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01 23 2025 Compassionate and Passionate · 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, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, 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, God's love and justice. In our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is compassionate and passionate. Added another layer today,
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  Speaker 2: compassionate and passionate. 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: ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: Your Daily Portion companion guide to this quarter's lesson. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to reference it today for sure, and also click
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  Speaker 2: that we can continue to grow in spiritual development as
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  Speaker 2: the Lord gives us strength. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for intrusting this moment of time to us.
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  Speaker 2: Please teach us to maximize the time with you and
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  Speaker 2: be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Please make
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  Speaker 2: us compassionate, make us passionate in the way that you
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  Speaker 2: are in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and a men again.
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  Speaker 2: Compassionate and passionate. So the lesson writer says, the God
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  Speaker 2: of the Bible is compassionate and passionate, and these divine emotions.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear that these divine emotions are supremely exemplified
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus Christ. God is sympathetic. He's deeply affected by
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  Speaker 2: the sorrows of his people and willing to hear answer
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  Speaker 2: and comfort. Can you identify with that reality? Have you
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  Speaker 2: experienced God's sympathy. There are times that you have wept,
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  Speaker 2: you have cried real tears, because you are separated from
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  Speaker 2: somebody that God never intended for us to be separated from.
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  Speaker 2: You have a spouse, or had you have a parent,
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  Speaker 2: or had God forbid, You've had a child who've passed away.
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  Speaker 2: We've all suffered loss and in those moments that we
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  Speaker 2: were deeply sorrowful, in those moments that we were having
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  Speaker 2: indescribable pain, and we were questioning our existence because these
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  Speaker 2: people we love back to back are no longer with us.
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  Speaker 2: They're resting in the grave. God, are you listening to me?
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  Speaker 2: And God, he is sympathetic, he is compassionate toward us.
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  Speaker 2: He's the comforter. He's the one in the person of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ when the people were hopeless and they did
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  Speaker 2: not really understand the character of God, when Lazarus had
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  Speaker 2: passed away, and He's like, I'm the resurrection and the life,
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  Speaker 2: i am right here, and these people are completely distraught.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus wept because God is compassionate. He's deeply affected by
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  Speaker 2: the sorrows of his people, but he's also willing to
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  Speaker 2: hear answer and comfort. Have you ever called out to
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  Speaker 2: God and said, God, if you're up there, would you
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  Speaker 2: please hear my prayer. Hear my prayer, oh Lord, and
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  Speaker 2: climb thine, ear to me and grant me your peace.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever cried out like David in Psalm chapter
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  Speaker 2: forty two, where he said, why art thou cast down?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my soul? Why art thou disquieted? Within me? Hope
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  Speaker 2: thou in God? He was going through a lot, King
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  Speaker 2: David wise. And then we know that God hears, and
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  Speaker 2: he even answers the prayers that we would have prayed.
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  Speaker 2: Could we have answered that, could we have prayed them?
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  Speaker 2: If we could have prayed them, we would have prayed them,
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  Speaker 2: And He even hears those. And you're like, come on, Dave,
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  Speaker 2: I want you, if you have an opportunity, to look
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  Speaker 2: up the book Desire of Ages. The Desire of Ages
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  Speaker 2: in the chapter titled at Capernaum, And I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 2: the man that was fully overcome by the devil, who
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  Speaker 2: could not exert his own will, because because the enemy
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  Speaker 2: would exert his will over his and suppress his will, he,
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  Speaker 2: for a few reasons that are outlined in that chapter,
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  Speaker 2: had yielded himself in a way that caused him to
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  Speaker 2: be overcome by the devil. And in that writing we
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  Speaker 2: understand that that God actually in christ like, he looked
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  Speaker 2: through and said, if this dude could actually make a request,
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  Speaker 2: this is likely what the request would be. And therefore
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to honor that request and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: deliver him. Aren't you glad that God does not wait
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  Speaker 2: for us to pray the prayer just write and tweak
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  Speaker 2: it in a way that we think is perfectly clear,
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  Speaker 2: because the Bible does say that we do not know
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  Speaker 2: what we should pray for as we ought, but the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. Somebody please say thank God for the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit in the chat. Go ahead and type it in
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  Speaker 2: the chat. Thank God for the Holy Spirit. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit owns in groanings
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  Speaker 2: that cannot be uttered because the mind of God is
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  Speaker 2: in sync. And if you had the sense, if I
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  Speaker 2: had the sense enough to pray a certain way, God
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  Speaker 2: is answering in that reality even though I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to pray, even though I don't know how to pray,
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  Speaker 2: and all things work together for my good. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a song that says He's intentional, never changing. All
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  Speaker 2: things are working together for the good of those, to
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  Speaker 2: those who are the called according to His purpose. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so God is compassionate, he is passionate. And in the
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  Speaker 2: chapter in First Corinthians that is called the Love chapter,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read from First Corinthians chapter thirteen, beginning
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  Speaker 2: at verse four, and the Bible reads, love is patient.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about godly love. Now, love is kind. It
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  Speaker 2: is not envious. It does not brag, it is not
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  Speaker 2: puff up. It is not rude, it is not self serving.
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  Speaker 2: It is not easily angered. Oh my word, Lord help us.
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  Speaker 2: It is not easily angered or resentful. It is not
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  Speaker 2: glad about injustice, but rejoices in truth. It bears all things,
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  Speaker 2: believes all things, hopes, all things, endures all things. Love
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  Speaker 2: never fails. Love never ends. But if there are excuse me, prophecies,
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  Speaker 2: they will be set aside. If there are tongues, they
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  Speaker 2: will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course at the end of the chapter,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the chapter, and now these three
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  Speaker 2: remain faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these
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  Speaker 2: is love or charity. And so we see that God
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  Speaker 2: God's passion and his compassion is reflected here in this
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  Speaker 2: chapter about love that is not self serving. God is
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  Speaker 2: always looking for a way to satisfy the needs of
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  Speaker 2: his people while at the same time glorifying himself. He's
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  Speaker 2: glorifying himself and satisfying the actual needs of the people.
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  Speaker 2: Not what we say we need, not what we think
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  Speaker 2: we need, not what we have miscalculated and purported to need.
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  Speaker 2: God is giving us what we need that is for
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  Speaker 2: our good. And so I'm going now into for these
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  Speaker 2: few moments here into our Companion Guide. You can get
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  Speaker 2: it at your Daily Portion dot com. And we're going
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  Speaker 2: to look at the personal application Personal application on a
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  Speaker 2: page sixty five Personal Application w what is important now?
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  Speaker 2: We all desire to be loved in the way that
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  Speaker 2: one Corinthians thirteen describes, but it's important to strive to
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  Speaker 2: be the kind of person for others as well. Understanding
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  Speaker 2: this love starts with recognizing our own need for God's
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  Speaker 2: transformative power in our lives. I internalize the insight. Think
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  Speaker 2: of a relationship in your life where you may struggle
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  Speaker 2: to show love, patience, or kindness. Acknowledge your limitations and
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  Speaker 2: surrender them to God, asking him to change your heart
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  Speaker 2: and help you reflect his love more fully in that relationship.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have to go to the book to
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  Speaker 2: get the end so that we can complete the win
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  Speaker 2: in the personal application set. But we thank God that
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  Speaker 2: he is compassionate and passionate and he is willing to
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  Speaker 2: make us just like him.
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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,