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01 19 2025 More Than a Mother’s Love · 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 Sunday, January nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is more than a mother's love, more than a mother's love.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new work week and for the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to consider and to behold the manner of love that
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  Speaker 2: you have for us. I pray that we will we
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  Speaker 2: will be satisfied with you, so that we will not
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  Speaker 2: go out into this world and do really creepy goofy
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we'll eat us away from you in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. You see, sometimes God's
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  Speaker 2: people lose our minds. Can I just start right there?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes God's people lose our minds. And what I mean
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  Speaker 2: is God. There's nothing God can do to more manifest
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  Speaker 2: his love for us. He already gave us all of
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  Speaker 2: heaven and one gift in the person and work of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Like He's already positioned us so that we
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  Speaker 2: can be without condemnation if we are in Christ. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: like who walk not according to the flesh, but according
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  Speaker 2: to the spirit. He's already positioned us to be delivered
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  Speaker 2: from any addiction. He's already positioned us not to have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about guilt, feelings, and all of those things
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  Speaker 2: that would normally hold us back in our connection with God.
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  Speaker 2: He's already positioned us for all of that. And yet
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  Speaker 2: and still sometimes God's people don't believe that he loves them.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm saying, don't believe, because if we did believe,
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  Speaker 2: then we would do what he said. You understand, like
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  Speaker 2: he said, if you love me, then you'll keep my commandments.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just a response to his love. It
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  Speaker 2: is a manifestation of His power in our lives. Let
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  Speaker 2: me say it slowly, when we keep his commandments, I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about in real life, not just saying it, not
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  Speaker 2: just outwardly doing it. I'm talking about from the heart
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  Speaker 2: when that happens. The only way that that is possible
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  Speaker 2: is because God's love has empowered us to keep his commandments.
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  Speaker 2: His new Covenant is positioning us so that His laws
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  Speaker 2: are written in our hearts and on our minds. To
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  Speaker 2: love God with everything that we have, in everything we
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  Speaker 2: are and to love his people, his children, as we
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  Speaker 2: love ourselves. See, that is a manifestation of the love
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  Speaker 2: of God. Is not like a responsibility, like a requirement
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  Speaker 2: like people try to make it sound. It is a manifestation.
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  Speaker 2: It's a manifestation of our love for God because his
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  Speaker 2: love empowers us to do his will, okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: he is telling us now that he loves us more
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  Speaker 2: than a mother would love her child, that she's been
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  Speaker 2: waiting for for years, even the ones who were barren
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  Speaker 2: for years, like a Hannah as an example from the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: whose son was Samuel, one of the greatest prophets we've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. So she's waiting and crying and begging and
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  Speaker 2: wanting and desiring and crying and begging God to give
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  Speaker 2: her a child. And then he does it. He does it,
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  Speaker 2: and in her womb for nine months she is carrying
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  Speaker 2: this boy. And then for two or three years she
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  Speaker 2: is nursing this boy. He is getting his mommy's breast milk.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as she is done nursing him, however
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  Speaker 2: long it was, even if I have the number of
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  Speaker 2: years incorrect, now she has given him into the care
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  Speaker 2: of the high priest under God. Eli she loves that boy.
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  Speaker 2: She gave everything for him. She begged and cried and
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  Speaker 2: asked God to give her so that she could know
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  Speaker 2: love for her own child, so she could no longer
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  Speaker 2: be shamed in her particular society at that time of
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  Speaker 2: Earth's history. She wanted this son, and she would have
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  Speaker 2: done anything for him. And God is saying, well, I
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  Speaker 2: have love that's greater than that. I have love that's
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  Speaker 2: greater than that. And so we read now from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Psalms chapter one hundred three and verse thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord
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  Speaker 2: pitieth them that respect him or fear him. Mm. In
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter forty nine and verse fifteen, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: can a woman forget her sucking child, that is the
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  Speaker 2: child who is nursing at her breast, and that she
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  Speaker 2: should not have compassion on the sun of her womb? Hmm, yeay,
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  Speaker 2: they may forget. We talked about this the other day.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was yesterday. Yet I will not forget
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  Speaker 2: thee And then the Bible continues here in Jeremiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirty one and verse twenty. Indeed, the people of Israel
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  Speaker 2: are my dear children. They are the children I take
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  Speaker 2: delight in. God delights in you, brothers and sisters, once
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  Speaker 2: you are surrendering your will to him. I'm saying not
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  Speaker 2: because he doesn't love every human that he's ever created.
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  Speaker 2: But we're talking about a special kind of delight that
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  Speaker 2: God has for people who are surrendering our will to him.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes God forbid, we will bump our heads and make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says, my little children, these things write
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  Speaker 2: ie unto you, that she sin not. And if anybody,
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  Speaker 2: per chance, God forbid, who's already surrendered our will to God,
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  Speaker 2: do fall or jump into sin, as the case may be.
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  Speaker 2: We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the
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  Speaker 2: righteous One. If we will just confess our sins, He's
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  Speaker 2: faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
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  Speaker 2: cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And see so he it says,
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  Speaker 2: for even thou I must often rebuke them. Even though
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, I must often rebuke them, I still remember
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  Speaker 2: them with fondness. This is what God thinks about you,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. He's not waiting for you to be
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  Speaker 2: just tidy and nice. He's not waiting for you to
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  Speaker 2: be perfect. In order to demonstrate his love toward you,
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  Speaker 2: because he said for even before that happened while you
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  Speaker 2: were yet sinners, while you were without strength. Christ died
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  Speaker 2: for the ungodly. It says here, I still remember them
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  Speaker 2: with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll surely have compassion on them. I the Lord
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  Speaker 2: affirm it. This is not a license to sin. I
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  Speaker 2: know somebody wants to type in the chat something about obedience,
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  Speaker 2: and I get it, like I agree, because God is
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  Speaker 2: doing his work, so we can live like him, live
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  Speaker 2: for him in all ways. But listen, and listen very carefully.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a license to sin. But yet, at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, God's love over comes sin. God's love
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  Speaker 2: overcomes sin. He empowers us in our worst and weakest
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  Speaker 2: state read Mark chapter five, Read Mark chapter one. When
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  Speaker 2: people were possessed by the enemy, like in our worst
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  Speaker 2: and weakest state, God empowers us to live godly so
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  Speaker 2: that we can turn away from everything that separates us
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  Speaker 2: from God. Because he has the kind of love that
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  Speaker 2: we've not even begun to understand. He has the love
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  Speaker 2: beyond even a mother's love, even beyond a father's love.
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  Speaker 2: So when you have an opportunity, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: go to our Companion Guide, page fifty eight, fifty eight,
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  Speaker 2: and then go to our community and let us know
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  Speaker 2: which of the four ways are you choosing to apply
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  Speaker 2: the lesson today. Is it spiritual? Is it personal? Is
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  Speaker 2: it relational? Is it professional? And let us know details
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  Speaker 2: about that, and of course that's page fifty eight in
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  Speaker 2: our Companion Guide. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,