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05 26 2025 Hope Amid Turmoil · 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: May twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is hope amid turmoil. Hope
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  Speaker 2: amid turmoil. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day and for getting us into day
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  Speaker 2: two of our work week. Thank you for loving us
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  Speaker 2: enough to give us something meaningful to do. We're listening
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  Speaker 2: to your word, we're studying together, and now we can
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  Speaker 2: needs something from you. Father, Please help us to have
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  Speaker 2: hope a mid turmoil. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. I just need you to answer honestly,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want anybody to tide anyone for their
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  Speaker 2: honest answers. But do you have hope during times of turmoil?
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  Speaker 1: Do you? Do?
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  Speaker 2: You go ahead and type in the chat yes or
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  Speaker 2: no when you are going through turmoil? And that's a
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  Speaker 2: big word. I don't want to understate that word, like
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  Speaker 2: when you are going through turmoil? Are you hopeful? How
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  Speaker 2: are you hopeful? I'm going to go to our life
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  Speaker 2: application guide. This is going to be page one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty six and we're going to go to the
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  Speaker 2: professional application and use the win win acronym. What is
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  Speaker 2: important now, Yes, I'm jumping in with two feet. We'll
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  Speaker 2: come back to the scriptures in just a moment. What
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  Speaker 2: is important now when you're at work? What is important
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  Speaker 2: when you are doing business? What is important even in
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  Speaker 2: uncertain economies right now? You have to attest that the
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  Speaker 2: economies are weird right now around the world or broken systems,
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  Speaker 2: your work can still glorify God. And let me just
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  Speaker 2: say it should, it must, it can, it will, it
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  Speaker 2: must still glorify God. Don't be defined about what is
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  Speaker 2: falling apart, stand out about how you remain grounded in God. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so that's what's important. Now. Focus your attention there, not
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  Speaker 2: with where there are. Some of my people are in
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America. Of course I'm here in Jamaica, Land.
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  Speaker 2: We love. Our challenges are different. But the United States
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  Speaker 2: government jobs have been have been under attack, really and truly,
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  Speaker 2: like so many people have lost their employment just in
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  Speaker 2: the government sector alone. So the focus is not there,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's easy for me to say, right, it's
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  Speaker 2: easy for me to say, but stay ground like that
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  Speaker 2: is your calling card for now. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time to really really drill that, but internalize the insight.
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  Speaker 2: Are you reacting like everyone else when you are in
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  Speaker 2: your workplace, or you are experiencing these challenges when whose
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  Speaker 2: piece is anchored in eternity. Let your consistency be a
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  Speaker 2: testimony of hope. And then the next best move is
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  Speaker 2: offer encouragement to someone that's discouraged at work. For example,
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  Speaker 2: share Psalm chapter forty six and verse one. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about that one yesterday with a colleague, and let that
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  Speaker 2: person know that you're praying. You're praying they feel God's
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  Speaker 2: strength in the middle of this turmoil or uncertainty. Now
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  Speaker 2: we jump in and say this, I've been waiting to
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  Speaker 2: say it. I wrote it in read letters in my
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  Speaker 2: lesson nobody, I mean nobody can remove God from his throne.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I should have said that in the beginning, nobody
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  Speaker 2: and I mean nobody can remove God from his throne.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the Bible says here in Ezekiel chapter one
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  Speaker 2: and verse twenty six, above the firmament was the likeness
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  Speaker 2: of the throne. So do you see that above chaos?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see that above the new cycle that's not
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  Speaker 2: going so well? Above the politics and politics above disasters
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  Speaker 2: that we can we can pause and say that God's
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  Speaker 2: throne has not moved, that God himself has not moved,
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  Speaker 2: that he is above the firmament, He's above the heavens.
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  Speaker 2: He is, he is on the universe's throne. And that
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  Speaker 2: means that nobody, even the nations that are raging, even
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  Speaker 2: the kingdoms that are moving. According to Psalm chapter forty six,
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  Speaker 2: verses six and seven, he has uttered his voice, the
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  Speaker 2: earth melted. The God of Jacob is our what safety.
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  Speaker 2: He's our resting place. He is our refuge. The nations
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  Speaker 2: are in uproar, the kingdoms are overthrown. God speaks, the
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  Speaker 2: earth melts. The lord who commands armies is on our side.
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  Speaker 2: And so we keep our focus, knowing and trusting that
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  Speaker 2: God is unshakable. His throne will remain where it is,
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  Speaker 2: and he is all powerful. Blessed be his name. And
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  Speaker 2: at the appropriate time, while the earth is shaking, while
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  Speaker 2: things are not going the way that we had hoped
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  Speaker 2: or anticipated, at the appropriate time, he is going to
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  Speaker 2: make all things new. Now we can be It's our
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  Speaker 2: privilege to be, and I'm encouraging us to be loyal
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  Speaker 2: to the kingdom that will not fall people are loyal
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  Speaker 2: to all kind of goofy stuff out here, loyal to
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  Speaker 2: relationships that are not mutual, loyal to business operations that
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  Speaker 2: are failing, loyal to politrical I just made that word up.
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  Speaker 2: Politrical politrical games that people play when they are not
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  Speaker 2: for the people, of the people and by the people.
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  Speaker 2: So people are loyal to that. Why not be loyal
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  Speaker 2: to God. Remind yourself every single day that your citizenship
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  Speaker 2: is in the presence of God in heaven for that
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  Speaker 2: thousand years after Jesus returns, and then in the earth
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  Speaker 2: made new. Your citizenship is in the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the Bible says in Philippians chapter three, verse twenty,
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  Speaker 2: for your conversation, that is your activity, how you live,
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  Speaker 2: Your conversation is in heaven. From whence also we look
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  Speaker 2: for the Savior, it says in the New English translation.
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  Speaker 2: But your citizenship is in heaven, and we also await
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  Speaker 2: a savior from there, the law Lord Jesus Christ. Now
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  Speaker 2: we go to Daniel chapter seven and verse seventeen. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's like what you're going right there? Yuh. These
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  Speaker 2: great beasts are four kings. We've seen them come and go,
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  Speaker 2: stand up and sit down four kings which shall arise
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  Speaker 2: out of the earth. We have seen them come and
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  Speaker 2: go in Daniel chapter eleven. We've seen thrones and kings
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  Speaker 2: and kingdoms up and down, coming and going. Daniel chapter
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  Speaker 2: two representative of world empires, coming and going, standing up,
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  Speaker 2: sitting down, until the day that the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: Micha Yel Jesus Christ himself will stand up, and he
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  Speaker 2: will not sit down again until he sits on the throne. Ha,
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  Speaker 2: the one that was vacated by by Zedekiah. And you're
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  Speaker 2: like vacated? Really, is that how you want to characterize it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he's no longer there. Ha, the son of David, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ will ascend the throne. Finally, the universe is throne
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  Speaker 2: and be crowned king of kings and Lord of lords
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  Speaker 2: in an new way that we have yet to see.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the day. But every earthly power,
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  Speaker 2: every king that God has set up, and every king
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  Speaker 2: that He has brought down, every one of those kingdoms
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  Speaker 2: is temporary. But God's Kingdom lasts forever and ever and ever.
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  Speaker 2: There is so much more that I would like to say,
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  Speaker 2: but let me just say in Jeremiah chapter four, verses
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  Speaker 2: twenty six through twenty three to twenty six. We see
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  Speaker 2: that at some point the earth will be void and
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  Speaker 2: formless again, but that is just a setup. It is
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  Speaker 2: a setup for the new creation that God promised in
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter five, that the meek will inherit that new creation,
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  Speaker 2: the new Earth. 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.