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06 08 2025 Famine in “The House of Bread” · 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 Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: June eighth, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is famine in the House of Bread.
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  Speaker 2: Famine in the House of bread? How was that possible?
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that you have entrusted to us to open your word
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  Speaker 2: and not just open and not just look, but to
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  Speaker 2: begin to apply and to share. Please transform us today.
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  Speaker 2: Help us not to be hungry when there is food
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name, I pray, Amen, and a man again
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  Speaker 2: famine in the house of bread. Okay, So what we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do in the lesson there was some discussion
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  Speaker 2: of controversy. We're gonna go ahead and skip that part
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  Speaker 2: today and jump right in to the scriptures. But first,
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  Speaker 2: let me just ask you, how can you be hungry?
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  Speaker 2: How can I be hungry or have famine when there
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  Speaker 2: is supposed to be bred? Okay, if I'm in relationship
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  Speaker 2: with God, how can I be starving when Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: the bread of life. That's just something for us to
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  Speaker 2: think about as we go through this lesson. But the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says in reality, like in real terms, in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Ruth, chapter one and verse one, there was
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  Speaker 2: a famine in the land. There was a famine in
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  Speaker 2: the land. So that means there was no food growing
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  Speaker 2: or whatever grow was so sparse that you couldn't even
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  Speaker 2: really count it. So there was a famine in the land.
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  Speaker 2: And famine drives us to examine our foundations. To f's
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  Speaker 2: famine foundations, Famine drives us to examine our foundations. And
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  Speaker 2: so what we need to do is think about the
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  Speaker 2: story of Ruth right when you go through the whole book,
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  Speaker 2: it's a short book. Go through the story and realize
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  Speaker 2: that just like famine drove Elimeles family from Bethlehem, spiritual
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  Speaker 2: famine often reveals where we have been depending on unstable
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  Speaker 2: sources of provisions. Sometimes we are leaning on what we
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  Speaker 2: can see. Sometimes we are leaning on established paradigms. We're
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  Speaker 2: relying on our training, We're relying on people we trust,
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  Speaker 2: when we should be relying on God. I want to
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  Speaker 2: do in a spiritual sense right now is to challenge
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  Speaker 2: us to reevaluate what spiritual quote land I'm living in,
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  Speaker 2: my living in the land of comfort, familiarity, my living
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  Speaker 2: in the land of tradition, and then go where the
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  Speaker 2: bread of life is. Who is Christ, no matter what
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  Speaker 2: it is. If we think that we're supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: getting the food, the bread of life where we are
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  Speaker 2: and we're not, we need to be going where the
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  Speaker 2: bread of life is. Don't trust. Oh, this is how
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  Speaker 2: we've done it. I wish I had the time. Let
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  Speaker 2: me go on to the next verse. In verse three,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, and alimilech Naomi's husband, he had died.
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  Speaker 2: He had died. So death and disappointment, brokenness are common
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  Speaker 2: to all of us in humanity, all of us who
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  Speaker 2: have ever been born since Eden, Adam and Eve experienced death. True,
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  Speaker 2: it was because of Adam's sin, but the fact is
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  Speaker 2: that even the first couple experienced death, and it was
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  Speaker 2: the death of their own son at the hands of
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  Speaker 2: their own son. And so Naomi's grief echoes humanities suffering.
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  Speaker 2: We are more alike than we are different. And so
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  Speaker 2: another action for today, And it's like wow, action again. Yes, everything,
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  Speaker 2: everything that we study in the Bible needs to come
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  Speaker 2: with action. What are we supposed to be doing as
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  Speaker 2: we live in relationship with God? Don't deny the pain.
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  Speaker 2: Don't act like it's not happening. Don't try to palliate
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  Speaker 2: yourself and convince yourself that it's not what it actually is.
