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12 30 2024 Unrequited 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: 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, December thirty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El 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 brand
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  Speaker 2: new lesson study seriads God's Love and Justice. I love
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  Speaker 2: the balance there, God's love and justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is unrequited love. We'll explain that in just
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  Speaker 2: a second. Unrequited love. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this new day and for getting us thus far
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  Speaker 2: in our work week. We're in day number two and
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  Speaker 2: you have given us the privilege to connect with people
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  Speaker 2: to connect with you. Please draw us into your love
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  Speaker 2: so that we can love you and love others. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. There is
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  Speaker 2: so much going on in this lesson. And again when
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  Speaker 2: you go into our community, you go into the community page,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to tell me what you see based
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  Speaker 2: on the life application from our guide. Okay, the Life
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  Speaker 2: Application Guide. We'll get into a little bit of that
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  Speaker 2: in just a while. But the question is do you
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  Speaker 2: love God in return? And this is something that you
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  Speaker 2: need to resolve within yourself. Be honest, do you love
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  Speaker 2: God in return, or is this a one way street?
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  Speaker 2: Is it that God is always in pursuit of you,
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  Speaker 2: He's always wooing you and telling you how much he
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  Speaker 2: loves you, always trying to correct your pathway so that
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  Speaker 2: you can go toward him because you're really going against him. Like,
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  Speaker 2: do you love God in return? Or is his love
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  Speaker 2: a one way street? Have you been in a relationship
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  Speaker 2: before where you were the pursuer and the other person
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  Speaker 2: didn't find you attractive or didn't find being in your
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  Speaker 2: presence to be a thing that they really desired, and
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  Speaker 2: you just felt like, why is it that I'm always
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  Speaker 2: in pursuit? Or maybe they said with their mouths, they
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  Speaker 2: said with their mouths, yes I do love you, Yes
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  Speaker 2: I do like having you in my presence, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then you realize that, yeah, it was just mouthservice,
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  Speaker 2: lip service. They were just saying it, and really they
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  Speaker 2: were never showing it. How does that feel?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 2: See? So unrequited love is about how God is in
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  Speaker 2: pursuit of his people, and sometimes sometimes people don't show
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  Speaker 2: that love in return. That doesn't have to be any
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  Speaker 2: of us, Like we can actually love him because he
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  Speaker 2: first loved us. And so the Bible says in First
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  Speaker 2: John chapter four, beginning at verse eighteen, there is no
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  Speaker 2: fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because
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  Speaker 2: fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect
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  Speaker 2: in love. We love him because he first loved us.
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  Speaker 2: He is the cause. His love is the impetus, the
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  Speaker 2: power behind our ability to love him and return. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so now we can go into with that backdrop,
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  Speaker 2: that foundation. We can go into the Bible Book of
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  Speaker 2: Hoseiah Hoseiah chapter one and verse two, and the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads when the Lord first spoke through Hoseiah, he said
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  Speaker 2: to him, go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate
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  Speaker 2: children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual
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  Speaker 2: prostitution by turning away from the Lord. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: really had the time to drill this. But this is
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  Speaker 2: not the only time in the Old Testament that God
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  Speaker 2: has shown us that we when we are not submitting
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  Speaker 2: our will to God, that we when we think that
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  Speaker 2: our ability to sin is greater than His ability to save,
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  Speaker 2: like when we put ourselves first and God less, and
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  Speaker 2: yet still say that we are His children, yet still
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  Speaker 2: say we are His people. God is in pursuit of us.
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  Speaker 2: But he's saying that you're moving like a prostitute. You're
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  Speaker 2: moving like an unfaithful wife to a husband. You're moving
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  Speaker 2: as if the relationship means absolutely nothing to you. Your
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  Speaker 2: actions are speaking louder than your words. And so he
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  Speaker 2: is saying, Okay, Joseah, I'm going to use your situation
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  Speaker 2: to show my people that I am in pursuit of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do that. And then in Joseiah
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen, beginning at verse one, the Bible reads, return
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  Speaker 2: oh Israel to the Lord, and so now we have
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  Speaker 2: we have the heart of God. Like he is in pursuit,
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  Speaker 2: he is begging. He is on his knees, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to say proverbially, he is saying, please please come
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  Speaker 2: back to me, Return oh Israel to the Lord your God.
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  Speaker 2: For your sin has been your downfall. I've seen all
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  Speaker 2: that you have done at those parties. I've seen all
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  Speaker 2: that has happened when you've been drinking and smoking and
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  Speaker 2: using illicit drugs in other ways, when you have promised
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  Speaker 2: that you would never turn your back on me again,
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  Speaker 2: and you come home with the smell of harle try
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  Speaker 2: on your body. But that is your downfall, but please
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  Speaker 2: verse to return to the Lord and repent. I'm still here,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. God is saying, he is still here.
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  Speaker 2: He is willing to receive you. He is willing to
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  Speaker 2: bathe you with his love. He is willing even though
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  Speaker 2: you have pri missed over and over and over again. God,
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  Speaker 2: if you will get me through this trial, I will
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  Speaker 2: not get myself into this mess again. God, if you
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  Speaker 2: will get me through this trial and fix my relationship,
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  Speaker 2: I'll never step out again. And God is saying I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: Say to him, this is what I need you to say.
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  Speaker 2: When you're feeling hopeless. Brothers and sisters, You've done that
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  Speaker 2: thing you promised not to do again. Your guilt is
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming you. You are in a bad state and maybe
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  Speaker 2: it has gotten you into some super hot water. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you're incarcerated because of your behavior, and he wants you
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  Speaker 2: to do this. Say unto him completely, forgive our iniquity,
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  Speaker 2: accept our penitential prayer. Just call unto him. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to be desperate in your feelings. Just talk to God.
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  Speaker 2: Huh completely forgive our iniquity. God, please accept our penitential
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  Speaker 2: prayer that we may offer the praise of our lips
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  Speaker 2: as sacrificial bulls Assyria cannot save us. We will not
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  Speaker 2: ride war horses. We will never again say our gods
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  Speaker 2: to what our own hands have made. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to make alliances with the world. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: think that money is our god. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: say that the things that we have created, the money
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  Speaker 2: that we have earned, the relationships that we should never
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  Speaker 2: have had but we have worshiped, we will not call
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  Speaker 2: them our gods anymore. We won't call the millions of
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  Speaker 2: followers that we have created on foolishness and jesting in
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  Speaker 2: social media and on YouTube, we will not call those
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  Speaker 2: our god. The wealth that we have amassed in those
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  Speaker 2: homes that we got because of really like sleight of hand,
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  Speaker 2: by manipulating people and extorting people and holding their secrets
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  Speaker 2: against them. I wish I had the time. We will
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  Speaker 2: not use those and say these be our gods.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: For only you, God, only you, show compassion to orphan Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Just fill in your name here verse four and final,
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  Speaker 2: I will heal, this is what God says. I will
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  Speaker 2: heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger
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  Speaker 2: will turn away from them. God loves you. I need
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  Speaker 2: you to hear this. I need you to say it
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  Speaker 2: to yourself. God loves me. God loves Put your name here.
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  Speaker 2: God loves you. There are times that you do not
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  Speaker 2: repay him with love, but he loves you. Just repent,
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  Speaker 2: He'll accept you. 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,