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02 09 2025 How Long, O Lord · 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. It's
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  Speaker 2: February nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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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, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is how long, Oh Lord, how long? It's
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  Speaker 2: a real question, how long? How long? We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, But first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you this day. Thank you today for
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  Speaker 2: or giving us the privilege of prayer. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the opportunity to open up your word together. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I pray that as we cry out, how long will
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  Speaker 2: these things on planet Earth that are really just overwhelmingly
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  Speaker 2: terrible at times? How long will they go on? Father,
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  Speaker 2: help us to ask the same question in our own
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  Speaker 2: lives and yield ourselves to you. And then today be
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  Speaker 2: the day that we finally make the decision once and
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  Speaker 2: for all that we will choose you in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. How long, oh Lord,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever asked God this, Whatever your circumstances are,
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  Speaker 2: You've lost a loved one, lost a spouse to death,
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  Speaker 2: the cold hands of some disease. And we have the hashtags,
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  Speaker 2: and we have the other things that say we hate
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  Speaker 2: those things that are taking our love ones away, political
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  Speaker 2: unrest and strife, things going on in the economy that
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  Speaker 2: we we try to explain and make sense of. But
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  Speaker 2: we're tired. And people just generally are not as kind
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  Speaker 2: as in times past, or at least that's how we
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  Speaker 2: perceive it. And it seems that humans are becoming darker
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  Speaker 2: and darker. How long? How long will the wicked prosper?
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  Speaker 2: How long will it be for you to deliver your
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  Speaker 2: people out of their hands? How long, Father, will it
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  Speaker 2: be before Jesus comes? So Really the question that I
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  Speaker 2: need to be asking me while I am crying out
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  Speaker 2: to God? How long? How long? God? I should be saying, like, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: how can I serve you? Father? How long will the
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  Speaker 2: wicked continue? How long will the nation's rage? How long
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  Speaker 2: will the people who are against you be against us?
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  Speaker 2: How long? And I should be asking and answering the question, Lord, today,
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  Speaker 2: can today be the day that I yield finally? Can
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  Speaker 2: today be the day that I no longer flip flop
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  Speaker 2: and change my mind when I commit myself to you?
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  Speaker 2: How long? And so the problem with evil is voiced
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  Speaker 2: not only in contemporary contexts, but also in the scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: And we see in the Book of Job chapter thirty,
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  Speaker 2: Job chapter thirty and verse twenty six. But when I
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  Speaker 2: hoped for good, trouble came. When I expected light, darkness came.
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  Speaker 2: How long Job was in the fight of his life.
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  Speaker 2: He had no idea really the details of what was
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  Speaker 2: going on with him, and he was weary. Jeremiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: twelve and verse one. The Bible reads, Lord, you have
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  Speaker 2: always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However,
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  Speaker 2: I would like to speak to you about the disposition
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  Speaker 2: of justice. Have you had conversations brothers and sisters wherever
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  Speaker 2: you happen to be in the world, and talk to
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  Speaker 2: God about justice? How are really just out of control?
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  Speaker 2: It seems that things are out of control. Have you
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  Speaker 2: gone to God to and said God, what is going
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  Speaker 2: on with righteousness in the land? The Bible continues, Why
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  Speaker 2: are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have
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  Speaker 2: such easy lives? Really? Do they have easy lives? Does
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  Speaker 2: it appear that they have easy lives? Well, Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that the way of the wicked person is hard, even
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  Speaker 2: though at times it does seem like they're living it up,
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  Speaker 2: having the time of their lives. So the prophets they
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  Speaker 2: struggled with the same thing. And so in Jeremiah, chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse twenty two, the Bible reads, you will
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  Speaker 2: probably ask yourself, why have these things happened to me?
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  Speaker 2: Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose
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  Speaker 2: skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed? It
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  Speaker 2: is because you have sinned so much. There are times,
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  Speaker 2: there are times that we go through trials because we
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  Speaker 2: turn away from God. Not every time. Job wasn't experiencing
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  Speaker 2: that because he turned away from God. But there are
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  Speaker 2: times that we are being chastised. There are times when
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  Speaker 2: it's as a result, maybe not of our own particular sin,
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  Speaker 2: but because of the sinfulness of those around us, and
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  Speaker 2: the society suffers because people around us are not yielding
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  Speaker 2: to God, they're not repenting of their sin, and they
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  Speaker 2: are imposing their wickedness upon the society. But I promise you,
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  Speaker 2: not me, But I'm reading from God's word and promising
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  Speaker 2: based on what he has said, that wickedness will not
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  Speaker 2: continue forever. Wickedness will soon be completely rooted out, and
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  Speaker 2: every branch of it will be destroyed. God will finally
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  Speaker 2: destroy death, he will destroy sin, he will destroy all wickedness,
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  Speaker 2: and one day it'll all be over. But until then,
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  Speaker 2: until then, we yield. We ask God to teach us
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  Speaker 2: to surrender. And in Malachi, chapter two and verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, ye have wearied the Lord with your words.
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  Speaker 2: But you say, how have we wearied him? Because you say,
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  Speaker 2: everyone who does evil is good in the Lord's opinion,
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  Speaker 2: and he delights in them. Or where is God, God
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  Speaker 2: of justice? And sometimes humans give God a bad wrap.
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  Speaker 2: We blame God for things that we have decided. We
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  Speaker 2: blame God for how the enemy of souls has tricked people,
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  Speaker 2: and then they accept that trickery into their lives, and
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  Speaker 2: we put it on on God. And really and truly
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  Speaker 2: the God of justice, he is going to come forward
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  Speaker 2: one day. The Bible says that Michael, Michael Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the Prince, he is going to stand up one day
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  Speaker 2: He's going to stand up one day in a special
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  Speaker 2: way and in a unique way that we've never seen
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  Speaker 2: him before. The Bible says that in Daniel chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 2: there were all kinds of kings, really, from Daniel chapter
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  Speaker 2: one straight through to eleven, all kinds of kings and
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  Speaker 2: alliances that stand up, and then they have to sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Every kind of king and kingdom and alliance stand up
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  Speaker 2: and sit down. Their repression. It stands up and it
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  Speaker 2: sits down. Their machinery, it stands up and it sits down.
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  Speaker 2: And then one day Jesus Christ, the Bible says, will
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  Speaker 2: stand up, yup. He will stand up and fully stand
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  Speaker 2: up for us people. And then the only time we
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  Speaker 2: will see him sit down after that, Jesus Christ himself
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  Speaker 2: when is when he sits down on the throne of
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  Speaker 2: the universe as King of kings and Lord of lords.
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  Speaker 2: He will sit down firmly on the seat of the
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  Speaker 2: universe's government. And no other human or wicked pursuit will
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  Speaker 2: ever take him off the throne. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: in the meantime, sometimes we cry with the Psalmist in
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  Speaker 2: Psalm chapter ten and verse one, why Lord do you
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  Speaker 2: stand afar off. Why do you pay no attention during
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  Speaker 2: times of trouble? And so the truth is that he's
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  Speaker 2: not standing afar off, that he does come through for
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  Speaker 2: his people. We have time after time where God has
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  Speaker 2: come through for his people. But in the meantime, when
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  Speaker 2: we do experience troubles, we do experience trials. We can
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  Speaker 2: ask God how long, but He's going to answer us
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  Speaker 2: at the appropriate time. He is going to extinguish all
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  Speaker 2: sin and we're looking forward to that day. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace, Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember
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  Speaker 1: we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  Speaker 1: that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  Speaker 1: your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a
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  Speaker 1: great day, Yeah,