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06 23 2024 Hope in the Time of Trouble · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Sunday, June twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in the final week of our Lesson
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  study series the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is Hope in the
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  time of Trouble. I said, hope in the time of trouble. We'll
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  get into that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd like
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  to say welcome, Welcome, Welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  us for the very first time. Please go over to your Daily portion dot
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  com. Join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book,
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  at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to
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  build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will
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  get underway. Bothering Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and
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  for the opportunity to open your word. Please help us to see that you
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  are able, more than able, to keep us in no matter what situation
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  we happen to be in. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. I'm going to just share with you that I could not help
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  but to hear King Deriaus's proverbial voice as I was preparing for this lesson today
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  in my head. Because Daniel, of course, because of some things that
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  people devise, like a scheme that people devised to work against him, he
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  ends up in the lion's den, right and the King's who's basically whose signature
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  was behind it, even though he didn't know exactly what those men were doing
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  that tricked him. Yeah, so now he's feeling guilty, the guy Derias,
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  the King Derias, he's feeling guilty and he doesn't get any sleep the
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  night that Daniel is in the lion's den. But now after all of that
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  is almost over, he comes early, early, early, early in the
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  Morning's probably still dark outside, right, and he goes to the mouth of
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  the lion's den, and he, even though he's trembling and hopeful at the
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  same time, he cries out these words like, Daniel, is your God
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  or was your God able to deliver you from the lions' mouths? And of
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  course, Daniel with confidence he echoes and with reverberation, like in his tone,
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  of course I'm making this dramatic, right, But he confidently says,
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  of course, oh King, live forever. My God indeed was able to
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  send an angel to shut the lions mouths. And so I ask you,
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  brothers and sisters, is your God able to deliver you through any trouble,
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  including the time of trouble, the time of trouble that is worse than anything
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  that we've ever seen on planet Earth. When I say worse, I'm using
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  a term. Maybe I should say it's a time of trouble as has never
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  been since there a nation like the kind of trouble that is historic in nature.
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  Is God able to keep us during that time some people call it the
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  tribulation. Is God able to keep you from that enemy who's as a roaring
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  lion seeking whom he may devour? While God is reigning plagues down from heaven
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  on the wicked, is he able to keep the righteous safe? And of
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  course, with the same resounding, reverberating tone, we can say, Oh,
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  God, you live forever. You are able to keep us during this
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  trouble and to deliver us from anything that the devil thought that he was going
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  to devise against us. And I am grateful, brothers and sisters to report
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  this to you, because some people do not believe that God is able,
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  and they believe that God has to take his people out out of the planet,
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  off planet Earth in order for them to get away from the tribulation or
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  the time of trouble. But as God was able to keep Daniel, as
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  God was able to keep his children as the plagues, as he reigned plagues
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  down in Egypt during that time of the Pharaoh during the exodus, he is
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  able and more than able to keep his people from falling. Yes, keep
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  his people from the plagues that he obviously is raining down on the wicked.
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  At the time. And so we go now into the Bible book of First
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  John chapter three and answer this question, just practically, what is the only
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  sufficient preparation for this time of trouble? And the Bible reads beginning in verse
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  three of first chapter three, beginning at verse one of First John chapter three,
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  See what sort of love the Father hath given to us? That we
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  should be called God's children? And indeed we are. You have to understand
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  if you want to get through trouble, and I'm not saying this is the
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  only what reason you would do this? But in good relationship, God's children
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  are kept through this time of trouble. Yes, for this reason. The
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  world does not know us because it did not know him. Dear friends,
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  we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been
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  revealed. We know that whatever it is revealed, we will be like him
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  because we will see him just as he is. And everyone who has this
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  hope focused on him does what purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure.
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  Did you get that? And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies
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  himself just as Jesus is pure. So purity of heart, purity, and
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  holiness are the key to right relationship with God. Yes, purity and holiness.
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  Faith in God, bathing in the love that God has bestowed upon us
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  is key to getting through any trouble. And John chapter fourteen and verse thirty
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  we see in the life of Jesus, Jesus speaking hereafter, I will not
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  talk much to you, for the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing
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  in me. And so if the devil had nothing in Christ, if he
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  could not penetrate the shield of holiness that was Christ. Then if Christ is
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  giving you the power, and he has promised to be with you always,
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  even to the end of the earth, then that means that in the last
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  days the devil cannot penetrate that same armor. Because we put on the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. We make not profession for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
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  And therefore the enemy cannot penetrate the shield in your life. And in
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  John chapter eight and verse twenty nine, the Bible reads, and he had
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  sent me, he has, and he that sent me is with me.
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  The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always the things that
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  please Him. So with that kind of shield, that armor, that faith
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  that God puts in us. Then that means that we please God. But
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  then comes Then comes one of my favorite passages in Psalms chapter ninety one.
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  And I actually claimed this with my family once we knew that the pandemic was
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  what it was like the pandemic it was as deadly as it was. We
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  claim this promise, and he kept us safe. I promise you. We
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  asked the Lord to fulfill this in our lives while we did whatever it took
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  look to do uh, to connect with God and to keep safe during the
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  pandemic. And He came through for us. And beginning at verse one,
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  he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High, that is the
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  sanctuary, the pavilion shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will
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  say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God.
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  In him, Will I trust? Do you trust God? Surely he
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  will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence.
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  He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings. Shalt thou trust
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  I? Thank God. You don't have to be afraid, brothers and sisters.
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  God is more than able. To get you through this time of trouble,
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  and for this I have hope. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends,
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  Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El
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  David Harris. Make it a great day, Yeah,