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05 23 2025 God is Merciful · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Friday. It
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  Speaker 2: is May twenty three and twenty twenty five. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our lesson study series how to study
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  Speaker 2: Bible prophecy, and our caption for today is God is Merciful.
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  Speaker 2: I said, God, God is Merciful. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, We thank you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this time, this day of preparation that draws
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  Speaker 2: us close to you. Thank you for giving us the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to pray and to do your will. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for teaching us how to serve you. I'm asking you
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  Speaker 2: to help us to experience your mercy to the degree
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  Speaker 2: that we will be merciful. You said, blessed are the merciful,
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  Speaker 2: for they shall obtain mercy in Jesus name. I pray, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Men again.
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  Speaker 2: I almost sounded like a computer there, I heard myself. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: this is a beautiful day because God has shown us
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  Speaker 2: mercy so many times, countless times, countless times. And let
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  Speaker 2: me just say before I forget, I'll be at Camp Verlely.
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  Speaker 2: I think I told you a few days ago. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be at Camp Verly at the Lord Spear's Life tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: at the Communicator's Convention. It's not really a convention, but
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  Speaker 2: it is there where people will be learning ways to
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  Speaker 2: experience God. Through evangelism online and share it with other people.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll be there sharing the lesson study. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I pardon me. That was an aside. But for those
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  Speaker 2: who are coming, please please just say hello and I'll
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  Speaker 2: be there. But I want you to think about what
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer has said here. The psalms of David
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  Speaker 2: pass through the whole range of experience. This is critical,
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  Speaker 2: the whole range of experience from the depths of conscious
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  Speaker 2: guilt and self condemnation. Have you ever been have you
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  Speaker 2: ever felt so guilty that you couldn't shake it? Have
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  Speaker 2: you ever felt so guilty for your sins that you
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  Speaker 2: condemned yourself? And even some people have wished that they
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  Speaker 2: were no longer here. Just like Elijah, I've been there.
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  Speaker 2: I've been there to the loftiest faith, so we can
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  Speaker 2: go up to the loftiest faith and the most exalted
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  Speaker 2: communing with God. His life record declares that sin can
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  Speaker 2: bring only shame and woe, but that no, let me
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  Speaker 2: say it again, I've misread that his life record declares
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  Speaker 2: that sin can only bring shame and woe, but that
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  Speaker 2: God's love and mercy can reach to the deepest depths.
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  Speaker 2: That faith will lift up the repenting soul to share
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  Speaker 2: the adoption of the sons of God. Of all the
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  Speaker 2: assurances which his word contains, it is this one. It
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  Speaker 2: is the strongest testimony to the faithfulness and justice and
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  Speaker 2: covenant mercy of God. And so we have run the
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  Speaker 2: gamut personally, of all of the emotions, all of the
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  Speaker 2: thrill being forgiven, all of the shame of finding myself
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  Speaker 2: breaking the promise that I have made to God. God,
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  Speaker 2: if you get me out of this mess, then I
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  Speaker 2: will do X. I will not do why you see.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we see that God is able to
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  Speaker 2: deliver us no matter what we find ourselves in. There
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  Speaker 2: will be trials, there will be tribulations, but He will
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  Speaker 2: get us through. Yeah. So what I'm going to do
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  Speaker 2: is share the personal application from our life application Guy
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  Speaker 2: paid one hundred and forty eight, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: go to the personal application, I mean professional application, because
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  Speaker 2: when you go to work, when you are executing your
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  Speaker 2: contracts or you're doing whatever you're doing online with your coworkers,
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  Speaker 2: there are some things that have to make sense when
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  Speaker 2: we're studying these words. It's not just something that's super
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  Speaker 2: spiritual and supernatural and that we hold in our minds
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  Speaker 2: and feel okay, I understand it. No, we have to
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  Speaker 2: be able to live this, okay. And so using the
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  Speaker 2: WIN framework or the acronym WIN first is what is important. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Your work environment is not just a space for productivity. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: shout out to the people who are there to do
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  Speaker 2: your work, like to bury your faces, bury your head,
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  Speaker 2: get your or put your head down and get your
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  Speaker 2: work done. That's true, that's what it's for. But it's
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  Speaker 2: also a space for grace. I know, I know. I
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  Speaker 2: used to work in an environment where my team mates
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  Speaker 2: sometimes would say I don't want to take the blame
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  Speaker 2: for X, I don't want to take the blame for why.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, ah, well, that's not really what I'm
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  Speaker 2: here for. I don't really worry about that kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing because I know that when I go to work,
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  Speaker 2: I'm there to do what God has told me to
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  Speaker 2: do according to the blueprint that my work environment has
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  Speaker 2: given and the spiritual power of the Holy Ghost. So
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  Speaker 2: I work for God as I am working for the
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  Speaker 2: humans that are paying me. Okay. And so it's a
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  Speaker 2: space for grace. You can reflect God's mercy on how
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  Speaker 2: you handle here. It comes mistakes, stress, and people, mistakes, stress,
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  Speaker 2: and people. Do you have any of those three things
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  Speaker 2: at your job? Do you have people at your job
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  Speaker 2: or as you work your contracts so you have to
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  Speaker 2: deal with people? Huh? Do you have stress at your workplace?
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  Speaker 2: Do you make mistakes or have you seen people make mistakes? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So God's mercy will teach us how to overcome the mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: overcome the stress, and also live in a good way
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  Speaker 2: with people, inasmuch as it is possible. So I internalize
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  Speaker 2: the insight. David's journey reminds us that leadership is not
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  Speaker 2: about perfection. It is about repentance and restoration. Somebody just
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  Speaker 2: got it. It's not about our own perfection. It's not
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  Speaker 2: about our own perfection. God said that we should be
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  Speaker 2: perfect for the Lord, our God is perfect, or because
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  Speaker 2: our Father is perfect. That means that his perfection is
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  Speaker 2: the impetus of our growth in Christ and repentance. That is,
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  Speaker 2: to turn away from sin and to be restored. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we know that is to become more into His image
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  Speaker 2: till ultimately we are stuck that way and we get
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  Speaker 2: to live with God forever. How might owning your weaknesses
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about at work create room for God's strength
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  Speaker 2: in your her professional life. How might owning your weaknesses
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  Speaker 2: create room for God's strength in your professional life? Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's see next best move. If a colleague or team
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  Speaker 2: member has made a mistake, respond with compassion. I said.
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  Speaker 2: If one of your teammates or team member, a direct report,
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  Speaker 2: your boss, a colleague has made a mistake, respond with compassion.
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  Speaker 2: For example, you could say, we all mess up sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know what the language you would use,
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  Speaker 2: depending on the behavior style of the person who's hearing,
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  Speaker 2: but we all mess up. Sometimes. What matters most is
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  Speaker 2: how we move forward. Then you do something super special.
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  Speaker 2: You offer yourself. You offer yourself not as a sacrifice,
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  Speaker 2: but as someone who can help. I am here to help.
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  Speaker 2: May I say it more quickly? We all mess up?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes what matters most is how we move forward. I'm
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  Speaker 2: here to help. And then sh be quiet and see
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  Speaker 2: how your boss, your colleague, your team member, your teammate,
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  Speaker 2: your direct report responds, and then under God, move accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful that God has given us so much
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  Speaker 2: mercy that we can be merciful even in our professional lives.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening, Friends, always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,