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 Friday. It
is June thirteenth, in 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 how to study Bible Prophecy.
Our caption for today on this preparation morning is good
news amid prophetic hardships. I know it's a tongue twister,
let me say it one more time. Good news. Do
you have good news amidst prophetic hardships. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
say welcome to you in happy preparation day. To everyone
joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father, We thank you
for this day that you have made. Teach us to
rejoice and be glad in it. Help us Lord to
see the hope, the hope that comes in Christ. Even
when when crises come, we know that they will not
continue forever. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen
again there is good news amidst the prophetic hardships. Yes,
so let me just go ahead and jump right in
to the Bible Book of Isaiah, the Bible Book of Isaiah.
I'm not going to set it up. We're just going
right in there. Isaiah, chapter fifty nine and verse fifteen. Okay.
And this is the concept that the truth is unpopular
at times, but the truth stands right now with artificial intelligence,
right now, with a lot of the things that come
out in the news that or I should say, would
appear to be in the news that come out in
social media, with all of the confusion that we don't
know if it's a machine, and we don't know if
it's a human, We don't know if it's a bad
actor from some country that is not happy with the
country you're domiciled in. We don't know what'stuff is these days.
It's just so weird in a way that I've not
seen before. Ah. But even though even though there is
so much, so many lies, there are so many things
we're not sure of, so many things that are even
coming from the highest echelons of society financially, politically, religious
in nature. Even though that is the case, the falsehood
seemed to prevail for a little while. But truth, truth
will stand, And so the Bible reads in Isaiah chapter
fifty nine and verse fifteen. Yea truth faileth, and he
that departeth from evil, making himself a prey. Let me
say it another way, honesty has disappeared. That is that
there are so many people who reject the truth and
have turned their backs on God, especially in the last days,
as it was in the days of Noah. The Bible
says that the imaginations of their heart were evil, always evil, continually. Well,
we're in a time like that today, But the Bible continues,
honesty has disappeared. The one who rejects evil is robbed.
It's like, what, that's weird? So what we need to
do understanding that that is the reality of the days
in which we live. It's not the first time, but
it is our time. We need to resolve today to
stand for truth, no matter what people say, no matter
what is popular or not. Resolve today to stand for
the truth, even if it's unpopular. And I want you
to focus your attention on one biblical truth. You will
not compromise on one biblical truth. Will it be thou
shalt not commit adultery? Will it be that, since Jesus
is the author and finisher of my faith, then I
will be faithful bias grace. Will it be because when
there is no fear in love, but perfect love cast
out fear. Is that the principle I won't compromise on that.
When I am sensing that I'm about to feel fearful,
then I'm like, but God loves me and I love God,
so I reject the feeling of fear, the sense of
fear and foreboding. What is that one principle that you
are choosing today not to compromise on? Okay, And in
Matthew chapter ten and verse twenty two, the Bible reads,
and ye shall be hated of all men for my sake.
This is what Jesus said. He said this about for
his people, that that will happen. And so prepare spiritually
today this morning, right now, it's an afternoon where you
are is at evening? Is it late in the night. Yeah,
prepare at this moment that you are now experiencing this
worship session that we have. Prepare now start a regular
prayer situation where you are writing down your own prayer request,
the things that you're committing to God God that you
will be faithful if He will just give you the grace.
You may be the kind of person that likes group
activities where you would organize a prayer group or be
in a small prayer group. But whatever the case is,
I want you to create this habit that will fortify
your heart right now. And it's not a test it's
not something that we can put ourselves in some kind
of a boot camp. But I think sometimes we understate
the reality that practice is a thing. Like if we
practice being faithful, then we will be faithful. If we
are faithful when somebody is rude to us, and we
just choose to be kind, then God will give us
the grace to do things that are even more challenging
and more challenging as the case may be. We can
have the Holy Ghost and he will teach us how
to live according to his will. Okay, and so we
can get another story. We can get another story from
Esther chapter six and thirteen. If Mordecai is of God's people,
comes from God's people, you will not prevail, but will
surely fall before him. Now, this is part of the
story that we have been talking about for a part
of the week. But I want you to just do
this based on that text, because you've read through Esther
a couple of times. Well, by now, write out a
list of past times that God has defended you. There
are times that He has done great things in your life,
in the lives of people that are close to you.
Write that list down and keep it for encouragement. When
trials come. See, there were people who were saying, like,
if you mess around with this dude, maybe like you're
going to have some problems. So listen, don't mess with
God's people. Just don't mess with God's people. That was
part of the moral of the story to the people
in that text. Now we also have in Revelation thirteen
and verse fifteen that there are some people who refuse
to worship the image of the Beast, and those individuals
will be destroyed. Right obedience to God will bring earthly consequences.
There's a lot of discussion about the Seventh day Sabbath.
There is a lot of discussion about the man made
sense of worship that comes by erecting a false Sabbath.
There is a lot of discussion about, well, what does
that do to our relationship with God? And so we
know that when we are in right relationship with God, obedience,
radical obedience, shout to Lisa A. Smith, Radical obedience brings
about earthly consequences many times. Yeah, Jesus said it. He
said that there will be people who will persecute you
and say all manner of evil things against you falsely
for his sake. But we should rejoice and be exceeding
glad for great at our reward in heaven for so
persecuted day, the prophets which were before you. And so
you need to ask yourself. I need to ask myself,
is there any area where I compromise truth for comfort
or I just choose to fit in rather than to
do what God says? And if that is the case,
then we need to repent. We can just literally say, God,
I apologize. Can you give me the strength to turn away,
repent and make a shift, do what God has said,
be who whom God has called you to be, and
in that case we become what God has called us
to be. There's good news amidst the prophetic hardships that
God is with his people. God is with his people,
and if you're one of God's people, He's with you. 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,