired forever.
There are limits and rules that govern how long and
how much of this we will endure. And so the
lesson writer says, the cosmic conflict is primarily a dispute
over God's character caused by the devil's slanderous allegations against
God's goodness. Is justice and his government. It is a
kind of cosmic covenant lawsuit. Such a conflict cannot be
settled by sheer power, but instead requires demonstration. Now what
do we see. We get to see that when we
exercise the power of choice that God has given to us.
Let me give an example. We're in a relationship. Now
we're married. In my case, I'm married to Simone. She's
my wife. There are opportunities every day for growth. There
are opportunities where God positions us to have peace, to
have bliss, to love one another. And of course the
devil is always trying to tempt us, tempt us not
to see that each of us have the best for
the other in our minds, tempting us to allow the
trials and temptations related to our personal experiences to leak
into our marital situation so that we become self focused,
you see. And so we have a decision to make.
Is God able? That's the question that we need to
resolve today. Is God able to keep us in perfect peace?
Our minds are stayed on Him even in our marital relationship.
And of course the answer is yes, Is God able
to help us get through every trial, in every temptation? Yes,
every transition of life. Yes, we are getting older, like
we're in our fifties. This is not a joke. Like
the Bible says that you have seventy years and if
by reason of strength you get some more, well, yeah,
we've run through most of those years already. And even
though we feel youthful in all of that, and people
say age is just a number, well it's not just
a number. The fact is that we are all aging
toward a predictable ending on planet Earth. Every human, if
there is enough time on planet Earth, will experience death,
and many humans will actually die themselves. And so God
is putting limits on the enemy in the meantime to say,
only this much death and no more, only this much
suffering and know more. And people who choose to serve me,
even though we will all be impacted by God. But
people who choose to serve me Jesus saying I will
be with them. I will be with them always, even
to the end of the Earth. When you are not
able to deal with those problems on your own, we
can all go to God to get the kind of
help that we need. Of course, I'm oversimplifying, and so
really there are a few things that we need to
look at as action items, ways that we continue to
connect with God while we are going through these trials
on planet Earth. Number one, strengthen your faith through daily
communion with God. The Bible reads in Matthew chapter thirteen
and verse fifty eight, and he did not do many
miracles there in a particular place when Jesus was on
planet Earth because of their unbelief. You see the way
that we can be believing people. Trusting God kind of
people is if we have daily communion with Him. I
don't trust people that I don't know. And God is
giving us the invitation to be in his presence every day,
to be able to speak to him, which I'm going
to talk about in a second. Every day hear from
him every day. Just be in his presence to the
degree that when he does speak, we trust what he says.
Number two, make prayer a priority. Prayer a priority. Inspiration
says that prayer is like opening the heart to God
as to a friend. Is that what you see prayer as?
Is that how you see your connection with God through prayer?
That you are speaking to a friend, listening for God's
voice as if he is your best friend. Yes, with
all your best interest at heart, I hope.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Number three trust God's ultimate victory despite what looks like
present limits. The Bible reads in Romans chapter eight and
verse eighteen, for I reckon that the sufferings of this
present world. So we're not hiding from the reality of
the sufferings. We're not playing peekable and making it seem
as if these things will just vanish before our eyes.
The Bible says, for I reckon that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us. And yes,
we will go through these trials, we will go through tribulations.
There will be limits. However, in the meantime and ultimately,
as the devil is being judged. I think we talked
about that yesterday. We know that his time is short,
and I'm looking forward to the day that he gets destroyed. 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,