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06 12 2025 For Such a Time as This · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: June twelve, 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 day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption four today is for such a time as this,
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  Speaker 2: and really I'm going to form as a question in
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  Speaker 2: a little while, for such a time as this. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but before we do,
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray. Father, We thank you for
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  Speaker 2: getting us this far into our work week and for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the example of Esther and how you have
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  Speaker 2: called us for something specific, not random in our day.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to fulfill the mission you have given
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  Speaker 2: to us. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen and Amen
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  Speaker 2: again for such a time as this. Okay, so when
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  Speaker 2: you wake up in the mornings, it's early morning for well,
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't say most of our listeners and viewers, for
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  Speaker 2: a good portion of our listeners and viewers, except for
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  Speaker 2: those on the continent of Africa. Like, when you wake
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  Speaker 2: up in the morning, or even if you're moving along
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  Speaker 2: your pathway during the day, do you have the understanding
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  Speaker 2: that you were born for such a time as this.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to be reflective, like, think about it
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  Speaker 2: carefully while you're doing your work, while you're preparing for
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're preparing for today. Are you
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  Speaker 2: thinking for such a time as this. When you're at
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  Speaker 2: the gym exercising, you're on the road, you're taking public transportation,
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  Speaker 2: you have that quote chance meeting at the supermarket with
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  Speaker 2: someone you've never seen met or heard of before. You're
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  Speaker 2: in the airport, on travel, whatever it is. You're on
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  Speaker 2: the internet and you comment on something that somebody else
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  Speaker 2: also commented on, and then now there is a connection.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize and understand that you may have been
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  Speaker 2: created for such a time as this? And then another
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  Speaker 2: question is, well, what shifts in the world because you're here?
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  Speaker 2: What shifts shifts in the world because you're here because
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  Speaker 2: God created you? And by the way, in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: as we think about the foreboding events of the last days,
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  Speaker 2: there will be a ton more than we've already begun
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  Speaker 2: to see. We should not have fear. We should not
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  Speaker 2: have fear like no fear for myself, and no fear
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  Speaker 2: for the prophecies, no fear for you, no fear in
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  Speaker 2: the prophecies for you. We know the end of the story.
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  Speaker 2: We know the end of the story. So we were
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  Speaker 2: created for such a time as this. We are to
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  Speaker 2: fulfill a particular goal, mission, or task. We're to reach
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  Speaker 2: into a person or person's lives for the shift to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It may be a historic one, it may be one
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  Speaker 2: historic for the individual that we are encountering. But just
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  Speaker 2: as the prediction of hard times is reliable when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to prophecy, so is the promise of deliverance. I
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  Speaker 2: think we have something now in the same way that
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  Speaker 2: the prediction of the hard times is reliable. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: in prophecy, we've seen in history that God's people who
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  Speaker 2: live in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. If you're faithful,
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  Speaker 2: you will suffer persecution to a greater or lesser degree.
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  Speaker 2: But in the same way that we can be one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent sure of this, we can be also one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty percent, one hundred and fifty percent if
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  Speaker 2: there be such a thing, that God's deliverance is also sure,
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  Speaker 2: even more sure. I wish I had the time. And
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  Speaker 2: so what we're going to do now is teach a
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  Speaker 2: few things using the Book of Esther and Esther's experience
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  Speaker 2: in God's people's experience to illustrate some things and learn
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  Speaker 2: some lessons. So in Esther four and verse fourteen, of course,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to paraphrase or cut out parts of these
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  Speaker 2: different passages to make the point in verse fourteen, who
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  Speaker 2: knoweth whether thou art come to the Kingdom for such
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  Speaker 2: a time as this? See God orchestrates time and place
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  Speaker 2: with purpose. You being here at just under six minutes
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  Speaker 2: into this broadcast, you're on the radio, you're on television,
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  Speaker 2: you're listening on a podcast, you're live with me on
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  Speaker 2: multiple online platforms right now. God orchestrates the time and
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  Speaker 2: the place with purpose. You see, Esther didn't get didn't
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  Speaker 2: end up in the palace by acts. I need you
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  Speaker 2: to read the whole book. I did say that to
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  Speaker 2: you the other day. In the same way. We are
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  Speaker 2: not living in these last days by accident. Why weren't
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  Speaker 2: you created to live fifty years ago? I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 2: like be at this age fifty years ago. Why were
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  Speaker 2: you not in the Great Depression era? Why were you
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  Speaker 2: not back when Daniel, Hannah, Andaiah, Michel and Azariah were alive?
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  Speaker 2: And so what I want you to do is ask yourself,
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  Speaker 2: where has God placed me for such a time as this?
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  Speaker 2: And who am I supposed to influence, impact or assist
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  Speaker 2: in transforming? Okay, so let's go to verse thirteen. Think
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  Speaker 2: not with thyself, that thou shalt escape in the King's house. See,
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  Speaker 2: there is responsibility that came for Esther. She was still
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  Speaker 2: from among God's people, and she was getting She was
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  Speaker 2: getting the guidance from the wise man of God. That's
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  Speaker 2: safety in silence is a lie. Esther's position could not
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  Speaker 2: protect her if she abandoned her people. Her position could
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  Speaker 2: not have helped her if she abandoned her people. Today's
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  Speaker 2: believers must resist the urge to stay quiet when truth
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  Speaker 2: is under attack. There are too many of us with
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  Speaker 2: our mics and our voices silenced, our fingers for typing, silenced,
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  Speaker 2: our influence silenced, the way that we invest our money
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  Speaker 2: in the things that matter to God silenced. And so
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  Speaker 2: I need to be asking myself, where in my life
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  Speaker 2: am I tempted to stay silent without or out of
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  Speaker 2: fear or comfort? Where in my life, if anywhere, am
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  Speaker 2: I tempted to be silent for fear or for comfort.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's go down, down, down. Let me just skip
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  Speaker 2: down to Esther chapter five in verse three, considering our time,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, what wilt thou queen Esther? And
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  Speaker 2: what is thy request? So we've already gotten her into
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  Speaker 2: the presence of the King. The King does already accept her.
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  Speaker 2: She is now in the phase where she can intercede
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  Speaker 2: in what way? In what way?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: What request will I make when when it matters most,
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  Speaker 2: is it going to be for something that makes me
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  Speaker 2: feel better, something that's better for my own life, or
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  Speaker 2: something greater? You see, esther didn't only survive in this
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  Speaker 2: situation because the King didn't destroy her when he when
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  Speaker 2: she came into his presence, she also was invited to ask.
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  Speaker 2: And that is the power of intercession. Our King listens
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  Speaker 2: when we approach him on behalf of others. So what
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do is is to is to
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  Speaker 2: think of some people. I learned this from from a pastor,
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Smith, when I was when I was a young
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  Speaker 2: New Bloe in nineteen ninety six. I was in my twenties,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember him saying that we need to write
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  Speaker 2: down a list of people that need to get connected
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  Speaker 2: to God and baptized, and then we begin to pray
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  Speaker 2: and work with that list, leading people to as close
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  Speaker 2: to Christ as we possibly can. There is so much
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  Speaker 2: but the victory, the victory that God gives his people
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  Speaker 2: is to be shared, not to be held for ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: When God gives victory for his people, it is for
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  Speaker 2: all of his people, as long as we are faithful.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much to say, so little time. Go back
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  Speaker 2: to your actual lesson study and glean as much as
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  Speaker 2: you can. Make it a great day. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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,