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09 25 2026 Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled · 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, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, September 25, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing for just today in our lesson study series,
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  Speaker 2: 1st and 2nd Corinthians. And our caption for today is,
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  Speaker 2: Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your heart
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  Speaker 2: be troubled. Let me just say our study will begin
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  Speaker 2: thank you for bringing us to the culmination of this
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  Speaker 2: series today. Thank you for this day of preparation. Please,
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  Speaker 2: will you prepare our hearts to not be troubled, but
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  Speaker 2: to look forward to the day that Jesus will return
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  Speaker 2: and we will be able to be with you throughout eternity.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray, amen, amen, and amen again.
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  Speaker 2: Let not your heart be troubled. So Jesus, because he
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  Speaker 2: knows human beings, he knows what is in man, that's
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  Speaker 2: what the scriptures say, right before he gave his life
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  Speaker 2: for us, Jesus saw where his disciples were not prepared
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  Speaker 2: for him to be on the cross. They were not
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  Speaker 2: prepared to see the one that they had learned to
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  Speaker 2: love and respect, the one that they thought was going
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  Speaker 2: to take over in even civil society. They thought he
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  Speaker 2: was going to overthrow Rome, like the sons of thunder
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  Speaker 2: were about that life, like they were trying to take over.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, let's deal with these humans down here.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus is like, no, that is not my goal.
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  Speaker 2: That's not my goal. He told his his friends and
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  Speaker 2: his detractors, that if this earth were my kingdom, then
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  Speaker 2: would my servants fight. But that's not what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: We're here to save some people. We're here to save
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  Speaker 2: as many people as are willing, huh? into eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Jesus' goal, to seek and to save the lost.
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  Speaker 2: That was his goal. But he told his disciples, let
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  Speaker 2: not your heart be troubled. In John chapter 14, we
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  Speaker 2: read this, ye believe in God, believe also in me.
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  Speaker 2: In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were
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  Speaker 2: not so, I would have told you, I go to
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  Speaker 2: prepare a place for you, And so we run right
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  Speaker 2: into the concept now about the trouble of, That means
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  Speaker 2: to agitate, to throw into confusion. Jesus speaks this word
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  Speaker 2: into a room full of men that are about to
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  Speaker 2: face the greatest crisis of their lives, and he does
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  Speaker 2: not minimize what's coming. He's letting them know, like, this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a rough ride, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: You need to put on your seatbelts. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a rough ride. It's going to be a rough ride.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't minimize it. He commands the heart, though, to
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  Speaker 2: not be troubled by what is coming.
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  Speaker 1: Why? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because what is already true is greater. What is already true?
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  Speaker 2: What is already true? You believe in God, that's your baseline.
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  Speaker 2: Believe also in Jesus Christ, that's your baseline. Yes, and
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  Speaker 2: then there's the promise. The promise is, that he's going
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  Speaker 2: to prepare a place for you. That means that whatever
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  Speaker 2: you see in the next few days, whatever you see
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  Speaker 2: whenever Jesus actually gives his life on the cross, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you see when they rip out his beard, when they
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  Speaker 2: beat him, when they put the crown of thorns on
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  Speaker 2: his head, when they hit him in the head with
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  Speaker 2: the stick, when they pierce him in his side and
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  Speaker 2: he bleeds, whatever you're going to see in Gethsemane, when
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  Speaker 2: he is sweating great drops of blood, whatever you see
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  Speaker 2: when he's on the cross crying out to his father,
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  Speaker 2: why have you forsaken me? Whatever you see when he
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  Speaker 2: does not choose to come down now from the cross
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  Speaker 2: and then those wicked men said that they would worship him.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't true. His detractors said that. No matter what
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  Speaker 2: you see or experience, when they do whatever they do,
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  Speaker 2: and then you become fearful and you forsake Jesus and flee.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you go through when you are feeling guilty because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was right all along that you are not as
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  Speaker 2: faithful as you thought you were. Whatever you go through,
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  Speaker 2: those guilt feelings, whatever you go through as God is
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  Speaker 2: correcting you, as you are being convicted by the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you go through when you feel abandoned, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: choose not to let your heart be troubled because you
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  Speaker 2: believe in God. You believe in God. The command not
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  Speaker 2: to let your heart be troubled is not a call
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  Speaker 2: for denial. God is not telling you to bury your
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  Speaker 2: head into the sand. He's not asking you to cover
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  Speaker 2: your eyes and say, peekaboo, I see you. He's not
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  Speaker 2: asking you.
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  Speaker 1: To do that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a call to faith. Jesus is not saying the
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  Speaker 2: trouble is not real, but he is saying that what
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  Speaker 2: is real about him is greater than what is real
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  Speaker 2: about the trouble. The God of the universe, Father, Son,
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  Speaker 2: and And Holy Ghost is preparing a place, interceding for
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  Speaker 2: believers and cooperating in their new life for the new
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  Speaker 2: life of the people. That is the ground upon which
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  Speaker 2: a troubled heart can find rest. And so today, I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying this Friday morning, I'm asking you to name the
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  Speaker 2: trouble your heart is carrying at this moment. Bring it
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  Speaker 2: directly to Jesus and receive his command directly. as the
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  Speaker 2: provision it is. Don't let that trouble rule you. Don't
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  Speaker 2: let any of those feelings that I described a moment
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  Speaker 2: ago rule you because something greater than your trouble, someone
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  Speaker 2: greater than your trouble is already at work. Praise God.
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  Speaker 2: And so we go to our second lesson in Malachi
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  Speaker 2: chapter 3. Malachi chapter 3 and verse 6, I'll say
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  Speaker 2: it very simply, for I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. God is so merciful.
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  Speaker 2: God does not change. He does not become different. He
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  Speaker 2: does not become altered. God declares his own immutability. He
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  Speaker 2: does not change. His love, his grace, his faithfulness are
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  Speaker 2: not subject to fluctuations of time. The market, whoever is
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  Speaker 2: in government or in power, wherever you live in the world,
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  Speaker 2: he is not subject to climate change. He's not subject
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  Speaker 2: to current events, the news cycle. He's not subject to
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  Speaker 2: the things that may go wrong in some of your
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  Speaker 2: relationships at home or in your communities. He's not subject
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  Speaker 2: to any of that shifting. Those circumstances are shifting. He's
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  Speaker 2: not subject to any of that. He's faithful. He's not
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  Speaker 2: subject to human failure. The unchanging nature of God is
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  Speaker 2: the reason he does not consume people. He's not fickle.
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  Speaker 2: So the love of God has no variableness, no shadow
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  Speaker 2: of turning. What he was at creation, he is today.
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  Speaker 2: What he demonstrated at the cross, he still intends. The
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  Speaker 2: believer whose circumstances are shifting violently can anchor to the
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  Speaker 2: God who does not shift at all. The history of
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  Speaker 2: the great controversy from beginning to end is the demonstration
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  Speaker 2: of God's unchanging, unchanging failing love. I am so grateful,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope you are too.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we cannot
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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