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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 Thursday, March six,

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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, almost done with lesson number ten, God's Love

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and Justice, and our caption for today is limits and

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rules and Rules. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. This is where you can

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have your correct questions answered related to this lesson study.

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We're not answering questions for everything in the scriptures, but

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what's related to this lesson and of course entertaining discussion

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surrounding the lesson. Also pick up your Daily Portion Life

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Application Guide that is also a way to enhance our

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connection with God. Through the study of this quarterly it

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is giving us four ways to apply in our real

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lives what we are studying. Sometimes what we're studying seems

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super spiritual, and we don't know how to apply those things.

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And so that's why we have published this for the

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second quarter in a row now, and we're determining whether

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we're going to go into quarter two twenty five with it. Okay,

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let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new day.

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Thank you for giving us the privilege of prayer. Thank

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you for giving us the opportunity to do your will.

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Thank you for giving us the fullness of your Holy

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spirit in these last days. Help us not to give up. Father,

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Help us to trust you, knowing that it won't be long.

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It won't be long before Jesus will come and finally

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all of these evil things that happen on planet Earth

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will be resolved in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and

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a men again. What I'd like for you to do

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pardon that sound. What I'd like for you to do

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is type in the chat you're on social media, you're

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on YouTube, and maybe you're listening on a podcast, and

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so you can put that in the comments section as well.

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What are you tired of on planet Earth the way

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that it is right now? What are you tired of?

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I personally am tired of death and dying. Like I'm

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tired of people that we love going to sleep, even

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though it is a sleep. And hopefully the people that

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we love are connected to God. But we were not designed.

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We were not designed to miss our loved ones. We

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were not designed to have to have funerals and memorials

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and remembrances and thanksgiving services for people who have died.

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That is not how God designed us. He designed us

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to live with Him forever. But sin has gotten in

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the way. I'm tired of the month being longer than

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the money for so many people around the world. I've

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been there, the month is longer than the money. The

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money stops in week two or or day one after

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paycheck day, and then the month continues for another thirty days.

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I'm tired of that. I'm tired of people being evicted

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from their homes. I'm tired of people having to be

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convicted of crimes and going to prison. I'm tired of

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the pain and suffering that comes through tribal warfare and

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other kinds of warfare around the world. I'm tired of

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those things. But really, and truly, we don't have to

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do this forever. We don't have to be tired forever.

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There are limits and rules that govern how long and

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how much of this we will endure. And so the

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lesson writer says, the cosmic conflict is primarily a dispute

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over God's character caused by the devil's slanderous allegations against

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God's goodness. Is justice and his government. It is a

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kind of cosmic covenant lawsuit. Such a conflict cannot be

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settled by sheer power, but instead requires demonstration. Now what

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do we see. We get to see that when we

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exercise the power of choice that God has given to us.

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Let me give an example. We're in a relationship. Now

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we're married. In my case, I'm married to Simone. She's

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my wife. There are opportunities every day for growth. There

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are opportunities where God positions us to have peace, to

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have bliss, to love one another. And of course the

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devil is always trying to tempt us, tempt us not

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to see that each of us have the best for

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the other in our minds, tempting us to allow the

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trials and temptations related to our personal experiences to leak

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into our marital situation so that we become self focused,

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you see. And so we have a decision to make.

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Is God able? That's the question that we need to

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resolve today. Is God able to keep us in perfect peace?

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Our minds are stayed on Him even in our marital relationship.

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And of course the answer is yes, Is God able

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to help us get through every trial, in every temptation? Yes,

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every transition of life. Yes, we are getting older, like

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we're in our fifties. This is not a joke. Like

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the Bible says that you have seventy years and if

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by reason of strength you get some more, well, yeah,

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we've run through most of those years already. And even

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though we feel youthful in all of that, and people

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say age is just a number, well it's not just

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a number. The fact is that we are all aging

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toward a predictable ending on planet Earth. Every human, if

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there is enough time on planet Earth, will experience death,

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and many humans will actually die themselves. And so God

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is putting limits on the enemy in the meantime to say,

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only this much death and no more, only this much

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suffering and know more. And people who choose to serve me,

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even though we will all be impacted by God. But

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people who choose to serve me Jesus saying I will

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be with them. I will be with them always, even

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to the end of the Earth. When you are not

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able to deal with those problems on your own, we

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can all go to God to get the kind of

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help that we need. Of course, I'm oversimplifying, and so

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really there are a few things that we need to

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look at as action items, ways that we continue to

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connect with God while we are going through these trials

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on planet Earth. Number one, strengthen your faith through daily

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communion with God. The Bible reads in Matthew chapter thirteen

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and verse fifty eight, and he did not do many

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miracles there in a particular place when Jesus was on

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planet Earth because of their unbelief. You see the way

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that we can be believing people. Trusting God kind of

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people is if we have daily communion with Him. I

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don't trust people that I don't know. And God is

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giving us the invitation to be in his presence every day,

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to be able to speak to him, which I'm going

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to talk about in a second. Every day hear from

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him every day. Just be in his presence to the

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degree that when he does speak, we trust what he says.

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Number two, make prayer a priority. Prayer a priority. Inspiration

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says that prayer is like opening the heart to God

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as to a friend. Is that what you see prayer as?

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Is that how you see your connection with God through prayer?

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That you are speaking to a friend, listening for God's

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voice as if he is your best friend. Yes, with

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all your best interest at heart, I hope.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: Number three trust God's ultimate victory despite what looks like

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present limits. The Bible reads in Romans chapter eight and

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verse eighteen, for I reckon that the sufferings of this

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present world. So we're not hiding from the reality of

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the sufferings. We're not playing peekable and making it seem

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as if these things will just vanish before our eyes.

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The Bible says, for I reckon that the sufferings of

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this present time are not worthy to be compared with

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the glory which shall be revealed in us. And yes,

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we will go through these trials, we will go through tribulations.

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There will be limits. However, in the meantime and ultimately,

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as the devil is being judged. I think we talked

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about that yesterday. We know that his time is short,

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and I'm looking forward to the day that he gets destroyed. 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,