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03 28 2024 Joy Comes in the Morning · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Thursday, March twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Songs. This is our final week. Can you imagine? Yep punned.
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  Our caption for today is Joy Comes in the Morning. Joy Comes in
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  the Morning. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your
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  Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the Your
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  Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in the world at your
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  daily portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build faith
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  and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father and
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  Heaven, thank you for this day. And I'm asking you to give us
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  the kind of joy, the kind of joy that should fill our hearts as
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  we prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ. Teach us, Father that even
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  though things get difficult down here, that we should not lose our focus.
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  In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Joy comes in
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  the morning. In the morning, have you ever driven through the night?
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  I do not like driving, by the way, and I'm looking forward to
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  the day that I can hire a driver. And I know some people are
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  like, that's excessive, bro, Like just get behind the wheel, start
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  up the vehicle, and be thankful that you're not on public transportation. But
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  well, in public transportation, somebody's driving me. So yeah, I don't
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  like to drive and so and it's really because I can't drive too fast anymore.
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  I got a ticket, you know, thirty years ago, thirty one
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  years ago, and that ticket was one thousand dollars back then because I was
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  a young in discipline driver speeding, and because I don't speed anymore, now
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  I get really sleepy behind the wheel, and I'm just like, Okay,
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  I need someone to drive so that I can like not get sleepy on the
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  road and run into anything. Okay, I digress. But I've driven through
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  the nighttime under that whole feeling that I just tried to describe to you.
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  Yeah, And and it felt like I was hallucinating, except I wasn't really
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  hallucinating. I was falling asleep. And then I got a little peak of
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  the sun about to rise, and instantly I had energy. And then it
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  did rise, and I had even more energy, and I was joyful in
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  air quotes why because I wasn't feeling as off anymore, Like I wasn't feeling
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  as though something was going wrong in my brain, because I had light in
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  my life. And now I could be joyful because I felt safer on the
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  road, even though I didn't like the road. I felt more joyful because
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  I felt safe when God is shining into your life, when the sun sun
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  of righteousness, when we see as Jesus, who is Jesus, Yes,
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  when he arises in our lives. And there was healing in his wings,
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  then we can have joy because of that light that comes from God. And
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  so in the Book of Matthew Mark, excuse me, the Book of Mark.
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  The Book of Mark, we see a time of rising, a joy
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  that should come in the morning to those who receive what happened by faith.
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  And we will read the story beginning at verse one. And when the Sabbath
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  was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus and Saloni had brought
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  sweet spices that they might come to anoint him. Like why were they going
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  to a tomb to anoint Jesus's body when he said on the first day he
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  would be alive, not dead. But that's a different study. Verse two,
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  And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they
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  came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun. We're talking about the
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  morning, brothers and sisters. We're talking about joy. Sometimes people are looking
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  for love, or looking for power, or looking for success in dead places.
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  And I say that again, it's a mindset, like sometimes people are
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  looking for all of these things in the wrong places, and they're disappointed when
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  they don't find what they're looking for. And so what God is showing us
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  here in this rising at the time that Jesus was to be resurrected to take
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  up his life again as he promised. Is that we're not supposed to be
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  looking for the living among the dead. We're not supposed to be looking for
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  success among dead habits. We're not supposed to be looking for love in the
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  wrong places. And so the rising of the sun verse three, And they
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  set among themselves who should roll us away the stone from the door of the
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  sepulcher. And when they looked, they saw that the stone was already rolled
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  away. Like I said, Jesus already made a promise. Why were they
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  looking for a stone to be somewhere when he said he was gonna come out
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  of there Ah with power in his hands, It was already there, For
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  it was very great, like who could have done that? Verse five?
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  And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right
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  side, clothed in a long white garment. Now do you know who this
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  young man would have been or what kind of being we're referencing here? Obviously
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  the scriptures is talking are talking about an angel, an angel of light was
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  just there likely to greet these women to let them know they're looking in the
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  wrong place for what they need. Their joy came in the morning, but
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  for a moment they missed it. I wish I had the time, and
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  they were fearful verse six, and he said, unto them, don't be
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  affrighted. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was past tense crucifier. He
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  is right now, present tense risen. He is not here. Why is
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  he not here? Because he has risen. Behold the place where they laid
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  him past tents. He was laying here, he was resting, he was
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  dead. He gave his life so that we could be victorious. He gave
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  his life as a ransom for many so that we could be delivered from sin.
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  But he's not here. Why not? Because he's got something to do.
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  Brothers and sisters. Jesus was doing what he had already said he would
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  do. But go your way verse seven. Tell his disciples and Peter that
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  he goeth before you into Galilee. Why because he's risen, Christ the Lord,
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  he's risen today. Hallelujah. I think there's a song that said that,
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  yes, he's on his way to Galilee. There shall ye see him
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  as he said, unto you, stop looking for power, stop looking for
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  the promises of God, stop looking for joy in dark and dismal and dead
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  places. Some of those places are in the dark and dismal minds of the
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  people that you go to for advice, the ones who are always raining on
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  your parade, the ones who are always looking at the glass as half empty,
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  the ones who are always pessimistic and negative and looking to things from an
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  ominous mindset, like everything is always going to burn down or explode, like
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  everything is always from a negative o oh. And they're fearful and paranoid.
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  And you're going there for the joy that God says comes in the morning.
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  You're going into a tomb looking for the living. And so the Bible continues
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  verse eight. And they went out quickly. I want you to run away
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  from those dark and dismal places, that dismal place of your past. Run
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  away from there, Ah, and the Bible says, and fled from the
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  sepulcher. For they trembled and were amazed. Neither said they anything to any
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  man, for they were afraid they could not understand what they just experienced.
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  Where God sent them a holy messenger to give them the message of joy and
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  peace, the message that he had kept his promises, the message that Jesus
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  was going to lead the way into the place that they needed to go and
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  see him again. So God is saying to embrace the joy that comes in
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  the morning, but don't look for morning in the night. Season. Wow,
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  every wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,