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  Speaker 2: But you do when you identify that this is really
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  Speaker 2: what you're going through, take it to God. Whatever the
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  Speaker 2: pain is, let it drive you toward His comfort and
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  Speaker 2: not away from it. Some of you have lost spouses.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what that is like if I
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  Speaker 2: had lost Simon somehow, I can't even imagine. But whatever
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  Speaker 2: the pain is, you lost the relationship with your parent
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  Speaker 2: that you thought that was great and ideal. You lost money,
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  Speaker 2: you lost job, you lost your sense of security. Let
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  Speaker 2: that pain drive you to God. And then in verses
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  Speaker 2: four and five, the Bible teaches us and they dwelled
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  Speaker 2: there ten years, and Mahlan and Chilean died also, so
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  Speaker 2: they moved somewhere where there was food. And then in
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  Speaker 2: that place, the woman who was living her best life,
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  Speaker 2: like really, yeah, yeah, she lost her sons, she lost
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  Speaker 2: her husband, she lost her sons. So Moab, that's where
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  Speaker 2: she had gone, was supposed to be a place of
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  Speaker 2: temporary relief. But really and truly she actually experienced more
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  Speaker 2: tragedy famine go away from that. Husband dies, children die,
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  Speaker 2: and now it's like, WHOA, what do I have left?
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  Speaker 2: So what we need to do that even when we
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  Speaker 2: have our best laid plans and sin finds those plans,
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  Speaker 2: or sinfulness in the world finds those plans and breaks
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  Speaker 2: them up, we need to hold on to our plans loosely,
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  Speaker 2: not heavily, not strongly, not tightly, not with clenched fists.
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  Speaker 2: We hold on to our plans loosely, but hold on
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  Speaker 2: tightly to God's purpose and his presence no matter where
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  Speaker 2: our faith takes us, wherever the journey takes us, whatever
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  Speaker 2: goes right or what we consider to be wrong. We
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  Speaker 2: hold on to the plans. We create the plans. We
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  Speaker 2: hold on to the plans. We present the plans to God.
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  Speaker 2: But we hold on to those plans loosely because at
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  Speaker 2: any time God has the prerogative, because he's sovereign, to
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  Speaker 2: change our plans, and sometimes it's based on life's circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: In verse five, the Bible says the woman was left
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  Speaker 2: of her two sons and her husband. Of course, we
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  Speaker 2: already said that and ask the question, how can I
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  Speaker 2: be faithful with what is left? Instead of mourning forever
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  Speaker 2: what was lost? How can I be more faithful with
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  Speaker 2: what I have left? The relationships I have left, the
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  Speaker 2: little sanity I have left, the little bit of resources
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  Speaker 2: I have left, The ideas that are popping up in
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  Speaker 2: my mind, but I'm afraid to engage them because look
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  Speaker 2: at what went wrong in the past, what I have left.
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  Speaker 2: How can I be faithful with what I have left
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  Speaker 2: instead of only mourning what was lost? And then in
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty one, the Bible reads, I went out full.
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  Speaker 2: This is what the woman says. This is what she says.
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  Speaker 2: I went out from where I am from. I went
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  Speaker 2: out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, naom Me believed her story was over. She
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  Speaker 2: thought it was over. And some of you who are
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  Speaker 2: watching or listening, God forbid, might be thinking the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I have this disease I didn't know I was gonna have.
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  Speaker 2: I'm having these relationship woes inside church, outside of church.
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  Speaker 2: There are things going more weird with my money than
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  Speaker 2: I anticipated. So much seems to be wrong in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and in fact it is ah. But she thought her
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  Speaker 2: story was over, But God was just getting started with
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  Speaker 2: Ruth beside her, And so The action here, with the
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  Speaker 2: little time that we have left, is that we need
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  Speaker 2: to trust that God writes redemption into our quote emptiness.
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  Speaker 2: Don't call it the end when God calls it a
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  Speaker 2: new chapter. I wish I had the time. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to drill this some more as the time progresses. If
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  Speaker 2: the Lord spars life, make it a great day until
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  Speaker 2: there peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,